It was a small county town in southern China in the 1960s and 1970s, called Chengguan Town. However, it had neither city walls nor passes, but it was blessed with the advantage of having Zijinshan Mountain at its back and facing Xiangjiang River, surrounded by green mountains and green water all year round.
In the center of the city are the four pagodas, and the streets extending in four directions with the four pagodas as the center are called East-West, South-North Streets. They are the skeleton and spine of the city, constituting the pattern and appearance of this small city, supporting the face of this small city and row. Distributed in the four main streets within the small streets and alleys and thousands of households, as the city's capillaries and body cells, they are in the streets and alleys and all corners of the city, never stop surging, flow, growth, growth, hibernation, reproduction, contains unlimited vitality and vigor, is a small city never exhausted source of energy, but also the city's eternal power and not out of the bent of the soul.
The small city is not big, only two or three kilometers in circumference, the population is only two or three million. But a long history, a long history, although there has never been a great wealth, big red, big ups and downs, a long period of time but also affluent and peaceful, prosperous and prosperous, and smooth and peaceful. But also had experienced vicissitudes of life, history has been floods, met with famine, suffered from the plague, there has been a war and chaos, had a banditry, tiger trouble, 1944 was also occupied by the Japanese, the small town was also bombed by Japanese aircraft, but the people here and the small town depend on each other, suffering and ****, or strong over, tenacious survival, and has been stretched to the present day.
Two
The small city is in the shape of a convex character, east of the Xiangjiang River, south of Zijinshan Mountain, north of Qingliang Temple, west of the two intersections. The streets parallel to the Xiangjiang River are called Nanjie and Beijie, which are the two main streets of the small town. Shops, stores, restaurants, hotels, institutions and organizations are mostly gathered in these two streets. The streets perpendicular to the Xiangjiang River and parallel to Zijinshan Mountain are called East Street and West Street. East Street is the shortest, from the four buildings to the east extends a few hundred meters to the bank of the Xiangjiang River, but the shortest East Street was also one of the busiest sections of the small county, it is four buildings at one end, one end of the county was the busiest ferry terminal, there was no bridge in the county at that time, in order to cross the Xiangjiang River, you have to take the ferry, the Hengshan station on the Beijing-Guangzhou line will be across the river from the county of Xintang Town, when business trips, travelers go to the train station and the towns of people have to rely on the ferry, the ferry is the only way to get to the station. At that time, people traveling on business and long-distance trips to the railway station and between the two towns had to rely on ferries, and the ferry terminal in the small town was very busy and one of the liveliest places in the small county at that time. In addition, the county's only movie theater is also located in the East Street, when there is no TV, cell phones, no Internet cafes, card halls, not to mention foot baths, massages, KTV, people's main entertainment is to watch movies, the movie theater has become the most lively place in the small county. Especially on summer nights, more than half of the people in the small county will gather to the cinema, when the short East Street will be crowded and lively. West Street is the longest, from the four card tower to the two intersections of three or four miles long, but then the long West Street was divided into West Inner Street and West Outer Street. West Nei Street is the old neighborhood, the street is the town residents, eat "national food",? The West Outer Street was a suburb, a rural household, engaged in agricultural production, mainly rice, vegetables, fish, pigs, etc. The two intersections were the western part of the county seat. The two intersections are the western gate of the county, is connected to the 107 national highway and 314 provincial highway traffic crossing, is the county to Nanyue and the back of the mountain must pass through the intersection, is also a small town connected to Hengyang, Xiangtan, Changsha traffic, two intersections of the large flow of people, then also very lively.
At that time, the suburbs of the county, in addition to a small amount of paddy fields and fishponds in the northwest, the other is mainly vegetable gardens and orange groves. Especially along the purple scarf at the foot of a large part of the mountain are lush orange trees, or a piece of green vegetable field. In spring, the whole county is drenched in the fragrance of orange blossoms, which makes people happy. And in the fall, that a large, a large green orange trees covered with red tangerines, very nice, really pleasing to the eye, is then a beautiful scenery on the outskirts of the city. Not only good-looking, Hengshan's red tangerine was a little famous at that time, and produced from the southern end of the county WuYuPu jujubes, are then a delicacy, the price is not expensive, for the residents of the suburbs at that time to add a lot of income. In the fall of the suburbs, there is a shed a shed of melon shed, densely hanging a large winter melon, pumpkin, as far as the eye can see, the scene is also spectacular, amazing.
Three
At that time, the county had three elementary schools, two high schools, a middle school. Elementary school is the south, north, west street each; two high school a called two, in the north street, a called three, in the west street outside the two intersections; a junior high school is also at the end of the north street by the Xiangjiang River, close to the county two. There were two hospitals in the county, namely the County People's Hospital and the County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as a Shinguan Health Center. It seems that the hospitals were far less busy and noisy than they are now, but a relatively neat and quiet place. The county also has a new bookstore, library, cultural center, then people generally like to read and study, most like to patronize these places, these places are also very popular, not like now so cold and lonely. At that time, the county also has an old theater, but the theater is not performed every day, while the troupe performs, while rehearsing new shows, a new play performed a year and a half, they will have to rehearse a new, to wait for the new rehearsal, and then staged. The majority of the people who like to watch theater are middle-aged and old people, and young people still like to watch movies.
At that time, the county also stationed troops, is a division-level units, the army authorities, more people, just the family area, in the county there are five or six, the children of the troops are also a lot, I remember our class has seven or eight is the children of the army. There were also two city-owned enterprises, namely Hengshan Auto Parts Factory and Xianghua Chemical Factory. These two enterprises were very hot, especially the auto parts factory, good efficiency, large scale, at that time in our small county, which is a large unit, the staff family a **** there are several thousand people. Garrison troops and municipal enterprises, but also for the small county at the time brought a different kind of vitality, adding a lot of color and vitality to the small town. Such as basketball games, cultural performances and other cultural and sports activities, they were the absolute main force and strong team. Even our school sports competitions and recreational activities, the army and the city enterprises of the children of the students are also the main force and backbone. In addition, in addition to the movie theaters in the small county, the military and municipal enterprises would often show movies, and free of charge, which was a great beauty in those days of scarcity, and even more so, it was the favorite of the young people at that time. Oh, the most active figures in the fights on campus and in the street were also the children of the army and the city enterprises. I remember there was a period of time, the auto parts of the children of the students and the troops of the children of the students froze on the dry, they were equal to the drums, do not buy each other, fighting very much, and lasted a long time, for a period of time, making our campus and on the street are very tense.
Four
Most of the houses in the small town were low and old, and at that time they were silent and huddled in obscurity in all corners of the city. Only the city's Temple of Literature, Temple of Martial Arts and Bell Tower stood tall and majestic. The city's Hengshan Academy, Kang Wang Temple, Qingliang Temple, White Horse Pavilion and other cultural relics and monuments are also incomplete, dilapidated, a deserted, unattended, and very few people patronize. Small streets and alleys in the city, but also gray, gloomy, night lights are also dim, can not beat the spirit. At that time, the street is only lively places such as cinemas, theaters, four-paneled building, three-paneled building, stations, piers, squares and skating rinks and other densely populated public **** places and entertainment venues, the rest of the place is very cold. However, at that time, the four-panel building often hung large propaganda paintings and large slogans, and several main roads often have large-print newspapers and cartoons to watch, which was also the most colorful and fashionable landscape in the small town at that time. At that time, people's clothes were all black, white, blue, gray or military green (at that time, if young people could get a military hat or a military jacket, it was very honorable, but also will show off) on the street was a gray, only the people's chest medallion and quotation boards glittering with the golden light, there is a dazzling bright red.
Five
Not only were students from the countryside tough, but life in the county towns was also tough at that time. At that time, all the residents of the towns, every family had a grain purchase certificate, a coal purchase certificate, a shopping certificate..., food stamps, cloth stamps, oil stamps, meat stamps... and other miscellaneous tickets, all of which were distributed strictly according to the population and according to the quantity. Sometimes a ticket does not necessarily guarantee the purchase of the required goods. I remember that when I brought my grain certificate to the grain store to buy rice, sometimes the full amount of rice could not be supplied, but had to be matched with dried sweet potato shreds, and when I bought flour, sometimes it had to be matched with tapioca flour. Two taels of meat tickets per person per month, and so save enough portions to go to the meat company to buy meat, it has to be early in the morning to go to the queue, otherwise, there is a ticket does not guarantee that you can buy meat. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products in the world, and then you can get your hands on some of the most popular ones.
At that time, our small county, there is no running water, families have to go to the river, well water to eat. The fire is still burning coal and firewood, to the coal company to buy coal, pull back to do their own root coal burning. At that time, it was a hard job to make root coal. First, we had to buy coal, then go to the countryside to pull loess, and then we had to carry water and coal, mix it, and then we had to use a root coal machine to smash the root coal into the pile of coal one by one, one ton of coal, one person often had to do it all day long, and even if we wore gloves, our hands would have to be rubbed out with blood blisters, and then when the root coal was dried out in the sun, we also had to carry it one by one to the coal house (at that time, all the families had their own small coal houses specially designed for storing the root coal). At that time, life was really difficult, we got out of school every day, most of us had to go home to carry water from the river or well, some students from difficult families, in the summer, they had to go to the street to pick up watermelon rinds to feed the pigs, and in the summer vacation, they had to carry a box of popsicles and sell them along the street to subsidize the family. At that time, people wore clothes, often adults wear old, children wear, older siblings through, younger siblings to wear. A piece of clothing was often patched and altered, and in the end it was altered beyond recognition.
These are the first time I've seen a bicycle or a sewing machine in my life, and I've never seen a bicycle or a sewing machine in my life.
At that time, life was hard and monotonous. We came home from school, did our homework and housework, and then went to our classmates' homes or walked the streets. At that time, the movie is there to see, but go to the cinema to see a movie, have to spend money to buy a ticket, when the parents' salary is only a few dozen dollars a month, basically can only guarantee that the whole family's clothing and food, that can guarantee that we often have a movie to see yo. At that time, parents basically no pocket money to us, want to see a movie, winter want to buy a packet of melon seeds, want to buy only baked sweet potatoes, summer want to eat ice lollipops, want to buy a bottle of soda, have to rely on their own ways to save money, and then we save money is often cleaned up the family's waste products, such as toothpaste skins, expired books, newspapers and magazines, scrap iron, etc., to get to the waste materials purchasing station to cash, and from time to time we will pick up the river beach! We would often go to the river bank to pick up scrap metal to sell money. At that time life was hard, monotonous, but people are very simple, simple, we all live a natural, true. I remember that between our classmates, a packet of melon seeds we eat together, a baked sweet potato we share, although just a little bit, but we all ate with relish, people were very easy to satisfy, a little bit of a small gain will be very happy, a little bit of enjoyment is a great happiness, a small harvest will be a big surprise. A new pen, a new book, a comic book, a new pair of shoes, a new coat, a good book, a good movie, a good ball game, a beautiful show, a meal of meat, a ruffled egg, and so on, all these beauties would make us happy and joyful for days. During that period, our hobby was also just collecting Chairman Mao's stamps, stamps and comic strips enthusiastically, and going to our classmates' houses to see who collected more and who collected better, and circulating, exchanging and appreciating them with each other, all of us were interested and happy, which brought a lot of gladness and pleasure to us at that time.
Six
Despite the hardships, there was a lot of fun to be had in the small town. Every holiday, the county held a basketball tournament, during which the square was filled with people. The court is alive and well, the dragons and tigers, the side of the court cheering and laughing, very lively. The auditorium also often have performances, there is the county's cultural propaganda team, but also from time to time there are foreign troupes, most of the performances are revolutionary model plays, to admit that the revolutionary model plays at that time is also very good to look at, has been y moved and inspired us. Every five or ten lunar calendar, the county will catch the market. Catch the day, near and far the villagers early in the morning, will gather from all directions to the county town. They or stretches, or carry, or back, or carry, with leather wicker, baskets, baskets, bamboo baskets, cloth bags, waist basket, carrying their own production, processing, harvesting, production of agricultural products, souvenirs have to run to the county town, to buy and sell transactions. At that time, the county has no standardized farmers' market, the whole street of the small town is the place to catch the scene, the street is full of bustling crowds, the streets are full of all kinds of products, food, with; ground production, soil planing, mountain picking, river fishing, home grown, handmade ... .... There are raw and fresh; there are soaked and dried wax, and so on. Although there are no delicacies, but as far as the eye can see, it is also colorful and dazzling. The street shoulder to shoulder, endless streams, there are selling, there are buying, a time, hawking, yelling, people take what they need, each other, bargaining, happy, but also excited, hot and heavy. Every market day, not only a large number of goods, goods gathered in the county, there are a lot of seasonal fruits, wild fruits and wild game, traditional food, handmade, flavorful snacks will also be gathered in the small town. Such as summer watermelon, melon, peaches, plums, sheep Tibetan rice, Wuzhaozi (the latter two for the local wild fruit), cold noodles ...; fall pears, persimmons, corn, corn, corn ...; winter baked sweet potatoes, popcorn, tofu brain .... .... There are also handmade toys and handicrafts.
If the day of the rush happens to coincide with our holiday, we will also run to the street, into the crowd to find delicious, fun. Encountered the favorite wild fruits and wild game or interesting small toys, spend a few pennies or a few cents, you can feast on, to satisfy curiosity. I remember that the Ubaozi, Yangzang rice, maosu and gorgonzola were quite flavorful. It was also a pleasure to eat a bowl of cold noodles on a hot day. Cold noodles - a handmade cold products, shaped like jelly, often in wooden buckets, villagers carrying along the streets to sell, eat with a wooden spoon or copper spoon to the bucket out of a small bowl, add sugar, add vinegar, add licorice water and stir, can be eaten. Cold noodles sweet, smooth, sour, unique flavor, froze is delicious, and not expensive, I remember when it was five cents a bowl, was then our favorite summer food. In the street can often see folk artists with bamboo, straw, straw made of small toys, such as horns, call, insects, birds and animals, although the production of simple, rough, but also alive, lively and interesting, very popular with us. Whenever the noon break, most people leave, and those folk craftsmen still picking the stretcher, in the streets and alleys, yelling, wandering, soliciting business. Such as repairing shoes, repairing umbrellas, mending pots, mending socks, sharpening scissors, choppers, and popcorn, etc., they are still busy in the small streets and alleys, hutongs and lanes. At that time, life was hard, people had to be frugal, the family's goods, objects are used again and again, rotten and then mended, mended and then used again. At that time, the tinkering craftsmen would gather in the county to do business on market days, and there were often craftsmen under our building who were engaged in tinkering, and we watched their skillful and dexterous craftsmanship, which felt quite interesting and magical, and often squatted next to them and watched them for half a day.
Seven
At that time, the material was scarce, the conditions were limited, and work and production were very busy, so people could only go to bookstores and libraries for their rare leisure, occasionally watch a movie or a play, and sometimes watch a ballgame or a performance, and then go to Zijinshan Mountain to climb a mountain, take a walk on the outskirts of the city, or go to the Xiangjiang River to do some fishing. Most of the occasional floral affairs in small towns, where men and women love each other, can only take place on Zijinshan Mountain, along the Xiangjiang River, or in Mao Zijian Park. In addition to walking on the street, we went on picnics in the countryside, or went to Zijinshan Mountain to read books and look at the scenery. Summer was the best, we could go to the Xiangjiang River every day to bathe and swim. Xiangjiang River in summer, but then the most lively place in the town, whenever the heat is unbearable, the whole city of men, women and children, basically will flock to the Xiangjiang River, people in the river to cool off, bathing, swimming, and washing clothes, people enjoy themselves, enjoy themselves, and at one time, Xiangjiang River, laughter, playing and playing, a joyful, and at this time, Xiangjiang River is just like a paradise for the people of the small town.
At that time, there was no TV, no household appliances, the home is also simple and limited, there are no other recreational facilities and entertainment venues, people's activities are mainly in the outdoor space. I remember, at that time, the four card tower is the young people like to gather, stay in the place, where they call friends, groups of three to five, talk about the sky, play, gossip, watch the scene. Sometimes the weather is good, or the cinema screened what new films, the four-panel building will be crowded, a boiling, crowded with young people. The three-paneled building is the middle-aged and old people, those old neighborhoods, small towns love to stay in the place. They are three or two or three or five a group, a few benches or a few chairs, here in the Dragon Gate, get together to smoke and drink tea, play chess and cards, or high on melon seeds, nagging family life. Sometimes also set up a small square table, a packet of sunflower seeds, a few two peanut rice, a few two orchid beans, a few two small pieces of flower, a dish of brine dried, plus a few two Lao Bai Gan or two pots of head, a group of people snacks to drink, south of the sea and north of the sea, the sea and the sky, God chatting and blind talk, kan and blowing, cloudy and foggy, and also free and easy, but also relaxed and enjoyable. But then there are often drunk, drunk in all shapes and sizes, some crying, some will curse the street, some temperamental, debauchery, madness, will be staggering in the street, hand-waving, babbling. If we meet, we will follow the crowd, think it is very interesting, very funny.
At that time, there were quite a lot of interesting people and things in the small town. The most interesting thing is that, at that time, there is a small town nicknamed "autumn moon good boy" stupid, then about forty or fifty years old, stooped, bowed back, always wearing a cap with a drooping brim of blue cloth, a black ragged clothes, the waist tied with a sweat towel, the legs played with a tie, thick eyebrows, small eyes, mouth concave, chin outward, often salivation saliva! He was always selling water for a living. A quintal of water for five cents, the interesting thing is that he only accepts coins, do not want paper money, even if it is a dime a dollar bill he does not want, some people deliberately teasing him, with a dollar bill and he exchanged for five cents of coins, he froze and refused. He may feel that the coins are firm, real, shiny silver, and will make a tinkling sound, feel very reliable, have weight. He also has a small cloth bag for coins, often tied in the waist of his pants. In addition to carrying water to sell, but also often like to the street to see the crowd, especially like to see women, such as seeing the favorite, he would have been followed, and sometimes even go to drag the woman, the woman is angry, he will be playful and smiley, tilted up his body, lifting open the clothes, and vigorously patting his coin-filled cloth money bag, the sound of clattering, joyfully said: "I have money miles, I have more fruit (which more) I have money, I have more (this much) money, you have to (give) me to do the tangke (wife) okay?" Whenever this happened, the onlookers could not help but laugh. At that time, the people of the small town often tease him, sometimes teasing him to change coins, sometimes coaxed him to go to see the women, talking about women, he will be excited, emotional, talking about coins he will be secretive, silent, silent. At that time, the small county, you can often see his hunched figure, either in a hurry to carry water, either idle wandering in the street, or being surrounded by a group of people to make fun of. He was not only often teased entertainment, but also became the highest recognition and popularity of the character of the small town, but also can be described as the small town of the most colorful, one of the most flavorful characters, he was also a small town of a unique mark, a unique symbol, he was even dissolved into the culture of the city of the small county at that time, I remember that period of time, the small town of the popular curse of the mantra is: "You are a (a) good boy in the autumn moon!" "You're a good boy!" or "You're a good boy!" Or just "Good boy, Akizuki!" It can be seen that he is in the small town people's impression of the depth of the image of the distinctive, the influence of a wide range.
Eight
In addition to the interesting people and things in the small town, the boring time we spent in the small town at that time was also interesting. The time in the small town was slow, the days were long, and we had a lot of time to squander. We had unlimited energy to walk around the corners of the town countless times, and we could visit every place in the suburbs countless times. There was a lot of time then, and the small town was very small, so we played and played and played, or Main Street, Zijinshan Mountain and Xiangjiang River. During summer vacation, we could go to Zijinshan Mountain to escape the heat, play, read books and see the scenery. We could go to the Xiangjiang River to bathe, swim, cool off and have fun. On summer nights, we would stay in the Xiangjiang River for a long time, either soaking in the river water until the moon rises or sitting by the river until the moon falls. If we are not finished, we will still be wandering around the river for a long time. Sometimes, in the dead of night, we will untie the fishermen's small fishing boats tied to the river, and several people will put the fishing boats into the river to go drifting and wandering, which makes us feel so happy and excited.
After playing, on the shore, such as who has money in his pocket, we will go to the ice room to drink a cup of ice water or green bean paste. If no one has money, we will also be in the street around, we know, as long as we do not go home, there may be what thrill and fun. At that time, we often play together in the classmates, there is a nickname for the "small four" of the army children, he is tall, bold, smart, often have a lot of strange ideas and tricky way. At this time, he took us to the street lamps of the four towers, a melon farmer is sitting in front of a pile of watermelons to sell watermelons (when the summer of the small town, often melon farmers in the street to sell watermelons, such as daytime did not sell out, will continue to sell at night, and sometimes even guard the watermelon in the street sleeps out), he pretended to buy watermelon, squatting to the side of the watermelon, indicating that one of the students squatting behind him, he let us with him to pick the watermelon, melon, picking, he held the watermelon one by one, knocking! He took the watermelon one by one knock knock pat, while bargaining with the melon farmers, not a moment, as if the price is not negotiated, he stood up, a wave of the hand to go, we followed him to the ice room, at the moment, only to see that the squatting behind him at the time of the students are holding a fruit knife in the table to cut the watermelon. Looking at the cut watermelon that has been placed all over the table, it is really shocking, but also inexplicable, I am puzzled. Later I realized, it turned out that he was picking and choosing melons, while the melon farmer did not pay attention, a smooth hand, the watermelon on the ground from his crotch rolled down to the hands of his classmates behind him. Really admire him very smart, very bold, although at that time also a little scared, but really is very interesting, very funny yo. At that time we were together, there are many happy happy things, boredom also had a lot of mischief. Now I remember, both funny and ashamed, I think these things, but also that period of young people are mostly inevitable it.
Nine
The summer in the small town is hot and fickle, but also the atmosphere is wide open, the world is very open, everything is full of vitality, but also have the spirit. Regardless of the day and night, there is enough space for us to splash and play, but also a lot of scenarios to interact with us and mingle, we can play as we wish, painfully, but also can play with ease and ease. Winter, because of the cold, is much colder and more sluggish. The sky and the earth are a bit shrunken, the air becomes stiff, our space to play, entertainment is also greatly reduced, the fun of playing is also reduced a lot. Nevertheless, we were happy to go outside to play. Sometimes play late into the night, already exhausted, cold and hungry, walking in the cold winter night on the cold streets, one can not help but be downcast, disheartened. In the cold air, suddenly smelled a wisp of warm baked sweet potatoes charred aroma, as found a new continent, some students pointing to the front of the dim street lamps shouted: "baked sweet potatoes"! "Baked sweet potatoes"! Everyone's spirits were lifted, and they ran to the dim streetlight in front of them. At this time, everyone gathered around the oven, scrambling to empty their pockets for coins, while enjoying the warmth of the fire, smelling the sweet aroma wafting out of the oven, all smiling happily. When we finally got enough money, we all ate the fragrant baked sweet potatoes, and each of us was even more happy and joyful. The old man who baked the sweet potatoes saw us like this, is also full of happiness, a face of simple smile.
Later, we learned that, at that time, in the cold winter nights in the small town, there are often two fixed baking sale, one is our first discovery of baked sweet potatoes, fixed in the West Street, near the four pagodas under a street lamp; a fixed in the three pagodas of a store in front of a pair of old couple, specializing in baking burnt shell cake (a traditional baked cake in the small town, thin and crispy skin, wrapped in yellow sugar
, sweet and tasty). The first is a traditional baked cake with a thin, crispy skin and covered with yellow sugar.) In the days to come, we can often find in the two dim streetlights, the three thin old man around the oven in that labor, whether it is the winter months, or late at night, whether it is freezing, or snowing, whether business is booming, or cold, they are stubbornly in that. As if there is some kind of agreement, some kind of commitment, is a kind of mission, is a kind of faith, right there, stick still, and always the same place. Since this discovery, in the cold winter night, we often come to patronize these two baked goods, sometimes unknowingly, involuntarily. Here we roasted the warm fire, looked at the rising heat, smelled the fragrance, ate the fragrant roasted sweet potatoes or crispy roasted shell cakes, felt the old man's kindness, simplicity, sincerity and cordiality, the heart is very sweet, very cozy. At that time in the cold, empty winter night, we walked in the cold, dim street, as long as you see the two ambiguous light, see the two familiar figures, breathe the strong baking incense, hear their melodious shouting, will feel very friendly, very warm. It's as if the whole street, the whole small town becomes cozy and sweet, the cold winter night becomes warm, the stiff street becomes gentle, the cold air becomes sweet, and our hearts are open and stretching, bright and soft. For the sake of this feeling, sometimes we even make a detour to pass by them, as if there is some kind of fulfillment and gain. Sometimes, just for the sake of looking at them, we would run out into the street to see them, and that was also a very happy and pleasant thing to do. If you see just empty streets and their lonely figures, there will be a deep loss and sadness.
I now think back, these old people, in the cold winter night, guarding the cold street, which can earn how much money ah? Not only earn money to make a living, which also has some kind of watchfulness, persistence and expectation, right? It's about the time, about the day? For yourself, for your life, for your family? Or to this small town, to the people in the town? Or the obsession with craftsmanship, inheritance, the past, and emotions? Or perhaps the hope for tomorrow, for the future, for beauty, for happiness? I don't know, but I do know that we all have a lot of unknowns, including the people and things around us, we know very little. It is also because there are many unknowns, the world is so colorful, wonderful; life is also so mysterious, fascinating.
At that time, the small town has been gradually distant, small town people and things in the dust of time, in the long river of years gradually become hazy, fuzzy. Nowadays, occasionally remember, there will be points of light, wisps of warmth, and the kind of forever passing, a sense of never return, but let a person sigh, sigh.
Ah, that distant small town!
? Zhou Yifu?2019.12.09 Hengshan