Hua Sao (original prose)

The beauty of a mature woman lies not only in the category of "a good wife and a good mother", but also in her charitable feelings and dedication to society. Floret weaves her colorful stories and beautiful life in a unique way in the corner of that forest. ...

Twenty years ago, I had an idea to write about Hua Sao, who lives in the forest area. There is a simple reason. There is a pure beauty in her bones. I am not strict in judging beauty, which is called "simplicity is beauty". At that time, I was teaching in a primary school in the forest area, surrounded by a group of naive and elegant children all day. And Hua Sao is also holding hands, carrying it on her back, followed by a group of children with good faces. She became a mobile kindergarten, but the "director" had no salary and never asked for it. This is entirely voluntary. Perhaps it is based on this * * * similarity that I feel the life of Hua Sao, and I am moved to describe her. Then, I started writing and stopped several times, for no reason, but I felt I couldn't start. Some time ago, a fellow villager came to visit us, and we chatted for a while. To tell the truth, after leaving the education front for 20 years, there are naturally many topics to talk about. There is no routine in chatting, and finally it is unconsciously transferred to Hua Sao. The villagers said that Hua Sao was still the same as she was in the past, and she was just a little haggard for twenty years. Suddenly, those thoughts and thoughts 20 years ago awakened my conscience. Twenty years of persistence is not easy. It's time to write about sister-in-law China.

Hua Sao, whose real name is Tao, whose real name is Xinhua. After her middle-aged husband died in a bad business, 1986, she brought her underage two sons and one daughter to Dongshi State-owned Forest Farm through a good-hearted person to form a new family with Huaqi, an unmarried forest farm worker ten years older than her. Huaqi was born on a hill in Yan Xi. Although I haven't read any books, I dropped out of school just after the second grade of junior high school. In fact, he is still a good man. As a teenager, he came to this woodland. He does everything, such as logging, transportation and afforestation. Some people say that he is more than enough to protect himself, but he never bullies others or speaks ill of others, so people in the forest area like to talk to him. Huaqi, who reads less, likes to draw and write after work. Otherwise, he wrote "Down with Liu Shaoduo" on the beam of a forest protection sentry in the wild. In that unprecedented political movement, he was sentenced to prison. Who is "Liu Shaoduo"? Now it has become a well-known joke allusion. Fortunately, the result is to return to the countryside for labor reform. Therefore, at the small meeting of the General Assembly, it is inevitable to hear the political password of "coming to power" and "stepping down". It seems that the Chinese flag is suitable for whipping ropes and tags frequently. I remember once he retorted in a low voice, "I'm not moving. Can I step down?" Make the room full of laughter and make the "political" stage very serious. In this way, the name of Huaqi is deeply engraved in the mountains and rivers of the forest area. China is ugly, but her facial features are beautiful, like a man, but who dares to marry a "counter-revolutionary"? Since then, the title of "bachelor" has fallen on him. The arrival of Liu Hua and her children refreshed Huaqi's life.

The wedding is extremely simple. There were no motorcades and flowers, no salute that shocked the Heavenly Palace, and no orderly wedding procession. According to the custom of the forest area, some villagers sent vegetables and some rice and set up five square tables to hold this belated wedding for Huaqi. Although Huaqi looks embarrassed, the villagers are happy for Huaqi, saying that they are a good match. As a result, a group of people changed their youngest son's surname to Liu according to the last words of the Duke of Zhou, forming a kind of writing carrier called "auxiliary record". This is killing two birds with one stone. Huaqi finally has a son of her own, and Liu Hua has become a veritable "China's eldest sister-in-law".

Before Hua Sao came to the forest area, she was a typical rural woman with a bad left eye. Because at that time, the countryside was short of medical care and medicine, and the family was poor, staying in bed for half a year became a lifelong regret. When they got married and started a business in China, some "wandering" young people made fun of Huaqi, saying that they were "married and blind". At that time, I was very wronged, which was a disrespect for the disabled and their families. According to preschool education, people who pass 100 are all positive. I understand these people. But for this matter, I made a hard discipline for the students. Anything that disrespects others must be reviewed in writing in class. As soon as the hard and fast rules surfaced, the students uniformly called her "Grandma Hua".

In my memory and impression, the new eldest sister-in-law China is dressed very simply, mainly in blue and black, mostly patched clothes. It is rare to see her wearing new clothes, and the family is crowded in a low wooden house. The wooden house is a public house, wet and dark. Close your eyes and meditate. I wonder how a family of five got through the day. The arrival of Mrs. Hua can be said to be a blank sheet of paper. There is no land to farm, no land to plant and no job. She lives on Huaqi's meager salary. Hua Sao is a hard-working person, with a hard life and poor conditions. She began to walk out of the hut and took her children to "beg" some "hillside soil" from the surrounding villagers to make some vegetables, thus alleviating the economic difficulties at home. I also contacted many parties and asked the villagers for some of the most remote plots to grow other crops, such as sweet potatoes, peanuts and soybeans. This basically solved the problem of eating.

People in the forest area are very busy, but they are always proud of their work in the mountains. However, the care of young children has been puzzling people in forest areas. Although there were three primary schools in the forest area at that time, they were still in the stage of exam-oriented education, and the teaching of young children was still blank. Therefore, whenever there are families with young children, their parents will naturally target custody. This is the straightforwardness of the people in the forest area. The genius lies in seeing that Mrs. Hua's family is full of "labor", and Mrs. Hua mainly does housework. Sister-in-law Hua, who is over 50 years old, readily accepted it.

Villagers send their children to Hua Sao's house at sunrise and take them back to their home at sunset. Fortunately, these children also listen to her. When the children are hungry, give them something delicious. When they are thirsty, send them to the water immediately. Take them to bed when they are sleepy. On a hot day, I accompanied them to bed, shaking the cattail leaf fan and humming a tune. The children are also very good. They are always called "Grandma" on the left and "Grandma" on the right. Sometimes I meet a naughty child, crying from time to time, begging my mother for my father. Hua Sao's trick is to change the eggs into small change, go to the canteen to change a few sweets, hold the child in her arms, shake her head back and forth, and tease the child with one foot high and one foot low. No wonder there is a saying in the forest area that "three years of epilepsy brings a baby". When the cold comes and the summer comes, when the spring comes, Mrs. Hua's whole family likes to look after the children of the forest people. Huaqi in his later years showed some inertia. Some people say that he has no thoughts, spends all day in a wine jar and is addicted to alcohol. I'm looking for something else. A thoughtful person can see that he is thinking of a kind of pain and itching, a kind of washing in his later years. Mrs. Hua tried to persuade him to drink less, but he just wouldn't listen. After all, wine can only maintain a rare sobriety. Huaqi, who is in his early sixties, is paraplegic and bedridden. Bad karma visits fortune-teller. After a year, Huaqi can barely walk on the ground. After that, Mrs. Hua had another burden of care. Although her family is not well-off, Hua Sao's willingness to be a nanny has not diminished and has become a part of her life. She always gives the children the best food and drink at home and cares for the descendants of foresters wholeheartedly.

This is a story that has never stopped for twenty years. The story is very long and short. Hua Sao said: You can rest assured to work and prosper the forest. I will take good care of the children. In twenty years, China's eldest sister moved five times, and the children are so eager. Wherever you go, I will chase you. More than 7,000 days of sunrise and sunset are insignificant in the long river of the universe, but how precious they are in the course of life. It is worth noting that Mrs. Hua has become a compulsory nanny for 27 children from 22 families in the forest area. Now, some children go to primary school, some are receiving primary education, some are admitted to universities, and some are working outside. On holidays, Mrs. Hua's home is even more lively.

Life is like a flint, the more you hit it, the more it sparks. Sister Hua is lovely and respectable. 77-year-old China's eldest sister-in-law is still so persistent, with a group of children with new faces around her. The simple story of Hua Sao continues.

Founded in June 5438 +2009 10, published in Yiyang Daily.