Essay on stealing potatoes

Stealing is a disgraceful thing, which will not only be laughed at, but also be hated. But I was praised for stealing potatoes that time, so there is no absolute thing.

It was after the autumn when I was six years old. One day, my mother went to work in the production team and went to pinch millet in the yard of the production team. I followed my mother to play in the yard.

In the yard, I saw both male and female members working in the spacious yard, and female members were pinching millet. When my mother sat down to knead millet with the female members, I found several children about my age playing in the corner of the yard, so I ran to play with them. Playing, we walked to the edge of the yard, not far from the gate of the production team compound. At this time, we found that there was a big vegetable cellar in this place. Because the top cover of the whole vegetable cellar is covered with soil, which is two feet higher than the flat ground, but there are slopes around it, so we can easily reach the top of the vegetable cellar. Looking up, I found a grain pit near the production team's headquarters on the top of the grain pit, and the cover of the grain pit was put aside, so the grain pit was open, probably for ventilation during the day or something. Because of the discovery of the food cellar, we all came to the food cellar carefully, and then squatted around the food cellar to look inside. First, I saw a lot of potatoes under the grain cellar, and then I looked in and saw two rows of neatly stacked Chinese cabbage. Because the food cellar is very long, we can't see clearly what is on the other side of the cabbage.

At that time, the production team had such a large vegetable cellar because so many potatoes and cabbages were stored in it, because it was the Great Leap Forward period in China, and people in the village were eating the canteen of the production team. These potatoes and cabbage are used for cooking.

What attracts us children most is the potatoes in the vegetable cellar, not only because so many potatoes in the vegetable cellar are closest to the mouth of the vegetable cellar, but also because we all think of boiled potatoes or the smell of boiled potatoes! Because the food was very tight at that time, people didn't have enough to eat and were hungry! At that time, people not only ate wild vegetables, but also ate starch, and even the bark was stripped to eat! So when we found so many potatoes in the vegetable cellar, we all shouted in surprise: "potatoes!" " "potatoes! "But we just can't get to it in a hurry! We dare not go down to the cellar to get it, because there is no ladder under the cellar mouth, even if there is such a deep cellar, we dare not go down.

Just then, it suddenly occurred to me that there was a knife in my coat pocket, and I had a way to take the potatoes out of the vegetable cellar! At this time, I stood up and looked around. Just at the door of the production team, there was a lot of long straw, and there was a pile of dry branches next to it. So I hurried over, first picked a long, thick and straight stem, quickly removed the leaves from the stem, and then took out a knife and cut it in the middle of the stem tip with a knife. Then I went to the pile of dry branches and chose a straight dry branch as thick and long as a chopstick, and cut both ends of the long dry branch of this chopstick into bare and sharp with a knife. Insert the dry branch into the tip of the stem vigorously until it reaches the node of the stem, then insert the dry branch into it and stop at the node. At this point, there are less than half of the dry branches left outside the stem tip.

The child is so long, I think this will do.

So I took this stalk and quickly returned to the mouth of the vegetable pit. At this time, the children are still playing by the vegetable cellar. After I lay down again at the mouth of the vegetable pit, I put the stem head with the tip of the dry branch into the vegetable pit first, and then put it down slowly. When the tip of the dry branch at the front end of the stem is next to the potato, I hold the end of the stem tightly at the mouth of the vegetable pit, lift it up a little, and then aim.

When the children saw that I really tied the potatoes, they cried for me with joy and were so angry that they couldn't help it.

Then I brought four potatoes. By this time, I had taken off my hat and put the potatoes in it. When I was talking about the fifth potato, I heard someone scare me not far away: "The child stole the potato, tell the captain!" " "I looked up in horror and saw three male members coming out of the production team yard and walking into the yard. When I was about to pick up the potato in my hat and run away, I saw one of the three male members with an empty pocket in his hand, suddenly turned around and put his arm around the waist of the member who scared me and scolded him: "What are you yelling about! "Then the member with empty pockets smiled at me and said," Don't be afraid, he's just teasing you. I'll see how you get a potato. It's okay. I'm not afraid. "He probably didn't come forward because I was afraid, so he took the lead and stood there smiling at me. Because the village where my family lived at that time was very large and scattered, I didn't know their last names, but I saw that the Committee member with empty pockets was really nice and looked at me happily, and I was really not afraid. So I quickly put a potato in my hat. At this time, I looked up at the member to see if he would let me do it again. At this time, I found that all the members smiled and praised me. The member with empty pockets even smiled and waved at me and said, "You can finally have another one!" " "Then he laughed and scolded the member who scared me. "Look at this child! You bear, are you as clever as this child? " Praise makes me relaxed and happy.

When I mentioned the last potato, the member with empty pockets smiled and said to me, "Take the potato and run home. Don't do it again. If you fall into the cellar again, you won't get out. We will cover the cellar for a while. "

Obediently, I quickly held the potato in my hat in my arms and ran home with a stalk in one hand. After running for a few steps, I looked back at the member with empty pockets as I ran, feeling that he was very nice and grateful.

When I got home, I put the potatoes on the kang first, then I cleaned up all the dirty things on the potatoes one by one by hand, and then I waited for my mother and sister to go home. I just wanted to talk about how I got these potatoes out of the cellar of the production team. Thinking that my mother and sister would praise me, I expected my mother to cook them and taste them when eating!

Time flies, decades have passed, but I still remember this clearly, and I am still very grateful to the Committee member who took the empty pocket! Looking back now, when they stood by and watched me stick potatoes from the cellar, although they looked at me with a smile and praised me on the surface, they were probably very uncomfortable in their hearts! Although everyone in the village ate wild vegetables, starch and bark during the Great Leap Forward! They may have to eat less when I brought big potatoes, but when they saw me inserting potatoes like that from such a deep vegetable cellar, their affection was really touching-not all because the children were hungry at that time! !

I don't know if a six-year-old child can figure out how to get potatoes out of such a deep vegetable cellar by my method. This does not mean that children nowadays are not smart. Because today's children live too happily, they can eat whatever they want with delicious snacks, and there is no need to think like that at all. Now they don't want to bend down to get the potatoes at their feet, or they don't like to eat the potatoes cooked and served on the table.

Unforgettable years of our generation.