Memories caused by ice and snow

At this age, sometimes a casual word or thing can evoke a person's deep memories. The earliest primary school in our village used to be a flat land in Nanshan. Its structure is a mud wall and grass cover, which is low and the doors and windows are not strict. But this is the place where my parents used to study, but it only exists in my memory. Now it is a pig farm built by my primary school classmates.

When I was in primary school, the newly-built brick and tile school in the east of the village was also the only super-large tile house in our village. My home is three or five hundred meters away from school, and it is still a adobe tile house. There are front and back gardens, with barns, pigsty, chickens, ducks, geese and dogs raised in the front garden on the east, and a fruit tree next to the back window, including plums, begonia, 123 apples and cherries. This will be a vegetable field in the future. As soon as it snowed in early winter, my brother and I went to the fruit trees to find the dried fruits that had not fallen. Although it is not very delicious, it still tastes like fruit and the food is delicious.

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Before the first snow falls, the school will inform us to order firewood and wood for the winter. The students in our class are all from this village. At that time, our village was divided into three parts, which can also be said to be three natural societies, Daheishan, Wenquangou and Xinlitun. The village primary school is in our Daheishan village, and the other two places are a little far away, which should be four or five miles away. The school will decide how many bundles of firewood to pay according to the number of people. At that time, there was a standard, and the size of the firewood bundle was calculated. At that time, we didn't need our parents to cut wood for us. We went to the surrounding mountains to cut wood. Several of our classmates have made an appointment, and whoever borrows a luggage case will go up the mountain. There was firewood on the mountain at that time. We started to work, but we still didn't have much strength and the firewood bundle was not that thick. In fact, we also have some other cleverness, just to make up for it. In this way, we loaded our own firewood into the car. How do we know that these thirty bundles are yours and those twenty bundles are his? After we loaded the car, we separated it with thicker branches, remembering which floor we were on, talking and laughing, and dragging it to school. I remember that the firewood of the school was piled in the southeast corner of the school at that time. The firewood was checked and accepted by the teacher and the caretaker, and the task was completed only if it was qualified. Seeing that our firewood bundle is so small, I remember a saying to describe it: it is not a thick dog's neck. The thick one counts as two bundles and the thin one counts as three bundles. Then I accepted it with a sigh, and I will go up the mountain to continue chopping wood tomorrow. But at that time, we never answered back, just accepted it obediently. In this way, the firewood required by the school is regarded as having completed several tasks and handed in according to the standard in the following years, because it is obedient. ...

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After the firewood was handed in, the weather became colder and colder. We are going to hand in the wood burned in the classroom. We were asked to hand in wood with a diameter of about 10 cm and a length of no more than 20 cm. Because it is thick and long, it can't be put in the stove. Above all, we must use dry wood. Wet wood will smoke when it burns. The whole classroom is full of smoke, and the smoke is choking, so we can't have class.

About1late October, the class will have a stove for the winter. At that time, all our teachers were teaching at school and went home to do farm work. Most of them are private teachers and live in villages. The teacher is responsible for building and we are responsible for helping the teacher. The bricks and buckets used are put in a warehouse in the school. The grades are written in chalk on the bucket, but the classes are not written, because there are only six grades in our village and there are more than 30 people in our class. I remember going to primary school around 1984. I don't remember it clearly. In this way, we boys moved the furnace barrels and bricks to the class, and some students dug yellow mud in the Woods on the east side of the school and mixed it with the mud in the class to build bricks. Why? Because there was no cement mortar at that time and it was expensive. The most important thing is that after winter, the stove will be demolished in spring and built in the following winter. It takes about an afternoon to build a stove. Our furnace consists of three parts: furnace, furnace wall and furnace barrel. Their respective functions are different. The stove is a wood-burning fire, the furnace body is radiating heat, and the furnace tube is both exhausting smoke and radiating heat. The description is not very clear, but it is indeed a good tool for heating. When the stove is built, it needs to be lit, and the mud for making the stove needs to dry for a long time. During this period, I have to watch a piece of smoke, and the stove is fully qualified and put into use, starting his mission. At this time, the wooden blocks handed in by the classmates piled up at the back of the class. There must be one person who is Takasu. This kind of wood is used for heating in winter. If it is not enough, we will be notified to hand it in. At the same time, due to the space occupied by the middle stove, our original row of tables has changed from four rows to two rows, with four people in the horizontal row. At that time, we were able to sit at the same table strictly according to boys and girls, but now I think every child at that time had more or less an only child's home. In fact, in addition to heating us, the stove also has an important purpose, that is, students who are far away from home need to bring lunch boxes at noon, and the food is cold in winter. After the third class, students with meals will put lunch boxes on the stove to heat their meals. After the fourth class, the meals are old and hot, so they can heat their meals. There are also some jokes, and the class will smell of rice and pickles. My home is near, so I always go home for dinner at noon. At that time, I was quite envious of my classmates who brought meals and could eat together in the class.

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This is how winter begins. Every day, the head teacher will assign students near the school to make a stove (fire) in the class in advance. They have to make the class warm before the students come, so they will come early and be responsible. After making the stove, they will go home for dinner and then come to class. Throughout the winter, after completing the task, the class teacher will buy a pen or notebook as a reward from the meager class fee. This task is rushed to do, which is also a very glorious thing.

It was very cold in winter and it snowed heavily at that time. It snowed heavily the night before. As I wrote at the beginning, we should bring shovels. There are two in the class, but they are not enough. In fact, I remember that we were all used to it and didn't pay special attention. It is necessary to clear the snow when it snows. It is quite understandable to take a shovel to sweep the snow at school. At that time, our school playground was full of potholes, unlike land. The scope of snow removal is the road leading to the class and teaching and research room, and a runway is cleared around the playground, and the road leading to the outdoor toilet and so on. There is really no time when there is no class without heavy snow. At that time, we all walked to school without a car. There are only cows and horse-drawn sledges on the road, so it is difficult to see motor vehicles. Some tractors (also called four wheels) are scarce in the village, so there will be no traffic accidents.

Accompanied by the snow all over the sky and the snow on the roadside, the earth and Shan Ye, I came to school in high spirits and began to creak when I started walking. Now I think it's great. When I got to class, I dumped snowflakes and stamped my feet, and the snow on my shoes began a happy and carefree day of study. Sometimes I take off my cotton shoes (they are wet) and bake them on the stove. In an instant, the classroom smelled of feet, which was really sour and refreshing. Sometimes if you don't pay attention, your shoes will be burnt and you will be scolded when you go home.

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In winter, it snows At that time, it gave us infinite happiness and memories. At that time, it was freezing, which could completely freeze people. At that time, the snow crystal was crystal clear, pollution-free, edible, cool and sweet, left on the tip of the tongue and hidden in the bottom of my heart, and will not be forgotten for many years. The bits and pieces of broken memories of childhood are now slowly searched out in my heart. It turned out to be so beautiful and charming. Many memories have been added to my mind. When I have time, opportunities and feelings, I will write them out. My heart is pulling back, savoring the people, things and footprints I had when I was a child.