Reborn in the 70s / Reborn in 1978

Snow is always a sudden thing.

One morning, when you wake up, you will feel a little refreshment in the air, even if you are still under the covers.

I put on my clothes and rolled up the thick cotton curtains on the windows, and the dazzling white light shone through the glass into my eyes.

At this time, the glass windows must be translucent and frosted.

The adults said: "Hey, it's snowing."

The child jumped and shouted: "It's snowing, it's snowing." He hurriedly got out of the bed and pulled his clothes.

Put on your clothes and wash your face, adults and children all run outside, adults have to go out to see if there is anything damaged by the snow, the snow on the road in the yard needs to be cleaned, and the children simply want to go out to play and take pictures of snowmen It is full of fun to make a snowman, play a snow pole, and just step on a string of footprints in the snow.

At that time, it was normal for the snow to be tens of centimeters thick. Sometimes a heavy snow was nearly one meter deep, and it was normal for trees to be broken, houses or cowsheds and pigpens to be crushed.

After 2000, the snow did not fall so thick, and the temperature also increased every year. After 2010, the snow fell less, and the temperature was only ten degrees below zero. It was not like winter in Northeast China.

Going out in the morning when it snows heavily is a laborious task. The snow will block the door, and it takes a lot of effort to push the door open.

Sometimes the snow is too heavy, and others have to help shovel the snow outside to open the door. Jumping through the window is not acceptable. In winter, the entire window must be sealed from the outside with a thick plastic sheet.

The adults in the neighborhood are holding wooden nailed snowboards or flat shovels, spraying thick white gas from their mouths to remove snow, in their own yards, on the roads outside, in neighbors’ yards where there are few people or only the elderly are at home, in pigpens On top of the chicken coop.

It is very tiring to shovel snow that is [-] to [-] centimeters thick. After a while, some people will take off their cotton jackets and put them on the roadside fence or fence, and the whole upper body will be covered with white smoke.

I always see books talking about sweeping snow, and I have also seen people sweeping snow with a big bamboo broom on TV, but the snow really cannot be swept, it cannot be swept at all.Unless only a little bit, one or two centimeters thick.

The cleared snow is piled up in vegetable fields or low-lying places on the side of the road, and it will turn into water in the next spring, so there is no need to spend effort to transport it away.

The winter days in Northeast China are very short. It doesn’t light up until nearly 04 o’clock in the morning, and it starts to get dark at 30:[-] in the afternoon. However, after snowing, you can see everything even when it’s dark, but it’s not as clear as during the day.

When it snows heavily, the whole world becomes only black and white.

The ditches were filled, the river surface was covered, houses, walls, trees, everything was pressed under the thick snow.The plan is white, the slopes and elevations are black.

Walking on the snow will be very tiring, and the whole body must work hard, otherwise it will fall.If it’s new snow, tie up the corners of your trousers, otherwise the snow will get into your shoes and trousers after a few steps, and it will melt into ice water. Within ten minutes or so, the entire foot and calf can be frozen into a lump of ice and lose consciousness.

Once the foot loses feeling, people will fall when walking, have no sense of balance, and severe toes will rot.

At that time, there were many people whose noses, ears and toes were frozen due to carelessness.

Of course, most of them will not be so serious. However, as long as it is frozen, the frozen part will warm up quickly when you enter the room. It hurts, the more it hurts, the more itchy, you can't touch it, you can't grasp it, that feeling is the secret of life and death for Tianshan Child Elder in Tianlong Babu.

Jin Yong must have been frozen.

Frostbite is terrible. At the beginning, I just felt a little cold, and after a while it hurt a little, but it was just freezing, not hurt, just freezing. If you don’t care about it, you feel that you are awesome or you can stand it , and then you will lose consciousness, and gradually neither the cold nor the pain, it hurts.

Once you get frostbite, there is nothing you can do. Gently rub it with snow, don’t go to a place where the temperature is too high, slowly slow it down, and when you feel itching, it is possible to recover, but it will hurt for a few days. pain.

If the injury is severe, it will die, and if it warms up, it will fall off.If it falls off, it will fall off. If you keep it for a period of time and use some medicine, there will be no problem. This is also lucky. The bad thing is that it is not over yet. After warming up, it will fester or drip yellow water, which may require amputation. up.

Once the snow falls, the world will change its appearance, and the next day will be the next snow from time to time. Gradually, the vegetable garden and both sides of the road will become huge snowdrifts, and children will have no way to walk on the road. The snow wall on the side is high.

Adults who love to move use a shovel to pat the snowdrift into shape, and slowly pour water on it, and it becomes a slide. Every day, children dressed like rice dumplings slide down on it, shouting and cheering. Then climb up stupidly.

The winter after the snow is very clean, no matter how much you roll and beat, your clothes will not be dirty.

After the snow has cleared, the days will be a little bit colder than before the snow, and the wind will become biting. The ground on the top of the floor kept passing by, blowing on the face as if it had been sanded with sandpaper, it was very painful.

Zhang Xingming's family can be regarded as the top of this family area, and further down is a large vegetable field, which looks like several hundred and eight acres.

The vegetable field used to be a road, and beyond the road is a small river. The river is 34 meters wide. The people living on both sides of the river are basically rural households who have moved back from the factory. Each factory is also given a quota to work, belonging to a large collective , the treatment is much worse than that of Quanmin, and there are a lot less things for the Chinese New Year.

These rural households have land, but they only grow vegetables, mainly for the workers' families in the factory, and the land is distributed by the factory.

The toilet and the boiler room are next to each other, and the water in the boiler room is non-stop throughout the seasons, rushing through the ditch less than one meter wide in front of each house, and flowing to a larger horizontal line beside the vegetable field. into the ditch, and then along the edge of the vegetable field, it flows into the ditch in front of the school gate.

The top of the canal is connected to the boiler room of the bathhouse. It goes down from the school gate, passes through a self-built house, crosses the road, and flows into the small river.

The vegetable field in winter is covered with thick snow, and the north wind howls and rages in this open space. The snow will form a hard shell in the wind, and the children will not collapse even if they run on it.

The water in the boiler room turns a corner here. As the ice layer in the water continues to thicken, the water overflows from the corner and freezes into ice. The ice surface continues to expand. Sometimes the entire vegetable field is more than half like a mirror. ice surface.

So this place has become a paradise for children, from a few years old to teens, three or two together, seven or eight together, gather on the ice to play ice skates, play dirt skates and one-legged donkeys, the family Those who are well-connected can get ice skates and ice swords out of the factory, and they will be surrounded by a bunch of people to please them, just to play for a few minutes.

Soil skates are made by tying thin bamboo strips on the soles of the shoes. This also needs to be technical, that is, it must be tied firmly, and the tying rope must not touch the ice surface, so it will not slide.

Adults don't care about these things, it's just that children figure it out on their own, and naturally they do it well, and they become the recognized masters of all the children, and they are surrounded by compliments, so that they can help them do it for themselves.

One-legged donkeys are not something children can play with. This thing is a wooden board that is slightly longer and wider than the two feet together. A wooden square is nailed horizontally in front of the wooden board to prevent the feet from slipping out from the front.

In the middle of the wooden board stands another wooden board, the upper part is higher than the lower part, the upper part is sandwiched between the two feet, and the lower part is the single leg for skating. A steel bar should be fixed on it to increase the sliding force.

People step on it with both feet, clamp the vertical board in the middle, and slide by the steel bar on the lower leg.But this is not enough, if you can't stand up, you will fall down.You have to use a thicker steel bar, sharpen one end, and put a round wooden handle on the other end to make a snow pole. With both hands leaning on the pole to maintain balance, squat on top of the one-legged donkey, and then use the pole to apply power to make it slide. up.

This toy is very fast, not only requires a high balance ability of the player, but also requires a high production process, so it is quite awesome to have a one-legged donkey that can slide well.

Often a dozen or so children stand by and take turns skating for a while. There is no timer, and they will be replaced when they fall down.There are also those who are relatively independent, and they skate by themselves and do not let others play. However, such children are not liked by everyone, and they will not find him when they usually play.

Years and years later, the ice surface is full of shouts and laughter every day, drifting far away along the north wind.

Take a warm nap on the warm kang, everything is so beautiful.Zhang Xingming rubbed his eyes and sat up under the quilt, looked around for a while, then got off by himself, put on the padded jacket awkwardly, lay down on the edge of the kang and looked down, but couldn't find the shoes, presumably he was let go by his father or mother To the stove to bake.

I looked down and found only my father's pair of big-toed leather cotton shoes. I climbed down from the kang with both hands on the edge of the kang, groped to find my father's big shoes, stepped on them, and dragged them out of the room with great effort.

In the dark kitchen, only Sister Ping was fiddling with what to eat. Zhang Xingming yawned and asked, "Miss, where is my brother?"

Sister Ping shook her head towards the gate and said, "I was still in the yard just now, so I'm going to go skating with your second brother and the others."

Zhang Xingming looked at the stove. Sister Ping was eating roasted potatoes. She had no interest, so she dragged her big shoes into the thick curtain, pushed open the door, and came to the yard.

The outside was all silvery white, Zhang Xingming shrank his neck and squinted his eyes to look around, but there was no one, not even the black tiger was in the den.

Pulling up his cuffs, he dragged his father's big shoes and walked out of the courtyard, wanting to find his brother on the side of the earth.

The exit of the small path in the yard is connected to the main road outside. There is a small slope, which is not too steep, but the shoes Zhang Xingming is wearing today are too heavy, causing him to lose control just two steps up the slope, and he slaps his face downward. Fell on the icy road.

He didn't feel much pain, but Zhang Xingming knew that he was going to the hospital for stitches. What happened in the previous life, he still hasn't escaped in this life. This is simply a wound of fate.

The heavy leather padded shoes fell on his feet. He struggled a few times trying to get up, but it was impossible. The blood trickled down his forehead and dripped onto the ice. The moment it dripped, it condensed into ice, one by one red. ice flower.

"Oh my god, Er Ming." Just like in the previous life, the elder sister was the first to find him, ran over in a hurry, threw away the things she was holding, and even fell next to him. Seeing the pain, he picked up Zhang Xingming and hugged him in his arms. Seeing that his forehead was still bleeding, he took off his gloves, turned his face over, and pressed on the wound, tightly covering it.This is because I am afraid that the wound will freeze.

Maybe it was too flustered. The eldest sister hugged Zhang Xingming and had to help him cover his wound. She tried several times but failed to stand up. She sat on the ice anxiously and shouted: "Xiaoping, Xiaoping. Xiaolizi." This Only Sister Ping and Second Brother were in the room at that time. Of course, my brother was also there, but he was too young to be ignored.

The windows were all sealed and covered with thick cotton curtains. Although it was only a dozen meters away, she yelled a few times before Sister Ping opened the door of the outer room and peeked out her head.The second brother and his elder brother are still playing on the ice on the other side of the earth, and only sister Ping is in the house.

"What's the matter? What's the matter? What's the matter?" Sister Ping ran out with her cotton shoes, throwing away the potatoes in her hand.