Half a century ago, teenagers were on our way out of school
Jiangsu Dafeng Jianzhong.
Time: September 1964 to July 1966.
Location: Kawanishi Elementary School, Daqiao Commune.
Back then, we weren't like today's children who never had endless homework, extracurricular tutoring classes, interest classes, or anything like that.
There are about 30 minutes left before the end of the second period in the afternoon, and the school does not specify what should or must be done during this time. Everyone rushed out of the classroom and hugged the playground, releasing and interpreting the lively and active nature of the teenagers, playing and jubilating.
There are those who lift one leg and use the other to jump "cockfighting"; There are those who draw a circle on the ground on the side of the field and add a straight line to play the game of playing copper plates; There is a "grid house" than who can hold out to the end; There are those who sit on the ground and "take their mothers"; There are paper folded triangle bags to see who has the loudest voice; There are wrestling competition strength "lost three times"; There are two people facing each other with their hands crossed and clasping, and the other person riding up to "take a plane"; There are also people who play a game of "fried salt beans, fried cylinder beans, fried to eight heels" game ......
At that time, rubber band jumping had not yet emerged, and girls mainly kicked shuttlecocks. However, there are many boys who are good at this, such as Shen Chun'o in the last session, and Lu Honggen and Shen Yaping in our class are all masters.
When the time came for the end of school, the student duty officer climbed to the high platform on the east side of the playground and blew the whistle to organize the queue. But everyone is having fun, and they can't get enough of it, ** can stop! The playground was still bustling with people, and it couldn't be quiet for a while.
At this time, the medium-sized teacher Lu Bonan, who was walking around the playground with his hands behind his back to observe, would often come out to suppress the formation, and roared with the momentum of Mount Tai: "Don't speak!" I see who's still talking! Who's still talking!! Let's talk about it earlier!!
Mr. Lu was twenty-seven or eighteen years old at the time, full of energy, and his voice was loud, it is not an exaggeration to say that this voice is not a problem to travel three or five miles, not to mention the playground of a primary school? In addition, he sometimes wears a pair of dark sunglasses that were extremely fashionable and inscrutable, which adds a bit of majesty and intimidation. This roar was like a thunderclap on the ground; It's like the scream of Zhang Fei in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" when he scared off millions of Cao soldiers on the side of the Yang Bridge, which can be described as extremely powerful and the effect is wonderful, and the playground is immediately quiet and even silent.
As a result, the six teams formed horizontally by grade were quickly arranged, and the teams naturally went from lowest to highest in order of height.
Lizheng - to the right, to look forward, to take a break"; If the principal or the teacher concerned has something important, they will step up to the platform at this time.
Then, turn left and walk in unison.
The team walked out of the school circle in an orderly manner under the leadership of the "road chief".
However, after only going more than 100 meters to the east and walking on the north-south Yellow Sea Highway, everyone was like wild horses out of the territory, spreading their feet and rushing to chase and run for no reason. Leaving the sight of the principals and teachers, what is the "road chief"? Its authority collapsed in an instant, and its command failed.
Of course, objectively speaking, the students came from all directions in different communes and brigades, and the large and neat ranks formed at the beginning naturally could not be maintained to the end.
First of all, Jing Kouming, Xu Yinfeng, Wei Qilin, Wang Yu, Zhu Xinggui and other students were the first to leave the army and march to their own base areas in the south;
Immediately afterwards, Lu Honggen, Fang Lanfang, Wang Guilan and other students also drove along an east-west road to the direction of the seventh and tenth teams of the bridge after going about 100 meters to the north;
Arriving at the north end of the highway, another group of students from Wang Youwu, Shen Yaping, and Shen Hongbin left the main road of the highway and turned into the village road to retreat to their defense area;
The remaining three-fifths of the team turned right along the curve and continued to advance towards the "Yangqiaokou".
The official name of "Yangqiaokou" is "Shenjiadu", which is the location of a wooden bridge on the Zhugang River at the junction of the bridge and the Caomiao. The reason why it is called "Yangqiaokou" by the locals is because this newly built bridge is extraordinary, which can be passed quickly, is safe and beautiful, and is a new thing compared to the old ferries, which is very foreign.
The official name is "Shen Jiadu", because there are many households surnamed Shen on the south side of the bridge, and Shen Xinqun's classmate in my class is one of them, and the family of a leading cadre surnamed Shen at the deputy county level is also next to the bridge.
Although Yangqiaokou is not a town, a township, or a set, it is also very lively and distinctive.
At 12 o'clock at noon every day, there is a passenger ferry that departs from Dongtai and stops here through Caoyan, Dingxi, Baiju and other places. Carrying umbrellas, carrying all kinds of bags, well-dressed passengers rushed out of the boat, their expressions, gaits, temperament and the feeling of the peasant family who had never been far away, and stayed in the field or between the three-foot pot all day - walking, not in a hurry, invisibly looking graceful and luxurious. I wondered, what do they do when they go out on a boat? Visiting relatives and friends? Or a business trip? Either way, I decided that they were undoubtedly the most well-informed of the locals, so I speculated wildly about their identities and family backgrounds.
A few years later, I finally had the opportunity to follow an old cadre of the brigade to calmly board this passenger ferry from this pier, and go directly to the terminal Dongtai, where I stayed in the No. 1 Guest House of the Dongtai Revolutionary Committee that night, and entered the room by stepping up the wooden stairs. This trip opened the eyes of a peasant boy with his legs in the mud, and I will not say anything about it.
At night, the lights on the towers of the riverside oil exploration team are lit up early, and the radius of several miles is like a bright and soft moonlight. It made me have an inexplicable and distant imagination and caused ripples and waves in my heart.
At both ends of the bridge, there is a "scenery" that we will never want to return to at that time. On the west side of the north side of the road, there are supply and marketing cooperatives, baked cake shops, bicycle repair shops, etc.; The stalls of coppersmiths, carpenters, coopers and tinkerers are lined up in turn; There are also curium pots and bowls, and ...... for repairing locks and keysI'm always there to "show my skills" to the masters.
For example, coppersmiths melt scrap copper into copper water in a special container, then pour it into a mold to cool it, and then polish it into a copper spoon or copper basin. Another example is ......It's really fun.
There are stalls selling boiling water in the south of the bridge, and each teacup is covered with a square glass to keep out the dust. Plain water is a penny a cup, and colorful tea with saccharin, peppermint oil and coloring is two cents a cup. At that time, I often regretted that I couldn't afford to drink colored tea, but now it seems that plain water is the healthiest.
There is a seated entertainer with a carving knife in his arms, carving names or patterns on the barrel of a fountain pen. Engrave the name of the three characters for five cents; The carving pattern starts at least a dime depending on the complexity of the pattern. Despite my shyness, after some hesitation, I made the decision to engrave three large characters on the barrel of the pen.
Wow! I don't know for a moment, and I'm shocked for a moment. The ordinary fountain pen suddenly had a sparkling and dazzling feeling. If it is preserved to this day, it can at least be regarded as a historical commemorative object of your own family.
There is also an unstoppable candy ball stall. Two cents to buy a steel ball, the ball is ejected under the force of the spring, and constantly collides on the bars of each hole in the plate, and finally falls into whichever hole, the corresponding sugar bar belongs to you. There are two pieces of candy, three pieces of sugar, and there is a whole roll of fruit candy, and the top prize is three full rolls of fruit candy tied together with rubber bands, which is very tempting. However, the probability of the ball falling into the hole known as the "dead tank" is particularly high, and should be above 95 percent. Then you can only get a candy bar that sells for a penny, and the stall owner earns a penny from you. However, everyone did not give up, and always bought one ball after another, one ball at a time. Eventually, almost without exception, they took advantage of the excitement and used up the few coins in their pockets and went back to the deprivation.
At that time, our pocket money was only three cents, and we didn't think that most of it would be earned by this angry sugar stall, which was the money that our parents and ourselves saved from between our teeth.
Learn from the pain and think twice. Finally, one day, I gritted my teeth, stomped my feet, and decided to gamble a lot, spending a huge amount of RMB and a dime to buy a five-ball consecutive option: success or failure in this fight!
Hold your breath and have words in your heart: God bless, I wish me success! Then he pulled the foot spring and let go of his hand, and with a loud bang, five steel balls were like bullets out of the chamber, and the horn horn was launched. Don't dare to be careless, I stared at the ball with wide eyes, only to see the steel balls rushing left and right in the plate, colliding with each other, less than ten seconds, seeing the four steel balls fall into the "death tank" one after another, just when I was almost desperate and all my thoughts were discouraged, the last steel ball actually collided with many barricades in the front and back of the plate and slowly fell into the hole next to a whole roll of fruit candy. I was so happy that I almost jumped, it was the best record in the history of my candy ball, so I was happy for many days. I didn't want to eat that roll of candy for a while - that's the capital to show off!
However, the ups and downs of this victory and defeat are simply a roller coaster, so that our little heart really can't stand it. Don't play this stuff from now on. Later, I learned that this was actually a sure profit and no loss set by the merchant through the structural design of the ball board and the adjustment of the height of the four corners of the table.
Talking about the "school" thing.
After crossing the Yangqiaokou, the team was divided into three routes again, Fu'an, Haizhou, Chunhai and other students marched east along the north bank of the Zhugang River, and their final foothold was along the river;
The students of the Guanglin, Guangying and Dagou brigades continued to go north for 500 meters, and then turned westward and still needed to continue the "march";
The last detachment of Tianyin, Xingming, Lianfeng, Baoguo and myself was diagonally inserted from the northeast corner of the bridge to the square of the second team, and then aimed all the way to the northeast and went straight to their respective base camps.