Nostalgic prose: echoes in the wind box

Nostalgic prose: echoes in the wind box

Text: Zhang Shugen

　　Whoops, whoops, the music of a wind box beats rhythmically, and a kind face under the pot table is covered with crow's feet of time. A pair of hands carved with hard cocoons were busy, pulling the wind box in the left hand, drying cow dung with a shovel in the right hand, and as the wind box whistled, the fire in the hearth was booming, and it was my mother steaming rice.

　　The airbox is made of wood, made of wooden planks into rectangular wooden boxes, two round wooden sticks inside, or into a square, two logs with a small rectangular small board and two round wooden sticks nailed in one piece, the two log sticks outside the wooden box leave two small holes, just and the thickness of the wooden sticks, the outside and the wooden stick junction to do a hand pull, you can push and pull two wooden sticks, the inside of the small rectangular board with chicken feathers fine linen bundled tightly, a push and a pull from the side of the wooden box small holes to breathe wind, and the pot side of the small hole to connect with the mud to wipe tightly, let the wind blow to the bottom of the pot stove, let the wind blow to the bottom of the pot stove, Make the flame at the bottom of the stove burn vigorously, and the bottom of the direct-burning pot is heated to heat the pot, and you can boil water for cooking. When I started a family, my mother swept away the dust from the wind box that had been used for many years, put the paste on the newspaper table, and then used the old cloth table to make the wind box tight and solid, tight and airtight, so that the wind of the wind cylinder was greater, and whenever the wind box was pushed and pulled, the wind of the wind drum could be heard whistling, so that the flames of the stove burned more vigorously. Cook the meals more fragrantly and let the whole family enjoy them. With the development of the times and the popularization of electrification, the wind box gradually degenerated and was moved to the corner, but in the time of power outage, the wind box can still show its skills, so most of the wind box of that year is still preserved, and it can still be continued and passed down from generation to generation.

　　With the spring breeze of the rural transformation blowing all over the motherland, when I moved to the county town to settle down, I moved the wind box to the immigrants' upper floor, although I used the electric pot to boil water for cooking, but still remember the old used wind box, I want to always keep the wind box used in the past, for the inheritance of the generations, the court continues the incense, do not forget the old feelings, impact the echo. Let the sound of the wind box narrate the scene of life in that year, let the sound of the wind box have a beat echo the endless aftersound, echo in the real life of the family, do not forget the old feelings, and the journey of one year and one step.

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