The seasons change, the years go by, and time has carved traces in our lives, light or heavy, so that our memories are deeper or shallow. We recall the past, not how shining those days were, but the people who made our lives shine in the ordinary days.
More than 30 years ago, people's lives were different from today's, and in the general situation of not being rich, everyone was good at finding fun and living a prosperous life. There are some things that carry all this.
1. Jujube Cola
Jujube cola was first called a certain cola, and later because of the renaming, the raw materials were added to the name and continued to be produced. The raw material is clearly written - sour dates.
We don't know the specific brewing process of it, but it was very popular in the Zhangjiakou area at that time, and it is not very clear whether there are other places.
The bottle of Jujube Cola resembles a beer bottle, perhaps the beer bottle has a new label. Even though it was inexpensive, it wasn't something that could be drunk every day, and occasionally parents bought a bottle and jumped up and down happily.
There is a pattern for jujube cola to appear on the dining table: when there are distinguished guests, you have to bring children, during the New Year's holidays, it needs to be the Mid-Autumn Festival and other major festivals, and there are happy events at home, such as building a house. In addition, the grandparents couldn't stand the pitiful appearance of their grandchildren's gluttonous jujube cola, so they took out the money wrapped in a handkerchief from their plackets and bought one or two bottles ruthlessly.
Jujube cola should be drunk ice to taste. In the summer, you can put in the bucket of water in the well, and in the winter, you don't need to bother with ice ballast. It tastes sweet and sour and doesn't have any of the effects of real cola that stimulates the taste buds. When drinking, the children are reluctant to use the big glass, and follow the example of their father when drinking, and the small cup is poured little by little, wanting to extend the sense of happiness infinitely.
When I was about to finish drinking, I thought that I would grow up quickly, and when the time came, I would be able to buy my own jujube cola, and buy a hundred bottles at a time. Mr. Feng Zikai has a cartoon saying: I was so stupid when I was a child, and I always looked forward to growing up. I'm talking about it.
2. Bell soup
Orange juice is a drink that is one level higher than jujube cola, the price is higher, and the taste is very better. I can't remember any specific brand of it, it seems to have similar packaging.
The color of orange juice is a very cool pale yellow, just like real oranges. Its flavor is orange and sweet. Some orange juices are so sweet that they have to be mixed with water to drink.
It appears at the table as often as Jujube Coke, in fact, they often appear together. Adults buy drinks for their children, mostly for two of them, I can't say why, maybe in their subconscious, children want to do good things in pairs.
The old people's evaluation of orange juice is the eternal saying: get off the fire. In fact, at that time, we were full but it was rare to eat well, but in the eyes of the elderly, we had already eaten too much meat such as fish and meat, and no matter what the children had, it was all due to the fire.
Orange juice is like canned oranges, and it is one of the must-bring gifts for people to come to their homes, provided that there are children at home.
3. Bottle of yogurt
Bottle yogurt came out a little later in minecraft. When you live in the countryside and the county, you don't have it, let alone yogurt, even the milk family is reluctant to buy it, and it's good to have bags of milk powder.
As my parents moved to the city, I saw yogurt for the first time. The fat bottle is covered with a layer of paper on the mouth, and the mouth of the bottle is bound with a leather band. When you buy it, you have to pay a deposit, and you will return the bottle after drinking.
People drink bottles of yogurt, and few take it home to drink, they all stand by the counter after buying it, and drink it after sucking. In order to prevent waste, everyone drinks a clean one, and sucks so hard that the bottle emits an endless stream of "grunt, snort". So that passers-by couldn't help but stop and took out eight cents to drink a bottle.
Drinking yogurt is not exclusive to children, and many children don't actually like it. Adults like to take a sip and feast on it, regardless of age. Middle-aged people drink yogurt, regret it after drinking, and always feel that they have wronged their children by spending money on themselves. Young people drink yogurt, and most of them are couples who go to the street to stop for two bottles, which is part of the love.
All kinds of things in the past, people in the past, can be blurred in our minds, and the warmth is not diminished in the slightest. So much so that many years later, we will occasionally think of it to soothe our hearts. A person's life, to put it bluntly, is a child, growing up with a spear and contradictory shield, some people have a resolute temperament, cut off the past feelings, and some people have a soft personality and pick lotus flowers. There is no superiority in this situation, and life is always moving forward.