The shade bucket is worn, the fishing rod falls together, the sound of "popping", the splash of water with the garbage "flying" in the air, and then a pull, the garbage accurately into the basket, then the "beep" of the boat machine sound again, the sound drifted to the distance.
On August 14, on the Puxia River in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, sanitation couple Wang Guiyao and Liu Fengmei cleaned the river surface on a boat. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Zhou Yi)
On the day of Qixi, on the Puxia River in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, Wang Guiyao, a river cleaner, held a shaft in the stern of the boat, always paying attention to his wife who was fishing for garbage at the bow of the boat.
Wang Guiyao is 65 years old, his wife Liu Fengmei is 63 years old, and the two have been married for 41 years. When I was a baby, the "love story" of the two sides had already begun.
At that time, because of their close proximity, their parents formed a "doll kiss" for the two children. Because the villages are more than 10 miles apart, the traffic is inconvenient, until Wang Guiyao is 24 years old, the two met for the first time under the mediation of the matchmaker.
"At that time, I was poor, there was no house, car, or gift money like now, so I only brought a box of bailing and a bottle of rose oil to marry her, and these were still used by myself." Wang Guiyao said.
"Although we were in a very excited mood, the two of us sat on the bench, kept our heads down, did not dare to look at each other, very shy, and did not say a word." In Wang Guiyao's view, rural people do not look at their appearance when they get married, but only look at whether the other party is industrious and willing to work. "Based on this alone, it is determined that it is her."
After becoming a parent, the couple began to raise fish for a living, and had to get up at 4 a.m. every day to work. Husband Wang Guiyao is proficient in water and drives the boat at the stern, while his wife Liu Fengmei pulls fish grass at the bow. "The fish weeds loaded on the ship are 3 to 4 tons, and they are stacked higher than a person." Liu Fengmei said that the amount of fish and grass is enough for fish to eat for one night, and it is very hard to pull every day.
Later, when fish farming was sluggish, in 2011 Wang Guiyao and Liu Fengmei went to Fujian to work, and after being introduced by their fellow villagers, the two of them found a job in a city sanitation company: his wife was assigned to work as a river cleaner in Puxiahe, and Wang Guiyao became a road sanitation worker.
After 3 years, Liu Fengmei took the initiative to propose to the company to let Wang Guiyao work with him, and finally the two people began the ordinary life of the bow and stern of the ship in the same boat. "I can't see her when I do pavement work, and I am often afraid that she will fall into the water, because the boat must follow the standing posture of the bow man, otherwise the wrong person will rush out because of inertia." Wang Guiyao said that when the two people pulled the hay grass before, it was a tacit understanding between the bow and stern of the boat, and if the other person did not understand the situation, he would be very worried.
Remembering that day when the two people returned to work in a boat, Liu Fengmei lowered her head and smiled, saying: "Two people on the river boat, such a good environment, and a little romantic." "Going around, the husband and wife have written love for more than 40 years at the bow and stern of the ship, when the conditions are difficult, pulling hay grass out of the boat is the common suffering of the bow and stern, and now the living conditions are good, and it is the care and cooperation of the bow and stern every day to go out to fish for garbage.
After the ship arrived ashore, Wang Guiyao and his wife dragged two heavy garbage baskets and dumped the garbage. The wife took out water from the battery car and handed it to Wang Guiyao, wiped his sweat with a rag draped over his shoulders, and then took off her bucket to give Wang Guiyao a fan. The two men rested for 10 minutes, then got on the boat again and began to clear the river.
On August 14, sanitation couple Wang Guiyao and Liu Fengmei rested in the woods. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Zhou Yi)
For most of her life, Liu Fengmei could not say what "love" was, only that it should be as clear as this river. (Zhou Yi)