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Knock the nest
These days, the weather is not good, it is always snowing. Although the snow is not big, you can't work in the field, stay idle at home, only sit in the study, read the famous works of celebrities.
That day, when I took out Mr. Liang Heng's prose and read his essay "Where is Homesickness", I was pleasantly surprised to find that he wrote in the text: "A group of children, kneading the glue and kneading it into a nest shape, the nest should be deep, and the skin should be thin." Mouth down, slammed into the stone, mud splashes, the sound of the four wild, called "falling nest". Win or lose by the size of the sound, and compensate by the size of the hole. The loser makes up a piece of mud for the other side, just like a defeated country cedes the land until the soil in its hand is lost. Bow down to the subordinate. This probably stems from the ancient wars, the struggle for land, and the children are still happy to splash into mud. ”
Watching the masterpieces of the famous Mr. Liang Heng naturally reminds me of the beautiful things when I was a child, when a few friends played wrestling nests.
The falling nest was when we were young, and the part of our hometown, the sleeper in the cottage, was in the hills. After every rain, it is the best time for our children to play with mud wrestling nests. The earth after the rain, the soil is wet, and the feet step on it, as if the feet are stepping on the sponge, soft and soft.
In my childhood, there were no fun toys, only this soft glue after the rain that we used to make a special toy, the ringing nest.
Let's dig up the mud on the ground by hand in the pothole area with a little more muddy water. After a while, each person was holding a small bowl of slightly black soft mud.
This mud can not be too thin, nor too hard, both soft, but also tough and viscous, sticking to the hand does not fall. This is not enough, but also to find a place with a stone floor, or a flat large stone slab, a few small partners, and start to get busy.
A few of us half-haired children, personally put the mud in our hands on the flat stone slab in front of us, learning the way adults look on the board and the noodles, rubbing, kneading, squeezing, pressing, pressing with both hands... It is to turn over the mud in your hand, roll over and change, so that the mud in your hand becomes more and more rounded and more and more resilient.
A few of our playmates, no matter who they are, as long as they feel that the mud in their hands has reached a rounded level, shouting, putting their hands together, we all squeeze the mud in our hands into a ball, and then use our thumbs to poke in the middle of the mud, and press the four walls until the mud is kneaded into a mud bowl, but it must be done on all sides on a horizontal line, and the bottom is thin and smooth. When a few of us have stopped, put the ringing nest in our hands in the palm of our hands, but the sound nest must be facing up.
When everything is ready to stop, it is a falling nest. Young us, called "wrestling nests", is a game, so it is very serious.
The game is to see whose nest falls loudly, of course, one by one. After the appearance, the man had to stand in the best position of the slate, his eyes were fixed on the slate, his body leaned forward slightly, his right arm was waving rapidly, so that his palm was facing down, the bowl mouth of the nest was facing down, and he slammed into the slate, because of the impact of the air current, he could only hear a crisp "Pop!" You will see that the bottom of the sound nest has been washed open a hole, and the mud at the bottom of the sound nest is rolled upwards, and it can be said that the first person's "falling nest" is considered to be the first victory. When he heard our cheers, his heart was a little proud. So he would stand aside and see if the next player could overtake him.
When he saw the second, the third... One by one, they came out one by one. Wait for "Snap! "Snap!" "Snap!" After the sound of the nest, one by one the sound nest was smashed, and when the mud at the bottom of the nest was rolled upwards, several of our playmates talked about it, and some of them must be crisp, some dull, some loud, some small. Although we are falling one by one, it seems that you fall your ringing nest, I drop my ringing nest, on the surface there is no comment, in fact, they are all secretly competing. On the one hand, everyone is crisp and louder than whose ringing nest makes a crisp and loud sound, and the other is to see whose ringing nest is broken beautiful and elegant.
Of course, the sound is crisp, it must be the hole that is broken, and the hole will naturally roll up a lot of mud petals, looking like a black pomegranate flower. The dull sound is not enough, the mouth of the cave is slightly rolled up with mud petals, looking like a mouse's opening, there are neither rolled up mud petals, nor beautiful petals, the bottom of the nest crawls dead on the wall, alive like a piece of, very ugly.
When the first round was over, we laughed and learned. If you want to make the ringing nest in your hand crisp and loud, you must put the ringing nest in your hand upright, and the sound socket mouth is facing upwards, which is the foundation. We must not only put the posture right, the most important thing is speed and strength. It is necessary to achieve the speed of the arm swing, but also to achieve strong strength. That is to say, with speed and strength, the sound of the nest falling out is crisp and loud, and the broken hole is beautiful.
After summing up the experience, the conclusion is that the sound nest in the hand should be small and delicate. Only in this way will the sound nest thrown out of the hand have a crisp and loud sound, and it will have a look.
In childhood, whenever it rained, we played with the wrestling nest, and every time we played happily, fell down, picked up, and played round after round. It wasn't until the arm was sore, the sun was setting, and the mother was shouting for dinner that we would leave. Although, our faces and bodies are covered with mud. But, at the time of parting. We would also look back step by step, and leave in love.
When we went back to our homes one by one, listened to the reprimands of our parents, washed our faces and hands, and picked up the chopsticks with joy, we still saw the angry eyes of our parents, but we didn't care about these, but we just felt that playing "wrestling nest" was particularly happy.