Dream Home
Lu Wenyou
Jinzhangye Heihe Beach, my hometown is here.
Heihe is a real mother river. The people of the villages along the coast have grown up drinking river water for generations and are nourished by the river water. Especially in spring and summer, the pink and yellow-green river beaches in the villages and rivers are complementary, with red willow flowers, rape flowers, and wheat seedlings. Lying here, bathing in the sunshine, breeze blowing, butterflies chasing in the fields, the sound of human colors and noises fill their respective corners very regularly, quiet and prosperous.
Walk out of the fields among the villages is an empty wetland grass beach, and a river like silver and satin winds through the middle of the beach. The water plants in the river beach never dry up. The sky was blue and the clouds were white. The old mortar (scientific name was Moroccan duck) and white swans flew off and fell on the high grass. Then look at the flock of cattle, horses and sheep gnawing at the grass leisurely, lying lazily, rolling around... like colorful pearls, sprinkling into the grassland, and shedding itself. As long as there is no living in the field, the cows, horses, , donkeys, mules, and sheep can drive off the beach with one whip. After eating and drinking, go home by yourself, and even the door is good. Standing on the high ground in the village or on the roof of your own house, there are puddles on the river beach. Walking between them, it is as big as one or two acres, as small as a crescent spring, and the water blue can reflect the moon in the morning. The most important thing is that in the larger water and grass sink, the tender green reeds sway in the wind, some wild ducks rush out between the gaps of the reeds, and some pounce on the shallow water.
At that time, there were too many fish. Whether it was in the ditches, river beaches or the fields, any puddle dried up, it would be a nest of fish, although they were all small fish. It’s boring for our friends to catch fish in a nest, and it’s not as exciting as we catch them, so we often use our own dirt fish rods to fish in places with water. The fish hook is made of sewing needles. We secretly brought the sewing needles at home and placed them on the fire and burned them red. Before they were cold, we held vise in one hand and a pebbles in the other hand, and carefully beat them like a blacksmith shop. Because the sewing needles are very rigid and often break, they often have to steal several sewing needles at home after making a fish hook, and for this reason they are often beaten from home. So later, I stopped stealing the needle. As long as the adults were not in the place where the needle was placed, they would also scold themselves. The fishing rod is to find a willow stick that is about the same height as a human but not a little elastic, tie a cotton yarn or nylon silk on the thinner end, and then put on a float made of corn rod core or wheat rod, also called a float. If conditions permit, dye it into a color and dazzling light. The bait you use depends on what fish you catch. You need to use earthworm to catch fish in the river. You can find it by digging a small hole on the ground; you need to use flies to catch fish in shallow water puddles. As long as it is summer, you can reach out and grab it.
Our main thing is to pick up manure, and we are all about fishing. The cattle, horses, donkeys, mule manure on the river beach was picked up and distributed on the waterless high ground, dried and transported back to be used as farm fertilizer. At the end of the holiday, adults took out cars to the river beach to pick up manure. Some were seven or eight cars, some were three or five cars, and Rado was content with swearing. The least partner must be beaten on the river beach. I had a 2-month stay. I went down the river beach naked in the morning and took nothing and went home when it was dark. The adults don’t care what to eat in a day, they all know that they can’t be hungry anyway. What we eat changes as time goes by. When the beans are ripe, you can steal a few handfuls of beans and cook them when you go down the river beach; dig a few yams (foreign yu) into a season. There are self-built pergolas on the high ground on the river beach, and the dried cow dung is burned. I remember one time I copied out the seeds of the foreign jujube that had just been buried in the soil and took them to cook them, and asked them to chase them to the river beach for a while and beat them up. Fortunately, the owner beat him up and scolded him again: stealing seeds is harmful to the will of heaven, but you can't steal it when the seeds grow!
picking up feces is a regular job. When will the livestock go down to the beach and when will the feces be a little bit. Because there are many friends, picking up manure is actually robbing manure. But there must be a rule to reflect fairness in everything, so we will divide the cattle, horse, donkey and mule into the name of each partner. Later, the problem arose, some animals went down the beach and some worked in the fields.Then draw the boundary, and the interface of the feces to whichever is determined by the animal. So we drove animals to our own interface, so there was a way for no one to rush and organized them to supervise each other. In addition to fishing competitions together, the most lively thing is to open a piece of land to "drive pigs" on the flat and dry high ground. Generally, a "pig-riding" field is twenty meters square, and a shallow pit with a bowl size at each of the four corners and the center is dug, with balls and clubs. The club is roughly the same as today's hockey clubs, and they were peeled with willow sticks. The ball is the size of a fist. Everyone pulls the cow's wool and washes it into a solid round ball. If it is washed solid, it can hurt people. The washing method is very simple, dip the pulled beef wool in water and rub it repeatedly. Later, for many years, I kept thinking about why it is called "pig driving"? Pigs are stupid, and the way to play is to be quick and quick. The stupidest person will be eliminated. It can be said that he is "stop stupid". The one who is eliminated must be responsible for picking up the ball. Picking up the ball is a tough task. If older friends eat the right foot, they can hit the ball a hundred meters away. If you just picked up the ball in the scorching sun, and then you have a beautiful ball similar to the "hit" and "home run" in baseball, you have to go out to pick up the ball a hundred meters away. That cowardly, aggrieved and unlucky mood makes people cheat. So every day there are friends who fight over this matter every day. Until many years later, the Chinese women's school had very good grades and were often broadcast on TV, and I was so intoxicated by watching it. The rules of softball competition are almost exactly the same as "pig-chasing". Attacking, defending and grabbing positions are similar to "pig driving". My family often ridiculed me to pretend to understand softball. In fact, I can not only understand the rules, but also intoxicated by the years of the Black River Beach in my childhood...
(Author profile: Lu Wenyou, male. A member of the Gansu Writers Association, serving in the Linze County Federation of Literary and Art Circles. I have published more than 30 middle and short stories in many provincial and municipal publications such as "Xiamen Literature", "Flying Sky", " Northern Literature ", "Short Story", "Guangzhou Literature", and "Shaanxi Literature".)
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