Xiao Qian's nose was so cold that she wanted to wipe it with snot, but there was no paper.
In this day and age, it is impossible to have such a luxury as paper towels.
I wanted to raise my hand to wipe it, but looking at the crystal on Sun Laosan's cotton gloves next to me, I forced myself to hold back in order to avoid nausea.
Sun Laosan was his childhood friend, who had been playing on a kang since he was born.
The reason why the two formed a deep friendship was when they were ignorant.
That day, Xiao Qian's mother Ai Lan took him to Sun Laosan's house to pay back the money to Sun Laosan's mother.
One hundred yuan would be just a trivial matter twenty years later, but in this era, it is a huge sum of money.
So Ami Lan handed over the hundred-dollar bill with great care, but Sun Laosan's mother couldn't show what she wanted. She casually put the big bill on the kang, and then chatted passionately with Ami Lan.
stand up.
Women in rural areas are like this. They have never seen much of the world, but they can talk about their parents' shortcomings all their lives.
The two women talked happily and did not notice the two children in the kang.
Xiao Qian and Sun Laosan, who had just learned to crawl, didn't know the meaning of a hundred-dollar bill. The two little boys looked at each other sillyly.
In the crisp sound of "click", the flower of friendship between the two was born.
Although the sore buttocks caused a lot of tears, men's friendships are basically sublimated in pain.
No, why is there a strange aura of a man on top of a man?
Anyway, now Xiao Qian and Sun Laosan have already understood the meaning of the hundred-dollar bill.
As long as they can't get money, it must be big money.
Sun Laosan was okay, he couldn't walk in front of the five-cent toffee in the store, but Xiao Qian had already begun to think about life.
It’s impossible not to think about it. People in their thirties are inexplicably reborn as children. How to live their lives in the future is a big issue.
However, he could no longer think anymore. The sound of wind rushing past him and the ice shards being picked up and hit on his face brought him back to reality.
When Xiao Qian looked up, Guan Laoer's heartless laughter came from the distance.
"You two idiots, you can't skate today."
While laughing at Xiao Qian and Sun Laosan, Guan Laoer had already run very far away.
Seeing Guan Lao'er's majesty on the ice, Sun Lao San was jealous and angry, pointing at Guan Lao'er's back and yelling.
"Stop pretending, wait until I get the sledge ready."
This familiar noise made Xiao Qian couldn't help but smile.
It’s a scene I miss so much, but it’s a pity that it’s gone forever. I didn’t expect that the God of Time would send me back, so I could experience it again.
These friends who were once very familiar with each other will gradually drift away in the future life, and in the end they only exist as memories.
Especially Guan Laoer, Xiao Qian, who was once very timid, was often bullied by him, and even had to be scolded by me after she came home crying.
How many times in the middle of the night did Xiao Qian think about giving Guan Laoer a good beating. Unfortunately, reality told him that he couldn't beat him.
But as he grew older, the intersection between him and Guan Laoer became less and less.
The last news I heard about Guan Laoer was that he was arrested for robbery and wounding, and it seemed that he would never get out.
When she thought of Guan Laoer's future ending, Xiao Qian, who was reborn, gave up all thoughts of revenge.
I just hope that this familiar yet unfamiliar new world can give Guan Laoer a different life.
Some people may ask, isn't this rebirth? How could it be a stranger?
Xiao Qian could only spread his hands and had no comment.
Because he has just been reborn, he still needs to slowly explore what exactly is different.
Xiao Qian and Sun Laosan's sledge was not finished in the end. They lacked tools and could not fix the wire on the mold base.
In the rural areas of Northeast China in the 1990s, especially in winter, children's play was always inseparable from ice and snow.
This is a gift from nature to children, allowing them to play without any worries for six months.
The young man is like a fire, full of curiosity and pursuit of the whole world. Being taller is easier to break, being stronger requires eating more, and being faster can only be achieved with tools.
The sledge is what children use to run fast on the ice.
Making a sledge is very simple. For Northeastern children who are used to being self-reliant, this is a skill that almost everyone must know.
First go to the nearby brick and tile factory to steal a mold base...
Why steal?
Because I will get beaten.
But as time goes by, everyone gets beaten less often.
In the summer, children will also go to the brick and tile factory. Of course, they can't skate in the summer, but they can bake and eat.
The holes in the brick kiln where coal is added are naturally the best ovens.
Children who are used to being in the water and in the fields can always get corn, potatoes, toads, birds, loaches, small fish and other things, clean them a little, thread them with wires, and hang them on the holes of the brick kiln, and soon
It can become a delicious nutritional supplement.
In order to gain permission, some of them inevitably became the food of the brick and tile factory workers.
However, the taker has short hands and the cannibal has a soft mouth. Since I have eaten the young man’s food, what will happen if I take a few molds from you?
If you want to make a skating sledge, you need a tile-making mold, not a brick-making mold. It's square and square, and it's almost like making a coffin for a mouse.
The tiles in the north are different from those in the south.
The tiles in the south are oval, which facilitates drainage during rainy seasons and avoids water accumulation on the roof.
The tiles in the north are flat, with undulations similar to a W. In this way, the mold for making tiles is under the horizontal wooden strips, and there are two vertical wooden strips.
It is this feature that makes it an ideal tool for children to make sledges.
Just fix the straightened wire on the vertical wooden bar to reduce the friction and sliding ability, and a simple sledge becomes a toy for children all winter.
Then I went to find two wooden sticks about one meter long, knocked off the nail caps of the long nails, and drove them into the wooden sticks backwards, which became the most primitive ski poles.
The happiness of Northeastern children is that simple.
But today, Xiao Qian and Sun Laosan couldn't be happy anymore.
Before the two of them finished their sledge, Sun Laosan's mother's voice turned into a loud voice that could be heard by the whole village through the wind and snow.
"Little calf, go home for dinner. If you don't come back, your little sister will eat up all the vermicelli."
As soon as he heard that there were vermicelli to eat, Sun Laosan ran away.
This is unkind.
Xiao Qian was not angry at all. How could a person with a mental age of over thirty years care about this?
Now that Sun Laosan has gone back to eat, it means that his home is almost ready. So Xiao Qian packed up and walked into his yard alone through the crunching snow.
In rural areas of Northeast China, every household has a large yard.
The large area it covers will make city dwellers in later generations shed tears of envy.
There are so many uses for such a big yard. You can grow some vegetables and build a pig pen. Of course, you also need to build a toilet.
Yes, you read that right. In the past, toilets in rural areas of Northeast China were outdoors.
When I was playing the tuba, the feeling of the howling cold wind blowing across my butt was really ecstasy.
Xiao Qian seriously doubted, how did he persevere until he grew up in such a harsh environment?
Maybe I became a strong man when I grew up because of the tests I experienced.
With Kong Yiji's self-comfort, as soon as he walked into the yard, he was hit by a strong smell of feces and urine.
Northeastern people are not very particular about building pig pens, so they happened to be right next to the aisle. When they saw him coming in, the pig pens fluttered, and then a huge pig's head was placed on the wooden board, and they looked over eagerly.
When it was clear that it was him, the big black pig went back angrily.
This stupid guy knows that the little one is not responsible for feeding him, so he doesn't need to pay attention to it.
Little does it know that in ten days and a half, the person who will eat the most of its flesh will be this little one.
Xiao Qian was particularly impressed by this big black pig.
In his previous life, this big black pig was happiest when he was killing meat.
In that era, people generally lived in poverty. Let alone eating meat, it was a special day to be able to stir-fry vegetables with meat oil.
Therefore, when pigs are killed every winter, it is the biggest expectation of children for the New Year.
Xiao Qian always remembers the memories this big black pig gave him.
He remembered that time in his previous life, he ate a lot of meat.
But children have no control. Even if they are full, they don’t know they are full and they still try their best to stuff meat into their mouths.
Finally, just when he ate another big piece of fat, his unbearable stomach protested, causing him to vomit out the fat in his mouth after feeling extremely nauseated.
As a result, from then on, he could no longer eat fat meat, to the point where he would vomit when he smelled the smell of fat meat.
In this new life, seeing this big black pig again, Xiao Qian made a great wish - he would never eat so much.
