Those unforgettable winter days

I like winter; Like the snow all over the sky; Like the contracted beauty in depression, think to feel infinite poetry. Like the boundless green lush; Like warm sun still hanging in the tree. Winter, has never been a colorless picture scroll, also full of interest, also full of unforgettable, you can remember the happy time before?

The sweet baked sweet potato in winter; And the warm infusion bottles and the fire POTS; And the handmade cloth shoes made by my mother, all drift slightly in memory.

In the past, briquette stoves and heated kang were luxuries for ordinary people and they were reluctant to use them. But for Yimeng people, the oven is a very common heater. Almost every family has one. When you get up early in the morning to cook, the wood will burn red charcoal or grass ash, and shovel it into a pot lined with grass crumbs, so that the fire will slowly burn grass crumbs to provide a constant source of heat. The old man in the home will hold the pot to keep warm, no old man in the home let the children carry to play. Cupping is not only used to keep warm, but also to bake clothes.

Yimeng mountain people also have the infusion bottle, also called "thermos bottle". At that time, infusion bottles were still ripe glass, and every family would store several infusion bottles for the winter. Pour hot water into a bottle and stuff it with a rubber stopper to create a cheap hot water that can be carried in your lap or tucked under your bed.

For children, love is also the most memorable to say "baked sweet potato". The main crop in Yimeng Mountain is sweet potato, which is dried in the sun every autumn. Every family has a sweet potato cellar to store, so that fresh sweet potatoes can be eaten at any time, even in the cold winter.

When cooking, we will put a few sweet potatoes in the ashes buried, wait for a period of time, slowly smell fragrance, sweet potato is ripe, probably takes out patted the dust holding in your hand to eat slowly, hot, sweet, eat all like a cat with a grey, who can refuse to the steaming sweet "roast sweet potato"?

Now in the city, there are also baked sweet potato figure, with carbon oven test, clean and sweet, eat a few times but always feel that something is missing, can not find the original joy.

When it comes to my mother's handmade cloth shoes, they really are warm in winter. The cloth shoe of thousand layers bottom condensed mother how much love. How much toil. May be a lot of mothers will do, put on it in winter, not cold feet, not tired feet, fine beauty warm. The main material that makes a shoe is cloth shell. Using scraps of cloth or unused sheets, clothes, etc., the cloth is soaked into a slurry (a thick soup cooked with wheat flour). Heat 鏊子, take out the paste covered with paste cloth and lay a layer on it first. When it dries quickly, lay another layer on it until three or four layers. Finally, lay a layer of new cloth and remove it after it dries. It is to hit shoe appearance next, conical sole, cut vamp, jostle cotton, buckle shoe edge, synthesize next after doing well. Often think of these a warm current arises spontaneously.

Time flies, we grow up slowly in one winter after another, mother is also slowly getting old in the years. The reappearance of these warm scenes, like a cup of liquor soaked in time, becomes more and more emotional. Looking back in the season, these warm fragments, and like a cup of hot tea before the red clay stove, after the cycle of the season, still warm as ever...... .

Zhang Zhaozhu: pen names: Redbud Rattan, Zijin Rattan, Shan Qing Shi, stranger Yingchun kai, literature lover, love literature creation since the student days, served as the president of the school literature society, literature editor-in-chief and other positions. Now he is working for Linshang Bank