女儿从1岁半开始,就和我们一起在内蒙古的西部重镇乌海市共同生活,时间长达7年,从托儿所到幼儿园,一直到小学二年级,几乎度过了自己的全部童年。她自己认为童年生活里给她印象最深的是“沙子堆、大西瓜”。这座新兴工业城市,1958年才开始建设,这里的居民大多是被贬为“盲流”的离乡农民,这些中国最底层的人最可贵的就是不怕吃苦。老工人告诉我,当年创业时这里一片荒凉,除了地 Since I was one and a half years old, my daughter lived with us in Wuhai, a western city in Inner Mongolia for almost seven years. From the nursery school to kindergarten till the second grade, I almost spent all my childhood. In her own opinion, she was most impressed by her childhood life with “sand piles, big watermelons.” The new industrial city started its construction only in 1958, where most of its inhabitants were exiled peasants who were relegated to “blind flow,” and the most valuable thing for these bottom-most people in China is that they are not afraid to endure hardship. The old worker told me that when the business here was inhospitable, except for the land