When I was a child, my family must have been very poor! But I don’t feel that I am very poor, and I don’t feel like a poor person at all?

I am proud that I come from the countryside and from a poor family. My parents are out-and-out farmers. Today a friend asked a question: when someone ridicules you for being a mountain kid or a country boy, how should you answer them? That's my answer.

Rural Areas

Others ridicule you for being a mountain kid or a country person. I don’t know who this “other” is, and I don’t need to know. I just want to know how he is. Hanging out with us mountain kids and country folk? Since you are superior to others, you are a high-minded person, and we are from lower levels. How did you stand on the top of Mount Tai, shouting from a distance, and convey this news to us? How did you, the "other", find a good match and fall into the crowd of us country people, so that you have the opportunity to laugh at us? I understand, you are in the same school as us? Are you a colleague of ours? Are you our neighbor?

Bright spring, white snow, high tune

Whether you are a classmate, colleague or neighbor, I am fortunate to know that when we were walking uphill, you met us on the road of landslide, and you were still slipping all the way. Standing and shouting all the way, you mountain children, you country people. We who are barefoot finally come face-to-face with you who are wearing shoes. Then what else are you proud of? You are a person on the decline, why don’t you grasp the last straw of your fall and laugh at us?

The barefoot meets the one wearing shoes

Okay, now that I’m relieved, let’s get back to business and start talking about us rural people. It’s not that city people laugh at us villagers, but we rural people also feel inferior because we come from the countryside and have an inferior status. Two days ago, a sister's son changed his major after being admitted to college and filled out a bunch of forms about family members. When filling in the forms came up with the position of his father and mother, the child asked him because his father was a treasury manager. I am very depressed and reluctant to write any more. When my sister told me this, I burst out laughing on the spot. I told my sister that we all come from the countryside, and our parents are both farmers, so why don’t we fill in the column for our parents? Let me tell you, I openly and honestly write the word "Farmer" in capital letters.

My parents are farmers

I have also come from the era of filling out forms, and I have also studied with classmates from the city. Perhaps there is nothing more worthy of my inferiority than "farmer" There are so many real problems with different identities that I need to solve on the spot, regardless of my inferiority complex. Anyway, I have never felt inferior because I come from the countryside, I come from a poor family, and my parents are farmers. Because, no matter how poor and humble I am, through hard work, am I not on the same starting line as you classmates and colleagues who make irresponsible remarks? What do I have to feel inferior to? There is no distinction between high and low status, and heroes do not care about their origins.

There is no distinction between high and low status

I come from a rural area

What’s wrong with me coming from a rural area? Nowadays, people in many big cities go to rural courtyards to stay for two days during holidays and have some free time. Why do they all come to rural areas? The air is good, the food is environmentally friendly, and the most important thing is that our rural people are simple and kind. Isn't this enough?

Speaking of simplicity, I am reminded of the incident of stealing cucumbers when I was a child. I did not care about face, so I will tell you one or two. I was still six, seven, seven or eight years old, the age when people think dogs don’t love them. At that time, the land had not been transferred to individual hands, and the vegetable gardens and apple orchards seemed to be contracted and managed by others. In the summer, I didn’t even take a nap. I followed my neighbor’s brother, who was one or two years older than me, to steal cucumbers from the vegetable garden. We were so small at the time that the two of us were able to pull open the slightly larger opening of the garden wire fence and get in. While Uncle Li, who was looking after the garden, was taking a nap, the two of us ducked in, picked a few cucumbers and ran out. Maybe we were nervous, but when we were trying to get out of the barbed wire fence, we were caught by Uncle Li. , there was no other way, the two people came back in disgrace, bowed their heads and confessed, hoping that Uncle Li would not report it to his parents. Uncle Li saw that we had a better attitude of pleading guilty and agreed not to report it to our parents.

Unexpectedly, Uncle Li also said something that I still remember clearly: You two little troublemakers have picked them all, so just eat them here before leaving. It's a pity. Such a simple sentence has made me remember it for so many years.

Stealing cucumbers

Winter in the countryside is also very interesting. In addition to playing in the snow, there are other fun things. I remember that my sisters were busy with school at that time, and I, who was bored at home, ran to the back of the house. Next to the back of the house was a slope covered with weeds. In winter, the weeds on the slope All became golden. So, I took a comb to comb the hair of the weeds on the soil slope. Some of the smoother ones were combed into shoulder-length hair, some short ones were arranged into ear-length bobs, and some were long. If it's longer, braid her hair, and she won't feel bored anymore in the afternoon. Standing from a distance and looking up the slope, I saw that the little girls all over the mountains and plains were all beautiful and charming.

How about braiding your hair

Citizens probably can’t even imagine the fun of us rural people, right? What's wrong with our rural areas?

I come from a poor family

When I was a child, my family was very poor. Being able to have three meals a day was considered a blessing. We had many children in the family, and they all went to school, so we were poorer than ever. . The family is so poor that they still let us study. This kind of spiritual support actually comes from my mother's desire to study. My mother did not neglect our studies at all because our family was poor.

Too poor to open the pot

My mother has loved studying since she was a child, but she is the eldest daughter in the family and a daughter. Grandma does not have the unique concept of favoring boys over girls. When I entered elementary school, I went home to help with housework. When it was our turn to go to school, my mother would not let any of us go. We all had to go to school, including girls. When my mother went to school to bring us food, she sat at the school gate and listened to the sound of books coming from the classroom. She was fascinated.

Think about it, maybe my mother really pinned her regret of not being able to go to school on us to realize her wish, right? Now when I force my son to study, he in turn teaches me, don't let your hopes fail to come true, lay your hopes on this egg, otherwise I will be miserable. I don’t know what his son will think after he learns about his grandmother’s obsession with going to school.

Like reading

My parents didn’t know what it meant to leave the farm. At that time, my mother told us that while your dad and I are still young, we can join hands and It's like a door. You quickly go through it. Once you get out, you will see a bigger scene. If you can't get out, you will stay on this side of the door. When I grew up, I realized that what my mother was talking about was the farming community. Because she feels that only educated people can change their destiny. Fortunately, my mother helped us escape from farming one by one and provided us with more opportunities to change our destiny.

Jump out of the farm gate

Jump out of the farm gate

Nowadays, it is said that it is difficult for a poor family to produce a noble son. It is indeed true. A child living in a big city needs food and clothing every day. Things that are familiar to them are beyond the reach of rural children. The opportunity for rural children to change their own destiny is even rarer. However, there is nothing wrong with learning knowledge. As long as you surpass yourself on your own basis, this is a breakthrough. Fate has not favored you. You were born with a golden key in your mouth. If you don't work hard, it will be even more miserable, right?

It is difficult to produce a noble son from a poor family

My parents are out-and-out farmers

Seeing that the few of us living outside are pretty good, many people I was surprised by the fact that my parents were farmers. Yes, my parents are farmers to the fullest. The simplicity, integrity and principles of life among farmers are all under the words and deeds of our parents. We know what should be done and what should not be touched.

Be a good person and do things

My mother did not neglect the discipline of her children just because she was busy working in the field all day long. She was very strict with us. When we were young, movies were often played in the village at night, but we were not let out to watch them every day. Mom said that if we watched too much, we would not be able to calm down and study.

Later I learned that my mother’s principle contained a word called “playing with things to lose one’s ambition”. Regardless of whether her principle was reasonable or not, it was indeed rooted in the hearts of each of us at that time that we should not waste time on too much entertainment.

Playing with things is a waste of energy

My family is poor, but my mother always makes us dress neatly in front of others. My mother also said something that made me feel bitter but encouraged my whole life: "When you are extremely poor, if you don't earn face for yourself, who else will give you face? What's more, this is not just a matter of appearance. If you see yourself dressed up in front of others every day, you will really feel that you are not poor, and you will live a better life."

Face Project

Growing up, children cannot avoid conflicts with other children. My younger brother also had fights with other children. He came home and told his mother that she I always criticize my own children first and teach my children to learn "self-examination". Suhomlinsky, the great educator of the former Soviet Union, once said: "Any hen can love children, the key is to educate them." Love and education, this is what is special about my mother.

Love and educate

My parents are farmers. They can’t make any big ideas, but they subtly imprint their original, authentic but profound ideas on us. . I don't feel that my farmer parents are inferior in any way. On the contrary, I feel that my parents are unparalleled in their greatness. I am proud and proud to have such parents.

Great parents

I am proud that I come from the countryside and come from a poor family. My parents are out-and-out farmers.