I stretched hard under the covers, and it was the first time I had slept so warmly in the winter for more than six and a half years. The iron guy called the heater was fantastic, and the sun-like warmth in the house was what it gave.
My mother brought me pants and a gown, so I could stay home in the winter without wearing cotton clothes. The socks were hot, my mom washed them for me last night, put them on the heater and dried them in the morning. I just had this pair of socks, and I couldn't wash them at night, so I didn't have to wear them the next day.
The eldest brother and sister-in-law went to work, and the second brother and second sister went to school. I can finally take a serious look at my eldest brother's home, which is where I will live in the future.
The building we lived in was a freshly built, factory house, a Soviet-style building.
I sat on the wide wooden windowsill and looked out at the mountains in the distance, and the mountains were covered with snow, and it was the first time I had seen so much snow. I opened the small window, and a cold wind blew in, and I didn't care, but stuck my little head out to take a look. I saw the balcony on the third floor, the building is so nice, I can stand on the balcony and watch the scenery, my house should have a balcony. It's a pity that my house is on the second floor, and only the third floor on the top floor has that carved cement balcony.
That look that day made me yearn for the balcony, how comfortable the house with the balcony is!If we had a balcony in our house, my mom would be able to sit on the balcony and read a book and drink tea. I don't know if I had petty bourgeois thinking in my bones, I really thought that way at the time.
After looking out the window, I opened the hallway door and took a hard look at the stairs I had taken yesterday. I walked through the steps in my hometown, and there are steps on the stage in the town, and I walked through them once. The steps in the building are called stairs, and the first time I walked last night, I walked very carefully.
The handrails of the stairs are terrazzo and very smooth, and I saw a boy riding on the terrazzo handrails, and his whole upper body was attached to the handrails, and he slowly slid down, just like I was sliding down the haystack in my hometown. I think it's a novelty to be able to play like this. But I'm a girl, and it doesn't look good to ride on, I thought to myself.
I rolled on the red, shiny floor, looking at the snow-white ceiling and carvings. Electricity, electricity, I thought to myself, great, I don't smell kerosene anymore at night, electric lights don't smell.
I asked my mom why she had a little hat on the light bulbMy mother told me that it was not a hat, it was called an umbrella, it was to make the light shine more intensively underneath.
Inside the house, outside the house, up and down, I looked up and down, the building is so good!The eldest brother and sister-in-law are really capable, they can live upstairs, they can let us live upstairs. My eldest brother and sister-in-law became my idols.
My mom looked at me happy and asked me, do you like it here?I said, of course, the eldest brother's family is so good.
My mother said, do you know why your eldest brother can live in such a good building?Tell you, not everyone in their factory can live, others live in small bungalows, and some don't have electric lights!
Then why can my eldest brother live?My mom laughed and said, because your eldest brother graduated from college and is an engineer. We live upstairs with Director Li, and your eldest brother enjoys the treatment of cadres in the factory.
I can live in a building after graduating from university, I remember. I think I'm going to learn from my big brother, I'm going to college, I'm going to live in a building.
My neighbor, Aunt Wang, came to my house and brought my mother two packets of snacks and a small net bag of apples. I'm very strange, we just arrived, and my mother didn't know Aunt Wang, so why did she come to my eldest brother's house and bring gifts.
Aunt Wang asked about the cold and warmth, introduced her own situation, and told my mother that my eldest brother and her grandfather, that is, her husband, have a good relationship. Let my mother have something to do, just look for her, she doesn't go to work, she has time, you're welcome or something.
After my eldest brother graduated from college, he rarely went back to his hometown, and my mother didn't know much about my eldest brother's situation, and only knew some things about my eldest brother by a letter in a few months. My mother was lacking someone to understand the situation, and Aunt Wang came to the door by herself, and my mother was very happy and very polite to Aunt Wang. My mother repeated, I just came, I don't understand anything, please take care of me.
In today's terms, Aunt Wang is an information base, and she knows a lot about my eldest brother and sister-in-law. She was talking to my mother, and I was an observer, and I was a serious observer.
Aunt Wang said that my eldest brother is a technical master in the factory, and what the factory needs most is a talent like my eldest brother. The factory director arranged for the eldest brother to live downstairs in his own house, just to discuss things conveniently. The factory director especially values my eldest brother, who is already the director of the chief engineer's office, and has a bright future, and he can become the factory director in the next step. Hearing this, my mother smiled on her face, but said to Aunt Wang, it's amazing, her Aunt Wang can't say that outside. Aunt Wang said, I understand, isn't this what we are talking about.
Aunt Wang changed the topic and said that her grandfather is the workshop director, and my eldest brother often goes to her grandfather's workshop to discuss work together.
Aunt Wang also said that my sister-in-law is amazing, working in the factory trade union, and when I mention the name of my sister-in-law Liu Lan, there is no one in the factory who does not know her. At the workers' meeting in the factory, my sister-in-law stood on the stage with a big belly, and she could speak for an hour without a script.
Aunt Wang was full of praise for my eldest brother and sister-in-law, and she was very flattering to my mother. I looked at my mom with a big smile and a light in her eyes, my nose was a little sour, my mom had never been so happy since my dad died.
After Aunt Wang left, I asked my mother, you don't know her, why did she come to see you?My mother said, silly girl, do you think she came to see your mother and give your mother a gift?Why not!Didn't I say to come and see you?I asked my mom stupidly. People come to see the face of your eldest brother and sister-in-law, and the gift is for your eldest brother and sister-in-law, you are not allowed to touch those things!
I still don't understand, look at my mom in the eye. My mother then said, "Think about it, would people know me without your big brother?"This is in my name, slapping your eldest brother and sister-in-law's ass. You are still young and don't understand, but you will understand later.
Aunt Wang came to my house almost every day, and one day, she brought my mother two skewert that she had pickled herself. That was the first time I ate Northeast sauerkraut, and I especially liked it.
There was a heavy snowfall last night, the first time I've seen such a big snowfall. When I looked out of the window in the morning, I was covered with snow as far as the windowsill of my house and as far as the mountain back.
It's a Sunday and it's quiet in the building. My mother told me to put on cotton clothes and follow my second brother out to clear the snow. I've never done snow plowing before, so I excitedly went out with my second brother. I had a small shovel in my hand, the kind of shovel that is used for coal stoves.
At that time, the snow in front of the building was not swept by the sanitation workers themselves, but one person from each household in the building participated in the collective snow clearing. As long as it snows, there is no need to be notified, and every family takes the initiative to work, and there is no laziness. Laziness hurts self-esteem, and the whole building will look down on you. If you have a large population, you will have more people.
Clearing the snow is like a neighborhood party, where adults and children mingle and make a lot of noise. The adults used snowboards to push away the snow on the road, and we children shoveled the snow together and piled it on the side of the road, and piled it up into big snowmen.
Director Li brought his two daughters to clear the snow, and my second brother specially introduced me to Director Li's two daughters. They wore red checkered tweed jackets and woolen hats, and their black curls were exposed beyond the brim. They are white, with thick and long eyelashes, they are simply two big dolls, I have never seen such a beautiful girl. They also have two foreign names, Dani and Annie.
My second brother said to them very politely, this is my little sister Xiaoxian, who has just come from her hometown. You can take her to play with you in the future, okay?The two of them looked at me and said, "Okay."
At this time, Director Li came over, and I didn't need my second brother to say, so I bowed to Director Li. Director Li was very happy, patted me on the shoulder and said to my second brother, your little sister is really polite. I smiled shyly. For me, it is common to bow to adults, and my mother always taught me that when I meet my elders, I must bow and say hello.
Dani and Anne asked me when I was coming from home. I answered them one by one. I spoke with an accent that smelled of the earth of our hometown, which made the two sisters laugh, and the boys who were clearing the snow together laughed even louder. I was used to being complimented and laughed at by them, and I almost cried. This was the first time I was laughed at when I went to the big brother's house in the city, and I stopped talking, silently listening to Dani and the boys, watching the boys fight.
When I got home after clearing the snow, I used the first Northeast dialect I learned at home.
I went into the house and threw off my shoes, and I asked my mother, what are you doing?Ha is to be pronounced as a second tone.
My second sister laughed, and my second brother was standing right behind me and gave me a slap in the face. Say, learn fast!It's so ugly that you can't learn Northeast dialect.
I was so aggrieved that I cried, crying and saying, I spoke in my hometown, and they all laughed at me. My second brother saw that I was crying, and his tone softened. Say, they laugh at you, you are not allowed to learn Northeast dialect, I still laugh at them!This year, a notice has been issued to promote Mandarin nationwide. In the future, the people of the whole country will say the same thing, and no one will laugh at anyone. I don't know what *** is, and I don't know what the notice is, anyway, I remember that my second brother didn't let me learn Northeast dialect.
Children learn language quickly, and after a few days of playing with the children in the building, I can't help but speak Northeast dialect, which is really uncontrollable. Because of saying something like dry ha, my second brother beat me a few more times. I didn't want my second brother to beat me all the time, so I learned Mandarin with my second brother and sister at home.
One winter passed, and I turned seven. This winter, I felt like I had suddenly grown up.
I thought about a lot of things that I hadn't thought about before, and I learned a lot of things that I didn't know before. I yearn for a good life, and I know that I have to study hard and study more to grow up in order to have a good life.
I want to be envied and respected by others, and I know that I have to be as good as my big brother and sister-in-law to be praised.
When I saw the snow, every family could come out to clear the snow, and the factory director was no exception, and I knew that in addition to doing my own business, I should also do a good job of public affairs.
Also, the two beautiful girls in Director Li's family must be loved by everyone, and I want to be like that.
This winter, I have been experiencing new things every day, and experience is growth. As the old saying goes, three years old is big, seven years old is old, and this is very true. My seven years old seemed to have established my values and outlook on life.
A little girl playing with mud in the countryside has turned into a butterfly.