Chapter 1 Childhood Tidbits: Returning at Night.
At the end of August in the autumn (1), it is the season when the northeast wind blows, but God blows the southwest wind unconventionally. Our group of sailing bays (2) are at the mouth of the Qingyi River in Wuhu City, and they can't move. That night, in the dim light of the mast, my parents were muttering about me. The father said, "I can't wait any longer, school starts on September 2, let him take the small wheel back." The mother said, "I am always at ease when you are so young and let him go alone." "But what if the wind is good? Again......The father frowned, looking preoccupied.
I know my father has a point, 'you can't give up the tailwind, and even an hour's delay can affect a voyage.' I understand my father's unexplained "more": I can't bear the money he gave me for the round-trip ferry ticket.
In those years, money was tight, and it was worth it!I was angry at my father's stinginess or indifference to me
Anger can also produce heroes. That year, I was only 10 years old and in the second grade.
The ten-year-old boy finally mustered up the courage to board the small passenger ferry home alone. Small passenger liners are coal-burned. Black smoke rose from the chimney, with white intersperse, and there was a burst of snorting and panting. It was too small to carry many passengers, so it also helped tow a passenger barge, plus the wind and current, like a big crawling turtle. A whole day. The young man hid in the "turtle shell" and did not dare to move, he was afraid that once he left his seat, others would grab his seat, and he was afraid that he would be squeezed out of the "turtle shell" by careless people and fall into ......the Yangtze River when he walkedWhat he thought was: don't fall asleep and forget to get off the boat. Besides, he had nothing to fear, and he didn't feel hungry, so he sat like a puppet.
At more than 10 o'clock in the night, the small passenger ferry finally docked at the Guijiaba Wharf in his hometown. The young man vigilantly grabbed his coat bag and bag and poured out of the hatch of the ship with **, pouring out of the big iron door for ticket inspection. At this time, he suddenly felt a sense of relief, and the urine that had been held for more than a day seemed to be about to take ...... out of the doorHe didn't bother to wash his hands, in fact, he couldn't wait, hunger forced him to take out the bran rake from his pocket and gobble it up. He thinks that the bran flour is sweet and salty, it is really delicious, 10,000 times better than usual!
It was the end of the moonlit night, and it was dark all around, but under the starry sky, the gravel road still took on a hazy white. He didn't feel frightened at first, because there were people returning from the night with him, but as the distance from home got closer and closer, and there were fewer and fewer pedestrians, he was finally left alone, a 9-year-old schoolboy walking alone in the dark. He clearly remembered that there were two roads to go home from here, one was the polder road leading to Tanggou Town, and the other was the straight polder road. There are many people walking on the polder, and many people can be courageous, but there are also many dogs, and the dogs are all going to bite. A year ago, he accompanied his grandfather to his father's brigade headquarters, and encountered barking dogs on the road. Grandfather said that if you encounter a dog, you can't run, and if you run, it will bite. That time he was very down-to-earth, because it was daytime, and because of his grandfather's "broken queen", what was there to fear? But now, he's really afraid of dogs. He was once bitten by a dog on the calf, and blood came out, and his grandmother used chopsticks dipped in pig water to scrape vigorously, saying that it could eliminate madness and poison (3) ......He burst into tears. He couldn't walk the polder road, he made up his mind in his heart. However, the thought of walking the road to the heart of the heart has to pass through a cemetery. There is also the terrifying Wu Gong Bridge, which is said to be a haunted place; He had also seen with his own eyes that there was a ghost fire shaking over the Wugang Bridge in the dark night. Just thinking about it, I couldn't help but feel numb on my scalp for a while, and my legs couldn't move as if they were injected with lead. Which way to go? He seems to be faced with an existential decision. At this inextricable moment, my grandfather's words suddenly sounded in my ears: People are afraid of ghosts, and ghosts are even more afraid of people. Don't look back when you walk at night. Don't look around, keep your head up and your chest high, and use your yang energy ......
That night, I remembered my grandfather's teachings, and without looking back, I almost trotted home from the polder path. When I knocked on the door, the rooster crowed all over the place. When my kind grandmother lit a soybean oil lamp and opened the door, I couldn't control my feelings anymore. threw himself into her arms and cried, crying very sadly. I remember my grandmother scolding my father right away, probably because he was too bold to ask such a young person to cross the river and come back alone. The grandfather, who slept in the mosquito net of Xiabu, was a little ignorant, and he said that it was good to be bold, and that boldness would ...... future successDoes this mean me, or my father?
In the blink of an eye, 36 years have passed. I feel that I can have some resilience and enlightenment today, and it has nothing to do with the forced night return.
Shanghai netizen Teacher Liu's micro-comment: A glance back at it, I found that the first football game of the soul was so exciting).
1) Jiaoqiu, which generally refers to the beginning of autumn, that is, the beginning of autumn for a short time.
2) Bay, the bay boat is parked and docked, and the customary term of the river people is the bay boat.
3) Domestic dogs generally bark a few times when they see a living person, and do not bite, and the dog that bites is sick and suspected of being a mad dog.