Lotus on land

Sister plans to marry in "eleven", the news is announced, can worry about the mother. Because, according to the rules of the village, every family that marries a girl is to have a few quilts as a dowry, the mother does not like the silk quilts in the supermarket, she said, there are ready seed cotton in the field, dozens of pounds, quilts are not there? However, now the cotton is less and less, have become a rarity, where to find it?

Mother a phone call to the city, so that she did not expect that the township can not find the cotton shop, I in the city to her solution. Because there is an elderly couple at the gate of our community who are playing cotton. Mother did not eat breakfast, full of joy dragging dozens of pounds of seed cotton, early in the morning came to the city. Ten minutes later, we were at the old couple playing cotton.

To see a business door, the elderly couple is naturally very happy, hurriedly put on white work clothes, the machine started, round seed cotton instantly became snow-white cotton.

It was a happy couple, working, even wearing masks, they did not forget to hum the Beijing Opera. The elder husband is Song Yu and the elder wife is Wu Rong.

Mother asked Wu Rong, now this work is very few people do cotton, why you old couple do not do something else ah?

Wu Rong told such a story with a smile

Say this is not afraid of your joke, that is more than 40 years ago, at that time, I as the delegation of the educated youth just arrived in Song Yu village, every day to help the villagers transplanting rice, harvest, one dry is two years. In the past two years, thanks to Song Yu, he saw that I was from the city, afraid that I could not stand the hardships of the countryside, and he would rush to help me do all the heavy work. Song Yu was also a good young man when he was young, in the words of young people today, that is handsome. He dropped out of middle school because his family was poor, but he loved to study. When the farm is idle, we often talk together, half a year later, I gradually have feelings, one day, he confessed everything to me. I had a good impression of him, too, but I was a little embarrassed, because in those days, it was not as open as it is now, and it was considered immoral to fall in love. I had to refuse him, but he pursued me so hard that every day he picked many wild flowers for me and put them in a bunch in front of my window. In autumn, when there were no flowers, he even broke a few branches of cotton and stuck them in my window. In this way, I was moved by his few branches of cotton.

After the resumption of the college entrance examination, we were admitted to the same university. We both majored in agricultural technology. After graduation, we went back to the village where our love had been born. On our wedding day, our new room was not decorated with a lot of flowers, but filled with a large bunch of cotton, because the white cotton is our matchmaker, and everyone said that when they saw the white cotton, they could imagine that we would be old together.

A few years ago, we all retired, filial son took us to the city, we do not want to eat and drink, but, will not do any business, one day, the old man suddenly said, we simply rent a house to play cotton! In this way, we have today this cotton shop, not to tell you, we have been almost half a month without customers, but we have an agreement, as long as there are people to come, we will play down...

This is the love of that era, this is the romance of that era. After half a century, it is still so classic and beautiful. I remember a poem that goes like this: "She is a lotus that grows on the land, telling the myth that it will never be defeated."

This praise is none other than cotton.

If it were possible, I would wake up 89 years earlier for you! Because no one can take your place in my life...