Tell me the most unforgettable thing during your trip to the countryside?

I am a child of educated youth, and I have never experienced the era of going to the countryside, but my parents are the "third generation" of educated youth in Shanghai. I have heard many anecdotes since I was a child, so I want to find two I still remember to share with you.

My parents are senior three students of class 68 in Shanghai. They grew up in Xuhui District. Before that, their family conditions were good and they had never suffered anything since childhood. Even during the three-year natural disaster, my mother didn't go hungry, which should have been very serious at that time. In this way, a pampered young lady in Shanghai bid farewell to her teenage parents and traveled with her classmates for nearly five days. After trains, buses, tractors and mountain climbing, she arrived at the most basic production team.

At that time, young intellectuals were assigned to live in local farmers' homes, and they also called local farmers "masters". When they arrived at the designated "master" door, they were shocked. Little girls from big cities can't imagine that adobe houses in poor mountainous areas can live in people, and there is a barn next to them. But the journey was tiring, I sighed a few words privately, and quickly went to sew bedding and other things, ready to sleep at night. The "host" was also very kind and gave them a better room on the second floor. When cleaning the room, my mother found a hole in the wall next to it, and curtains hung at the hole. She thought the old house was in disrepair and didn't care too much. Everyone goes to bed early at night. But in the middle of the night, she was awakened by a rustle that lasted for a long time. At that time, she was young and tired, and fell asleep without much thought. The next morning, when chatting with the "host", she talked about the sound at night. "Dong Gu" told him indifferently, "Oh, it's just a python. It may come out to eat mice, but it won't hurt anyone. " The hole in the room wall is a snake's nest. When my mother heard it, it exploded instantly. She is bitter and tired, dirty, messy and poor. She is psychologically prepared, but snakes are free to go in and out of the house, which is beyond her tolerance. Anyway, she wants to change places. For this matter, the production team had a hard time with my mother.

Another thing that she must mention every time she recalls is also related to snakes. Things are a little awkward this time. It happened in the toilet. At that time, rural toilets could only be described as terror according to current standards. It's just a row of squats, directly connected to the septic tank, with no barrier in the middle, to protect privacy. Tonight, it was just dark, and my mother felt sick. She rushed into the toilet and squatted down. At the beginning of the release, she suddenly found a snake tray with a child's arm thick on the opposite side. This scene is awkward and comedy. On the one hand, she was scared to death and couldn't wait to stand up and rush out as far away as possible. On the other hand, she just started to release and couldn't stop. The exact words she recalled were "At that moment, I really wanted to die on the spot." Finally, the snake had a flash of light, and my mother was able to finish it and quickly escape from the toilet.

Every time I listen to these things, I listen to them as stories and laugh. Now that I am old and have my own children, I really feel that my parents' generation is not easy and has suffered a lot. I really should pay tribute to them!