Fanxing | Old Street Cotton Shop

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"When the sewing, pay attention to the two hundred sub -pictures in the middle, symmetrical on both sides; the sewing quilt should look at a good day, please the old lady sewing; use red thread sewing, do not knot the line head, leave the quilt corner without sewing without sewing Anyway, it is a meaning, and it won't really cover ... "The middle -aged couple remembered one by one. Their son is about to get married. Today, I came to the old cloth shop to buy a bed with a blessing for their parents. Lao Zhou laughed: "When you got married, the bedding was also set up in my cloth shop. When the eyes blinked, the children had to get married." They didn't seem to be a buyer and seller, but relatives and friends. It is also the quilt of the red bars, and the quilt of Baizi Tu; the general people ’s hosting is six beds. When the dowry is sent, the eyes are full of red and green, all the way to joy and joy; Yes, but we have to pass the rules passed down from the older generation, full of fat dolls, red, and red, only when you look at it.

Too a basket, the business was made, the price was 126 yuan. Lao Zhou said that this is a panic. She has been idle now. The son is old, flying to the city like a dandelion seed, she and her husband stay in the town, and live a life of unhappy. The child has long advised Lao Zhou to turn off the store or transfer to rent, but because there are always old customers, old neighborhoods, and old acquaintances, they cannot be closed. She sold a cotton cloth of thousands of miles in this cloth shop, listening to one pair of young people who got married, had children, and their children got married and had children. Lao Zhou loves to listen to the news of the newcomer's marriage, and some newcomers are the children who grew up. She was happy to follow the newcomers' parents and talked about it. She picked up a meter of wooden ruler, and it seemed to be back again. The town is old, the street is old, and the cotton shop is old. But as soon as the customer came, the bluestone slab in front of the door was still, and the enthusiastic boss was still, and the good blessings were still.

Sometimes I come to Laocobu Store to sit idle, as well as some elderly people in town and surrounding villages. These elderly people lived into Shouxing and fierce. They rode a tricycle by themselves and talked with Lao Zhou frankly "that day". In the customs of the town, the elderly can calmly prepare for the life clothes, and do not want their children to spend God. That is the end of life and a blessing. No one knows the needs of these elderly people than Lao Zhou: the time of making a life clothing must choose the year of the lunar calendar. There is no taboo in this year; if you do the "three waist and five collar", there will be a few of the old tailors of this. She kept in touch and helped to contact; they had to make ancient copper coins from the front -style cotton cloth, narrow, and printed with ancient copper coins.

In the old -fashioned wooden cabinet, there are narrow cotton rolled with wooden boards, and there are zero cloths stacked in the old counter. This is how more than 40 years ago. There is an old -fashioned sewing machine in the middle of the shop. Once, in order to retain customers, Lao Zhou learned sewing and processed the sheet sheets for free for customers. In order to make a living, Lao Zhou had suffered a lot. "There are just three people in the store", but Lao Zhou has always been struggling alone. At that time, the child was still young, and the husband of a middle school teacher couldn't help much. She often went to pick up the goods alone. Fortunately, you can endure hardships and have a tall figure. Now, when you think about it, that day is youthful, trying to live hard. Social progress, the Internet enables suppliers to contact the owner conveniently. In addition to developed logistics, opening a store is just like playing. At the same time, the cloth shop is old, and no one is interested in taking over.

Lao Zhou has dealt with cotton for 39 years. Now, she can judge whether it is 32 cotton or 40 cotton with her fingers. Like the wooden signboard of the "Bridge Commercial Cooperative Cotton Society" on the outer wall of the store, the years have retained traces and memories, and also retained experience and trust.

Lao Zhou is 66 years old, has already adopted the pension, her husband has retired, and the child is filial. However, she said that she still likes to sit in the cloth shop, do a small business, and pull a small family with customers. The town is not big, no matter how strange people are, they talk about a common acquaintance in three or two sentences, so they become acquaintances. The business of the cloth shop is getting lighter, she is not in a hurry, and she will be safe. She likes to step on the sewing machine and let the needle and the thread pass through the cotton. Occasionally, when she looks up, she sees time walking over the green slate outside the door; the familiar neighborhood walked in front of the door, and time was quietly between their white hair. Slide.

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