Snow, residual sun, slope foot horses

In order to save that little bit of coal money, he spent the whole day wandering around the demolition area looking for wood for heating and burning fire. Rotten wood that no one wanted before has become a hard currency for gifting people. The high price of coal is intimidating, so comfort your wallet! It's not your fault, it's coal's fault!

Growing up in the northern foothills of the Yin Mountains, he was very concerned about warming up in winter. When I was a child, on the way to school, I could meet my grandfather every day carrying a basket of dung woven by willow body, holding a small iron fork in his hand, wiping the clear nose left by the dry and cold weather with his hands from time to time, and picking up horse dung in the shade. Dry and heat for warmth. At that time, I didn't understand Grandpa's behavior very much, and there was no shortage of fire materials at home, and for my question, Grandpa's answer was that you hadn't been frozen, and you couldn't say clearly. At that time, around 90 years, in the countryside where I was located, there was no shortage of heating materials. Every household burns an iron stove in winter, and the coal burned includes Guyang local coal (stone coal quality is poor), Shiquan coal (high calorific value, large sulfur content, large smoke), Yingpanwan coal (clean and sanitary), and basically burns Yimeng coal (simmered coal) after about 95. The worst also has a large number of straw, cow dung, sheep dung burning kang. At that time, although living in the alpine area braved the severe cold every day to walk 5 miles to school, he often encountered a foot of heavy snow

Occasionally scratching the heel of the frozen itch, listening to the grandfather said that the great-grandfather was caught by the soldiers and bandits in 46 years to drive the carriage to be frosted ears shrunk, 50 years of grandma's biological mother from the front mountain to recognize relatives, was frozen down the tractor can not walk outside, for the cold, there is not much impression.

In the millennium of 2000, the graduation internship bought a 5 yuan bag of coal for heating for the first time, and I really felt that the warmth was bought with money. Having been living in a high-yield coal area, I don't have much memory of coal for heating that is painless.

In the month before his death, my father repeated several times, and after the 25th snow of the 25th lunar month in 79, after returning home from a part-time job, the family was as cold as an ice cellar, and the brothers and sisters looked at him with eager eyes as the eldest son who went out to earn money. With a grudge against his grandfather, he set up the family's lame barley horse and went to the coal kiln 50 kilometers away to pull coal. Just in time for the New Year's holiday of the coal kiln, loading the coal is already the sun is about to set, out of the coal kiln there is a narrow ravine of the frozen section, the father like a cry, trying to describe how sad his situation was at that time. So much so that there has always been a picture in my mind, snow, residual sun, slope foot horse, icy road, skinny little coachman... ...... ...... ...... ......