A Rural Life in the 70s

The sky is bright, the doors of each room are also open, Xiaoqiu has already cooked up, and heard the movement in the backyard she has been paying attention to. The thermos passed, and I greeted Grandpa Wu’s grandmother.

Look at Grandpa Wu and Grandma Wu, the spirit is good, the spirit is much better than the previous day, Xiaoqiu is happy, or asked with concern: "Grandpa and grandma can sleep well? Is it cold at night?"

When the old house of the Song family was built, it took a lot of work to build a fire wall. The heat of the fire was usually not cold. After the fire was extinguished in the middle of the night, the temperature in the house might be lower.

Grandma Wu smiled and said: "It's not cold, it's not cold, it's hot, it's been hot in the bed, and my backache hurts a lot."

The old people's yang is weak, it is easy to chill, especially Wu's grandmother's body is weak, from a young age there is a cold hand and foot, how can not warm the bed in winter, often sleep more and more cold. However, she is a southerner. She is not used to sleeping in the bandits. She once refused the advice of others. She did not expect that, only for one night, she actually liked the hot bandits. It was really comfortable. Warm, hot, and even the feeling of numbness in the hands and feet has been reduced a lot.

Xiaoqiu laughs and says: "The bandits don't feel too clean, but the loess itself raises everything, which is the basis of the survival of all things. After heating, the heat is soft, the duration is long, the coke is not dry, and the long-term sleep can effectively raise the temperature. Temper, warm solid kidney yang, cold and dampness, Shu Jing active... Oh, the benefits can be more."

Grandma Wu was filled with a smile from Xiao Qiu and said: "I have some intentions to move, thinking about going back and repairing one. If you say this, it is even more necessary."

Grandpa Wu walked out of the house with his muscles and bones, and smiled and said: "I have to repair you for a while. You only said that you are not used to sleep. Now you know the benefits of cockroaches?"

Grandma Wu turned back and stunned Wu’s grandfather and smiled. “It’s good comrades to change the mistakes. I accept your criticism.”

Look at the two old people's love and harmony mode, Xiaoqiu heart warm, but knowingly greeted a retreat, and went back to the front yard to pack the rice.

When the breakfast was almost at the same time, Wang Limin and Song Shengshu Zhong Yuqin turned back, and Song Xiulian took Chenghe to look at the market.

Wang Limin smiled a little proudly: "The kid in Chenghe is a good hand. He is there, and most things can be dealt with."

After breakfast, everyone went out together, a few small surrounded up surrounded by Wu Grandma and Liu Fangfang, Wang Limin and Wu Haigang also tried to help Wu Grandpa and Zheng Qiushi, but was dismissed by Grandpa Wu: "We are not old enough People are holding."

Wu’s grandmother, who walked in front of her, heard the old man’s eyes and looked back and smiled. She followed the children and boarded the car.

Grandpa Wu’s glance at his wife’s eyes was only a sight, and he greeted his old friend Zheng Qiushi. Wu Haigang and Wang Limin looked at each other and smiled on the train. Wang Limin led the way to the market. On the road, Chengjiang and Xiaoqiu confessed to the market layout: "...there is no need to go there. It is a livestock market. Juggling and selling The basics of new year's goods and snacks are all on the street in Zhongnanmen, and the sheds of the family are also there."

The car had to stop at the edge of the market. Wang Limin and Wu Haigang sent a group of young and old people to follow the crowd. The two of them did not keep up, but turned the car, all the way out of the county, and went to the Nanuma Lake. went.

Not to mention the big boys who are nearly half a hundred in these two years, only to say that Xiaoqiu, a group of young and old, are on the market.

The time is very early, but at 7 o'clock in the morning, the morning of 7:00 in the morning is not long. There are still very few people on the street. I catch up with the big gathering of the year and look up. The streets are all four neighbors. The people who came to the village, helping the old and carrying the young, dragging the men and women, many of them are all the young and old, and many children, two or three years old, were squatted on the shoulders of the adults, looking high in the eyes, full of eyes full of smiles .

There are also many swimming vendors, who have just arrived from the four neighbors and eight towns. Among these people, several hawkers with tall grass handles are particularly conspicuous: one is candied haw, one is a brightly colored flower seller. There is also a kind of target that is particularly high, like a mast, straight into the air, the top is covered with beautiful lantern skin... a lantern cover made of bamboo rafts and a paste of paper (or cellophane, that is, transparent plastic paper) .

Everyone who has children at home will use a square wooden board and a wire to make a simple lantern stand. There is a nail in the middle of the wooden board at the bottom of the lantern stand. It is used to insert a candle. Buy a lantern cover and press a child's finger on the nail. The size of the candle, a simple portable lantern is complete.

Every year, after the Lantern Festival, the children of each household raised their own lanterns and went out to play with their friends. They often couldn’t walk a few steps and fell, and the lanterns burned. There is also the accidental swaying of the candle, the same will burn the lantern... The burning is usually only the lantern skin, the lantern frame is relatively strong and can be reused for many years. Some of the family is good, and the pets are simply bought two or three lanterns for spare, burned and replaced with a new one... Xiaodong’s record last year was burned overnight.

Those who sell flowers with the grass handles sell the flowers that are worn on their heads. According to Zhong Yuqin, it was a long time ago that the flowers were made of light, and now they were replaced with sponges. Made of thin wire, the most common are butterflies and flowers. There is a convention that is customary, a big year, a firecracker for boys, and a flower for girls. Some children in their arms, even boys, sometimes buy two flowers for the tiger hats that are worn on their heads. They are bright and lively, and they don’t have any fun.

A few people walked in Xiaoqiu, and on the road they met several people who were carrying candied haws, flowers, lanterns and hurriedly. Josie’s eyes lit up, but he did not forget to go to the river when he went out. He did not dare to act casually. Instead, he took the clothes of Chengjiang and pointed at the mouth-watering candied haws.

Cheng Jiang smiled helplessly, and turned back to say hello to several old people, so a group of people stood and raised their voices. Immediately, two people selling candied fruit and a flower seller came over with the handle. Joe Xi and Xiaodong Chenggui immediately went to see the candied fruit, Liu Fangfang was pregnant and loved to eat sour, four people were not afraid of two selling sugar gourd to grab business, and Xiaoqiu took Xiaoxia to look at the flowers, watching the target squeeze Squeezing the head of the flower, Xiaoqiu Xiaoxia almost picked up his eyes. Finally, the two sisters picked one in their hands, and there were two or thirty.