On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, the neighbor's house parked a BMW car with a Guangdong license plate, and I knew that the neighbor's son-in-law had returned to his hometown for the New Year. My neighbor and I were young, we went to school together when we were young, he had a disability in his leg, he was not admitted to university, he couldn't work because of his disability, he had to farm to survive, life was difficult, his house was built when he got married, it has been more than 20 years, and it looks a little dilapidated in the rural areas full of buildings.
His son is very competitive, after graduating from 985 Medical University, he settled in Guangdong, and found a city daughter-in-law, and the economic income of the two doctors is good.
Because of the wall, I found that the neighbor's car leaves after dinner every day, and comes back at eight o'clock in the morning, feeling curious, and yesterday I met the neighbor at the door, smoked a cigarette and chatted for a while, and then I knew what was going on.
The dilapidated countryside of eastern Henan.
From the neighbor's mouth, finally know the reason, his daughter-in-law is also Cantonese, living in the city since childhood, and his son is free to love and marry, this year is the third year of marriage, due to the proximity, every year is in the son-in-law's father-in-law's house for the New Year, this year to drive thousands of kilometers back to Henan, the daughter-in-law was full of expectations, want to see the endless plains of Henan, look at the snow in the north, the wish is achieved, but the difficult conditions make her unbearable, just go home three days to return to Guangdong.
As a native of Henan, the bitterness of winter in rural Henan, not to mention a southern urban girl, even I, a native of Henan countryside, do not want to accept it, so I understand it very well. Let me tell you about it.
Everyone knows that the Northeast is cold, but there is heating in the Northeast, so it is very comfortable in winter, and the winter in Henan is often below zero, and the biting cold wind and snowflakes are flying, and there is no place to hide. It's a feeling of despair.
The snow scene in the countryside is truly beautiful.
There is heating in the cities of Henan, but there is no heating in the countryside, and there is no insulation layer for building houses in the countryside, and there is no insulation layer for old houses, so if you want to stay indoors in winter in winter, your idea is wrong, and it is colder indoors than outdoors.
In the past few days, the heavy snow in Henan has allowed the Guangdong daughter-in-law to see the beauty of the snow scene, but she has also experienced the bitter cold pain in the countryside, and it is estimated that her heart is broken.
When I was a child, the winter was really a nightmare, I was scared and shivered every day when I went to bed, the cold quilt took more than half an hour to warm up, and even in the middle of the night, it was more difficult to get up in winter, and it was said that I got up with a strong will, and I went to school and rode a bicycle in winter, my hands were frozen, and the chilblains secreted mucus, which stuck together with the gloves, and the pain of the heart when I took the gloves, that feeling was really unforgettable in my life.
To tell the truth, now the rural dry toilet is basically gone, the newly built houses are toilets, the same as the city, but the neighbor's house is a house of more than nine years, there is no septic tank, or a dry toilet, urine and urine into the manure pit, feces and urine everywhere, maggots crawl everywhere in summer, and the smell is suffocating, it can be said that every time I go to the toilet is a huge psychological impact, is a test of will, I like to go to the field when I was a child, and the dry toilet can not enter it. I don't want to experience the power of aqua privies again.
Rural aqua toilets are a nightmare.
Can you imagine the pain of running to the toilet in your underwear in winter, after a few degrees below zero? Coupled with the dry toilet, it is doubly painful, when we were young, we were all urinals here, but there is a shortcoming, the smell in the house is big, and there is nothing to get used to, and people who love cleanliness probably can't stand it.
It is impossible to solve the problem of pooping in the house, you can only run to the toilet, it takes at least three to five minutes to poop, and the pain of three or five minutes outside the sub-zero with a bare buttocks, you can make up for it yourself.
When I was a child, I admired my mother very much, when it snowed in winter, I shivered with cold, and my hands were frozen, but my mother still cooked, washed vegetables and cooked bowls, the water that just came out of the well was cold and biting, no matter what I touched, it was ice slag, and I had to cook in this case, I felt that my mother was really great at that time, and now I think about my mother and I have unspeakable hardships, who wants to cook? If you don't do it, you can't do it, I didn't have a restaurant when I was a child, so I couldn't be lazy.
It's the same now, when I cook in winter, my hands are cold, but now it's much better, and many people go out to eat to solve the problem.
The neighbor's daughter-in-law came to Henan, very lucky, saw the heavy snow that had not been encountered for many years, the beauty of the snow scene is real, the biting cold is also true, after a short period of excitement, and then all kinds of inconvenience and discomfort, the southern girl finally couldn't stand it, and wanted to go home, and stabilized her mood under the persuasion of the family, the condition is to be at home during the day and go to the county seat to live in a hotel at night. That's why there is a situation of going out late and returning late, to tell the truth, these behaviors of young people, I can understand as an old man, the hardships of rural life, people who have really experienced modern life are unwilling to experience it anymore, I am a native of Henan Rural People are difficult to accept, let alone a Guangdong city girl?
Go to the county seat and stay in a hotel in the evening.
Many people on the Internet lament the depression in the countryside, miss the innocence and kindness of the people of the tenth generation, green mountains and green waters, what I want to say as a person who has experienced that era is that era is not beautiful, and the beautiful description of that era is an illusion, and the depression in the countryside is its end, which is a good thing, don't sigh with hypocrisy anymore.
It's still the same sentence, goodbye poverty, goodbye to the countryside, don't go back. Share the Spring Festival customs of your hometown