More than half of the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays have passed. During the holidays, people fully enjoy the festive feast, travel around, appreciate exotic customs, and enjoy delicious food! In the circle of friends, Weibo friends share beautiful scenery, as far away as Northern Europe. They have a panoramic view of the scenery of other countries, and as close as outside the city. The charming scenery of the countryside makes people linger; they share delicious food, delicious food from all over the world, and It is so interesting and fragrant that it makes people dazzled, salivated and addicted.

At this moment, the whole country is celebrating, a scene of vitality and prosperity! Happy mood and happy life are written on everyone's face and reflected in their journey!

I stay at home and stay with books every day, which increases my knowledge, kills time, and fills my heart. It’s great to have a long vacation!

Occasionally, I put down the book and let my thoughts flow quietly to the 1980s and 1990s!

I was born in the 1970s, and all the memories imprinted in my mind can be traced back to the early 1980s. Going back to that time, I have no memory at all, and it is completely blank. After all, it was too early at that time. Small. Therefore, the life scenes of our hometown in a small village in northwest Guangxi in the 1980s and 1990s are still fresh in my memory, and they pop into my eyes from time to time.

In the early 1980s, the household contract responsibility system was implemented in our hometown. The farmers who suffered from the "one big man and two public servants" and "big pot rice" became more enthusiastic about production after being allocated land. They are devoted to growing crops, but due to low productivity, barren land, and more people and less land, only a small number of families can barely solve the problem of food and clothing, and most families are struggling on the poverty line.

The conditions of our family are slightly better. My father is a middle school teacher in the town and has a fixed monthly salary. Although it is not much, it is enough to cover the family expenses; my mother works as a farmer in the village. Taking care of several acres of fields, the crops she took care of grew vigorously and yielded bumper harvests every year.

In my impression, the person who comes to our house most often to borrow things is a distant relative from a neighboring village, whom I call my cousin. He works as a substitute teacher in a village-level primary school. His wife works as a farmer at home and they have two children. As a child, my family is so poor that I can't even afford a bicycle. Every time he went to the county town more than ten kilometers away for business, he would come to my house to borrow a bicycle from my father. My father is an enthusiastic person and will lend it out without saying a word as long as he doesn't need it that day.

There is a family in our village who is not related to our family. The head of the household and my father grew up together, and the two families had close contact. I called him uncle. The uncle's wife died not long after giving birth to the child. He raised the child by himself. At the same time, he was a man with low labor ability. The crops he planted had poor harvests year after year. His life was very difficult. He often had nothing to eat. After a meal, my face became sallow and my muscles were thin. For this reason, he would come to our house every two days, sometimes at noon, sometimes in the evening. He always saw the right opportunity and came to our house ten minutes before dinner. When he came, my father was naturally very enthusiastic and asked him to sit down and have a chat.

But he couldn’t sit there for long. When he saw our family serving food and preparing for the meal, he got up to say goodbye and walked to the door. At this time, my father would stride forward and warmly persuade him to stay. . Every time, he pretended to decline, then sat down and ate with our family.

One day, while eating, the uncle made a request to my father:

"My family is so poor that we can’t open the pot, and I can’t do farm work. I plan to go to the town." I open a sewing shop but I don’t have a sewing machine. Can you lend me your sewing machine? When I make enough money and buy the machine, I’ll return it to you!”

"No problem! I'll lend it to you!" Dad said without hesitation.

My father's answer immediately earned a blank look from my mother. He borrowed it without his mother's permission or discussion. You know, in the 1980s, sewing machines, bicycles, and watches were the three treasures!

In that era, there was a popular saying: "Three years of new life, three years of old life, and another three years of mending." Many of my family's clothes were patched. Without the machine, what could my mother use to make us new clothes or mend our clothes? But my father had already made his decision, and although my mother was displeased, she didn't say anything.

The uncle borrowed our machine, rented a small room in the town, and opened a small sewing shop. He borrowed the machine for two years.

During those two years, my mother used needlework to mend clothes for our family.

In the 1980s, in rural areas, cattle were both labor tools and valuable property. But in our small village, not every household has a cow, let alone mechanized operations. Owning a cow has become the wish of many families. There are paddy fields and dry land in our village, and cattle are needed to cultivate and plow the land. My parents are good at giving. Every time someone from the village comes to borrow our cattle, my parents generously agree. But this is hard on my big buffalo, which does double or even triple the work.

There is a couple in the village who are about 10 years older than my parents, but their IQ is not high, close to the mentally retarded kind. They had two boys, both of whom inherited their genes. A family of four has a lot of labor force, but they don't know how to run the business, so the harvest is very small every year.

In the lean months every year, there are always a few nights, at 7 or 8 o'clock, the housewife of that house will gently knock on the door of my house. The mother walked over and opened the door. When she saw it was her, she warmly invited her in. And every time she insisted on standing outside the door, not entering the house, and talking softly to my mother. At this moment, I knew that she must be in trouble again. Sure enough, after my mother whispered a few words to her, she nodded and made a gesture to ask her to wait. Then, my mother turned to the kitchen, filled a few kilograms of rice, walked over, and poured the rice into her cloth bag. inside. Sometimes, my mother would serve her several kilograms of noodles.

My mother never took these things seriously. My mother believed that if she had the ability, she would definitely return them. If she was incapable, my mother would not care about her anymore and would just treat her as a financial aid.

One night, a middle-aged woman from the village rushed to our house and told my father in a panic that her three-year-old child was sick. My father hurriedly asked her what disease she had. She said that no results could be seen at the town hospital that day, and the doctor suggested that she go to the county hospital tomorrow.

The thought of seeing a doctor in the county hospital would definitely cost a lot of money, which made her anxious. In desperation, he had no choice but to come to our house and borrow money from his father.

His father asked him: "How much?"

"50 yuan!"

Okay, wait a moment. Without saying a word, her father returned to the bedroom, took out 50 yuan and handed it to her. She kept saying thank you.

Unexpectedly, she came again the next night.

"How is the child?" My father asked eagerly.

"The doctor checked and said there was no big problem and prescribed some medicine. I didn't spend a lot of money to see a doctor today. I haven't touched your family's money. I came here to pay it back to you tonight." "

"No rush, no rush, you can keep it and use it first"

"If you stay at home, it might be spent. If it's spent, I won't have the money to pay it back! "You."

"Oh, that's it!" The father took the money she handed over.

There are many, many similar things.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, when I was a middle school student, I began to pursue my own personality and have a tendency to entertain. Although our family's conditions are better, our daily expenses are mainly focused on the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the family, especially food and clothing. As for entertainment-related expenses, they are basically gone, and my parents hardly give me pocket money.

What should I do if I don’t have the tools for entertainment or the funds for entertainment, but I can’t restrain my inner yearning for entertainment? I had no choice but to borrow things from others. I knew it was not good to borrow things from others, but in order to satisfy my inner entertainment needs, I still borrowed them from others.

In my memory, I borrowed many things, such as air guns, tape recorders, tapes, DVD players, CDs, mousetraps, books, cameras, etc. Sometimes, in order to dress myself up, I even borrowed clothes from my friends. I borrowed tops, trousers, shoes, hats, everything I wore except my underwear.

Some things are borrowed for a short time, and some are borrowed for a long time. For example, I borrowed a neighbor’s air rifle for several years in total; some borrowed it once, and some borrowed it several times. For example, I borrowed a tape recorder from a relative's house several times; some things were intact when I returned them, but some were incomplete when I returned them. For example, I broke two tape recorders from my relatives' homes, and I also damaged them. Therefore, he was complained and scolded by the owner!

In 1992, I took a group of classmates to our hometown for a spring outing. We were going to have a picnic in the wild and temporarily borrowed a cutting board from a nearby relative. But at the end of the cookout, the cutting board was nowhere to be found. I explained the reason to my relatives with uneasiness, but I was cursed. After that, my father found a cutting board and sent it to them, and the matter was settled!

Because I borrowed things, I almost borrowed lives. One time I borrowed an electronic mousetrap from a house in the village. I didn't have a few mice in it, but due to improper operation, the mousetrap was electrified, and I was electrocuted to death.

I also borrowed money many times. For example, during the summer vacation of 1991, a young boy and I wanted to go to the city to play. I don’t have any money on hand, but I don’t dare ask my parents for it. So I got an idea from the mother-in-law next door and borrowed money from her, planning to pay her back when school started. I will have money when school starts. Of course, this money will be the food expenses for my dormitory on campus. I have to save it from scratch.

My mother-in-law was kind-hearted and saw me borrowing money from her. Although she doubted my ability to repay, she still lent me 10 yuan. But my mother later found out about it, and she took me and returned the money to her in front of me.

On New Year's Day this year, I once again returned to the village where I had been away for two years. I saw that every household had built a small Western-style house. More than half of the households had private cars, and only a small half of the households had motorcycles; the villagers wore Fashionable, using a mobile phone worth several thousand yuan, using wifi, and doing online shopping; I also heard from my fellow villagers that I have to travel to other places once a year. From this point of view, although my folks live in rural areas, they are not as close to the big people as they are in rural areas. There isn't much difference in urban life anymore.

Seeing these scenes, I sincerely feel that the era of material poverty and inability to make ends meet is gone forever. In just over thirty years, China has undergone earth-shaking changes. As far as our family is concerned, we have a lot of daily necessities. Every once in a while, we need to clean up the house and throw away the things we don’t use, otherwise we won’t be able to store them anymore.

Children's supplies, including books and toys, are all available. Because within two weeks, I placed an order online to buy new ones from them. Where do they need to borrow the things they learn and the toys they use?

When it comes to borrowing, the only thing I can borrow now is to borrow money from the bank. In 2013, I bought a house in the city and only paid three down payments. The remaining installments are now my The mortgage hasn’t been paid off yet! This may affect the quality of life, but with my income, paying a mortgage every month is not a big problem.

This has changed so much that it would be unimaginable to go back thirty years ago. Well, this huge change comes from the country’s good policy of reform and opening up. This good policy has made people’s lives richer and the country stronger!