<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >— memories of books that burned in my heart</h1>
On another quiet Sunday afternoon, I soaked in a pot of Iron Guanyin as usual, sat down at my desk, and began my reading time.
But today I somehow feel a little absent-minded, staring at the books in the bookcase mixed with old and new, and the memories of books emerge like old movies.
When I was a child, my parents worked in Banzhu Township, which was not yet fully opened to traffic, and I lived in My grandmother's house in Xikou, a bit like the left-behind children today.
I am an introvert, and it is books that accompany me through the days without my parents around.
In those days, it was not easy to read some books, and the resources of books were extremely scarce.
Fortunately, my mother, who is a teacher, ordered a copy of "Juvenile Literature and Art" for our three sisters and brothers, and whenever "Juvenile Literature and Art" arrived home, it was the happiest and most troublesome for us.
In order to get a sneak peek, my brother and I often disagree with each other, and even quarreled, and in the end, I often gave a dime out of my small pocket money to my brother, so as to obtain the right of priority reading.
Parents would visit us every once in a while and would routinely give our children a few dimes of pocket money.
The moment I got my pocket money, I first went straight to the small shop to buy the long-coveted moss cake, rice fat candy or oily watercress, and then carefully ran to the store's villain book counter with the rest of the money to buy the comic strip that I had looked at N times.
Over time, I have dozens of comic strips, which is a great asset for me when I was a child.
As I grew older, the villain book comic strip could no longer satisfy me, and around the fourth or fifth grade of elementary school, I nibbled on a long novel halfway throughout my life.
The first thing I watched was Feng Deying's "Bitter Cauliflower", and later I watched "Yingchun Flower" and "Mountain Chrysanthemum" successively, and I finished reading Feng Deying's Three Flowers series.
I also watched "Song of Youth", "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City", "Blind Grassland", "Red Rock", "How Steel is Made", etc., and the small heart fluctuated with the fate of the characters in the book.
Lin Daojing's love with Lu Jiachuan, Paul and Tonya also made my young and ignorant face blush.
When I was in middle school, I watched "Gone with the Wind" and "Anna" one after another. Karenina, "The Red and the Black", "Pretty Friend", "Resurrection", "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Journey to the West", "Water Margin", "Rulin's Foreign History" and other Chinese and foreign masterpieces.
Speaking of the book "Bitter Cauliflower", there is another story.
As far as I can remember, Bitter Cauliflower is the only novel my grandmother's family owns.
One day, I found that "Bitter Cauliflower" in the glass cabinet was missing, which made me very anxious.
After my painstaking search, I finally found it, and it turned out that it was borrowed by my classmate's brother without greeting. Because in the past, every household was not closed during the day, and you can come and go as you please.
After "Bitter Cauliflower" was lost and recovered, I cherished it even more and easily did not lend it out.
But once, because of my uncle's face, I had to lend it to my uncle's so-called friend, but the man did not pay it back for several months, and he did not return it after urging it several times, which made me anxious and annoyed.
One day when I met him on the street, I plucked up the courage to ask the man again, but the other party became angry and said in a vicious voice: "The book has long been lost, and then beware of the slap!" ”
After all, I was afraid at that time, and I didn't dare to urge it later, but the heartache feeling of losing my beloved thing lingered in my memory.
Perhaps, people today can't understand the era of book shortage, people's desire for books and the feeling of cherishing treasures.
So much so that when I was a child, my ideal was to be a librarian when I grew up, and I could read books for free and earn a salary.
Another source of my reading turned out to be related to my grandfather.
My grandfather was a well-known local Chinese medicine practitioner, and people often came to his door for medical treatment during vacations. After some patients recovered, in order to thank Grandpa for his free medical treatment, they tried to lend books to Grandpa. Near the water tower platform first got the moon, these books I naturally read first.
I remember that "Song of Youth" and "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City" were lent to my grandfather by patients. It seems that at that time, these books were still banned, and I was sneaky to read.
The main source of borrowing books was the bookstore opposite my house, where I used to spend whenever I had time.
I don't remember what the price was at the bookstore, but I remember borrowing it home was calculated as 2 cents per day.
In order to save money, but also because I am eager to know the end of the story because of my pursuit of the plot, I often watch it all night. At night, the lights did not dare to turn on, for fear of being scolded by the elders, so they curled up in the bed with a flashlight to watch.
What I remember is to watch "The Revenge of Kiddushan", and I was attracted by the story of Don Taisi's revenge and read it endlessly.
Due to the limited pocket money, sometimes I want to rub the book from the grandfather who manages the book, but the grandfather who manages the book is never accommodating, the time of borrowing the book is clearly registered, and the rent cannot be oiled at all. Now think about it, when every family lived a tight life, and the rental income was to supplement the family.
Because it is not easy to borrow books, they are also particularly cherished.
At that time, I had a notebook dedicated to copying the good words and phrases I saw in the book, and trying to use it in my compositions. It is often used for the sake of use, and it is not appropriate to use it.
But when I was young, I was eager to pile together all the flowery words I knew to show that I had culture, so my classmates gave me a nickname called "Small Word Basket".
As soon as the text was posted, I couldn't wait to open the book to see if the teacher had drawn a wavy red line under the sentence. The red line indicates a good sentence recognized by the teacher, and for me, the red wavy line is the most beautiful curve.
Accumulated reading is still helpful for improving the level of writing.
After I worked, a neighbor's apprentice told me that his junior high school teacher still read the essay I left behind as a model essay. Because there were no essay selections or the like at that time, my work was able to be indiscriminately counted.
Because of the serious deviation of science, I could not realize the dream of full-time university, and I went to work early, but the habit of reading books was maintained.
Since I have a monthly salary of more than 20 yuan, I have subscribed to periodicals such as "Novel Monthly" and "Foreign Literature and Art", plus large literary journals such as "Selected Novellas", "Harvest", "October" and so on that my classmates from Ning Normal College have sent me from time to time, and I have more and more books, and the joyful mood when I received the journal at that time is still fresh in my memory.
Through literary journals, I have come into contact with the works of Writers such as Jia Pingwa, Zhang Xianliang, Zhang Chengzhi, guhua, etc., which has opened a window for me to understand contemporary literature and greatly enriched my amateur life.
Looking back on the experience of reading books, the current conditions are really different from the past.
Although I didn't become a librarian, I moved my family to a culturally rich higher education campus and became neighbors with the university campus library.
Although the home is not large, there is a special study, bookcase, desk, all-in-one computer and so on.
If you want to buy the book you want, you can buy it, no longer have financial troubles, and if you don't want to buy it, you can walk for 10 minutes to the university campus library to see it for free.
But when you can enjoy the pleasure of reading calmly, you seem to have lost the desire for books that you used to have. What lingers in the memory is the experience of finding books in the early years.
In today's materialistic and impetuous society, from time to time to immerse yourself in the world of literature, to retain the free kingdom of the spirit, how necessary and pleasant, not to mention that reading is the best ornament for women!