Smoke from the kitchen in my hometown

Smoke billowed from the kitchen stove.

The smoke from kitchen chimneys often reminds us of the tranquility and harmony in the agricultural society, and the sunrise and sunset often remind us of that simple time. As the days away from home are getting longer and longer, the impression of cooking smoke in my hometown is gradually blurred, as if cooking smoke can only be seen in comics or cartoons, and I miss it very much. The smoke from the kitchen in my hometown is not the magnificent desolation of "the lonely smoke in the desert and the long river setting the yen", but the smoke from the kitchen in my hometown gradually increases with the night.

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Smoke and sunset are a beautiful picture, which is different in the morning and evening throughout the year. The wind is strongest in spring, and it is easy to blow away the smoke in the kitchen when it rains heavily, like a little girl's hair dancing with the wind. Spring is also an easy season to get up early. After a whole winter, I woke up slowly in several spring rains and thunder, and began to engage in busy spring ploughing, but there are always some young people who are still attached to the bed. Therefore, in rural areas, the smoke from the kitchen in the morning is often a weather vane to judge whether the hostess is hardworking or not. People who got up that night found that their neighbors were having a good meal and preparing to work in the fields, and their stoves were only steaming, which was also an incentive and test for many years! Cooking smoke in summer is always late, because the sun is the strongest and the day is the longest, and almost all families are "double robbing" in the field. Cooking smoke is the witness of hard work at the latest. However, this is not entirely true, because some families have the help of the elderly in the busiest season of the year, cooking for their children and entertaining children who have been busy all day. Even if they are married and separated, in this particular season, parents will still give their children the warm feeling of the original extended family, which is a good way to ease the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. However, the only son is fine, and it is difficult to help them when they meet three or two sons. For the future, it is easy to take care of every family's situation.

Autumn observation

Compared with the sparseness of spring and the indistinguishability of summer nights, autumn smoke is the most beautiful, the beauty lies in silence and the beauty lies in narration. Autumn is a year of slack farming, and the hostess will start cooking while it is dark at night, so that the man who is still working outside will not be hungry for too long. In warm autumn, cooking cigarettes is the easiest way to keep your true colors. Dry firewood floated out of the chimney. If it is wet wood with some moisture or a stove that is not completely burned, it is easy to smoke. Without the invasion of wind and rain, cooking smoke is the most vital moment in a village. At this time, if you look at the whole village from the hillside not far away, it should be no weaker than the border area where the wolf smoke is everywhere! In the blue sky, occasionally several planes fall from the sky, leaving long footprints. At this time, the children in the mountains are always used to yelling at these new things happily, and the men in the mountains are coming home with the smoke from the kitchen. In a sense, the smoke in this kitchen is a symbol of home. How can the smoke in the kitchen rise when the wife and children are separated? If your parents are far away, say go home for dinner. The nights are the longest in winter, and the nights tend to get thicker when the sun sets in the west. In the gray weather, I always feel that cooking smoke is also one of the culprits. Most of the time in winter is the season when farmers taste hard for a year. Whoever marries a woman in the family, who is older, will be happy to add a son. Cooking smoke in .................................................................................................................................. will always be the shadow of life in the four seasons in the village. It is the spiritual outlook of a family and the portrayal of the vitality of the whole village. If the villagers move away and leave empty houses, all that remains is the silence of a stagnant pool and the memories of countless people.

homeland dreamland

My home is in the hilly area of the south, with dense forests and never short of firewood. Every year after the slack season, all kinds of birds and animals in the mountains slowly go into hibernation, which is also the time for farmers to go up the mountain to reserve firewood for the coming year. At that time, there were many dried bamboos on the mountain, and all kinds of branches were dried, which was the most suitable time for working people to choose to go up the mountain. Some families went out to pull carts, ox carts and dry food, and piled up the whole grocery store in a few days. Some hard-working people go into battle alone, and they can gain a lot by going out early and returning late for more than a month. People who are afraid of firewood decay don't need so much, so they simply sell firewood to foreigners to subsidize their families. At that time, our family not only added new firewood to the family, but also combined the strength of uncles and aunts to reserve enough firewood for grandparents. Compared with young families, they only need small firewood, while grandpa's family needs very large trunks. Because the whole winter is the most difficult day for the elderly, they are not used to using charcoal to keep warm, because the heat of the fire is uneven, and their cheeks are often red but their backs are not cold. Therefore, as long as I can remember, my grandparents always use firewood to keep warm in a small room every winter, so the thick firewood is not only resistant to burning, but also emits enough heat to meet the needs of the elderly in winter. Of course, it is not just the elderly who need this kind of heat dissipation and heating. In the frosty season of early winter, it is always very cold in the morning and late at night. Younger people who feel a little cold with their hands in their pockets will always come over to warm themselves up from time to time. Not only that, some middle-aged and elderly people living alone in the community will often come to gossip. Sitting around the fire to keep warm, you can always hear the latest events in the small village. Who dug a lot of winter bamboo shoots today, whose daughter got married and whose mother-in-law quarreled again? In the minds of the elderly, this should be no different from national affairs. In short, these short things on parents move up and down like flames, but they gradually turn into a pile of light dust as the oil runs out.

The memory of firewood

With sufficient firewood reserves, farmers can work hard with confidence in the coming year, which, to a certain extent, is a portrayal of "having food at home, but not panic in my heart". Under the condition that food is the most important thing for the people, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, so with firewood, she is not afraid that the rice will not be ready, and she will have the strength to harvest food in the coming year. In this way, year after year, I don't know when it started, and the once huge firewood cutting team slowly disappeared. Occasionally, only a few old people carry heavy firewood. Fewer people burn firewood, old houses are gradually torn down in poverty alleviation, and the smoke from cooking stoves is gradually swallowed up in today's new houses. Houses that are taller than each other are luxuriously decorated, so natural gas gradually replaces firewood, new houses gradually replace old-fashioned tile houses, and kitchen smoke becomes a luxury when thousands of lights are on. The development of the times will always make the countryside lose too much of its former beauty. (Text /2 125 words)

(Author: Luo Shan, male, born under Jinggangshan, post-90s literature lover. I love tennis, practice and try to record my life with a pen tip. I once took the 109 Qinghai-Tibet line for a month. The original intention of writing WeChat official account is to read homesickness and life, and the motivation comes from that if there is extra income, it will be properly invested in public welfare undertakings. )