When I was a child, I lived in a very remote mountain village, the village is not large, only more than 150 families. Unable to lift water by water pump, the villagers can only dig a well where there is a spring, draw water from the well and pick it back home for human and animal food. Carrying water has become a part of the villagers' life, but for adults, it is generally not necessary to arrange daily work for carrying water. Most of them fill water tanks and buckets in the twilight of day before eating, drinking livestock and going to work. Therefore, carrying water has become a way for people to do morning exercises, plus being able to receive and convey the latest news on the well platform and on the road, and play the role of listening to the radio, it is really killing two birds with one stone. In fact, the overall planning law implemented by Hua Luogeng has long been naturally applied in the practice of the working people, and there is no need to be guided by scientific thinking and scientific methods at all.
Our family lives by the well, so my father does not regard carrying water as an important mission to treat solemnly, most of the time is the task of my mother or several of my brothers and sisters. I was young and old in my family, and sometimes out of a man's instinct, I wanted to do adult work, so I picked up a bucket and went to the well platform. It is not too young for a child to draw water from a well. It is said that it is four feet from the bottom of the well to the ground, which requires a very long rope to pull; the bucket plus water is enough for 36 or seven jin; the wellhead is very large, about 1.5 meters in diameter; and the water depth in the well is probably more than one foot deep when the water level is at its highest. Therefore, most of them have uncles who help to collect water and carry it back by themselves. Occasionally, without adult help, they have no choice but to collect it a few more times, gradually fill a bucket, and then divide two buckets equally, carrying half a load of water. It is not easy for me to carry water when I am ten years old. even if it is only half a load, it is enough to weigh more than 50 jin. Especially for the pole made by adults, the chain is long, but they are low, so they have to wrap part of the chain around the burden. At first, it will not be forgiven, as soon as it goes round, the pole will roll under the force. There may even be a plane touch bladder into a facade touch bladder, almost like a knife cut on the arm, causing pain. If you do not wind the chain short, the bucket will often hit the ground, either sprinkle water or knock your feet, which is also very uncomfortable. This originally very uncomfortable thing, it is not a task that I have to accomplish, but it does not make me afraid of difficulties, but enables me to develop the courage and confidence to think of ways and overcome difficulties since I was a child. These experiences are seldom experienced by children nowadays. Especially for the children of the city, it is a fantasy.
Now, I often think of that deep well, think of the stone bars at the head of the well, think of the clear and sweet well water, and then go to other places to study and even work, and never drink that natural pure water again. I feel that drinking faucet water now is eating leftover food from others.
When I was in high school, when I took part in collective work, I needed to carry water from a large pool to water trees. Most of the students could only carry a bucket of water with sticks. Two or three others and I felt uncomfortable, so we chose by ourselves. Later, it was found that water from the pool was in short supply, and people carrying water stood in line to wait for water. When I went to the edge of the pool, I found that the pool was only two or three meters deep, and it turned out that I couldn't get any water when I put down the empty bucket. It has been suggested that tying a stone to the edge of the barrel can be solved. When the teacher was about to put it into practice, I stepped forward, briskly put the bucket on the surface of the water, shook it with a rope, and the water went into the bucket and quickly brought it up. The speed increased all of a sudden, and soon the person carrying the water could no longer be idle to wait for the water. This scene happened to be seen by the headmaster, and after that, I was often assigned to be the leader of my work. On several occasions, I was even arranged by the school to take more than a dozen students to a far-away nursery to pull tree seedlings, completely replacing the teachers who used to lead the team. And later became president of the student union, as the only student representative to participate in most of the school's collective activities. So during my three years in high school, I feel that the greatest gain is to get more experience through participating in management and organizing activities, especially the sense of responsibility, which has become a very valuable asset in life. In the future work, he is often entrusted with an important task and won the trust of the leader, which has something to do with such an experience.
Since taking part in the work, there is almost no need to carry water and seldom participate in manual labor. The body is fragile, and there are more physical problems. Stomach trouble, in particular, was once excruciatingly painful. I know that the main reason is that there is less physical activity and a decline in the amount of food, coupled with a meagre income at that time, poor tea and rice, not very delicious rice, self-study in the morning, usually go to school on an empty stomach, and eat too much at noon, resulting in stomach trouble. It's easy to say when it hurts, and you can handle it. When you catch a cold under your feet and cause a stomachache, the pain is really unbearable, and it is difficult to sit and lie down.
As the living habits have not been changed, so take a lot of medicine can not be eradicated. It is true that people are on an embarrassing road, and blessings never come. It never rains but it pours. The tap water that has been used suddenly stopped supplying water one day and was informed that the water supply unit had closed down and there was no possibility of recovery in the future. The small potatoes had to resign themselves to fate and reinstall the bucket pole to carry water from far away.
For the first time, the shoulder was killing me, and it was red, swollen and peeling. I know this is only a necessary stage at the beginning, and it will be all right after a while, and I have never told anyone. With clenched teeth, two loads of water a day, step by step, from a difficult burden to an unshirkable responsibility into a habit of life. When one day I feel that eating is very delicious, I also realize that I have never had a stomach trouble for many years. There is no hobby of catching cold easily on the soles of my feet. It slowly dawned on me that the intense activity of labor may be the cure for disease and disaster.
The stomach troubles I have accumulated since I have been at work have been dispelled, and many of the cynical thoughts that have accumulated in my mind have gradually disappeared. I spent more time on reading and read some interesting books. When Wen Rumin, head of the literature department of Peking University, first gained a foothold at Peking University, he had no quiet space to read. Could he not read thousands of books, earn his doctorate and teach at Peking University? Master figures of Peking University, such as Wen Rumin's teachers Wang Yao and Lin Geng, do not have the cleanliness of a few bedrooms at all, haven't they also achieved great fame? When Wang Yao's teacher Zhu Ziqing first came to Tsinghua Garden as a teacher, he was so noisy that he was in a mess, couldn't he also leave the classic "Moonlight of Lotus Pond"? Zhu Ziqing's teacher Liang Qichao is in the midst of internal and external troubles, the nation is in peril, and there are as many as eight or nine children at home. Have you ever given up learning?.
Many of us are always in pursuit of happiness, constantly consuming our lives for happiness, especially in order to pursue the so-called dreams, do not hesitate to change the pace and rules of life, and give up a lot of real life content. Give up a lot of real pure life experience.
Big houses, glutton cars, brand-name clothing, the most desirable work units, the largest amount of payroll, fashionable life, luxurious catering and entertainment experience, the most popular tourist attractions in the end, happy? Are you happy? Is that what you want? Is it balanced? Eating the most expensive, worried about additives; living in a luxury room, breathing methanol, formaldehyde, benzene and lead substances in the nose; and how many migrant workers who can be found everywhere dare to believe their integrity thoroughly? We seem to be chasing happiness and happiness, but in fact we throw happiness and happiness away at will and pick up troubles and pain. Just like we buy a lot of beautifully packaged items from the supermarket, when we open them, the outer packages that can be called handicrafts are discarded at will, and the expensive contents sometimes have no value even for a plastic bag. it may even bring additional annoyance, harassment and disease.
In fact, life is the personal collocation of firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. Although we may not have the cooking skills of a first-class chef, the matching process and taste experience can never be bought or hired with money. What we give up, what we despise, ignore, and bore, is precisely the most precious thing that can realize the value of life for us.
It's the same with carrying water, buying vegetables, washing and cooking. When we pick up the original appearance of life and replace the disguise of vanity, we will live a real life and experience a life that really belongs to human beings. You don't have to rack your brains and ask for trouble to be a traveler or a fruit fan.
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