Relive The Ordinary World
In February and March 1975, on an ordinary day, the fine rain was sprinkled with a little bit of snowflakes, and they were pouring onto the earth. The season is almost stinging, of course, the snow will no longer remain, often before it lands, it has disappeared without a trace. The harsh and long winter of the Loess Plateau seems to be over, but the truly warm spring is far from coming.
He squatted under the eaves, pulling rice into his mouth, and wondered in his heart that the reason why she often came to fetch the food last was probably the same as his. Yes, it was precisely because of poverty, because of the inability to eat a good meal, because of the youthful and sensitive self-esteem, that they avoided the public eye to quietly take away their two undignified black fellows, so as not to suffer many wordless shameful laughs.
What he feels most painful now is the hurt to his self-esteem caused by poverty. He was seventeen years old, and a sensitive and shy heart beat in his chest. He longs to stand in front of his female classmates in a decent dress; He wished that he would be in line to buy food every day, and that he could receive a piece of B dish like everyone else, and that each meal could be paired with a white bun or a yellow bun. This is not only for the sake of hunger, but for the sake of living with dignity.
And poverty made him excessively self-respecting. He often felt that others were laughing at him, so he had a perverted antagonism in his heart for all his well-off classmates.
Although it was so difficult to attend this school, Sun Shaoping still had an indescribable feeling of happiness in his heart. He has now come to a big world from the mountains and countryside [illustration]. For the son of a poor farmer, this is a great thing in itself!
