Author: Qiu Qiu Liu Yunqiu.
Northern Shaanxi has to go a long way to go up the mountain to suffer, so for example, the work of carrying dung in the field can only be sent twice in half a day, and the second trip will come back at noon. In order to reduce the time lost back and forth, when working in the mountains far away, I generally do not go back to the kiln to eat at noon, and even eat breakfast in the field when the farm work is the busiest. One or two fellow villagers will bring the rice to the mountains, and everyone will eat it in the fields. Generally, when it was half the morning, the captain saw that it was time to get food when the sun was over, and then sent someone back to the village to get food.
After the people who picked up the rice returned to the village, most of them stood on the sidelines and shouted: "The food has been delivered—the food has been delivered——, so the mothers-in-law and women of each family walked from each house to the field with a cloth bag in one hand, wrapped in a few cornmeal steamed buns, and a clay pot filled with water in the other hand. The person who picks up the food carries a basket at one end for dry food, and at the other end carries a bucket into which the water is poured into the bucket.
I have delivered meals to educated youths a few times, and I have seen the scenes of various mothers-in-law and aunts pouring water into buckets. Most of the people send steamer water, some light yellow, more dark yellow, some people send water, not only yellow but also turbid, but the water sent by the young people is clear, but also has to be collected into the bucket.
When I was working in the mountains, because I couldn't drink a sip of water in the morning, and because there was no oil and water in my stomach, I was thirsty and hungry at noon. If you don't drink, you're giving up the only chance you have to drink. Environmental transformation people, later often drink this water, I also Xi it, do not feel bad to drink.
After the wheat harvest, the farm is done in preparation for the replanting. The vegetation in northern Shaanxi is poor, there are very few trees on the mountains, and people stand on the slopes, and there is no shade at all. The sun was dead on the top of his head, and he was holding a four or five pound of pickaxe in his hand, and when he planed it down, a stream of yellow dust came up, and his shoes were filled with hot loess. At this time, everyone was sweating on their heads, and there was a wet lump on their backs. The raised loess fell on people's faces and bodies, and became mud with sweat. His throat was choked like sprinkled with dry lime, and his thirst was worse than that of Shangganling.
One day, we were digging the ground halfway up the hill far from the village, and at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, when it was the hottest, the people endured their thirst to the limit. A young student said that Odu was dying of thirst, and that he had to go down to the bottom of the ditch to drink water when he rested. Immediately, several young people said that Russia would go too. As soon as the captain spoke, except for a few old men who sat still, the rest of the people were like a flock of sheep being driven away, hula and ran into the ditch down the mountain, and some of the descendants shouted in their mouths: Chong, it's too late to drink!
That day, I was also running down the hill in the crowd, and a group of people ran to the stream at a sprint speed, and the man simply lay on the ground, and directly put his mouth into the stream and drank wildly. I squatted by the stream, holding the water in both hands, one after another, and drank it to my heart's content, and after drinking the water, the people returned to the mountain in groups under the scorching sun, and as soon as I reached the ground, the captain said "It's early" - and began to work again, not only did I not rest, but my mouth was already thirsty again, and the water I had just drunk had already turned into sweat, and my throat began to smoke again.