Chapter 2 Carefree is impossible
Lu Ye swept the floor first and started with the room. It didn't matter the room he lived in. His room was empty except for a bed, and it was very clean.
The outside room where his parents slept was a bit dirty and messy. There were cigarette butts and their own baked pumpkin seed shells on the ground. This was left by his father who invited someone to play cards at home in the morning.
Lu Ye took a bamboo broom similar to that of others and started cleaning. The outer room was a room about ten square meters, with no cement or ceramic tiles on the ground, and it was still a black hard ground.
The top of the room was a rough wooden floor, and an incandescent lamp with a bright glass shell that was already a little black on the surface, hanging on the horizontal columns supporting the wooden floor.
An old leather-brashed sofa leans against the wooden wall on the east side, a wooden bed with mosquito nets on the north side, and a large wardrobe with half-length mirrors on the west side.
A small red square table is placed in front of the brick wall window on the south. On the left is a sewing machine covered with red cloth and a yellow TV cabinet on the right.
An old pendulum clock was placed on the TV cabinet, and the ticking pendulum clock kept ringing. Next to the pendulum clock was a 14-inch black and white TV and a transformer.
What I can see is almost all the furniture in Lu Ye’s family. Most of them are the dowry when his mother got married. Compared to his father and his grandparents, thanks to his grandfather’s hard work and hard work, he is relatively more wealthy.
In Lu Ye's memory, many furniture has actually been painted and worn out, and the sofa has been discarded. But now, in just seven or eight years, most of it looks relatively new.
When he was cleaning the TV cabinet, he took a look at the Panda brand's 14-inch black and white TV. The TV was covered with a layer of dust-shielded cloth, which looked more thoughtfully protected.
This black and white TV was bought by his mother after selling it two years ago. The reason for buying it was that he stayed at his neighbor's house to watch TV every night in the past few years, and then accidentally peed on the bed.
It doesn't matter to him, Lu Huoxing, it's inevitable that children are all neighbors, you can help me and I help you, it's not too much to be angry with a child.
But Lu Ye's mother is a very strong man.
It sounds bad and I can't get through the dough. The next year, I took the time to feed more pigs and bought this TV after selling it for money.
This black and white TV accompanied Lu Ye through childhood and youth, including Huo Yuanjia, Chen Zhen, Shanghai Beach, Tianlong Baji, The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Plum Blossom Three Rings, White-Browed Heroes, Big Air Wings, Demon Altar Fighter, Iron Arm Astro Boy and other Hong Kong and Taiwan dramas and cartoons, and he was not tired of watching it.
In order to avoid being discovered by parents, Lu Ye has done it countless times because he used wet towels and fans to cool the TV.
He couldn't forget the pain and torture of being driven back to his room at 7 or 8 o'clock every night by his parents. At that time, he could not forget the pain and torture of looking back three times in one step and taking a look at it for a long time. At that time, his biggest dream was to be able to hide in the bed and watch TV one day.
So when smartphones became popular and could watch videos and dramas on their mobile phones, he talked to people more than once about this dream of childhood, sighing, how did the dream of childhood suddenly come true? It was really caught off guard.
Of course, Lu Ye is not interested in seeing it now.
At this time, the TV still uses an antenna to receive signals, and CCTV still has to wait for another two years. The only thing you can turn on the TV is two or three channels with snowflakes.
The transformer on the side of the TV is a special product of the supporting TV sets during this period. Although the power is on in rural areas at this time, they are all local power generation in towns and towns. The voltage is unstable, so this transformer is needed to stabilize the voltage of the TV.
In fact, if I hadn't seen it again, Lu Ye would almost never remember that this thing existed.
Before passing by the half-finger mirror next to the big wardrobe, Lu Ye stopped cleaning again and looked at his current appearance seriously.
The hair is not long, the forehead is a little curly, the skin is slightly dark, dry and thin, the eyes are not as big and bright as myopia.
He was wearing a slightly wide zippered jacket with two layers of sweaters inside, his pants were made of fat cloth pants by his mother, and a pair of thousand-layer cloth shoes on his feet.
This is what he looked like when he was nine years old.
The latest page for the calendar hanging beside the wall of the large wardrobe is January 26, 1994, the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month of the year Guiyou.
In later generations, people often forward such content on Moments or some social software:
1. Ten centimeters taller; 2. Give you 50 million; 3. Admission letter from Peking University and Tsinghua University; 4. Return to childhood; 5. Be healthy forever; 6. A true lover... and so on, choose one of these options, which one do you choose?
After seeing such forwarding content countless times, Lu Ye would always silently check "Back to Childhood" in his heart again and again.
He is not tall, and he earns more than tens of millions of dollars. The school is a third-rate university. He is in good health but cannot avoid getting sick. He is single at the end... But the opportunity to change these conditions, whether from a value or other perspective, is far from being "returning to childhood".
A chance to start over in life is to gain youth and new life choices.
This is a medicine for regret, no money will be exchanged.
Lu Ye has experienced the famous saying "I have been struggling for eighteen years before I can sit with you and drink coffee". It is not as ups and downs, but there is also a short story of him.
After graduation, I changed many jobs in a row, and was confused and hit a wall everywhere. Finally, I had a small opportunity and slowly climbed up. After luckily, I stepped on the wave of the times, grabbed the tail of the wind, fell, cried bitterly, and was helpless. After I was thirty, I finally achieved some results.
However, the long-term staying up late, insomnia, and the huge pressure he suffered has made him overdrawn and exhausted both physically and mentally.
At that time, when he recalled the past, he vaguely understood the sentence from a certain interview with Stephen Chow, "If I could do it again, I wouldn't be so busy."
If you miss something, you can't find it again.
It’s easier to be reborn for a lifetime.
This is Lu Ye’s real idea of rebirth and returning to this era. He really doesn’t want to work so hard or work so hard.
Decades of rebirth of memory, not to mention wealth and honor, but there is always no problem with having enough food and clothing. With so many time nodes, it is enough to seize one or two.
The rest is to do something that I wanted to try in my previous life but failed to do.
only--
When he really returned to his childhood and everything started to come back, he realized that every moment was suffering.
However, in just a few days, he found that everything was not as beautiful as he thought.
Losing everything you have gained from your struggle and clearing and filing, this is nothing, this life will be better.
But life is not a game, it’s all about passing through the levels and fighting monsters—
Life is composed of countless trivial bits and pieces. In these moments, there are joys and beauty, but there are many things he once regarded as ordinary, but now they seem to be pain and embarrassment.
My wonderful childhood in my memory was to take a bath in the river, burn reeds by the river, fish for frogs, fish for mulberries and raspberries, throw firecrackers with my friends, make homemade foreign muskets, slingshots, cockfighting, hide and seek, play marbles, and hopscots... It seems that everything is so peaceful.
Then, if you really get in it again, what you feel is completely different.
The little bits of beauty condensed in memory are so rare in life like a long river.
What Lu Ye saw and felt was only the dual lack of spirit and materiality.
Without mobile phone wifi, you can’t watch TV shows, you can’t watch Weibo, you can’t play games, you can’t watch black and white TV screens, and you can’t get used to watching them, and there are no programs on the TV station…
It’s just reading novels, the only two martial arts novels in the family, Liang Yusheng’s "The Legend of the Glacier" and "Thunder Blazing the Finger". He found them and glanced at them for a few glances and threw them aside. It was not fun enough!
Not to mention material things, in the 1990s, most of the rural areas in the southern 1990s were in an extremely difficult state except for a few places that developed.
When I eat, I often don’t know the taste of meat for a month. When I wear it, most of Lu Ye’s clothes are handmade by my mother using a sewing machine. I live in a brick-walled loess house with dark rooms. The rooms are cramped and dark, and mice are willing to go at night. I am a Phoenix bicycle I bought in the 1980s, and the roads are now larger than those after the opening of villages in 1980s.
If Lu Ye can barely bear these things, what Lu Ye can't stand the most is the toilet.
There were no flush toilets that were popularized by every household later, and there were no flushing public toilets built into rows, they were dry toilets and thatched cottages.
A large water tank is laid on the ground, covered with wooden boards, and a thatched hut is built outside.
Even though Lu Ye had experienced this stage, he stepped on his foot again and was dizzy and nauseated by the stench for the first time.
Moreover, it’s winter, it’s just smelly. In summer when the weather gets warmer, maggots are everywhere, and it’s really creepy when you look at it.
Every household basically raises some chickens and ducks at this time, whether in the yard or at home, chicken manure and duck manure can be seen everywhere, as well as pigs, cattle and sheep.
In rural southern areas with limited land, pigpens and cow pens are basically not too far away from places to eat and stay. Not to mention the various smells that have been lingering all year round, the sanitary conditions are also extremely worrying.
It’s great to go back to childhood, but putting aside the filters of memories, most of them are still bad.
Especially Lu Ye, he read the file too early, and he is really too young now. Even if he has many ideas in his mind, he has a king and a proactive plug-in, he may not be able to use it immediately. At his current age, what he can do immediately is really limited, and at least he will have to wait for several years.
"But I really can't wait."
After cleaning the room, Lu Ye sat on the threshold at the doorstep, holding his chin with both hands, looking at the scenery in front of the door, and sighed silently in his heart.
The winter witheres.
The grass is withered and yellow next to the roadside. Behind the well on the roadside, the branches and leaves of big willow trees withered. In the distance, the rice fields were divided into pieces. The autumn harvest was early, and only dense rhizomes were left in the fields. Occasionally, chickens and ducks were looking for food and chased in the fields.
Calm and peaceful.
I once thought of letting go of myself for a short time without considering other pressures.
However, nowadays, it is suffering every moment.
"It's a fantasy to rely on my current age and want to change my living conditions in a short time."
In the rural areas of the 1990s, a little kid who was under ten years old, Lu Ye felt that it would take at least a long time to get a system plug-in for him.
"So, it's still on my parents..."
The person he can directly influence is undoubtedly his parents. Lu Ye has no choice but to do anything about his son Lu Huoxing, and the word "lazy" can block most of the ways.
"But--" Lu Ye's eyes fell on the bare willow tree beside the well in the distance, and his eyes were clearly distinguished by black and white. "My mother is okay, but I have to help her take the first step. Well, I can't say I have to act cute and cute."
Gulugulu—
On the red mud stove in the kitchen, the sound of hot water from the aluminum kettle boiling.
"I really want to be able to live without worries and wait for death!"
Lu Ye sighed, patted his butt and stood up from the threshold, turned around and walked into the kitchen.
Chapter completed!