My Childhood (5)
I would like to use this document to my beloved grandson, Xiaobei
Author: Guo Xiaozheng
The urchins of the past are today, and the sun and the moon in the world are as fast as the wind.
I often think about my grandchildren, and the sunset is red.
- Guo Xiao's forehand
September 1st is the day my grandson Xiaobei starts school. Looking at Xiao Bei, he couldn't help but look ecstatic. My heart was stirring and I had mixed feelings. The past when I was in the fourth grade the same age as my grandson came to my mind like spring water...
Xi'an Railway Bureau Huaxian Railway Children's Primary School is a railway children's primary school where children from Huashan to Lintong Railway Station have more than 100 kilometers along the line, and when the children at each station leave their parents and live and study alone in the fourth grade. The fathers of the school students, basically before and after the liberation, Henan and Shandong suffered from disasters for many years, so they left their hometowns and traveled thousands of miles along the Longhai railway line, and came to Shaanxi to take refuge after suffering from wind and frost, and when they arrived in Shaanxi, they lived along the railway line, and later, most of them became railway workers.
Xinglin Past (2)
In Huaxian in the sixties of the last century, "ten miles of red apricots, green bamboo thousands of acres", bamboo forest is also the favorite place of Tie Xiao students, in the hot summer, as soon as you enter the bamboo forest, the coolness quickly overflows into the heart like a rocket, and you suddenly feel refreshed and refreshed. Endless bamboo sea, there are many, many small streams in the bamboo forest, and the water of the small stream is very clear and sweet. Deep in the bamboo forest grow catalpa trees, persimmon trees, and poplar trees.
There is also a kind of jujube tree that has never been seen in the city, the flesh of the jujube is turned around, the length is irregular, the appearance is very peculiar, the shape of the flesh is not round, nor rectangular, the shape is like the swastika "swastika", also known as the longevity fruit. It is the only fruit that can eat the stalk.
Ningshan Temple Jujube from Yunshui to the south
Jujube trees are tall trees, the trunk of the jujube tree in the bamboo forest is straight, generally more than 20 meters high, children can not climb, can only wait for the jujube to mature after naturally fall on the bamboo branches, the ground, pick up the ripe jujube and eat with relish, ripe jujube is very sweet and sweet, when you eat too much, you will hold the small stream spring water in the depths of the bamboo forest, the clear stream, clear sweet and refreshing.
Occasionally, you can see the mother squirrel with a big tail, with the little squirrels, diligent and agile, climbing up the tree through bamboo, greedily eating and holding. The classmates shouted mischievously under the tree, and the squirrel hurried away with a few dates.
The bamboo forest is also a paradise for birds, and there are various birds chirping happily, and the sound is crisp and pleasant. It's like entering a paradise with birds and flowers, and the sounds of different Wu'er are intertwined and together like playing a beautiful symphony, which is addictive...
The time to play every day flies so fast, and the second semester of the fourth grade ends quickly, and I have the impression that I have not taken the exam this semester, and I don't know what knowledge I have learned, and I can't go to class by myself...
But I owe the school a month's living expenses, and the school has neither questioned nor pursued, did the administrator Uncle Wang forget to keep the account? Or is the moving mess and the ledger lost? I was lucky and uneasy...
It's summer vacation, I don't know what it's like to be young, as long as I play it, I forget everything. On this day, I was playing basketball with the children in the work area on the basketball court in front of the gate.
Suddenly, I saw Teacher Du of the school riding a bicycle in the direction of the work area from the direction of the railway side station, and my intuition told me that there was a situation, so I hurriedly hid.
Railway tracks near Huazhou Station Photo by Liu Huanmin
I saw Teacher Du enter the yard, I secretly followed closely behind, and I saw Teacher Du riding to the pergola in front of Uncle Bao's house, supporting the bicycle, and Uncle Bao handed a white strip with a gesture, and Uncle Bao took the slip and walked towards my house.
Something was going to happen, and I couldn't avoid it, so I quickly took a detour home from the river behind the house. When I got home, I saw my father and mother sitting on the edge of the bed, and my father was holding a white stripe with a sad face.
I went to the kitchen first, scooped a spoonful of cool water, and deliberately grunted and drank it against the door frame. The first is to imply my parents, I am back, tentatively see what is going on at home? The second is to lean on the door frame once the east window incident, in case you can't dodge, be prepared to run away and avoid the pain of flesh and skin.
Dad didn't lift his head and ignored me, but only listened to Dad say to my mother: "No, no, no, I remember paying it every month, how can I still owe a month's living expenses"? At this time, my mother looked up at me and let me into the house.
I carefully walked to my father's side, and I glanced at the white slip in my father's hand, which was an internal receipt with the school's red seal, "In November of 66, Guo Xiaozheng owed nine yuan for living expenses."
Dad took the note and looked at me with questioning eyes, meaning to ask me what was going on, at this time I was nervous to jump out, my whole body broke out in cold sweat, my legs began to tremble, my brain was chaotic, I pretended to be calm and just shook my head, but I didn't say anything, I couldn't say anything, I knew that too many words would reveal flaws.
The mother raised her head and said: "Alas, last year's events, every month is half a month and half a month, how can the child remember?" The stone in my heart finally landed, and I hurriedly complied: "Yes, yes." Maybe my father and mother would never have thought that I had the courage to spend living expenses. My mother's phrase "how can the child remember" allowed me to escape a "catastrophe" by chance.
Teacher Du went through the "organization" procedure, asked for the unpaid food expenses, and waited under the pergola of Uncle Bao's house. Dad took the key to open the only wooden box in the house, took out a small wooden box from the box, and took out nine dollars from the small box, I glanced at it, and there were not many big tickets in the small box.
My father left the house, staggered steps, walked towards Uncle Bao's house, looked at my father's back that shouldered the burden of the family's life, and bent over, and suddenly I ...
That's more than one-sixth of the family's living expenses, which was "corrupted" by me, I really don't know how the whole family's life "survived" this month!
Huaxian Railway Children's Primary School Photo by Song Chaofeng
Time passes quietly, and years pass in a hurry. Time flies so fast, it's overwhelmingly fast. There are too many things I have experienced in my life, and in my mind, the most popping up is some past events from childhood, and the most memorable thing is this "embarrassing" thing, perhaps this is a childhood anecdote that can only happen in a "special era", and my unique childhood old events. Looking back, everything lingered and made me unforgettable.
I ran out of ink and couldn't write all the stories of my childhood...
(All published)
Original source: Huazhou Literature and Art
Original author: Guo Xiaozheng
Compilation and editing: Huazhou literature and art, Huazhou literature and history