When having dinner with friends, we talked about the Burmese people living in those grass huts that my friend saw while traveling in 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 down 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. At that time, although life was not exactly affluent, many students in our class were quite pampered and had not done much farm work. After listening to 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 went home to grab a sickle, 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 before that, the roof was not even fully intact.
Stepping into the house, the scene inside was also shocking. It was not a brick floor, nor a cement floor, but a muddy floor that was uneven and pitted. The stove was just a pile of bricks resembling a fire pit, and in one corner of the room lay a bed on the ground. The lighting in the room was a single 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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