[Memory] There is an old well in my hometown

There is an old well in my hometown

Honglin

The old house was renovated at home, and a flat burden was found next to the pigpen. The rusty rusty at the ends of the two ends, and there were traces of friction of buckets. There is no bucket at home, and the days when the water picking water has quietly walked for more than 30 years. However, the old well related to the water picking water, which is related to the old well, seems to have happened yesterday. Essence

Hometown

Old well is not old. When I went home in the Spring Festival this year, I went around the old well to turn around, trying to find the memory of growth. There is a stone monument next to the old well. There are several words "Keeping well water cleaning" on the monument. The monument is covered with moss. The handwriting is a bit blurred, but it can still be identified. The intentional person also specifically recorded the monument time on the monument: December 1984. That year, I was just 10 years old.

My hometown is on the side of the commune. It is almost 2 miles away from the public water well. There is a low -lying area where my old house is less than 300 meters. There is a large weir pond next to it. The surrounding neighbors thought a way and planned the soft soil. Everyone worked together, looking for a small stone on the east, moved a small slate on the west, seven and eight together, separated the soil, surrounded a puddle, and even flat on the side of the puddle. , Convenient for everyone to take water.

With a puddle, there are many people who go to public water wells to take water, and there are more people who come to water pits. From morning to night, people who can always meet people who carry a flat burden, shake the bucket, and sweat with sweat. The main task of picking water in my family is that my father is finishing. Every morning, my father puts the "melon" (rural areas in southern Sichuan often saw the gourd dry shell in half. Because of its lightness, it can float on the water. Throw it in the bucket, go to the puddle, carefully open the impurities floating on the water, and then scoop the water into the bucket. The mother picked home the water of the father, washing and cooking, and feeding the livestock. Every time we get up, my father has already picked a cylinder of water, and was smoking cigarettes while sweating. He urged us to go to school after breakfast.

The stele next to the old well

The puddle temporarily solves the difficulty of giving up water on the left and right. However, every time the "melon fluttering" is scooped, it is oscillated. Regardless of the size, the water in the pit will slowly turbid. The next one who takes the water will either pick the turbid water home and clarify before using it. Next to the pit, blowing for a while (shells "(common sayings of rural people in the southern Sichuan area), and the water in the pit was slightly brighter before taking it home. This situation lasted about one or two years.

Finally, some people proposed that the pits should be transformed into a "drink well". At that time, although the economic conditions of every family were not very good, when I thought of the clean and cool well water, regardless of the five yuan, ten yuan, or twenty or thirty yuan, for a few days, everyone will put up the funds needed by the well -built wells. It's right. As the so -called "people's hearts, Taishan moves", with the joint efforts of everyone, in less than a month, the old well was built.

The newly -built old well is not the same as the original water pit. Master Jianjing worked hard and found out the muddy clearing at the bottom of the pit until he saw the stone at the bottom of the pit. They thought about the method to chine on the stone, and then stacked the excavated stone spiral -type layer by layer according to the pentagon, and piled it back to fill the soil on the periphery of the stone. Twelve floors, about 4.5 meters deep. In the end, they also found two large slate, while cutting out a semi -circular of the same size, covering the top of the top of the stones, as a well entrance, and even polished a well, making the old well look more beautiful a little bit more beautiful. Essence

Clear well water

The well water appears to be clearer and brighter through the filtering. At that time, if the hostess went to take the water at home, when they came to the well, they would always approach the well in the well, stretch the neck, and go to see the good face in the well. Old well became a mirror of their beauty. If the male owner goes to take the water, they will be much more simply, and they will hit a bucket of water in three or two, bend over to squat next to the bucket, hold a hand on their faces, and touch it in the morning.

With the old well, adults no longer use "Gua Piao" to scoop water. Someone chopped a bamboo pole that could be held, chosen a hole in the roots, and took a small section of hemp rope when taking water. It is very convenient to take the bucket to the well. There are also directly pouring the wooden bucket, throwing it into the old well, smashing the water on the water, and then hooking the bucket with a flat hook and losing the bucket. The most pleasant is the children. When they were sweaty and dry, they ran to the well, put the bamboo pole inside, saw the root hole into the water, carefully lifted the bamboo pole upright, and then crooked their neck around their necks. , Close to the root hole, open the big mouth, and drink the water brought out of the root hole. The feeling of coolness is very wonderful. The adults at home always reminded the children that they should not run to the old well. There is no lid in the old well, and it will not be saved when it falls. However, the children who ran to the old well took the water for the sake of water, and they couldn't be happy.

Slowly, there are more and more people who come to the old well, laundry, and buying vegetables. There is no time to rest from morning to night, and the old well is tired. Especially in the summer, in the memory, the sky is very hot, the water is very small, and the running is slow. The bucket can only see the bottom of the well. At this time, Laojing also began to queue up to pick up water. There are many brothers and sisters in our family. The father and mother are busy with their livelihoods. They have no time to line up, so they arranged to go to the old well to wait for the order. It was our turn to pick up the water. A few baby took turns to go into battle, and the neighbor neighbors who were going to take the water in the back stomped their feet. We said, not in a hurry, as long as it is enough for the tank of our home to store water, it is enough to take a day. At the time, the masters of Jianjing were very smart. The walls of the well were small, like a "storage" food storage "storage" (common food hoarding objects in the countryside in southern Sichuan), which ensured that the old well storage as much as possible. The wall of the well is piled up with a stone spiral type. Each layer has 5 triangular gaps of about the same size, which is also convenient for people who can step on them to step in and out of them. In the impression, I have not seen Qingtao Old well, but several of our babies are waiting for the water next to the old well, and even regain the "melon flutter", along the well mouth, climb the wall of the well, go to the bottom of the well, a scoop, a scoop A scoop scooping the water that had just been soaked into the barrel and picking home, it still remembers it.

We rushed to do water at the bottom of the well. At that time, there was no air conditioner, and there were very few electric fans. Climbing to the bottom of the well, he put himself in a natural cold storage, cold from head to toe. For the rare coolness, when we scooped the water, we were always worn. Originally three or five minutes could be filled with a bucket. We need to do it in ten minutes, and even delay more and more time. When we return to the well surface, we have a cold air all over and down, and no matter how hot the sky is, I don't feel hot.

The water of the old well fell into the stone tank for water storage at home, especially clear and cool. We are still very obedient. The father and mother called us not to play with the old well. Except for picking water with his father, accompanied by his mother, washing and buying vegetables by the well, and a few sisters waiting for the water to scoop the water, we have never been alone. But the cool taste of the old well is indeed seductive. We are hot and thirsty. We ran to the kitchen, picked up the "melon scoop", and took the water to "grunt" for a few sips. The cold drinks pulled out in the freezer and refrigerator are incomparable.

Water storage stone tank

The old well has been hot for more than ten years. The commune withdrew the township and town. Every family has installed tap water, unscrewed the faucet, and can be filled with a tank in a few minutes. With tap water, there are more water in the old well. Sometimes it is full to the edge of the well, and there is no need to use bamboo poles or flat hooks to get water, buried the bucket into the edge of the well, or a rope on the bucket, or a rope on the bucket. Put the bucket down, and then look up gently, a coolness comes up. However, the water picking water is missing a day, and the old well has many past joy.

At the beginning, the water fee was relatively cheaper. The octagonal side then rose to one yuan, and even rose to one yuan for a time. Without notice, the water fee of a month was more than ten yuan. At that time, except for the boss and the second child, the other four were studying, and the economy was not very rich. The mother carefully used tap water, and at the same time did not forget the old well. vegetable. The "cabbage" (commonly known as children's vegetables) in winter in winter is very expensive. The mother took us, put on the warm water of the old well, and rubbed it repeatedly until the "cabbage" showed the golden color. Mother put the washed "cabbage" in a cold dried water, put it in a porcelain basin, pour the salt and old white dried dried, sprinkle with pepper, cover the lid, place it for two or three days, then filter the dry water, and then pull it into a small handle and one handle. The small handle, loaded into a kimchi -free kimchi altar, made into dried salt vegetables (commonly known as pyramidal vegetables in South Sichuan), said that it was used for the New Year's steaming meat (commonly known as roasted white in southern Sichuan) or when it was not picked up in March and April Haihai pepper has the taste of the old well, which is particularly fragrant.

Old man who is laundry in the old well

The father and mother are older, and such problems are more likely. Especially father, gout all year round, joint deformation. They did not have the energy to go to the old well to pick water, laundry, and buy vegetables. In addition to cooking with tap water at home, tea is usually made of pure water in barrels. The children are thirsty and have cold drinks in the refrigerator. After a few of us, we were busy with trivial, and rarely returned to our hometown. The news about the old well had been drifting away.

It wasn't until the Spring Festival this year that I returned to my hometown and saw the old house and saw the stone water tank in the old house kitchen, and then remembered the old well, and then went around the old well. I did n’t know when I was filled in the past, and I built a nursing home. The old well next to Danyantang was still there. The stele full of moss looked at the tap water pipe on the outer wall of the nursing home, and there was no original face.

Source: Sichuan Provincial Local House Work Office

林 Author: Honglin (senior teacher, entrepreneurial consultant, employment instructor, member of the Sichuan Provincial Society of Sichuan Province, Member of the Luzhou Critics Association.

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