When having dinner with friends, we talked about the Burmese people living in those grass huts seen during their trip to Myanmar, which reportedly are still not uncommon. This sparked a memory for me; I had previously documented some fragments of this experience, so I’ll write it again.
It was around the fourth or fifth grade during a busy farming season when our homeroom teacher encouraged everyone to participate in labor and actively help classmates who were facing difficulties at home. Although life was not exactly affluent at that time, many students in the class were quite pampered and had little experience with farm work. After the teacher's introduction, everyone was very excited. According to the teacher's arrangement, a group of us went to help classmate D's family harvest rice (if I remember correctly, it should be rice). I took a sickle from home, and under my mother's puzzled gaze, I rode my bike to classmate D's house. The moment I stopped in front of D's house, I was a bit shocked. Although there were not many high-rise buildings in the countryside at that time, two-story houses were already quite common, or at least houses made of blue bricks and tiles. However, my classmate's home was truly a thatched cottage, with a roof made of thatch, and the walls were likely a mix of bricks, thatch, and some mud. The mud looked somewhat new; it was said that the village had just funded its completion, and previously the roof was not even fully intact.
Stepping into the house, the scene was also shocking. The floor was not made of bricks or cement but was muddy and uneven. The stove was just a pile of bricks resembling a fire pit, and in one corner of the room was a bed placed on the ground. The lighting in the room was just a wire hanging from the ceiling with a light bulb; it was hard to imagine how one could live in such an environment. So many years have passed, and I wonder where this classmate is now and whether their life has greatly improved. I also wonder if there are still families like this in the countryside.
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