#我的今日感悟#
Author: Zheng Lili
After 20 years, I set foot on Quanzhou's West Street again, and it has become a pedestrian street dedicated to travel.
Although I am a native of Quanzhou in the broad sense of the word, I have not been to Xijie many times, and so far, I have only been to it twice.
The first time was when I was in the third grade of elementary school. After visiting Kaiyuan Temple, the entrance is a narrow street, there are many motorcycles and tricycles, and there are rows of paper money incense and candle shops on the side of the road, and occasionally there are one or two small shops selling noodle batter. In the endless flow of tricycles, I saw Sister Ying.
Sister Ying is the most beautiful girl among our cousins, when she just left her hometown and came to Quanzhou to study Nanyin, she didn't see her for two years, after the edification of music education, Sister Ying's temperament became more and more outstanding. She greeted us with a smile in her long dress fluttering in the sun, and this image formed my first impression of the "fairy".
As the host, Sister Ying warmly welcomed us, she said that there was nothing to see on West Street, and took us forward to Zhongshan Street. Zhongshan Street is a arcade, and we go shopping under the eaves to avoid the sun, and our mood is much better.
At that time, West Street was a candle and incense shop, and Zhongshan Street was a fashionable women's clothing store. My sister and mother watched as they walked around and whispered. I wasn't much interested in clothes (and still am), so bored and eavesdropping on their conversations.
Mom asked her sister, "Is he good to you?" ”
My sister hesitated for a moment and said, "It's okay." ”
"Oh, this long white dress is so beautiful, boss, how much does it cost?" Sister Ying stroked the white skirt and asked the boss.
The boss quoted the price, and Sister Ying pondered for a while, and finally bought the dress. On the way back, my mother and sister talked and laughed: "This dress is so expensive, it's about to have half a month's salary for us." If I were you, I wouldn't be willing to. However, a girl's youth is only a few short years, and I can understand you. ”
Sister Ying responded to her mother with a smile, entered the locker room and changed into a long skirt, she really looked like Meng Tingwei who sang "There is a Cloud Made of Rain in the Sky"!
Later, Sister Ying also took me to visit the West Lake Park in Quanzhou, and took me to eat instant noodles that my parents did not allow me to eat.
It was only after a few years, when I entered the youth, that I realized that Sister Ying's life was not very satisfactory.
The uncle has three children, the eldest is a daughter, and the youngest is a son. At that time, in the countryside, everyone valued their sons, and they more or less neglected their daughters. Sister Ying is the eldest in the family, and the situation is even worse, as the eldest sister, she naturally has to share more of her mother's burden, and has to take care of her younger sister and younger brother, especially her younger brother.
After Sister Ying finished junior high school, her grades were not good, and her uncle did not care about her. It just so happened that the Nanyin Troupe came to recruit apprentices, and the uncle and aunt thought that this work was easy, suitable for girls, and better yet, it would be able to subsidize the family as soon as possible. So, Sister Ying followed the troupe to Quanzhou to make a living.
As an apprentice, Sister Ying has to learn the orchestra's instruments one by one to know which instruments she is more suitable for learning and determine the direction of her future specialization. When learning Xiao, Sister Ying developed feelings for her master. This master is only 8 years older than his sister, and he is one of the few peers in the orchestra. The brother-in-law is humorous and has captured the heart of his sister. In the end, my sister didn't have a and became a musician who played the pipa, but my master became my brother-in-law.
The brother-in-law has a huge shortcoming, he is lame, the uncle and aunt disagree, but it is late, and Sister Ying is eager to completely belong to her own home. "Pity the hearts of parents all over the world", in the end, the uncle and aunt still married their sister in a beautiful way. The eldest aunt cried very fiercely that day, I don't know if it was because of reluctance, or because she sensed her sister's bumpy fate in the future.
After Sister Ying got married, she rarely returned to her hometown. I hadn't seen her for almost ten years, until 2019, when I was worshipping my ancestors in my hometown, I finally saw her again. Sister Ying still loves to laugh so much, but she has become haggard, and she no longer looks like Meng Tingwei. I heard that my brother-in-law became addicted to gambling after marriage, and the family's economy and nephew's education were all supported by my sister alone. Fortunately in the misfortune, my brother-in-law went back to his hometown to build a house in the years when he won the most money, and the house has not been exported.
The nephew was very competitive, and was admitted to the University of Chinese Medicine the year before last, and Sister Ying's results were not too bad. I feel sorry for my sister in my heart, the beautiful sister Ying should have a better life. It's just that there are no ifs in life.
"Everything in life can be as you wish, and everything is only half satisfied." Perhaps, life is like this, there are losses and gains, and God does not allow people to be greedy too much.