The character of aquatic sister-in-law comes from

Lotus Lake is one of Sun Li's representative works. Selected from Sun Li's collection of novels and essays "Baiyangdian Chronicle". The full text is full of poetry and is called "poetic novel".

The heroine, Sister-in-law Shuisheng, is a traditional and kind rural housewife who tries her best to support her family and prevent her husband from having worries. Knowing that her husband was leaving home to join the army, she supported her husband's choice, although it was awkward. Her personal experience of the war gave her a deeper understanding of her husband's war of resistance. So she also joined the ranks of the Anti-Japanese War and directly participated in the sacred cause of defending the country.

Excerpts from the original text

When the moon rises, the yard is cool and clean, and the broken reed eyebrows during the day are very wet, which can be used as seats. The woman sat in the middle of the yard, her fingers twisted with silky and slender reed eyebrows. Lu Mei is thin, jumping around in her arms.

How many reeds are there in Baiyangdian Lake? I wonder how many reeds are produced every year? I don't know. I only know that every year when reeds fly and leaves turn yellow, the reeds in the whole lake are harvested and piled up, and in the square around Baiyangdian, they become the Great Wall of Reed. Ladies, tidy up your seats in the yard. How many seats have you knitted? In June, when the lake was full, countless ships carried silver-white mats for export. Soon, cities and villages all over the country have dense and exquisite mats. Everyone rushed to buy: "Good mat, Baiyangdian mat!"

The woman knitted a seat. Soon under her body, it was woven into a big piece. She seems to be sitting on a piece of snow and white clouds. She sometimes looks at the lake, which is also a silvery white world. There is a thin transparent fog on the water. When the wind blows, it smells fresh lotus leaves and lotus fragrance. But the door hasn't been closed and my husband hasn't come back yet.

My husband came back very late. The young man is only in his mid-twenties, wearing a big straw hat and a white jacket. His black trousers rolled up to his knees and he was barefoot. His name is Shui Sheng, the leader of the guerrillas in Zhuang Xiaowei and the leader of the party. Lead the guerrillas to a meeting in this district today. The woman looked up and asked with a smile:

"Why did you come back so late today?" Stand up and serve a meal. Aquatic sitting on the steps said:

"After dinner, don't do it."

The woman is sitting on the mat again. She looked at her husband's face. She saw that his face was a little red and he was panting. She asked:

"How many miles are they?"

Aquatic theory:

"Still in this area. Dad? "

The woman said:

"Sleep."

Li Xiaohua?'

"And his grandfather went to collect shrimp baskets for half a day and went to bed early. Why don't they come back? "

Shui Sheng smiled. The woman saw him laughing abnormally.

"What's the matter, you?"

Aquatic whispered:

"I will go to the big army tomorrow."

The woman's fingers shook, as if Wei Meizi had cut her hand. She put a finger in her mouth and sucked it. Aquatic theory:

"The county called us for a meeting today. If the enemy sets up a stronghold in the same mouth again, Heduan village will become a line, and the situation of struggle in the lake will change. It was decided at the meeting to set up a regional group. I was the first to raise my hand to sign up. "

The woman said with her head down:

"You are always positive."

Aquatic theory:

"I am a guerrilla captain in the village and a cadre. It is natural to stand on my head. They also signed up. They are afraid to come back for fear that their families will drag their tails. Choose my representative and come back to talk to my family. They all think you are more open-minded. "

The woman didn't speak. After a while, she said:

"You go, I won't stop you. What do you do at home? "

Shui Sheng pointed to her father's small room and told her to keep her voice down. Say:

"Home, natural someone to take care of. But we are small in Zhuangzi, and there are seven people joining the army this time. There are few young people in the village, so we can't rely entirely on others. You should do more things at home. Dad is old, and Xiaohua still doesn't take care of it. "

The woman's nose was a little sour, but she didn't cry. Just say:

"I hope you understand the difficulties at home."

Shui Sheng wanted to comfort her. Because there are too many things to consider preparing, he only said two words:

"You should first load one thousand kilograms, beat off the devil. I will come back to thank you. "

After that, he went to someone else's house. He said he would talk to his father when he came back.

Shui Sheng didn't come back until the cock crowed. The woman is still sitting in the yard waiting for him. She said:

"You have something to tell me!"

"There is nothing to say. I'm leaving. You must constantly improve, literacy and production. "

"hmm."

"Don't fall behind others in anything!"

"Well, what else?"

"Don't call the enemy to capture the traitor alive. If you catch it, you have to fight hard with him. "

The most important thing is that the woman promised him with tears in her eyes.

The next day, the woman packed him a small package with a new coat, a new towel and a pair of new shoes. Those families also have these things, which can be taken to aquatic products. His family watched him go out. Father in one hand and aquatic, said to him:

"Aquatic, what you do is a glorious thing, I won't stop you, you can rest assured. I will take care of you, adults and children, and don't think about anything. "

All the men, women and children in the village also sent him out. Shui Sheng smiled at everyone and got on the boat.

Women are somewhat separated (2). Two days later, four young women gathered in house boat to discuss:

"I heard that they are still here. I don't drag my tail, but I forgot a dress. "

I have something important to say to him.

Aquatic woman said:

"Listen to him, the devil should be based on the same mouth ..."

"What a coincidence where we met. Let's go and come back soon. "

"I didn't want to go, but my mother-in-law insisted that I go and see him again. What's the point! "

So these women secretly sat in the boat and rowed to the opposite Mazhuang.

When they arrived in Mazhuang, they dared not look in the street and came to a relative's house at the head of the village. Relatives said: You came at a bad time. They were here last night and left at midnight. Nobody knows where to go. You don't have to worry about them. I heard that Shui Sheng became a deputy platoon leader as soon as he came, and everyone was very happy ...

Several women left with red faces, rocking the boat on the shore. It's almost noon now, there are no clouds in Wan Li, and there is still some cool wind on the water. The wind blows from the south, from the reed tips on the rice seedlings. There is no boat on the water, and the water is like endless diving silver.

Several women were a little disappointed and sad, and they all called him a cruel thief in their hearts. But young people always think of happy things, and women are particularly easy to forget those unhappy things. Soon, they were joking again.

"Look, just go."

"I can panic (happy), more than anything. I married a bride before the Chinese New Year, and I have never seen him so panicked!"

"It's not a problem to tie a horse stake."

"No, I have no reins!"

"When he arrives in the army, he is sure to forget his family."

"That's true. We lived in some youth teams at home and sang with our necks upturned all day. We have never been so happy in our lives. When they have nothing to do, I will think foolishly: it's time to bow my head. Guess what they did? Draw many circles on my screen wall with white powder, squat in the yard one by one, aim at that with a gun, and sing again! "

They paddled the boat gently, and the water on both sides of the boat was wow, wow, wow. I fished a water chestnut out of the water. Water chestnut is still very tender and small, milky white. Thrown into the water. The water chestnut tree floats on the water and grows up again.