The family's material living standards have also been improved a lot with the relaxation of some policies and the increase in production. Every household has surplus grain and surplus vegetables to feed some chickens, so there are eggs. Although they are not eaten every day, they

Although I was born, it was still a time of severe drought, it was much better than in previous years. The construction of drought-resistant infrastructure in rural areas has been able to resist drought to a large extent, and the crop harvest has also steadily improved. The family's material living standards have also been improved a lot with the relaxation of some policies and the increase in production. Every household has surplus grain and surplus vegetables to feed some chickens, so there are eggs. Although they are not eaten every day, they can always be seen. Even on New Year’s Eve, there is still chicken to eat, which is my dream delicacy. I remember that in order to coax the child, my mother roasted cornmeal cakes on the stove and put them in a basket and hung them on the top of the cave. Once we were so hungry that we would break a small piece as a snack. Although the taste and quantity were not good enough, we often yearn for it. When I get to the fields, my mother will pick some wild fruits and corn poles in time. The deepest thing I see is the black things growing on corn, , sorghum, . We call it "wu mei", but I don't know what the scientific name is, nor how to write these two words.

While playing, I will soon reach the age of going to school. At that time, there was no so-called preschool education at all. The only thing for children of our age was to play. But when I was about to go to school, my father sent me to school and ended my playing career. I was reluctant because there were still children as old as me who had not come to school and were still by the river or on the mountain. I wanted to be with them, but my father must ask me to go to school.

The schools here are the same as those in other villages. Since we don’t have money to build new schools, we usually use the original temples, and basically every village has them, but the wealthy village temples are larger, while the less wealthy village temples are smaller. Our village is poor, with only one land temple, only one yard, and five houses. During the Cultural Revolution, the Landlord in the temple had been invited out, leaving behind a yard full of weeds and a house without doors and windows. A few years ago, the village asked the full opening of schools, so the village organized a few laborers to simply repair the place, and asked the carpenter to make a desk and stool, and put cement on the wall facing him to make a blackboard. It could only make the roof without rain or air leakage on the doors and windows, which was quite useful.

We only have one teacher, a young man from the countryside who came from Chengli. He spoke dialect from unknown places. At first, even the village chief could not understand it, but after staying for a few years, basically everyone could listen to it. She is thin and tall, twenty-three or four years old, and she has not started a family, so she lives in a small house on the east side of the temple. It turns out that this house is lived by people who see the temple. The cottage is not big, but it has a stove, a bed, a very small desk, and a broken cabinet. The window is very small and sticked with white paper. Does everyone have electric lamps? Here are kerosene lamps, placed on the desk, and there are several books. I don’t know how he came here, why he came here, and what will happen in the future. I haven’t asked many questions like this until graduation, but when I was preparing to take the college entrance examination, a chance encounter made me understand a lot and it was also of great help to me.

In our village, there are only sixteen children who go to school, divided into four grades. The teacher taught Chinese and mathematics in the fourth grade. Separate by grade, several classes are taught every day, and there are also sports, labor, etc. In fact, such schools can only be at the level of literacy, which are the simplest and most basic. If measured according to the current educational level, they are no longer at the same level. Children who come to school only know some words and some basic mathematical calculations. These children basically break away from their farming status and work as accountants, women's directors, etc. in the village. The root cause is that they know more words and know more mathematical calculations, can read newspapers and documents, write simple notifications, etc.And I am an alien among them. Perhaps it is because I hate working. God takes care of the special potential given me. No matter what, my understanding and ability of learning are much stronger than theirs. This is also the fundamental reason why my teacher and I become close friends. No teacher doesn’t like to study well. In such a closed small village, it is a luxury to have spiritual communication. I didn’t expect that we would meet it.