Old time in the tank

When I returned to my hometown on the weekend, I saw an old cylinder full of duckweed in the corner of the old house, and it evoked childhood memories. Mother said that this is the last old tank in the family, and it is useless now, and it is occupied in the courtyard. Mother's words were a little sentimental.

Thinking back many years ago, there were six old tanks in my family, which was high or low, or thick or fine, with different uses. There is a water tank in the kitchen, two grain tanks in the hall, and a pickled vegetable tank in the partial room. The cylinder, stores the harvest and change of the season, or accompanies the sun and the moon with several generations, witness the years of the years.

In the concept of older people, the rice cylinder is a safe and dehumidified place. The tank of food is generally larger than the water tank. They were placed on both sides of the entrance of the door, and there were the corners of the bedroom. The size and how much the grain cylinder reflects the degree of life of the family's life. The wooden lid is covered without exception, but it is actually the lid of the pot. There are also debris such as sauce pots, bamboo baskets, hemp ropes, and water pipes on the wooden lid. In the countryside, there is a secret that everyone knows, that is, wheat tanks and rice also have the function of safe. Valuables such as passbooks, cash, and even Yuan Datou left by the elderly are generally wrapped in plastic bags or in plastic bags or valuables. Red burying in a wheat tank or rice.

Speaking of rice cylinders, I can't help but mention my childhood embarrassment. In the Spring Festival of that year, I put on new clothes and happily and my friends played in the courtyard. Everyone hid in Tibet, for fear of being discovered. When I saw an old cylinder in the courtyard, I climbed in and covered the cylinder head. This place was really hidden, and it was not discovered for a long time. I was sitting in the tank and didn't dare to move, and gradually fell asleep, but my mother went to the village to find. When I woke up, my clothes were so dirty, and when I got home, my mother was scolded.

At that time, in order to store water, in the countryside, which cooker was not around the water tank of different depths? The spoon touched the bottom of the pot, the firewood warmed the stove, and the family was clear in the water tank. When you learn from teeth, toddles, to becoming a young boy and girl, the water tank is old. The old water tank is still fulfilled in the rural kitchen, and the boiled hot white rice porridge is cooked, giving us the belly that was born under the rural eaves. The birds passing by the crop the courtyard, the mother will also put a bowl of clear water from the water tank, sprinkle a handful of food in the courtyard. In this way, you can hear the birds that wake up the spring.

The winter in the countryside starts with pickles. There are also large and small pickled vegetable tanks in the corner of my old house. Before pickled vegetables, the mother dragged these large and small porcelain jar into the ponds at the door soaked, and the dust and cobweb hidden in the jar were easily removed. Essence After the jar was cooked, the mother put them on the door building for a few days of frost dew. The thin frost on the wall of the altar was the secret recipe of the mother's pickles, and then the mother put the cabbage in the cabbage. On the day of the period, the mother removed a scoop of sauerkraut from the tank. At this time, the cabbage no longer had the original white green green, and a seductive yellow yellow, especially the tender yellow vegetable heart, and the heart. Without waiting for the case board, we were rushing to eat by our brothers and sisters. Looking at us, we couldn't eat, and the mother's eyes were full of love and bitterness.

The tank, just like the character of farmers, is simple and silent, and has the wisdom and days of farmers. Nowadays, the old tanks of the old house have not been placed in debris for a long time, because fresh vegetables are constant throughout the year, and the village is also connected to tap water, and the water tank has no use. But the time story left by the old tank is often thoughtful. It reflects the old and the moon, full of nostalgia.

□ Lu Minghua

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