Mom often shows off to us that she had been a farmer: "When I was working in a teenager, I earned the work points of a male laborer!" And she often shows off to us that she had been a worker: "I can use drilling machine , and I can make hammers and compass by myself!" If something breaks and needs to be repaired, my mother will not wait for her father to do it at all. She rolled up her sleeves and came with a hammer screwdriver.
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There is an enamel basin for washing hands and faces at home. It was bought by my parents when they got married. The white base is printed with Pisces Play Lotus, which is lively and lively. I have been using it for many years, and it will cause somewhere on the bottom edge of the basin to be thinned and the seams will leak when it is cut. At that time, no one's basin would be thrown away if it was broken. There are stalls for repairing pots and pots on the street. The stall owner uses melted metal liquids such as tin and aluminum to paste them at the break. After they cool down slightly, they will repair the broken pots and pots.
One day when I came home from school, I found my mother sitting at the table, holding the broken washbasin and researching it over and over again. "Mom, what are you doing?" "I want to make up this basin." "Ah, can I repair this yourself?" "What can I do? People do everything in the world."
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Mom uses file , chisel, hammer, sandpaper and other tools to expand the cracked seam, polish it into a hole as thick as a finger, with smooth edges. I found another clean plastic cloth - there were no plastic bags flying all over the sky at that time, and the plastic cloth was considered a special packaging, so I had to save it when I encountered an opportunity. After estimating the required size, my mother cut off the plastic cloth and walked through the hole and stuck it in the middle. In this way, a piece of plastic cloth can be seen on both sides of the basin and outside the basin.
Then, my mother carefully lit the plastic cloth outside the basin with a match. When the plastic cloth burned, melted and contracted when it was hot, my mother guided it with a screwdriver and pulled it, and finally let the black solution of the stall solidify around the hole, firmly wrapping the gap in the seepage. Turn it over and make the plastic cloth in the basin the same way, and a hole in the enamel basin was blocked firmly.
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At that time, most people had no idea about the toxicity of plastics after heat. Fortunately, the water used for washing hands and faces in our family was not hot, so my mother's method of filling the pot did not affect the health of her family. The girl who witnessed the entire work process was amazed at her mother's ingenious thinking. My mother repaired the basin, put down the screwdriver, looked at me, and expanded her career range with pride and expanded her imagination: "Well, even if I go to work as a pot maker one day, there will be no problem."
However, I have to be honest: the scar that my mother repaired was so dark that it really ruined the beauty of the Pisces Playing Lotus Basin.
■ Text/Excerpted from "Just Young At that time" (written by Yan You, published by Hebei Children's Publishing House)
■The pictures are all pictures except the cover of the book
■Editor/Wang Xiao
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