The embarrassment of learning to ride a bicycle
Author: Li Zhizhi (Jilin Oilfield)
Do you know what the "two big things" of each family were in the seventies of the last century?
If you can answer the correct answer, hehe, you will reveal your age, at least over fifty years old! Don't worry, I'm not going out and messing around.
At that time, the bicycle was a must-have item for every family in the northeast county, which was the money for the whole family to tighten their belts for two years. The whole family loves to take care of this black "weighted" bike like an eyeball.
The bicycle in the county is equivalent to the old cow in the countryside, not only can go to work, but also can carry the child and take the daughter-in-law back to her parents' house during the festival, and can also ride it to pick up grain, slip potatoes, dig wild vegetables, and .....
Every summer, at the door of the family room of the oil compound, the men bring a basin of water, and wipe this "baby" spotlessly with a rag, the silver rim and each spoke are shiny under the sun's rays, and the women use bright rag corners. Sew a pleated car mat cover with a sewing machine. Now that I think about it, I really want a lot of soil, a lot of soil, a lot of cold, how cold.
If the car tile cover is knocked off a black paint the size of a millet grain, the whole family will feel distressed for a week. Such a baby, adults will never let me, a stupid girl, learn to ride a bicycle.
I have fantasized countless times: when can I learn to ride a bicycle, even if it is like the second fat brother, because of a small one, can not reach the big bar, I have to lean over, stretch the right leg over the other side of the big bar, at that time everyone called this action "crotch" or "gas", although the posture is very unsightly, but finally the bicycle can be ridden, it is also a very spirited thing!
Finally, one day, my father saw that more than a dozen children of all sizes in the hospital could ride their bicycles in various ways, only I was obedient, and I had never even tried to slip on one foot with a cart, which was very pitiful.
Finally, in the case of everyone's intercession, with me began to walk on one foot, pushing the bicycle, I don't have a long face, this kind of simple action that a little pig will do, I was in full view, just tried a few times, did not grasp the balance, the thin body pounced on the handlebars, pricked the skin of the rib area, I just started the story of learning to ride a bicycle, turned into an accident.
A few years have passed, and I have been unmoved when I see that the children in the yard have their own "275" and "26" mopeds, because the bicycle brakes are so painful to puncture the ribs.
After participating in the work, because of the "three shifts", the distance between the home and the work unit is still 4 kilometers a day, sometimes take the oil tanker to work, sometimes on foot, our 131 well group of big sisters mobilized me to learn to ride, Chen Guoli sister said: "At home you can never learn, you push the bicycle to the well field of the well group, a wide well field, a learning will, this is how I learned." When you get to work at four o'clock, you push your bike and I'll teach you. ”
Although Sister Chen is the youngest sister in our Jing Group besides me, I believe in her very much.
So, I pushed my mother's "Hongqi Heavy 26 Bicycle" and walked out of the family area.
Along the way, I met familiar aunts and uncles, and they were all surprised and said, "Xiaohui, when did you learn to ride a bicycle?" I had no choice but to reply, "Push it to the well field and learn it in a while." ”
There was some surprise in everyone's eyes. It's clearly saying: I haven't heard of anyone learning to ride a bicycle like this.
Finally pushed the bicycle to the unit, the enthusiastic master thought that my bicycle fell off the chain, to help me open the chain box to repair, I had to say, there is no chain drop, I can't ride, causing everyone's goodwill to laugh.
After I handed over the shift at four o'clock, Sister Chen began to teach me to slide in the open space behind the wide well group, it was really amazing, without the escort of my family, after Sister Chen's god-like point and demonstration, I was able to slide for a while.
With a little foot, the bicycle runs forward for a meter or two; A little more, the body can leave the ground, run straight up four or five meters, and make persistent efforts, Sister Chen asked me to lift my right leg to get into the car. Unexpectedly, I really rode up, running a meter or two, three or four meters, in fact, I can ride a longer distance, as long as Sister Chen is behind me, I will not fall, my eyes can not see the shadow of Sister Chen in the sunset, I immediately fell down with the bicycle.
The open space in front of the 131 well group where I practice cycling, people get off work, or single people in the single dormitory go to the cafeteria.
Sister Bai Liling, the well chief of our well group, went to eat and saw that I had already gotten on the bike, and said in surprise: "Really learned?" ”
I immediately felt a sense of pride: "Sister Bai, look, I'll give you a performance." I kicked with my left foot, lifted my right leg, "whoosh" lifted my leg on the bicycle, Sister Chen gave me the saddle in the back, I was excited to ride in front, I don't know when, Sister Chen secretly ran back to the well group, I used my peripheral vision to look back, there was no shadow of Sister Chen, my heart panicked, and even people fell on the well field with the car, which caused people to eat in the canteen to laugh.
Sister Bai instructed me: It's getting dark, don't practice, practice again tomorrow morning.
At six o'clock the next morning, Chen Guoli came to the well group early, and after practicing with me for two hours, she rode a bicycle home with other little sisters from the well group who got off the night shift.
The car was less than 4 hours old, and I could only get on the bus and not get off, so I secretly followed their bicycle and set off excitedly.
Starting from the oil production plant, I rode on the road for the first time, my feet were excitedly stepping on the stirrups, but my eyes were staring straight at the new "Phoenix brand 275" ridden by Chen Guoli's sister in front, I was afraid of hitting the tail of the new car of "Coach Chen", the more I was afraid, the more nervous I was, I didn't find that on the side of the road in front of the roadside hydropower plant, there was a thick layer of sand.
Sister Chen Guoli heard my call, and immediately came back to help me up, and said with a smile: "When did you keep up, people are quite timid, thanks to you falling on the sand, what if you hit and hurt someone." I'll tell you a word, if you hit someone, you must preemptively strike and put him on the hook and say, how did you go down the aisle? Do you hear that? ”
The little sisters who turned back also echoed Sister Chen's words.
There was an uphill slope from the hydropower plant to the four department stores, and Sister Chen was a little tired from pushing the bicycle, so she told me behind her: "Let's go first, you can't ride anymore." ”
After speaking, as soon as he lifted his legs, a group of little swallows took off on the uphill road. Looking at their backs riding away, I was envious, and my heart itched, after all, we are also cyclists.
Anyway, there was no one on the road, so as soon as my heart was crossed and my legs were raised, I rode on the bike again. No one expected that Sister Chen's words appeared in less than 5 minutes, at the intersection of the four department stores and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, there was a tall and thin man in his thirties crossing the road in the distance.
When I had a flash of inspiration, I immediately remembered Sister Chen's admonition. Immediately shouted: "You can't walk, how can you cross the road?" ”
The man seemed to have practiced some kind of martial arts, and his legs were holding the wheels of my front car, and the bicycle was stunned, but I fell to the ground.
The man was stunned, stunned for a moment and said, "Little girl, it's not a shame to hit someone, but it's not right to mess around." Hurry up, pat the dirt and go! ”
Haha, the man flicked his white-brushed yellow rubber shoes and left.
Now that I think about it, my little cleverness was seen through at a glance, how could I have the face to face others again.
Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, I, an ignorant and fearless tiger girl, pushed the car through the intersection of the next oilfield agency and the hardware company, looking at the road There is no one, my heart is alive again, I raised my legs and got into the car again, the beauty in my heart is a little forgetful.
Whoever would have thought that from the alley of Liuliangdian, four or five young men carrying iron shovels and riding bicycles and migrant workers rushed out, riding in front of me around the corner, looking at the spikes shining with white light, I knew that this was the surrounding farmers who were digging earth for our oil field.
At this time, a voice called me from behind: "Xiaohui, is it really you?" When did you learn to ride a bike? ”
It turned out to be Aunt Guan in the typing room of the oilfield agency, she was the lover of Wang Guiqi, the captain of her father's unit, and lived in a compound with my family.
"I learned it last night, and I still won't get out of the car!"
"So you've been riding here from Factory 1? Ride slowly, be careful! ”
"No, I rode all the way and every time I hit the ground."
I was nervous about the shiny shovel on the shoulders of the team in front of me, as if the tip of the shovel was just an inch away from piercing my head.
Said that it was urgent, it was fast, and I happened to see an aunt about fifty years old from the side of the Hui primary school who was closest to me, and my body suddenly lost its balance when my hands were crooked, and I was at a loss, so I lifted my legs inward, hooked my feet to form a circle with my two feet, and pounced on the aunt who was closest to me at once, and instantly hugged her neck, and lay on my aunt's shoulder, and couldn't get down. I was taken aback by others and immediately called for help.
When Aunt Guan heard the shouting and knew that I had another accident, she immediately got out of the car, helped me off my aunt's shoulder, and after comforting the aunt who was frightened by the sudden divine operation, she rode home to deliver milk to the child.
Just learning to ride a bike is addictive. I didn't know how to be afraid, after pushing my bicycle for a while, my heart itched again, and I rode my bicycle in front of a department store and bumped into a farmer's sister-in-law who was carrying a cotton package.
At the intersection of the movie intersection, I hit it again, but not a person, but a bicycle riding on the belly of a swaggering, walking straight humming pig with a white background, my body fell on the road again, and the pig stepped up its front hooves, kicked its legs and ran away......
There were still about 300 meters away from home, and I was still unsatisfied, so I had to reluctantly push my bicycle back to the oil family area......
Dad listened to Aunt Guan's report, looked at the door, and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw me come back unscathed.
He pointed to the watch on his wrist and said, "It's only 4 kilometers home from the factory." How did you walk for more than three hours? ”
I was not ashamed to reply at all: "Why don't you know, I bumped into people five times along the way, and I have no apologies for all of them!" ”
Dad didn't feel sorry for me at all, so he went straight over the bike and checked the rim and chain box of his bike.
The memories of life are often made up of pictures. The embarrassment of learning to ride a bicycle just like these scenes came to my pen this morning, and I laughed as I wrote, almost laughing off my front teeth......
Author: Li Zhizhi
About author:Li Zhizhi is a member of the Chinese Poetry Society and a member of the Jilin New Poetry Association. I like to plant some grass on the Qianmo of life, enjoy the flowers by the light of the sun, be a little literary scholar, blow the sea breeze, and drink domestic coffee codeword......
Reprinted from "Wisdom Xuan Scholar"