On the first day of school, my mother bought me not only a red schoolbag, but also an aluminum lunch box with a small rectangle and a protruding panda eating bamboo. The red schoolbag broke after a year's use, and the small aluminum lunch box accompanied me through six years of primary school, three years of junior high school and some high school life.

Now the lunch box has long been discarded. After a good life, people's health awareness is also improving, and aluminum pot, aluminum pot and aluminum lunch boxes are abandoned at home. I changed to stainless steel, so I can't find an aluminum lunch box that has been with me for more than ten years, but its appearance has been deeply imprinted in my mind and will never be forgotten.

At that time, at least half the children in the class had to bring lunch boxes. Large and small aluminum lunch boxes are packed in small cloth bags sewn by mother. In the morning, they come into the classroom, take out their lunch boxes and put them in the iron cage on the platform of the class. After the morning reading, the two students on duty in the class carried the iron cage for lunch boxes to the kitchen and put it in a big steamer, thus remembering the position of their class. Otherwise, the students in each class will lift their rice cages at a speed of 100 meters at noon, remember.

The big steamer for cooking is tall and big, which is simply a huge machine full of majesty for us in primary school. The junior students are not tall enough, so we should send the rice cage to the kitchen early, so that we can choose a better position. Otherwise, when the rice is cooked and steaming, it is dangerous to step on the ladder and lift the heavy rice cage. If it is now, I think many parents may be full of worries and raise objections to letting their children carry rice cages into the kitchen. But in those days, all schools did this, and everyone brought lunch boxes, which was nothing, and we never thought it was dangerous when we were young, just thought it was the right thing to do, just like studying hard and listening carefully in class.

At that time, it was absolutely a top priority to ensure that your box lunch was delivered to the kitchen. Once you were late and didn't put your lunch box in the class rice cage, you had to send your lunch box to the kitchen as soon as possible. At this time, the steamboat has been closed. It doesn't matter, you can still put your lunch box on the steamer, but you must clearly remember the appearance and position of your lunch box, otherwise it is common to take the wrong lunch box and eat the wrong meal at noon. I once took my classmates to look for lunch boxes one by one, and finally found them, only to find that the rice was half eaten.

It is hot in summer, and the leftovers have been in the lunch box for a long time. The classroom is filled with the smell of food corruption, which is perfectly normal for us.

When we were in primary school, there was such a story circulating in the class. Later, when classmates got together, everyone took it out and said that it was a hilarious meal. There is a boy in Class Two, Grade Six. He brought a box lunch to eat, but forgot to take it home and stuffed it into his desk at random. This lunch box has been in the desk for half a semester, and there is always a bad smell in the classroom in summer, so I can't find the source. It was not until one day that swarms of maggots crawled out of his desk that he suddenly thought that there was a lunch box that had not been eaten for months. The whole class went crazy, especially the girls, and ran away from his desk in fear. It is said that it took more than a month to eliminate this maggot.

Later, everyone always liked to bring it up at the dinner table, so that even the rice could not be eaten, but it was still brought up. This way, oh, that's disgusting. Stop it, the other person is happy and relishes the happiness of childhood.

(From: I am Yam)