In my mind, the small courtyard of the Mining Department didn't feel as high and mighty as the large courtyard of the farm. Neither did the small courtyard of the mining department give a poor person like me an oppressive aura. This was related to its small area. The courtyard was 40 meters long and 40 meters wide. It could be imagined by borrowing the Siheyuan of old Beijing described in the book, but it was not a complete Siheyuan. The south side of the courtyard was open, and there was a road in the middle. On the other side of the road was a row of houses, forming a "U" shape of the courtyard. This house was the dormitory for the family members of the officials. The houses in the small courtyard were mainly used as offices, but there were also some that were squeezed together.
The opening of the staff reading room in the small courtyard of the mining department seemed to prove that the three years of economic difficulties were about to pass and were already changing in a good direction. It was called a staff reading room, but in fact, not many workers went into the reading room to read. It seemed to be specially opened for the children of the mine. This is a public welfare project for the mine workers. My illiterate father didn't have the fortune to share it, but our brothers benefited a lot from the reading room.
The reading room was located in three interconnected rooms in the east corridor of the small courtyard. There was a table tennis table in the middle of the reading room, and the wall was lined with long orange plates. At the innermost end of the reading room, there were bookshelves that stored novels and other literary books. Children like us were not yet interested in these thick books. I had no idea what books were on the bookshelves, and I had never walked over to read them.
What we were most interested in was the comic book on the table tennis table (They were called picture-story books at that time). These picture-story books were really a feast for the eyes. This was the first time I saw so many picture-story books. When I walked into the reading room, I was like a mouse falling into a mirado. I was so ecstatic that I didn't know which book to read. I flipped through this book and didn't want to put it down. I didn't want to put down that book either. I just picked it up. In the first few nights,(Open at night). She was so excited that she didn't even bother to read a comic book. She kept thinking,"If only I had so many comic books."
It was in this reading room that I had the opportunity to read the Biography of Yue Fei (15 books in a set), the Generals of the Yang Family (18 books in a set?），"Journey to the West"(I can't remember how many books there are in a set),"Water Margins"(I can't remember how many books there are in a set),"Romance of the Three Kingdoms"(I think there are 60 books in a set), and a series of comic books. I was deeply moved by the stories of the Yue family and the Yang family, these historical national heroes, who were loyal to the monarch and served the country. They played an important role in my life. Especially after reading the story of Su Wu Shedding Sheep (I can't remember if it belongs to the Spring and Autumn series or the Eastern Zhou biographies), it made me even more excited. My heart was completely shocked by the national integrity displayed by Su Wu. Moreover, the story can also let people appreciate the beauty of desolation and solemnity (the plot is touching, and the literary expression is touching). It's really wonderful. The activities to learn from Lei Feng in the school, the reading room in the mining department, and the improvement in my life at home are all gently healing the scars that have been carved into my heart by the hardships of life over the years.
In the second semester of the fifth grade, I began to have an interest in reading. I wanted to catch up with my grades, but because I hadn't laid a good foundation in the previous years, it was not easy to catch up. Sometimes the lights were out.(At that time, there was no high-voltage electricity. The mine generated electricity by itself. The lights were turned off in the family area at 10 pm.) There were also math problems that couldn't be solved. I lit a kerosene lamp and squatted by the bed to continue doing them. Sometimes, I couldn't sleep even after 12 pm. When my father saw me like this, he said to me,"Second Brother, don't stay up. Go to sleep. This isn't something that can be done in a day or two. With your sickly body, stay up late like this. Don't get sick again." My father never asked about my brother's academic performance. Of course, there were many reasons why he couldn't ask, but the main reason was that he thought too highly of his studies. He was very satisfied when he saw that we could help his family write letters and help him apply for financial aid. He never expected or valued studying and getting into a university to become a cadre. He thought that those things were not fated with his family and were not something that could be thought of just because he could think of it. He simply didn't have such thoughts.
By this time, my family had moved to the Mining Department.(Southeast) Not far from the hillside, the staff's family members live in the dormitory. After dinner, Mother will urge us to go to the mining department.(Reading room) Read a book, don't be bored at home."Mother had attended a church school when she was young, so she was somewhat cultured. However, she only had one book. There were no other books besides the Bible (which she always carried when she fled). The changes in the world had made her lifestyle no different from that of an uneducated person. This poor family could not afford her to buy books. She would not even think of buying books anymore. However, there was still a trace of nostalgia for books in her heart. She did not want to read my primary school textbooks because there were only landlord Liu Wencai, landlord Zhou Napi, or bully landlord Huang Shiren in them. These texts about the big landowners reminded her of pain. Whether it was the pain of the poor or the pain of the rich, she was afraid. In the "Bible", the truth about God saving the world was too difficult. From rich to poor, she had never committed the sins pointed out by God, but she and her family had always been punished by poverty. She would not show disrespect to God because of this, but she did not have the mood to read the profound truth of God saving people. Therefore, when I described the story of Su Wu herding sheep to her, she said,"Can you bring this comic back for me to see?"”
I went down the slope and came to the reading room of the mining department. There were already many children reading in the reading room. Zhi and his group had arrived first. I waved my hand to show that I saw them. I came here tonight to take a comic book back from the reading room for my mother, so I wasn't in the mood to read at all. I even seemed very nervous because on the first night when I arrived at the reading room, I had already seen the notice on the wall of the reading room that said,"Comic books are not allowed to be taken out of the reading room." I could only steal the comic book. I first went to the table tennis table to look for the comic book Su Wu Shepherding, but after looking for a long time, there was not a single one. I checked one by one, and the comic book that the other person was reading in his hand did not see Su Wu Shepherding. This was strange (the comic books in the reading room were placed in five sets at the same time). Then, I looked at the books on the table tennis table. There were already a lot fewer books than when it was opened a few days ago. Could I borrow them from others? Otherwise, why would these books be gone? As she was pondering, she saw Zhihe and the other kids squeeze out of the reading room at the same time. Without Su Wu Shepherd, I didn't know what kind of book to bring to my mother. I flipped through the table and found that there were very few books that everyone liked to read, such as the Yang Family Generals, Yue Family Generals, Journey to the West, Water Margins, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the Eastern Zhou Biography. I picked a book called "Bitter Breath and Taste Gall" and sat down on an orange near the door, pretending to be engrossed in it. However, I kept thinking about how to avoid being discovered and took the book out of the reading room. In fact, no one was watching when I took the book out of the reading room. I sat there and tried countless times in my heart. In the end, I didn't dare to take the book out of the reading room because of the words "Comic books are not allowed to be taken out of the reading room" on the wall. It was like a row of big eyes staring at me.
The activities of learning from Lei Feng in school continued to be carried out in depth. The students were more and more enthusiastic about learning from Lei Feng and doing good deeds. Good people and good deeds kept emerging, and the methods of doing good deeds were endless. In the evaluation of learning from Lei Feng activities, punishing Cheng had long become the most backward method of learning from Lei Feng and doing good deeds. No matter what the students said, brother still did it silently.
one Saturday afternoon (At that time, there were two self-study classes on Saturday afternoons), Zhi announced to the whole class that the good thing he was going to do must be something that no one could imagine. I didn't know what kind of new tricks Zhi was going to do. I saw him open the drawer.(Zhi had locked his desk drawer), he took out a pile of picture-story books, a total of 50 - 60. He announced that he would lend them to everyone to read, but he would take them back after the self-study class. The students cheered and rushed to Zhi's desk to snatch those picture-story books. I saw that among these books, there were Yue's Generals, Yang's Generals, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, and the book I wanted to show my mother, Su Wu Shepherding the Sheep. I couldn't help but marvel. Zhi was really generous, willing to buy so many books to learn from Lei Feng.
Zhijian's classmates swarmed over and snatched all his books, so he asked me to help him remember the name of the classmate who took his books. I whispered to Zhi,"When did you buy so many books?" Why didn't you take it out to look at it before?”，Zhi smiled mysteriously and said," I'll wait for you in the reading room tonight." It suddenly dawned on me. This was the reason why there were fewer and fewer comic books in the reading room of the mining department. The children of the copper mine had moved all the books in the reading room back home.
By the time the class ended and the book points were collected from the students, there were already a few books missing, but no one admitted that they had not returned them. Zhi shook his head helplessly and told me not to ask anymore. This was how Zhi got his books, and his classmates used the same method to take away the books he got from the reading room. He could only express his understanding.
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