At that time, we all walked to school. The primary school is in my village, and the road is not far. Walking with friends every day, you chase after me along the way, not lonely.
When you go to middle school, you have to go to school in the city. In junior high school, we had our first sixth grade. Before that, primary school was only five years old.
At that time, junior high school students also needed exams. Those who pass the exam are promoted to junior high school. Those who fail can go to the sixth grade and take the exam next year. Moreover, I did well in primary school and was admitted to junior high school.
The middle school is in town, and I go to walking to school every day. When I was young, I always spent more than an hour going to school. Being late is common.
Sometimes, if I'm lucky, I can meet my uncle who goes to work by bike on the way, and he will give me a ride. My uncle's bike is a heavy-duty car of Phoenix brand, and the rear seat frame is very high. If I can't climb up, my uncle will pick me up and say, Oh, I want my uncle to pick you up!
In this way, after a semester, my mother felt sorry for me and wanted to buy me a bike. I can only ride a small bike for small people. At that time, there were no small bicycles in the shops in the town.
There is a cotton mill in the village, which has business dealings with the factory in Shanghai and the delivery will go to Shanghai. Once my mother went to the factory to deliver the goods with the ship. She bought me a bicycle in a second-hand shop in Shanghai, 140 yuan.
That's a small blue women's bike without bars, which suits me very well. When the car came back, all my friends came to watch. That is the first women's bike in the village. The next thing is to learn to ride a bike. So I learn to ride a bike every day after school.
My parents have to work and have no time to teach me, so I learn to drive by myself. Just don't sit on the seat cushion first, hold the handlebar with both hands, put one foot on the pedal and the other foot on the ground to keep your body balanced. When you are proficient, you can try to ride a bike.
Eiko, the next-door neighbor, is also at home after school on Sunday. She will help me practice driving together. She let me sit on the cushion and helped me hold the back frame of the car so that I could ride boldly. In return for her help, I asked her to learn to ride a bike with my bike, and finally we learned to ride a bike together. Of course, my bike also fell a lot. It hurts every time I fall.
Learning to ride a bike makes school much more convenient and fast. I remember riding a bike to school for the first time attracted a lot of people's attention. There is a small bicycle parking lot in the school. Of course, teachers' bicycles are all parked. My little bike stands out.
Teacher Lu, who teaches us English, lives far from school. He also walks to work. Seeing me riding a bike to school, he smiled and said, it seems that I have to learn to ride a bike, too, not as good as you!
With a bike, I will also send my classmates home after school. I like my deskmate best. The back frame of this small bike has been broken several times. My father is broken, and he helps me weld with electricity. Repeated several times, the welding was not firm, and it broke as soon as it sat down. My father helped me dismantle the back frame. I can't take my classmates from now on.
On rainy days, the mud on the road will always stain my bike beyond recognition. The mud will jam my bike and I can only come down and push it. Wash the car with water as soon as you get home. On Sunday, my important task was to clean the bicycle. The rims and every steel wire on the tire were cleaned clearly, and I was very satisfied.
Later, bicycles gradually became popular. By the third grade, students basically had bicycles. As a result, the school expanded the bicycle shed, and my small bicycle became one of many bicycles, which was no longer conspicuous.
This bike stayed with me until I went to work, and then it quit my life. But it's not scrapped, just a new owner. After work, my aunt from the same unit took a fancy to my bike. She said it was not as convenient as the bar, so I sold it to her at the price of 40 yuan. I changed my favorite Phoenix bike.
Now I still have a photo with this bike. This bike not only brought me convenience on my way to school, but also left me with beautiful memories of my youth!
Nowadays, bicycle is no longer our main means of transportation, but it has become a tool for people to exercise. It used to be a trend to go to work or school by bike, but now cycling is a healthy lifestyle.