The story of Tang Zhong.

Tangxia Town, where my high school alma mater, Tang Zhong, is located, is located in the northeast of Rui 'an, at the junction of Wenzhou Ouhai, which happens to be the "center of Wen Rui Plain". Excellent geographical location. It is adjacent to the "green" fairy rock in plum rain pool described by Zhu Ziqing in the north and the sea in the east. The gurgling Wenruitang River passes through the city, flows south to Feiyun River and sinks into the East China Sea. It can be described as the bank of the Tang River and the coast of the East China Sea.

Tangxia is a typical small town in southern Zhejiang, with mountains and rivers, accessible roads, rich humanities and prosperous economy and trade. It's a bit like the small town sung in Teresa Teng's Story of a Small Town, full of joy and picturesque customs.

When I went to Tangxia to study, Tang Zhong was still Ruian No.3 Middle School (referred to as "No.3 Middle School"), and Tangxia was just a small town with a population of 40,000 to 50,000. The town is small, but the economy is developed and the market is prosperous. The production of auto parts, auto parts and motorcycle parts in every workshop and household in the town and village is well known. With Tangxia as the center, it radiates to the surrounding areas, and many well-known local brands are gathered in the surrounding villages: Changqiao Sweater, Meitou Sanitary Ware, Hai 'an Gu Chenghui, Xianyan Scenic Area ... each town has its own wonderful work, which is called also.

The third middle school I attended was located in Tang Chuan Street, the largest and most famous flower in Tangxia. The street dialect "do District Ga", located in downtown area, is a local landmark avenue. There is always a picture in my memory: the aunt of the conductor of the manned van pokes her head out of the local train and shouts at the top of her voice to drum up business: "Make a district Gadaba, make a district Gariba, dial the disco early, make an axe early ...", which is very impressive and is for the pond of the next scene.

Tang Chuan Street is about three miles long, divided into North Street, Middle Street and South Street. It is located about one mile to the right of Tanghe River and parallel to Tanghe River. Walking on the street of Tang Chuan, there is a sense of accomplishment. Looking around, on both sides of the road, rows of new houses with five or six floors are lined up, and the newly renovated shops are full of dazzling goods. Cars, vans, bicycles, rickshaws and pedestrians crossing the road are all shouting at each other, and the traffic is endless; In the air, the sound of loudspeakers broadcasting, the roar of locomotives, the noise of passers-by and the hawking of vendors are intertwined one after another ... Compared with the lonely silence of my hometown, there is a new noisy atmosphere everywhere. I was young and boring at that time. I once wrote about this street in a poem by Tang Yin.

"Shangtangchuan Street in Tangxia Town,

? There is a pond to the south of Tang Chuan Street.

? People in the Tang Dynasty wrote about what happened under the Tang Dynasty.

? Tangxia Stone talks about Tang Chuan. "

The school sits east to west, with the door facing the road. Tang Ming Middle Road, opposite the school gate, has an ordinary folk lane. There are three restaurants at the intersection, which are open together like gourds. At lunch and dinner, you can see three proprietresses standing in line at the door and smiling to welcome guests. The one I go to most often is the one in the middle, and I like to eat his fried meat with green peppers. As soon as the bell rang in the morning, students swarmed like bees, and the hotel that had just been vacated was immediately full. Ordering and greeting requires a dozen mouths to croak at the same time, and finding a chair to clean up the broken table is crowded like ants on hot bricks. Generally, three or four people eat together, one person is responsible for finding a table to occupy a seat, one person goes to the front to order ready-made dishes, and the other person goes to the kitchen to order stir-fried dishes or special dishes. The kitchen is behind the hotel, with two cauldrons and a fat chef from other places. The white chef is greasy and dirty, the hot dishes are hot, and the cooking is as fierce as a fight.

After the gourd string, it goes west along the street, and the Tanghe River is about 300 meters. There are lush trees and sky-blue clouds by the river. When Whitestorm was in the Qing Dynasty, you could enjoy Jiangnan very well.

On the left-hand side (south) of the school, there is a bookstore called "Learning", which deals with students studying in No.3 Middle School. The bookstore occupies two spacious storefronts, and the huge billboard with the same huge word "reading" written in white on a red background is a classic official script, which is particularly eye-catching. The boss knows how to operate, the bookstore environment is clean and tidy, the books are clearly divided into shelves, and there are countless kinds of mathematics, physics, English, politics and history counseling books, Huanggang secret volume Haidian exam questions and college entrance examination guides. For a time, I was fascinated by novels. Every afternoon after class, I go to this bookstore to find books to read. One is in hand, and no one is watching. I don't know the time in the dusk of the book.

The bookstore is about 300 meters south of Tangxia Town Government Station, and then go forward 100 meters and cross Tang Mei Road. The long-distance bus station is not far from the left corner of the intersection, and the passenger traffic is busy. If you turn right, you can cross the Tanghe River along Tang Mei Road, leading to the 104 national road where trucks roar day and night.

On the right hand side of the school gate, walking south along South Street, there are many specialty stores, such as Li Ning, Connell, Gilda and Metersbonwe Bang Wei Bang Wei. There is a personal supermarket in Zhongjie that sells Erguotou. There is also a Tang Chuan vegetable market, which is the largest retail and wholesale vegetable market in Tangxia area. Known for its mess, it is known as "white shoes in, black shoes out". The vegetable market is near Tanghe Bridge. There is a grocery store that sells canvas spikes for playing football. 13 yuan The price of a pair is really strong and durable. We sold hundreds of pairs of shoes in high school for three years.

No.3 Middle School was founded in 1956. It has changed its name several times in history and studied in Tianqiao, Hai 'an, Xianyan and Tangxia. I have been moving, so when the school moved to Tang Chuan South Street in Tangxia Town in the early 1980s, the school building was still zero. Like a poor family, there is only one piece of land left in No.3 Middle School, and the home is surrounded by walls. Therefore, it is time to restart the long campus construction. In ten years, from zero eggs to chickens, chickens to geese, geese to sheep, sheep to cows ... It was not until the year we entered school (1998) that the school began to raise cattle. At that time, the school building covered an area of about 40 mu, and the humble gate of No.3 Middle School finally took shape and began to be arrogant.

The school is small, surrounded by concrete walls. Standing on the street in front of the school, you can see the farthest playground and green lawn. When the weather is fine, you can even look forward to drying clothes and bedding in the residential building outside the playground wall. Entering from the school gate, a tunnel about five meters wide and paved with cement in the middle extends forward to the playground. There are many trees planted on both sides of the cement road, such as palm, cypress, magnolia, osmanthus, evergreen, and many miscellaneous weeds that I can't name. Trees are heterogeneous and irregularly distributed, but they are neatly trimmed and grow abundantly and satisfactorily. In this cluster of dark green or green buildings, the school buildings with three to five floors are patchy with old and new, giving people a simple, clean and transparent feeling.

On the left side of the aisle are mostly three-story old houses built in the early days, including administrative building, staff dormitory, student dormitory, canteen and bicycle shed. There used to be a concrete clearing in which two basketball courts and a simple sports shed were built. The shed is next to the playground and has a volleyball net, which is the only venue for women's volleyball competition. The shed is big and tall, with ventilation on all sides, which can shelter from the wind and rain in rainy days and the sun in sunny days.

On the right side of the corridor is the newly-built experimental building and library, four or five stories high and milky white. The main teaching building stands out from the crowd, close to the aisle, with the school motto of "diligence, rigidity and innovation" embedded in the side, and the six Chinese characters are glittering.

Behind the teaching building, near the wall, there is a row of single-story bungalows. The student apartment under construction next to it has not been completed yet, so the small bungalow has become a temporary dormitory for senior three boys when we entered school. The room is small and dark, with a narrow iron window facing the wall, much like a prison seen on TV. Before and after the lights are turned off at the end of evening self-study, there are often vendors wandering in the alley outside the wall, selling simple snacks such as wonton and fried dumplings. We couldn't resist the temptation to pull the hot wonton up from the small iron window with a bucket tied with a long rope, and then put the money in the bucket. The light in the hut was dim, and the wonton was fragrant and tender, and everyone could not wait to swallow it. People booed from time to time because they were scalded. Every time I want to come here, it's a pleasure.

Coincidentally, Lucy sent a circle of friends some time ago, recalling her high school girls' dormitory. Because of the strict access control, I pulled up the fried dumplings outside the wall with a long rope bucket. Only then did I know that while the boys were wolfing down wonton in the dark fire in the shabby hut in the southwest corner of No.3 Middle School, the girls on the second and third floors of the old dormitory in the northeast corner were putting down the long rope barrels and preparing to pull up the fried dumplings just made.

Just like the story in the novel, No.3 Middle School moved away, and one of the girls who put down the long rope bucket became the proprietress of this fried dumpling shop. The storefront is on Chaoyang Road near No.3 Middle School, and the longest queue every night is.

Ruian No.3 Middle School moved from Tang Chuan Street to Tianhan Village in 2005, and was renamed Tangxia Middle School in 20 1 1.

Tangxia has changed more. In 2000, the administrative departments of Tangxia, Baotian, Changqiao, Hai 'an, Meitou and Luo Feng in Tangxia District were reshuffled, and finally the six towns merged to form a new Tangxia town. The merged Tangxia Town has nearly 100 administrative villages with a total population of 300,000 to 400,000, making it one of the four major towns in Wenzhou. Holding two gold business cards: the automobile and motorcycle capital of China and the top 100 towns of China.

China is taking off, making a magnificent sound. The city under the pond is louder, jumping merrily like firecrackers. Standing on the Tanghe Bridge, modern apartments with a dozen or twenty floors have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, replacing the original uneven buildings. The street has been widened and many trees have been planted by the roadside. Renovation and demolition of old villages in streets and alleys can be seen everywhere, and construction vehicles such as excavators, bulldozers, excavators, cranes and cubic cars are coming in and out not far away. Under the bridge, the river is jubilant, and in the afterglow of the sunset, it is golden and boundless.

In the old school site of No.3 Middle School, the plaque at the entrance was replaced by Ruian Light Industry School. Seventeen Qinggong School and Ruian, both belonging to Tangxia, merged to form Tangxia Vocational Secondary School, and No.3 Middle School became one of its campuses. I left school for more than ten years, and finally went back once in 15. It was August when I went, and all the students were on holiday, and no one went in all the way. The campus scenery is slightly like that of that year, but it has been much less. The experimental building near the entrance has been demolished, leaving an open space at a loss; The doors of the teaching building and student apartment are locked, but the appearance is old, like a layer of dust; The basketball stand on the basketball court is also broken. One of them didn't have a basket, and the other fell in the aisle to block people's way. On the playground, only yellow sand and loess are left on the green lawn, and weeds are growing wildly all over the ground, competing with the cypress trees on the side.

It is also that Tang Chuan Street is no longer as busy as it used to be. With the completion and opening of Luoshan Avenue and Tangxia Avenue, the transportation network of Tangxia has been re-planned, the influence of Tang Chuan Street has declined, and "Shangtangchuan Street in Tangxia Town" has gradually become history.

History also includes three gourd string shops across the street from Laosan Middle Street. When I went, the gourd string had disappeared. Around the original hotel, the reconstruction project of Shezhai old village is in full swing, and Changrun Jiayuan, which covers an area of 17 mu, is in the stage of completion acceptance. In my memory, fried meat with green peppers is like a song written by Jonathan Lee. I finally lost you.

The study book next door to the school is still open, and the proprietress behind the cashier comes out loud from WeChat. It is also an empty bookstore, where books are piled up in a mess, and piles of books are lying here and there as if they had just been robbed. Bookshelves are left unattended, books are littered, some are empty, and some are crowded with people waiting for the subway to go to work. You can also see the dusty cobwebs in the corner.

The Tang Chuan food market in Zhongjie is still a mess. It was not until two years later when I wrote this article that the vegetable market began to be demolished, rectified and rebuilt. There is also the grocery store at Qiaotou. In 2008, I made an appointment with some old high school friends to go there once when Tang Zhong New School was playing football. The sneakers I sell are still the same brand and style, a pair from 23 yuan.

Tang Zhong New Campus is located in Feng Fei Road, Tianhan Village, east of Tangxia Avenue, covering an area of 228 mu and with an investment of over 100 million yuan. Tian Han is the first billion-dollar village in southern Zhejiang, which is famous for its money.

Tang Zhong settled in Tianhan, with convenient transportation, not far from No.3 Middle School. I like it. The school is built on the mountain, with the beautiful Rhoda Mountain behind it. Mount Rhoda has an indissoluble bond with us, and I like it. I dug a big pond around the school. The water is wide, the trees are shaded, and the bridges are flowing. I like it. All the school buildings have ochre red roofs, beige main buildings and exquisite atmosphere. I like it. The school playground is covered with a green lawn, allowing us to play football on it. I like it.

When we went, it was also August. Senior three students have started their summer review classes. Li Haitian asked several students in his class to play futsal with us. I haven't exercised for so long, and I can't keep up with my physical strength several times. My face is red, my mouth is dry, and my feet are like lead. So the substitution sat on one side to rest and drank a lot of water.

It's already evening, and the sunset has dyed the clouds red, which makes the campus calm. When the wind blows, most of the summer heat dissipates, and students who exercise in twos and threes appear in the playground and basketball court one after another. The water in the pond is sparkling and the trees on the shore are swaying in the wind.

Lao Li came to ask how football was going, and everyone chatted about the past again.

In the sunset, the figure is a little bit, and the running water surrounds the lonely school.