"Frost scenery urges dangerous leaves, half empty trees in this day"
The season has passed the frost, and the annual deciduous season is colorful. The eyes that look up are full of splendor and the leaves on the ground, and the beauty of autumn is so idyllic. The bright yellow leaves can stand high on the branches and dance with the wind, or they can sway and fall down and lie on the ground and rest, so real and not arrogant.
Looking at the thick fallen leaves in the grass on the side of the road, the big and small red yellow green, thinking about why the green leaves are eager to be on the grass, is it too impatient or is it in order to accompany the yellow leaves and land without hesitation? Companionship is the longest confession of affection, it is the confession of green leaves to yellow leaves!
In my childhood rural baby, my memory, the colorful fallen leaves are not so beautiful! But it really warms me every cold winter.
When the autumn leaf fall season arrives, it is the busiest time for me to go to elementary school. Most of the time after school, I can't play or write homework. The adult asked to go back at the first time, and then followed the slightly older brother to the side of the road to rake the leaves under the big trees on the side of the field. Big brother will pull a shelf car by himself, put two rakes in the shelf car, put a few snakeskin bags outside and then put a large bamboo frame, the tools are ready, I will follow the big brother's shelf car to set off, on the flat road I can sit in the shelf car to enjoy the car, encounter the slope to get off the car to help the big brother push the shelf car or let the big brother save some effort.
Specifically, there is no destination, and when we see a large number of fallen leaves without other people's rakes, we will go to rake or use a broom to sweep the fallen leaves together to form a small pile. Ordinary Chinese people in the 1980s had no gas when they were steaming. Most of the fuel available in the city are briquettes and there are also some induction cookers. The countryside is dominated by straw. Corn stalks, wheat stalks plus rakes back of dried dead leaves. Cooking rice, cooking soup, the long cold winter heating in the north to burn the kang, when it is particularly cold, a stove will be placed in the house to burn briquettes.
Briquettes are generally made on three volt days, and my father will first buy some pulverized coal, and then according to his own experience in previous years, he will mix it with pulverized coal in a certain proportion with soil and water, and the addition of soil is to increase the viscosity of the briquette making the briquettes easier to form. Adding water is more critical, to be soft and hard just made in moderation out of the briquettes in order to have a look of stability on the ground a briquette ten holes are very good. Of course, the soil should be filtered with a sieve in advance, and it cannot contain sand grains. After that, the coal mold was pressed out piece by piece on the ground, and the sun on the three-volt day was very powerful. The soft briquettes that are dried for half a day can be fixed, gently shake and turn over and then dry, so that the briquettes that have been dried for two consecutive days can be stored for winter use.
Most rural children have to rake leaves in this season, which is to help the family work, and the adults have to do other physical work. Therefore, under the big trees on the side of the road, you will often encounter peers who are chattering with rake leaves. We would rake as many leaves as possible before dark, and almost all of them in one area would be rake into small piles to be rake in another place, and we would take down the snakeskin bag on the shelf car and a person would be responsible for opening the bag mouth, and a person would be responsible for stuffing the rake pile of leaves into the snakeskin bag and packing it at the mouth of the bag. For example, there are several piles of green leaves that are packed in one bag, and the completely withered leaves are packed in another bag for later drying. The leaves are not heavy, but it is very difficult to pack, the leaves fly out again if they are too hard to hold and press, at this time, whether they recognize or not, children will come to help pack the bags, sometimes a toad frog will pop out of the leaf pile with one hand, sometimes they will encounter a hard thorny hand, and then see the bleeding, they will quickly get some mud on the side of the water canal on the ground to stop the bleeding, and then continue to dry. After a while, I was sweating. There is no hurry, and when you are tired, you will sit or lie on the leaves to rest. Some children do not know in which field to see a few corns that have fallen on the ground and confiscated, so they move down the corn and then use the dried leaves of the current rake to pile up to find a passing uncle, and use the smoke pot smoked in the hands of the uncle to light the dried leaves, we tie the corn on the branches of the trees and roast the corn with the dried leaves that are lit, roast it for a while, not sure if it is cooked, bite it and eat it, after a while, the mouth is full of black, and when it is dark, we will go home separately.
The childhood of dead leaves roasting corn, I miss the taste of that corn~
