After 70, when you are old, will you return to your hometown?
When I wrote this title, there is a kind of inexplicable sourness in my heart. After many years of separation from the hometown, the twilight look back, the hometown is behind, but has been unable to go back. It's not that you can't find your way home, but life forces you to move forward. 70's people still have the helplessness of "people in their middle age," the old, the young, can't allow themselves to be reckless. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.
70 years later, remember the song "hometown clouds"? "The clouds of my hometown drifted across the sky, and it kept calling to me, when the breeze around me blew gently, there was a voice calling to me, come back, come back yo, the wanderer who has wandered to the ends of the earth ......" What a familiar melody, what a beautiful scene, but all this, just in a dream, the hometown is calling themselves, but they are drifting in other countries, the road ahead is long, do not know where to return.
Once a friend said, if we are old and retired, go back to your hometown. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money to pay for the services you need, and you can do it in a way that you can afford. No longer because of the city's hustle and bustle and irritation, no longer think about making money, and do not worry about losing their jobs, living with the world of the day.
However, these years, the hometown, is no longer the hometown of childhood, a lot of remote places, has been devastated, as well as the village house, some of which are only left in ruins. Suburban, has been completely different, the hometown of the creek, the hometown of the mountain, the hometown of the smoke, have been unable to find. This kind of hometown, every time I go back, there are inexplicable melancholy; this kind of hometown, can still go back?
My hometown is a continuous mountain, there are a few mud houses in the mountains, covered with cedar bark, the walls are yellow earth color, in front of the house are terraced, the left is a small ridge, the right is a vegetable field. This kind of home should be the "idyllic garden" that many city dwellers dream of, but how can a few acres of thin land support a family? The fact is, the reality is brutal.
It is said that the children of the countryside are the first to be born. 70 years later, if your hometown is in the countryside, then you must have done a lot of farm work. Feeding pigs, pulling hogweed, digging, herding cows, chopping firewood, herding sheep, driving ducks, cooking, planting trees ...... Such farm work epitomizes our childhood. The place where we do farm work is our hometown, and although it is barren, we still miss it. Every inch of land, we measured with our feet, a lot of dirt, we have touched, feel the warmth of the land.
Our hometown, there are also many places to play. Under the big tree at the entrance of the village, adults were cooling off and we were playing games. Shuttlecock, jumping ribbons, throwing stones, hide and seek, climbing trees ...... We had a different kind of happiness in our childhood without toys. We also made our own toys and were all inventors. Neighbor Zhang Huahua, dexterous, with paper folded more than ten frogs, let us together than whose frog jumped far and high; live in the village entrance of the Liu Junjun, made a wooden gun, with a rope hanging around the neck, the look of God, enviable.
The river in my hometown is always so beautiful. The river is a very beautiful place to live, but it is also a very beautiful place to live, and it is also a very beautiful place to live. When it rained heavily, the river surged and became muddy, and when the flood waters receded, there were many branches and pockets along the riverbanks, which we used to pick up and bring back, and which made the best firewood.
It was New Year's Eve, and families made their own New Year's goods. The taste of the rice cake was very good, the taste of the mochi was also good, the peanut rice was deep-fried, and the sweet potato flakes tasted sweet. Now, there are also such New Year's goods in the city, but none of them taste as good as the ones in their hometowns, and just seeing them evokes endless memories.
After 70 years, do you remember the first time you went out to work? I went out to work in 1996, the first stop came to Dongguan, in an electronics factory. I worked overtime until ten o'clock at night every day and took two days off a month. The factory mainly produced radios and televisions. Work is very tired, so tired that do not want to talk, but at the end of the month, got a few hundred dollars in wages, is also very happy. Back home, it takes months to earn a few hundred dollars.
Sometimes, also go to the night market near the factory to look around, always find something good but not expensive. A small watch, a small purse, a fashionable dress. Outside the work, their own money, people also wear foreign style. A lot of people who come back from work are seen before they even enter the village, because they are dressed up in a fashionable way, and the people in the village are "out of place".
70 years later, remember the first time in a foreign country New Year's Eve? In order to make a living, we also spend New Year's Eve in a foreign country, on the one hand, can not buy a ticket home, on the other hand, the vacation time is too short. There is also to save money. The New Year in a foreign country is always less lively than the hometown. In my hometown, there are a lot of firecrackers, children are very noisy, and there are a lot of people visiting friends and relatives. The year of the foreign country, there are also firecrackers sound, but always feel not close enough.
70 years later, must remember the days of going home to visit parents. This is the time when we return to our hometown, or when we have to return to our hometown. The good people, happy to go home, but also everywhere in contact with childhood playmates, we get together. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money from the government.
Back home, and parents together, do not dare to own no money, are happy. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, and then you can get your hands on some of the most popular ones. Parents in order to meet us home, always do a lot of good food, if you can not eat, but also packaged to take back to the city, to bring to a distant foreign land. The moment I left my parents, I often did not dare to look back for fear of seeing my parents shedding tears. I really hope that my parents will always be in their hometown and live in good health. If the parents are not there, after 70 people, suddenly found themselves into a weed, can no longer find a warm home, the hometown has become more desolate, really can not go back.
Back, and then ask, after 70, when you are old, will return to the hometown? Or rather, the hometown has been unable to go back. The time has changed, the hometown is no longer the original hometown, we are no longer the original us.
A few acres of land in the hometown, I don't know if it's still there, and the house made of mud, I don't know if I can hold on to it for hundreds of years.
Surrounded by the hustle and bustle of the city, busy work, hard life, this is our present. But what will our future look like? The first thing you need to do is to get back to the place where you were born and raised. You can hear the sound of chickens crowing, you can raise a watchdog dog, you can go to the mountains again to pick wild fruits, you can swim in the stream, you can drink a mouthful of water from the old well, this life, how good is it?
A lot of people can only dream of returning to their hometown. Just in some unintentional night, the hometown of the mountains and water, into the dream to come.
Outside the fight for decades, when to go back to the hometown? Perhaps, when the New Year's holidays; perhaps, just an expectation.
The author: cloth rough food.
The pictures in the article come from the Internet.