The Spring Festival is coming, and many people will return to small counties. What's your memory of the small town?

The Spring Festival is coming, and many people will return to small counties. What's your memory of the small town? This small county is an ancient city. According to the administrative divisions at that time, there was Chengguan Town, which was commonly known as the city at that time. Cities are divided into Dongguan, Xiguan, Nanguan and Beiguan (with the evolution of administrative divisions, it should now be street offices). At that time, my father worked in the county people's government and my mother worked in a clothing factory. The garment factory is in Dongguan, about 2 miles from downtown. In order to facilitate my mother's work, our family lives in a private house not far from the factory. I remember that neither the government nor the factory provided family housing at that time. Only the county party secretary and the county magistrate and several leaders live in the government compound, because we are classmates of the county party secretary and the county magistrate's children. I have been to their house, which is a big room with three or four houses. There are several beds, a stove, a group of children, clothes and shoes scattered in every corner.

The private house we live in is two south rooms, and the monthly rent is only three yuan. In winter, the house is very cold and there is a dross stove. In fact, this kind of stove was born in our classroom at that time. The so-called scum furnace is a furnace that burns scum (scum is a muddy fuel made by mixing soil and coal with water).

Although I live in Dongguan, my family sent me to Nanguan and went to the best school in the county. The school in Nanguan is called Chengguan Primary School, which is equivalent to the school for children of government agencies. It's a pagoda school in the county, and children from government agencies are usually in this primary school. I have to run more than ten miles every day after school, no matter whether it is windy or rainy, my parents haven't come to pick me up once since the first grade of primary school. Not only I, but all the children are like this. They go to school by themselves and come back after school by themselves. Later, our classmates who lived in Dongguan spontaneously organized a Dongguan team. Senior students take care of junior students and help each other. Whenever the school organizes activities on holiday, the teacher asks us to choose the team leader as the unit of Dongguan team and exercise our autonomy.

The captain is very responsible, leading us to do good things like Lei Feng, sweeping the yard for others in various units, and also leading us to work and study, picking up glass bottles and broken glass everywhere and selling them to the purchasing station, and giving the money to the class for unified management and use. Of course, we are also naughty. I remember that once the captain led us to dig loach in a dying pond not far from the county seat. We rolled up our trouser legs, rolled up our sleeves, took off our shoes and dug in the mud with both hands. The loach was bitten by a grasshopper before it was dug out.

This bug not only bites people but also sucks blood. Once it bites a person, it will dig hard into the skin. I screamed when I found a grasshopper biting my leg. Nevertheless, the boy still has a way to pick up the soles of his shoes and pat them hard where the grasshopper bites. A few soles, the grasshopper automatically fell down. Later, adults told us that applying tobacco oil and cool oil can prevent grasshoppers from biting. In the future, when we dig loach again, we will put cool oil on our legs, so grasshoppers will not dare to get close to it when they smell cool oil. That summer vacation, we dug a lot of loaches, a lot of loaches.