Recommended reading ｜ Late night spinning sound

—— "村.” "Series of forty -two

□ Li Donghong

The day before yesterday, in an interview in Zhengzhou, I walked into an old house, the corner of the old house, and a small old -fashioned spinning car quietly. I don't know how long this spinning car has been put here, but it is not stained on it, which surprised me. Obviously, some people often come here to protect this spinning car.

Seeing the spinning cart, my thoughts flew to the long time, as if I heard the sound of spinning in the middle of the night.

The spinning car is not a car. To be precise, it is a wooden tool for spinning cotton. In the 1970s and 1980s, like many villages, the houses in the village planted cotton, and the county became an important cotton base in the country. Therefore, there were many spinning factories in the county. It has become the pursuit of many people. In high school, a classmate left the school and went to work in the spinning factory. At that time, the class was envious of the classmates.

There is no spinning factory in the village, but almost every family has a spinning car. Every fall, after the cotton harvested, in addition to selling some cotton factories to make some money, each one will leave some, a quilt or making clothes. The cotton spintes into a thread, then weaves into cloth, and then make clothes after dyeing. In these jobs, women in the village will almost everyone.

My mother will also.

In the winter of that year, after dinner, I wrote my homework under the kerosene lamp. The mother began to sit in front of the spinning cart a cotton, shook her hand in my right hand, pulled the cotton thread in my left hand, and the silent room, only the sound of spinning carts, The sound is not loud, but it sounds good, like a music.

In the cold days, the room was very cold. The mother stopped from time to time and rubbed her hands, and then spin. Seeing that I finished my homework, my mother asked me to sleep first. I was afraid that my mother would be frozen. I ran to the yard and hugged some dry materials. I gave birth to a small fire next to the mother.

I don't know how long, when I woke up, I found that the mother was still spinning flowers, and the sound of the spinning cart was echoing in the room.

After more than 10 days, the mother put a blue cotton jacket on my body. It turned out that the mother was spinning, weaving, and making clothes.

After marrying the puppet of the front yard and the East Court, he was the same as his mother. Sometimes when the mother was spinning at night, the two dumplings were sitting next to the mother and talking to the mother. One night, the two dumplings simply came to my house and took turns to spin the spinning for the mother. The three middle -aged women said and laughed, laughing and the sound of spinning cars, lingering on the beams in the house.

In the first year of high school, it was still a cold winter night. Snowflakes were floating outside the room. In the room, the father in the sickness kept coughing in bed. Before the spinning car.

I walked to my mother, "Mom, it's too cold, don't spin."

The mother said, "Child, the cough of the big (referring to his father) has worsened, and I make a thicker cotton pants for him, you go to sleep."

In this way, a snowy winter night, the spinning sound of the late night in the farmhouse ...

It didn't take long for the mother to put a thick cotton jacket to my father, and the father glanced at the mother and sighed and said, "Well, it's really hard for you."

When my sister got married, many day and night, the mother spent before the spinning cart. Mother made a lot of new clothes for her sister.

On the day of marriage, her sister wearing new clothes, holding a mother -in -law in patch, tears flowed.

Nowadays, rural life is rich, the spinning car has faded out of history, and the spinning car in my family has long gone. But the spinning sound of late night echoed in my mind, hitting my heart ...

[About the author: Li Donghong, a native of Fugou County, Henan, graduated from the Department of Journalism of Zhengzhou University. He has successively served as editor and reporter of the Henan Daily, deputy director of the news special release department, and deputy director of the new media department. The editor -in -chief of the Henan Legal System. He has published 5 minister novels and prose collection of "Want to Watch Rain", "Anti -Corruption", "I'm a Police", "Question of Life", "52 Letters Written to Mother". Among them, "Question of Life" won the "Five One Engineering Awards" in Henan Province. .

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