Clear and sweet, warm in winter and cool in summer
(1) The well is a kind of nostalgia
My hometown is hilly, and the mountains are largely made up of sandy soil and sand-soaking stones. This kind of sand soaking stone, as the name suggests, although it is a kind of stone, it is actually a stone with a relatively loose texture. This kind of stone, gently scraping off the surface, will reveal the color of the stone body of the sand-soaking stone———— ochre red, and it can be directly broken into soil with a hoe.
When I was a child, my family's well was on the "well row" behind my hometown. The water source in the well comes from a slender and deep gap between two sandstones. A thin gap, if you don't look closely, you won't find any traces of water flowing. However, do not underestimate this unobtrusive water flow, its power lies in the day and night incessant leaching, in the accumulation of bits and pieces. Usually, after picking up water in the morning, most of the well was soaked the next day.
This well, about 1 meter deep, can hoard about 10 tons of water. There is no cover, pure natural well, generally after a few months of use, parents have to carefully maintain it, we call it "taoshui well". The parents first punched several buckets of water from the well with a bucket and hoarded it by the well. Then stand in the well, use the sickle to gently scrape off the debris such as moss on the edge of the well wall, and then pour the water accumulated in the bucket into the well, and repeatedly clean the well wall until there is no sediment or impurities in the well. This well is drilled on a large piece of sand-soaking stone, and after cleaning, the well wall and bottom of the well are soaked sandstone, so the whole well is ochre-red. The spring water flowing from the crevices of the stones slowly gathers in the well, and its quality is clear and sweet.
At that time, in the countryside, every household used water with a bucket to carry water, unlike the current countryside, the phenomenon of carrying water has basically disappeared. Because every household is basically equipped with a pump, as soon as the electric button is pressed in the kitchen, the water gushes from the water pipe.
Carry water, usually in the morning or evening. I still remember the well of my grandmother's house when I was a child, deep in the beachhead by the river, and the wellhead was inlaid with stones and formed into a circle. It is a public well, and many villagers in the vicinity come here to get water. In the early morning or evening, you can always see an endless stream of people to carry water, flat shoulders on the shoulders, one hand clasps the handle of a bucket, and in the process of carrying water, the bucket is dangling in front of and behind. Because there are many people who come to fetch water, the stones on the edge of the wellhead have been polished very flat and shiny. Standing at the edge of the wellhead and looking down, you can always see the reflection of your face. Since watching the TV series "Journey to the West", every time I follow my brother-in-law to fetch water, I always wonder if the scene of the king being thrown into the water by the monster happened in such a well, and my heart became a little afraid.
(2) Interesting things about carrying water
When I was a child, probably around the third grade, two cousins of my great-aunt's family (now called eldest brother and second brother) came to my house to play, and they carried their own swords made of bamboo and the like, and performed several martial arts moves for me. This scene is deeply imprinted in my mind and is still fresh in my memory. It was also from then on that I learned about the mysterious things of martial arts, and learned from my eldest brother and second brother how to step in the horse, split legs, do push-ups, etc. At a young age, I thought that after practicing martial arts and learning them, I could be as elegant and elegant as Chu Liuxiang on TV. It was also then that I began to look for opportunities to exercise my strength. Carrying water is one of them.
In the fourth grade, I started carrying water for my family. At the beginning, my parents gave me a small bucket of water, and slowly, when I saw that they were all picking up large buckets, I said to myself to strengthen physical exercise and improve my strength, "One day, I can also use the bucket to carry water."
In the fifth grade, I could carry water from a large bucket, but I had to change shoulders and take two breaks on the way from the well to home. I remember that my hometown was asking carpenters to make furniture, one of the masters was called Chen Changde, I called my father, and now that I think back, the well-defined Chinese character face is like Zong Liqun, the actor who played Mr. Peng in "Bright Sword". He saw that I could pick up such a large load of water at a young age, and praised me in front of my mother, saying that I had learned to share the worries of my parents since I was a child. In fact, he did not understand my inner thoughts, and the reason why I wanted to do this was to see that my parents were too busy to help them share their worries, the main purpose was to exercise their strength and improve their endurance.
When I was a child, I also saw the scene of Shaolin monks practicing martial arts in "Shaolin Temple" starring Jet Li: when carrying water without flat burdens, holding my hands flat on my side, carrying a bucket full of water and running all the way, coupled with the classic music "Shepherd Song", "Sunrise Song Mountain Pass, morning bell startling birds, forest, stream babbling, green grass on the slope..." The beautiful melody and moving scene inspired me to practice my arm strength through that way of carrying water - trying to carry water flat with both hands in the movie scene. Unfortunately, even a small bucket of water can not be lifted, let alone run all the way, practicing to carry water with both hands sideways, after all, it is just a dream.
To this day, I have not practiced any unique martial arts, let alone become a martial artist like Chu Liuxiang, but this exercise of carrying water has become a habit and has continued until the installation of automatic pumps in my hometown.
(3) Well water condition is a kind of nostalgia
Water, every day to use, every day to pick, if it rains, the road to carry water has become a muddy road, the road is not easy to walk, and easy to slip. Or in time for the busy season of farming, planting crops and harvesting crops is still too busy, which carries water and becomes a burden for parents.
The wind comes, the rain goes, day after day, year after year, the water in the well nourishes my body and accompanies my growth.
Father has always envied the city has tap water, not envy its water quality, but envy the convenience of water, the faucet is twisted, the water will come, how convenient.
Around 2000, my father bought an automatic pump. But this is actually a semi-automatic pumping process. Why? In order to prevent the pump from being stolen, every time he pumps water, he always has to carry the pump from home to the well, connect the pump pipe and put it into the well, and then go home to open the gate knife to pump water, turn off the gate knife after the water tank is full of water, and then go to carry the pump home. Although the process is still a bit troublesome, it is much more convenient than carrying water with your shoulders.
This situation continued until three years ago. Since the new construction of the old home, the original well, its water volume has been unable to meet the needs
Tap water designed by parents themselves
The need for water has been made. Not far from the foot of the hill, there is a well, the water quality is warm in winter and cool in summer, the father bought a large pump, directly next to the wellhead to dig the ground to fill the pump into the soil, after the water pipe pump is connected, the switch is twisted, the gushing spring, it gushes from the pipe, water, no longer let the parents worry.
When my daughter was in kindergarten, her mother came to the city to help us pick up and drop off her daughter, and when she sent her daughter to school on Friday morning, she couldn't wait to go back to her hometown and come back on Sunday afternoon. My mother once said that the water in this city is not used to drinking, and the water in the well of my hometown has a slightly sweet and slightly sweet taste when drunk, and the meals I make are also fragrant.
What my mother said may be correct, the water in the city has been treated by the water plant, and its taste is the same, but I think the reason why my mother said this is more of a long-term "sunrise and rest, sunset and rest" nostalgia, is a kind of hometown feeling that is closely dependent on the water of the well in the hometown.