YanTaitai is a grandmother now. Maybe she has become a great-grandmother. At that time, he was young, and only one son was three or four years older than me. Although she is cruel to her son, she is kind to other children. No matter what happens, she won't tell everyone's parents, so we are most willing to go to her home or play near her home. For example, in winter, there is thin ice in the water tank, and we eat ice when we get up early in the morning. Once, Mrs. Shen Si saw it and said loudly, "Stop eating, you will have a stomachache!" " This voice was heard by my mother again, and we all got a scolding when we ran out, and we were not allowed to play for most days. We concluded that the culprit was Mrs. Shen Si, so we didn't have to be respectful when we mentioned her, and we nicknamed her "stomachache". YanTaitai is by no means like this. If she sees us eating ice, she will definitely smile and say, "OK, have another piece. I remember seeing who ate more. " But I also have some dissatisfaction with her. Once very early. When I was very young, I happened to walk into her house and she was reading with her man. When I approached, she put the book in front of me and said, "Look, do you know what this is?" I saw that the book painted a house, and two naked people seemed to be fighting, but they were not very similar. While hesitating, they burst out laughing. This makes me very unhappy and seems to be greatly insulted. I didn't go there for about ten days. Once, when I was in my teens, I competed with several children to see who turned more. She counted from the side and said, "Well, eighty-two! One more turn, 83! Okay, 84! ..... "But Xiang, who was spinning, suddenly fell down, and Xiang's aunt just came in. She went on to say, "Look, didn't you drop it? Don't listen to me, I told you not to turn, don't turn ... "Nevertheless, the children always like to look for her. If you have a big bag on your head, go to your mother. The good thing is to scold her and put some medicine on her. The bad thing is myrrh, a few chestnut chisels and a scolding. However, YanTaitai never complained. He immediately mixed gouache with soju and put it on a knot in one's heart, saying that it would not only relieve pain, but also avoid scars in the future. After my father died, I often went to her house, but instead of playing with the children, I talked about leisure with YanTaitai or her man. At that time, I felt that I bought more things, saw more things, and ate more things, but I had no money. Talking about this one day, she said, "Mom's money, you can use it, isn't it yours?" When I said my mother had no money, she said she could sell the jewelry. I said there was no jewelry, and she said, "Maybe you didn't notice. When you look around in the chef's drawer, you can always find something like beads ... "These words sound strange to me, so I stopped looking for her, but sometimes I really want to open the chef and look for it carefully. Less than a month later, I heard a rumor that I stole something from home and sold it, which really made me feel like I fell into cold water. I know the source of the rumor. Now whenever there is a place to publish, I always scold the gossip fox tail, but I was too young at that time. When I encounter gossip, I even seem to feel guilty, afraid of looking at people and being caressed by my mother. All right. So, let's go! But where to go? S city people's faces have long been familiar with, that's all, even the heart seems to be clear. You have to find another kind of person, someone who is criticized by people in S City, whether it is an animal or a demon. What was ridiculed by the whole city at that time was a newly established school called Chinese and Western School, which taught some foreign languages and arithmetic besides Chinese. However, it has become a target of public criticism; Scholars who are familiar with the books of sages have also collected sentences from the four books and made an eight-part essay to ridicule them. This article spread all over the city, and everyone regarded it as an interesting topic. I only remember that the beginning of the "lecture" was:-"Xu Ziyi said to me: I have heard that it changed in the summer, but I have never heard of it. Today is different: the sound of the pigeon's tongue, hearing its voice, is all elegant ... "You can forget it later, which is probably similar to today's discussion on preserving the national quintessence. But I'm not satisfied with this school which combines Chinese and western culture, because it only teaches Chinese, math, English and French. Homework is more chic, and there is Qiushi Academy in Hangzhou, but the tuition is expensive. The school that doesn't need tuition is in Nanjing, so it is natural to go to Nanjing. I don't know what the first school is called now. After the recovery, there was a time when it seemed to be called the Thunderbolt Sect, much like the names of "Taiji Array" and "Miscellaneous Array" in the book of gods. In short, as soon as you enter Yifeng Gate, you can see its 20-foot mast and smoke tunnel. Homework is also simple. Almost four days a week are in English: "Itisacat." "Istala?" I spent the whole day reading Chinese: "Mr. Wang said that Uncle Ying Kao can be described as pure filial piety, loving his mother and being devoted to Zhuang Gong." I spent a whole day writing in Chinese: know yourself and know yourself, never lose a battle, take the test in English, follow the trend from the dragon to the tiger, and bite the root of vegetables in everything. Of course, when I first entered, I could only be a student in Class Three. There is a desk, a stool, a bed and only two beds in the bedroom. The students in the first two classes are different, there are two tables and two stools or three stools and one bed, and there are also three beds. Not only do the students in Class Three go to the lecture hall with a pile of thick and big foreign documents, but they are not the only ones who dare to face them squarely. Open your elbows even if you are empty-handed, like a crab. The lower classes can't get out of the back door before him. This crab-like celebrity has been gone for a long time now. Four or five years ago, I found this posture on the broken leg lounge chair of the Ministry of Education. However, this master was not sent by lightning, which shows that the attitude of crabs is quite common in China. The mast is so cute. But it's not like "zhina Tong" in East Neighbor, because it's "arrogant" and it's a symbol of something. Because it is very high, crows and magpies can only stop halfway on its wooden pallet. If people climb to the top of the mountain, they can look at Lion Mountain and overlook Mochou Lake, but I really don't remember it clearly now. And it is not dangerous. There is a net under it. Even if it falls, it's just like a small fish falling into a net. In addition, since the net was laid, it is said that no one has fallen. There used to be a pool for students to learn to swim, but two young students drowned in it. It was already filled out when I went in. Not only did it fill in, but also a small Guandi temple was built on it. Next to the temple is a brick stove burning Chinese character paper. Above the stove mouth, there are four big characters written horizontally: "To Chinese character paper". It's a pity that the two drowned ghosts have no pool, so it's hard to find a replacement. They are always wandering around, although they have been suppressed by Guan Jun, the demon conqueror. People who run schools are probably well-intentioned, so on July 15 every year, a group of monks are always invited to put the flame on the playground in rainy days. A big monk with a red nose and a fat face put on a pilu hat and read a mantra with a tactic: "Pay back the money, Poumier, yeah, yeah!" Hey! Yeah! Boom! ! ! "My former classmates were imprisoned for a whole year, and then I got a little benefit-although I don't know what kind of benefit it is. So when I think about this, I often think: Be careful as a student. I always feel inappropriate, but I can't describe it. Now we find a similar word, "cigar smoke", which is almost acceptable. Had to walk away. Recently, it's not easy to just walk away. People who are "gentlemen" will say that you cursed the letter of appointment, or lose your temper as a "celebrity" and give you a few serious witticisms. However, it doesn't matter then. The allowance for students is only two taels of silver in the first year, and the probation period for the first three months is 500 petty cash. So there is no problem. I went to a mine school, maybe a mine school, but I can't remember it clearly, and I don't have my diploma at hand, so I can't check it. The experiment was not difficult and was accepted. This time it's not Itisacat, it's DerMann, DieWeib, DasKind. The language is still "Exam Book", which can be described as pure filial piety, but with the addition of "Notes for Primary School". The title of the paper is also slightly different, such as "if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools", which has never happened before. In addition, there are so-called geography, geoscience, epigraphy and ... all of which are very new. However, it must be stated that the latter two items, now called geology and mineralogy, have nothing to do with geography and Zhong Ding Monument. It's a bit troublesome to draw a cross-sectional view of the railway track, especially the parallel lines. However, in the second year, the general manager was a new party. When he rides in a carriage, he usually reads The Times, and he also gives his own questions for the Chinese exam, which is very different from the questions given by teachers. Once in Washington, Teacher China came to us with trepidation and asked, "What is Washington? ..... "Reading new books has become popular, and I also know that there is a book called Evolution in China. I went to the south of the city on Sunday and bought a thick white paper and lithograph at a price of 500. I opened it, and it was a well-written word. I opened a sidewalk:-"Huxley is alone in a room, in the south of England, facing the mountains and facing the wilderness. The places outside the threshold are as vivid as below the plane. I wonder what it was like here when the Roman general Caesar didn't arrive two thousand years ago. Only heaven can have grass ... "Oh, there is also a Huxley sitting in the study who thinks so, and thinks so fresh? After reading it in one breath, Natural Selection came out, Socrates and Plato came out, and stouch came out. There is also a newspaper reading room in the school. Needless to say, The Times and The Compilation of Translation Studies, the four words written by Zhang Lianqing are very lovely in blue. " There is something wrong with your child. Copy this article down. "An elder in my family told me seriously and handed me a newspaper. When I came to see it, I said, "I should kneel down and fight ... I still don't think there is anything wrong." When I am free, I eat cakes, peanuts and peppers as usual and watch evolution. But we also went through a period of great insecurity. It was the second year, and I heard that the school was going to be abolished. No wonder, this school was set up because the Governor of Liangjiang (about Liu Kunyi) heard that the coal mine in Qinglong Mountain was promising. By the time school started, the original technician in the coal mine had been dismissed and replaced by someone who didn't know much about it. The reasons are: First, the salary of the previous technicians was too expensive; Second, they think it is not difficult to open coal mines. So in less than a year, even the coal there is not very clear. The final coal can only be used to burn two pumps, that is, pumping water to dig coal, digging coal to pump water, and accounting. Since mining is unprofitable, the mine road school naturally does not need to be opened, but somehow it is not abolished. In the third year, when we went to see the mine, the situation was really bleak. Of course, the pump is still running, but the water in the mine is half a foot deep and still dripping. Several miners work in it like ghosts. Graduation is naturally something that everyone is looking forward to, but when it comes to graduation, it is somewhat refreshing. Climbed the mast several times, needless to say, I don't deserve to be half a sailor; After listening for several years, can you dig up gold, silver, copper, iron and tin after several mines? I'm really not sure about myself, and it's not as easy as "if a worker wants to do a good job, he must sharpen his tools first". Climbing 20 feet into the sky and drilling 20 feet into the ground, I found nothing. Learning is "above, he looked for the green void, below, the yellow spring, but he didn't find the person he was looking for in either place." There is only one way left: to go abroad. As for studying abroad, bureaucrats may be able to send five people to Japan. One of them cried her eyes out because of her grandmother, and she didn't go, only four were left. Japanese and China are very different. How should I prepare? A senior student graduated one year earlier than us and traveled to Japan. He should know something. After running to consult, he solemnly said:-"Japanese socks must not be worn. You should bring more socks from China. I don't think paper tickets are good either. You might as well exchange all the money you have with you for their cash. " All four people said yes. Others don't know the details. I changed all my money into Japanese silver dollars in Shanghai and brought ten pairs of China socks-white socks. What happened afterwards? Later, I had to wear uniforms and leather shoes, and China socks were completely useless; One-dollar silver dollar has long been abandoned in Japan, and half-dollar silver dollar and paper ticket have also been lost. October eighth.