In July, the hamster was named as warehouse and called it warehouse. July, who is seven years old, is my daughter's daughter. When I was born on July 1st, everyone recognized me and wrote articles, and persuaded me to name a few, but didn't nod. Grandma said, "Born July is called July!" All applauded.
It is winter. In July, I asked two hamsters from my classmate's house. The hair was gray and white. I said it was a couple. I couldn't tell the male and female. However, July pointed to one and said it was a female rat, and it was very firm.
My understanding of hamsters is not as good as in July. In my consciousness, there are only rats that look out from under the bed at a young age. The rats that appeared in , Wei State in the pre-Qin period. Hamsters are called trunks, not voles , squirrel , kangaroo , because of their outstanding food storage instinct. Hamsters are good at breeding, and can give birth to 7 litters in one litter and 4 litters a year.
When I was idle, July took a small wooden stick, poked this one, and poked that one. The hamster did not hide, but catered to it. It used human mental skills and rolled on the spot with the power of the wooden stick, and made a slight fork, and couldn't lie down, which was extremely enjoyable. Pet life changes its original habits, and if a hamster can speak, it should be commensurate with human brothers. July kept telling the hamster that he liked this home? Your eyes are round and bulging. You can see the front, you can see the upper, lower, left and right? The hamster's reply was extremely low, his lips were squirming quickly, and he was equipped with a tiny motor. If a person could understand the rat's words, the conversation would be interesting.
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July called them to warehouse, touching a button deep in my memory, I remembered grandma.
When my grandmother was alive, she met three grandsons, the eldest brother of the third uncle and the second brother of the second uncle, and we can do it three. Grandma gave her grandson a nickname. That was her right. Give your grandson a nickname and show your spiritual height. Eating in one bite in life is the greatest suffering in the world. I have been poor for life and have been suffering as if I were from the top of a mountain temple, looking far away, and I can't see it. No matter how hard it is, the name cannot be sad. My elder brother called the yard, the yard, the big yard, the place where food was harvested. The golden yard was full of food. My second brother called Cang, Big Cang, and there was no shortage of food. I ordered a hoard, and a large hoard, and a lot of food is also full. When the second uncle's fourth brother was born, his grandmother was no longer there. Following his grandmother's wish, he gave him a nickname called Liang, Daliang. This family is full of food, carrying all the yearnings of a farmers' home. When my brother was born, the fear of lack of food was gone and his nickname was not given. In grandma's world, a nickname is a name, which is very important. A big name is a symbol and a sign. When my father was alive, I asked, why are the nicknames of our brothers all food? My father said, I was afraid of hunger. You know how hungry is for several days! On the other hand, after experiencing the hunger of the front and back chests, I realized how to eat a full meal.
Grandma lives in my concept. The grandma in the concept has never left her hometown of Guanzhuang . Guanzhuang is located in the transition zone of the mountainous areas in Shandong to the northern plains, and the northern remnants of the Taiyi Mountains end here.
Back then, people from Guanzhuang worked from sunrise and rested from sunrise. Few people were willing to leave their hometowns and go out to make a living. Boshan City depends on the manufacture of ceramics and glass, and the handicraft workshops are everywhere. It was a city in central Shandong for a long time, and it is relatively rich. With the guarantee of my uncle, my father found an apprenticeship in Boshan and took his mother to settle down in Boshan. There was a rumor in my hometown that they were enjoying their fortunes in the city. Grandma was angry with her and felt that they were no longer in charge of their family and would not be able to retire. She came to Boshan to verify it on the spot. Xiguan Street Wang Youcai hosted the stewed pork with powdered skin, sliced shrimp, and drank jasmine ginger tea. Grandma was treated like the Queen Mother of the Cities. My mother said that she was the first time she was eating, and it was better to have money. My father works as a clerk in the cloth shop, sleeps at the counter at night, and gets up early to greet the shopkeeper to urinate. What kind of blessing is it? Daily meals are just pancakes, filling the stomach.
It is not easy to live under someone else's roof. When my grandmother returned to Guanzhuang, her suspicion turned into thoughts.
Grandma must have remembered when her father was a child, and she devoted all her family to the private school. There was nothing to eat at home, and grandma didn't have it either. After getting off the bookstore at noon, my father picked up the water, poured a lot of cold water, sat on the threshold to suck the sun, and when the sun slanted, he sprinkled a big urine in the railing, and then ran back to the bookstore to study.At least I can understand a few words and make a plan to make a move. The second uncle was not studying, but just wandered around the ground and steered some pumpkins to satisfy his hunger. The third uncle was illiterate and dug soil. The cart pushed to Zhoucun to sell soil and . People in Zhou Village burn charcoal and use loess and charcoal to sludge. There is a lot of charcoal in Boshan and a floor furnace. There is a lot of burning soil, but Boshan is too far away. I could sell it when I pushed it to Zhoucun. I changed a few pancakes to go home, but I couldn't sell it. I turned the wheelbarrow and poured the soil on the side of the road. I went home with an empty stomach and an empty car. My stomach didn't roar, so I had already screamed enough, and I didn't even have the energy to scream. In order not to faint from being hungry, the third uncle practiced small steps , forming a relatively stable triangle with the wheels of the car. I understand why the third uncle in his later years still had this way of walking.
My father received a message from his hometown and said that his grandmother was seriously ill. Grandpa passed away early, and I had no impression. The old man passed away early. The Japanese shot south of Beishan. One shot fell into the yard. The old man fell down and did not get up. It was still early before I was born.
We went back to visit our family. Walk 60 miles away.
My father was carrying two baskets. In front of me was me, and behind were bowls, plates, kiln goods, and miscellaneous things. Mother followed closely behind.
Grandma has been in bed for a long time. She was so happy that day, she stood up and sat in the north wall to bask in the sun. My mother handed me to my grandma, and my grandma picked it up, holding my crunching nest with both hands. After ten months of age, I stroked my arms and trembled through the thick cotton jacket. My grandma's hands trembled. I grinned. Grandma said, "I'll laugh, okay, I'll smile. Children have eyes. When they see people laugh, they will survive. I can't die!" Grandma's happy words rippled in the warm April sunshine.
My smile did not become a good omen for grandma, and soon, grandma left.
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Cang Cang came to the house and lived in a two-story wire cage with wood shavings, attics and rollers, living a pampering life. After July, when school was over, I put my schoolbag on my back, first lie down in front of the cage, call Xiao Cangcang a few times, stare at Cangcang's small, round and bright little eyes for a while, add some melon seeds grains , and watch the hamster hold a wheat grain with his small claws and chew it quickly. July is very busy, more busy than us. No matter how busy it is, staying with Cangkang for a while is her first thing to do when she gets home from school.
A month later, July bent down to see Cangcang again and screamed, Cangcang had given birth to a baby! They chase, intimacy, love, courtship, marriage, honeymoon, pregnancy, childbirth, everything is under our noses, and everything is going on in secret. The world is so wonderful, and joy arises naturally. We all gathered around and saw several red, lush and fleshy little meat eggs under the hamster, consuming milk, counting a total of seven.
In July, these young mice are still called warehouse warehouses. When they grow up, they can be one warehouse, two warehouses, three warehouses... seven warehouses. In the next few days, something strange became in the cage. The male rat is pure in body. The young rat is born. It is fine and it is not a problem. The female rat moved her body, quietly served the baby rats to feed her breasts, and then ran upstairs and downstairs, and then played the game of moving the baby rats, picked up the baby rats, moved them from one corner to another, and moved them from the upstairs to the downstairs. Occasionally, I left the baby rats, ate a few bites, turned a few rounds of running wheels, and then returned to the baby rats. The female mouse turned the running wheel and surprised me a lot, sighing at the hamster's small energy. When the female rats left, the young rats were like legs and eyesless meat worms, scratching and rolling in the shavings pile, helpless.
Suddenly one day, in July, it was found that the female rat was missing. When everyone checked, a crack was broken in one corner of the cage, which was enough to make the female rat escape. July was depressed and anxious. I said no, the hamster would come out to find food when he was hungry. We would tempt it with food, and it would come back, let alone its children.
We immediately started an emergency search, shining flashlight in a secluded place, and attracting grains in front of the wall, without any signs of hamsters.
In the evening, I counted out several grains of miscellaneous grains and placed them in different rooms in turn, closing the door and turning off the lights. If there are fewer miscellaneous grains in which room, determine which room to be in, and you can narrow the search range.
The next day, I got up early and observed each room, everything was in vain. I obviously underestimated the IQ of the hamster. Maybe it had escaped along the wall pipes that had entered seven or eight. It escaped from the building and community, and ran quickly in its own happiness, and in its own excitement. Maybe it ran across the road and entered the woods, holding the nuts falling from the trees to eat. Maybe it was hungry, looking for it between the grass and the bushes. The male rats are still in a state of being unrelated to themselves, and they don’t even look at the young rats at all. The entire seven young mice were motionless and wilted.
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Big brother has a good temper in the field. He is not busy and does not panic. He sent off his father, my third uncle, and served my mother until ninety. He was almost seventy when he spoke. The pace of life in the countryside was slow. Seeing the sky two taels of wine, he said, drink less cups and drink more for a few years. The eldest brother has a good temper and his nephew is also elegant. He studied the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, went to a township health center, and practiced medicine for farmers in Ezhuang Mountain. In a blink of an eye, my nephew's son is about to go to junior high school.
The second brother Okura was smart, went to high school, and worked as a barefoot doctor in the village . The eldest brother is big, I am not, the second brother is much shorter than me. I went back to my hometown during the Spring Festival that year when I started working. Today I was at my second uncle's house and tomorrow I was at my third uncle's house, eating pork head meat frozen, and drinking dried melon soju. The soju wine is placed in a tin pot, the tin pot is placed in a crock pot, and the hot water in the crock pot is breathing white. Use a cash cup to drink, fill three cents, take a sip, hold it in, swallow it, and cut it down with a small knife. The stomach and intestines are not opened, and the cracks are the line of sight, making the eyes difficult to focus. The yard's gas lights were on, and the stage was filled with gongs and drums, and the stage was singing Lu Opera Three Fights. The role of the poor peasant Wang Laowu always became two, and he tried to synthesize one, but he could not, so he simply leaned on the pillar to sleep before talking. The rural opera ended, and the road home was another kind of excitement. Those carrying benches, children, and smoking big pipes were all black shadows in a hurry. The dogs were turning around in the middle of the crowd, and the white dogs, black dogs, yellow dogs, and green dogs all turned into gray dogs. Everything was moving in the black slut, and the atmosphere was noisy and exciting. There are no lights and no moon, and everyone is walking towards the road home. The road is gone and the people are sparse. I pushed open the wood door and my home is here. Standing in the yard of the third uncle, looking up at the sky, the stars seemed to fall, and the stars in spring were so bright, and there was no alcohol or sleepiness in the middle of the night.
My second brother sent me to the bus back to the city.
We walk through the wheat fields in spring. The wheat seedlings are greening, and the buds that have fallen for a winter are trying to stand up. The chilly north wind swept across the cheeks, the fragrance of wheat seedlings and soil spreads in the cold, and the invisible heat rises in the ground.
In the distance, a farmer stood on the ground and poured spring water on the wheat seedlings. The water flows into the ground, from the west to the east. From a distance, a layer of white mist floated in the green, flashing like mirage . The farmer wore a yellowed cotton hat, leaned on it, and tied his trouser legs high, so he didn't bother him cold. I still have spring cold on my head, but it is already summer under my feet. Farmers have sensed the heat of summer from the water splashed by the flowing water. On the ridge of the fields, my second brother and I were venting heat from their mouths, but they were so cold that they couldn't reach out.
The breath of spring is too sweet. The farmer who was watering the land listened to the sound of water and looked at us. If he got closer, he would definitely want to shout a few times at us.
We drilled through a canal, walked out of Guanzhuang, and entered the boundary of Xuntu Village. The second brother said that white wine and vinegar can undergo chemical reactions to produce ether . People can not get drunk, and you can drink more vinegar when drinking. I admire him so much that I think my second brother knows everything. Later I learned that ether is the compound of wine and vinegar. It is not that it is not that it is not drunk, but that it is anesthesia. The second brother's secret teaching has been a mystery to this day, and it will always be a mystery.
The second brother later ran the only clinic in the village. Some people were worried and fed, so they prescribed medicine and had to hang out of the village. They came to ask about medical medicine. The second brother was always kind and responded to his requests. He also raised his son Guoqiang to graduate from the medical school and became a village doctor. My second brother is very good at managing his family and builds the largest building in the village, like a castle.Guoqiang has given birth to a baby, so we went to congratulate him. As soon as we went up the second floor, we entered the maze and felt dizzy.
The second brother is sensitive and slow. I stuttered when I was young, and I was older. I took a lot of thought into a word in my stomach. The more I thought about it, the less confident I felt. I couldn't spit it out for a long time, which was so serious that it was difficult to communicate with others. The second brother is good, but Liu Ling’s rebirth is the only one who can tell him to drink less and laugh. Wine is the essence of food! The thick eyebrows bent into two short and thick shoulder poles. I remind Guoqiang that your father’s drinking method is not good, you have to take care of it! Guoqiang said, why don’t you care, he doesn’t listen. Finally, I suffered from alcoholism. In the end, my second brother suffered from stroke and . Wine nourishes people for thousands of years, strengthens heroic courage, and helps people eliminate sorrow. It is not the responsibility of alcohol to not hurt everyone. The wise man is filled with wine in the wind and is full of enthusiasm, while the confused man is drunk and drunk forever. My second brother is not confused, but he suffers the loss that smart people do not suffer.
How old is my fourth brother, and I was spoiled by my second aunt when I was a child. In summer, the second aunt wore a single jacket, which was thinly dried and oxidized. Daliang teared a small mouth behind the second aunt, pulled it to both sides, pulled it into a triangle, stopped, looked at the second aunt's reaction on the side, and was still angry. The second aunt was not annoyed, laughed, and felt that her son could do it. Another pull, the hole became bigger and longer, and the second aunt was still giggling, why did you kick it like that! Daliang seemed to be encouraged, and he teared it out. The opening reached the collar. When he encountered the stitches, he couldn't tear it anymore. He stopped. The second aunt's single jacket turned into a cloak that was worn back, and her back was exposed. Later, the naughty big grain grew into a burly man, very honest. A small car with an 800 kilogram was also a good wine. How could a 200 kilogram body be so scared of a small wine? He often rides motorcycles to the neighboring village to gather drinkers, which makes people worry. Car iron wrapped in meat, motorcycle meat wrapped in iron, you have to be careful! It’s okay if you can’t ride it quickly after drinking! This is Daliang's answer. Once, I returned to the village after drinking and fell on a motorcycle dozens of meters away from the entrance of the village, breaking my head. Needless to ask, he rode fast enough. He remembered that he said he couldn't ride fast after drinking. After eight, the two of them wanted to make the decision. The wine had the final say. Intensive Care Unit stayed in 10 days and was far from fifty when he died. There is one more death in our ancestral tomb. Whenever I go home to visit my parents' graves and visit my parents' graves, I feel uncomfortable when I see the graves of my second brother Dacang and my fourth brother Daliang.
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The young rat loses the female rat and loses his life. I took July to carefully pinch out the hamster's body one by one, wrap it in a piece of cotton cloth, put it in a cardboard box, and go to the pit under the clothesline opposite the yard, put it in, and bury it under the tree. July kept muttering, the small grave was deep enough, don't let the wild cat dig it.
We did not interrupt the search for female mice and never found them. The male rat still lives leisurely without any sense of loneliness. When July looked in front of the cage, it was still up and down the stairs. July was fierce and didn't think about why your wife didn't want you anymore. She was still dancing here!
Once upon a time, hamsters were widely present in grasslands, deserts, foothills and river valleys, and also had their habitats in farmlands, gardens and orchards, freely breathing, foraging, playing, and reproduction. By chance, they became human pets and dolls, and a foot cage became their only territory, without privacy, without freedom of expression, and it was difficult to escape. The human situation is like a hamster. It used to make a living by fishing and hunting, and compete with beasts with speed and wisdom, eating raw meat and drinking blood, but it is primitive but unrestrained. After experiencing enough barbarity and unrestrainedness, I suddenly realized that I put myself in a prison called civilization that I carefully woven, accepting it tolerate it and accepting its constraints. At present, the eldest brother and his family are facing confusion. When I was my ancestors and fathers, my hometown Guanzhuang lived in Huilong River Valley. When I was building a reservoir, I immigrated to the mountain. Well, I would go up the mountain. Now the reservoir is changed into a lake and a scenic management area is built. The villages should continue to migrate to the mountains far away from the lake area. Immigration buildings that are more straight and denser than crops are waiting for them to move in on the mountain. The eldest brother and sister-in-law asked their son and daughter-in-law to go, and the two of them still stayed in the flat house in their hometown.I said, there is no heating in winter, and the charcoal stove is dirty and choking, so it’s better to move it over earlier? The eldest brother said, your sister-in-law has the final say. My sister-in-law said let’s live first! There are many people who don’t leave, let’s talk about it later. The tone is full of nostalgia for the land, which is the land that planted hope and reaped dreams year after year!
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Obviously, the eldest brother is facing a small migration. The second brother Dacang and the fourth brother Daqi are a big separation, a road of no return. We should never die in a hurry at such a young age. Are they afraid of this world and unable to settle down, or is this world unfair to them and not to give them a favor? On the other hand, I want to ask my two brothers, the children are growing up and inheriting their family business, and what they leave behind are good days. But is this good day, is the world so worthless?
Escape is not courage, but facing is determination. Looking at the hamster that is still me, the emotions become complicated for a while.
is on the winter vacation, and I brought back several medals from the school in July, and I open it for us to see. I said, it’s amazing, our family wants to have a child prodigy!
July said that there are no prodigy in our family, only divine beasts! She is talking about Kurakuang.
Just thought that when Gangcang arrived, he was lost strangely, and gave birth to his children and abandoned them absurdly, becoming an escaper and abandoned person. It was a profound education on life. Cangcang made me think of my ancestors and parents’ fear of hunger, attachment to the land, pursuit and struggle for food and clothing. I am full of divine nature, a wise man, almost a sage, and a sage. Cangcang is really a divine beast.
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Liu Peiguo
Executive Director of Zibo Century Talent Foreign Language School
Member of China Writers Association
Member of China Prose Society
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