Wonderful since 1984

Chapter 4

The bell for the end of get out of class rang again. Yu Tian looked up at the setting sun, slowly got up, went down the hill, and walked towards the factory area.

He has to go back to the classroom to get his schoolbag first. Today is the weekend, so homework still needs to be done.

Walking on the small road among the rice fields, the soil under your feet is very soft. This is the authentic Northeast black soil. The soil is fine and fertile. It is an exaggeration to say that you can squeeze oil out of it.

It is less than 1 kilometer away from the Weihe River, and the mouth of the sea is about 5 kilometers to the south. The Weihe River not only created this alluvial plain, but also brought abundant aquatic resources;
In any small river or ditch, there are fish, shrimp, and crabs.

There is a kind of local river crab. Yu Tian checked on Baidu. The scientific name is green crab, also called Ao hairy crab. Its appearance is almost the same as the hairy crab in Yangcheng Lake. The average size is a little smaller, and the taste is not as sweet as the hairy crab;

When I was young, this kind of crabs were everywhere, and they often crawled into the yard of my house. If I want to eat crabs, I don’t have to go to the river to catch them. It’s evil;
There are not so many now, but in summer and autumn, it is no problem to touch the stones by the reservoir and get ten or eight;
In a few years, with the extensive use of pesticides and fertilizers, there will be almost no crabs in the river, and the frogs will almost die.
Later, the crabs were raised in rice fields and fed with feed, which was no longer the same as before;
There are also a lot of fish species in the river, but the earthy smell is heavy, and many people dislike it. Everyone prefers the catch in the sea. The seafood from the two mixed water areas tastes good and is cheap;

There are two most popular sea fishes, one is Spanish mackerel, which is called Spanish mackerel in the south. Its body is like a spindle, and its size is about 3-5 catties. Focus on oil and seasoning, after the stew tastes good, it tastes chewy and delicious;

There is also a kind of fish with a relatively big head. The locals call it "throwing head". The scientific name is "goby". Even in decades, the most expensive time has never reached 10 yuan a catty. Yu Tianchao likes to eat this kind of fish, the taste is very delicious, and he will never tire of eating it;
Meat is not enough, fish come together!
Every weekend in summer and autumn, Yu Guoqiang rides a 28-big loader and carries a self-made moving net to the reservoir or the upper and lower waterlines to move fish from the net. If you can’t finish it, dry it into dried fish and keep it for winter;
Later, when he was too old to move the net, Yu Guoqiang started fishing with only a pole in his hand, and his purpose was no longer to eat fish.

My mother bought back the coarse grains that could not be eaten in the food book, and exchanged eggs with small vendors.
Although everyone is living a tight life, the nutrition Yutian needs to grow up can still be guaranteed;

After the beginning of spring, he started exercising. He ran every morning and evening, and he was no longer picky about his meals. He felt a little bit stronger.

Of course, there are also many discomforts in life, which need him to overcome slowly;

In daily life, the public toilets are too dirty, and every time I go there is an ordeal;
To take a bath, you need to go to a public bath, and you need a bath ticket;
The sanitation conditions are poor. In front of the house and behind the house, the domestic sewage of each house is dug and drained directly, and then merged into a larger ditch; garbage is piled up at the head of each house.
In summer, the smell will definitely be bad, and mosquitoes will breed;

The vegetables in winter are the old three: Chinese cabbage, big potatoes, and big radishes. The country’s weak petrochemical industry can’t produce so much plastic film, and there are no greenhouse vegetables;
No Internet, no entertainment, no books to read, TV?Are you interested in watching it?

The most difficult thing for him is to go to school, he can't sit still in the classroom.
In the mathematics class, I am teaching one-variable and two-variable equations; English is good morning; Chinese.
If he can't listen to the class, it's inevitable that he will be cranky. Countless messy thoughts are mixed together, which makes him restless
Not wanting to suffer in the classroom, skipping classes became an option.

Yu Tian shook his head and smiled wryly, he won't make the same mistakes again.

We're about to reach the back door of the factory.

There was a song ahead,
"Yu Laosan, let me ask you, where is your hometown? My home is in Shanxi, and there are still people across the river."

It's Uncle Dayang from my mother's workshop. He usually likes to talk and sing, has a cheerful personality, and always teases himself.

Yu Tian quickly bared his teeth, raised his head and called out, "Uncle Dayang, are you going out?"

Uncle Dayang, wearing a forward hat, rode a bicycle and stopped nearby, without getting off the bicycle. He propped himself up on his long legs, and looked at Yu Tian with a smile, "Why do you look like an eggplant beaten by Shuang? Hold your chest up! Look up! Mmmm , that's it, be a man, don't learn to be a woman."

After burying Yu Tian for a few words, Uncle Dayang got into the car and left, leaving behind all the singing,
"Speaking of Yu's third son, the couple sell opium"

Yu Tian walked through the half-closed iron gate and entered the factory area.
I heard from my mother that after retirement, Uncle Dayang set up fish ponds by the sea to raise shrimps. He earned some money in the first two years, and then suffered from shrimp plague for three consecutive years. The money was directly taken away by the creditor. One year before the Chinese New Year, I came to my mother to borrow 3 yuan;

Later, when the child was promising, the foreign debt was paid off.

Around 2010, I once saw Uncle Dayang from a distance, and he was already terribly old.

Go around the Boiler Room, turn left, and follow Main Street toward campus.

The newly opened "Xinxin" snack shop on the roadside developed into "Xiaoxiao Restaurant" after a few years. It was very popular for a few years. My brother's wedding banquet was held at his house. Later, the profit of the factory became less and less Boom, and moved away.

"Third brother, master." It was Dad's big apprentice Uncle Liu calling himself, with a simple and honest smile on his purple face.

Uncle Liu is an orphan from a nearby village. He was taken care of by the government. He recruited workers into the factory at the age of 16. He was his father’s eldest apprentice and his favorite apprentice. He worked hard and never complained.

With the help of my father and fellow workers, I got married and gave birth to a daughter named Xiaoyan the year before last;
Later, around 2000, Uncle Liu died of liver cancer. He suffered too much when he was a child and his health was not good.

Later, I heard from my mother that Xiaoyan was admitted to the university, returned to the factory after graduation, and got married. The marriage was still led by her mother, and she lived a happy life.

At the same time as Uncle Liu, Yu Guoqiang also had another apprentice named Uncle Gao, who opened a restaurant in the city and made a lot of money in the [-]s. Afterwards, he was misbehaving outside (mother's language), and his wife divorced him , the son beat Uncle Gao and vowed not to have any contact with each other until death.
Later, I heard from my mother that Uncle Gao ran out of money, ran away with his woman, and broke down. After retiring, he returned to his hometown alone.
(End of this chapter)