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Extra Chapter (6) Theater Watching

(Continued from above)

After I was rescued from the cellar, my ankle was broken. In order to treat my illness, my mother and a villager in our village used a carriage (due to my young age, I can’t remember now).

It is very clear that it was because there was no shuttle bus at that time or because in order to save a few yuan in fares, my mother insisted on using a truck and drove back and forth for more than 50 miles to see a doctor.) She took me and this villager together.

Mother, I went to Weinan Shuangwang Orthopedic Hospital three times to treat me.

In my memory, my mother is a very frugal person. On the way to the hospital, a bowl of rice in Weinan at that time cost no more than one yuan. A bowl of tea only cost about 2 cents. But, that’s it.

In a difficult environment, in order to save more than one yuan for food, my mother brought a few cornmeal buns from home and drank boiled water, which saved me from death.

Later, when I grew up, I started to help my family and do some housework. I remember that during an autumn harvest, I saw my father driving corn stalks with a hoe, and he worked very hard.

. So I pestered my father to use a hoe to open corn stalks. Later, when my father could not resist me, he gave me a small hoe and asked me to learn to open corn stalks. As a result, I was opening corn stalks.

During the process of using the rod, he accidentally opened the hoe on his leg, causing blood to flow into his stool.

After seeing my blood pouring in, my father put down everything in his hands and carried me to the hospital to bandage the wound.

Later, my parents, for the marriage of a few of us brothers, asked people to go to various places to find matchmakers and collected money for the marriage of a few of us. They spent their whole life's efforts.

There are many more things about my parents and my kindness to our brothers. Due to time constraints, I won’t list them all one by one.

In a word, the kindness of parents is as great as a mountain. We, as children, will never be able to repay the kindness of our parents in raising us in our lifetime. For this reason, I am here: I wish all parents in the world always good health! Children of us.

, we can never forget the kindness of our parents. The world is not as big as the kindness of our parents!

Once again, I wish your parents in heaven rest in peace! Your children will miss you forever!

(This article was written on February 14, 2020)

Essay (3) Theater watching

After people reach middle age, they will have a sense of nostalgia. They miss their childhood life more and more. Especially when they are lonely, they miss their childhood life even more.

Speaking of childhood life, the happiest thing is that when I was a child, I watched drama performances in our open-air theater in Chongning Town.

In my memory, the theater should have been built around 1978 AD. At that time, I was in the second grade of the village-run primary school in our village. At this time, my father was working as a cook in the Chongning Township **

.And the theater just faces the gate of the township.

After hearing that the theater was performing, I pestered my father and followed him to Chongning Township.

Although the Chongning Theater at that time was said to be an open-air theater, there were not even chairs inside the theater. Moreover, a ticket of 5 cents was required each time to enter the theater.

After I saw that the opera in the theater was about to start, I pestered my father and asked him to take me to the theater. Since my father was at work at the time (it was around 12 o'clock in the morning), I couldn't spare the time. So,

He asked me to go to the theater after night.

After hearing that my father would not take me to the theater, I started crying and making trouble. After seeing me crying and fussing, my father had no choice but to put down what he was doing and took me to the township radio station (opposite the township canteen).

), I found the township broadcaster Isaihiro (the broadcaster was familiar with the theater gatekeeper) and begged him to take me to the theater to watch a play.

After hearing his father's plea, the broadcaster happily agreed to his request. However, because the broadcaster had something to do at the time, he asked me to wait for him at the door of the radio station for a while.

After listening to what the announcer said, I had no choice but to wait patiently.

After waiting for about ten minutes, I found that several children about my age had come to the door of the radio station. Not only that, but there were also several adults who came to the door of the radio station with benches.

After seeing more and more people at the door, the announcer finally finished what he was saying. Then he led a group of more than ten of us, carrying benches, to the door of the theater.

.After he brought a dozen of us to the entrance of the theater, he ordered a few of us to wait at the entrance for a while. After he finished speaking, he turned and walked towards the ticket office.

After about four or five minutes, I saw him leading a person who was monitoring the votes and came to a few of us.

"Nishihong, are all of them?" I saw the person coming up to a few of us. After looking at us, he said to the broadcaster Isihong.

"That's just a few people!" After listening to the visitor's question, Isihong said with a smile.

"Xihong, how can you bring so many people with you all at once? How can I handle this for the leaders?" After seeing seven or eight of us, the scrutineer said in deep embarrassment:

"Brother Anti-Japanese War, these six or seven people are all children! There are only two adults! Just let these children in!" After listening to the inspector, Isihong said to him again.

"Okay! Sihong. Just this time, it won't work next time. You guys, come with me!" After hearing what Isihong said, the scrutineer took a few of us to the ticket gate.

In this way, with the help of Isihong, a few of us finally arrived at the theater smoothly.

When those of us arrived at the theater, we found that there were already a lot of audience members in the theater.

After seeing that the opera had not started yet, a few of us sat on chairs and waited for the opera to start.

Not long after, as the opera started approaching, there were more and more audiences in the theater.

About half an hour later, with the rapid sound of a bell, the opera finally started.

Since I was only nine years old at the time, I didn’t know anything about Qin Opera. I went to the theater to watch the opera just to watch the excitement, and I was not in the mood to watch the opera. Therefore, after the opera started for a while, I started to feel a little restless.

.So, after I handed the bench to a person who was slightly older than me, I wandered around alone in the back of the theater.

I remember that the theater at that time was an open-air theater. The theater yard at that time was very large. Behind the theater yard, there were many snack sellers and many fruit sellers.

When I went to the backyard to sell snacks, I stopped in front of a stall selling mahua and didn't want to leave.

"Kid, do you want twists?" After seeing me looking at the twists, the old lady selling the twists asked with a smile.

"Auntie, how much does a piece of mahua cost?" After hearing what the old lady said, I asked timidly.

"It's a dime a piece, kid, how many do you want?" After hearing my question, the lady selling the twists said with a smile.

After listening to the lady who sold the twists, I took out the money in my pocket and looked at it carefully. I found that there was only five cents in my pocket (one yuan at that time was almost equivalent to five ten yuan now).

money), this is the theater money my father gave me.

"Kid, if you buy two, Auntie will give you a dime and a half. What do you think?" After seeing me taking out the money and refusing to buy Mahua over and over again, the auntie selling Mahua asked.

He smiled and said to me again.

"Yeah, okay!" After repeated encouragement from the lady selling twists, I couldn't resist the temptation anymore. So, I bought two sticks of twists.

In this way, after I bought the mahua, I wandered around the theater. Faced with the temptation of these dazzling arrays of food, I had to swallow my saliva. Then I continued to wander around the theater.

I turned a blind eye to the opera on the stage, as if I was listening to a dream. (Actually, at that time, I didn’t know much about opera, I was just watching the fun.)

In this way, after wandering around the back of the theater for a while, I rushed to the audience again. When I came to the audience, I found that the audience was already crowded with people watching the show. Because I was young and short at the time,

The reason is that I was weighing my feet in the crowd and after watching for a long time, I still couldn't see the actors' performance on the stage.

After seeing that I really couldn't see the actors performing, I had to squeeze out of the crowd and came to a corner of the stage.

When I came to a corner of the stage, I finally saw the performances of the actors on the stage. However, due to their small size, I could only see some of the actors' performances.

After seeing that I had been wandering around in front of the stage for a long time and still couldn't see the performers on stage, I started wandering around anxiously.

So, after wandering around for a while, I finally came to the bottom of the stage. When I came to the stage, I found that there were many children crowded on the stage.

After seeing this, I followed several other children and climbed onto the stage from the side of the stage.

"What are you kids doing? This is a stage, not a theater, get off quickly!" After seeing us children on the stage, a male staff member in his thirties quickly stopped us.

Already.

After seeing the staff blocking us, several of us ran away from the staff and ran towards a corner of the stage.

"You're not allowed to go on the stage. Why are you still on the stage? Get on, get on." After seeing a few of us running around the stage, the staff on the stage grabbed the arms of the taller children and pulled them away.

Pushed down the stage.

After seeing the staff pushing him, the child started to conflict with the staff on the stage.

Taking advantage of the conflict between the two of them, the other few of us finally squeezed into the corner of the stage, next to a group of bands.

"You guys, please stand inside. Don't interfere with our performance." After seeing a few of us crowding in, a young man with a flute in his hand gave instructions to a few of us.

After hearing his instructions, we children followed his instructions and finally came to the corner of the stage.

In this way, I finally finished watching this opera performance in the theater in a daze.
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