Moonlight (Love Story)

Text/ Sun Hui

The razor is light and delicate, and the hidden blade flashes cold in the light. Standing in front of the mirror, Zhang Shiwen found that his eyes were much brighter than usual, touching his chin, some itchy, dense beard restlessly rubbing his fingertips, trying to bring the razor closer, and immediately several beards bumped up.

In Limu Street, Zhang Shiwen's beard has become synonymous with him, and the neighbors always call him with a long beard and a short beard, and over time, Zhang Shiwen has also adapted, as if he was born to call this name, and his real name Zhang Shiwen has not been called. Whenever they meet, people always like to ask the beard, do you eat the beard, when will you marry a mother-in-law' family. At this time, the beard will squint his eyes and say that he is almost ready to eat candy.

Zhang Shiwen went from 20 years old to 28 years old. Those who speak are not tired, but those who listen are tired.

People on the street didn't bother to ask him again.

Limu Street is an old small street with plank shops, green brick pavement, and south of yanxi river. It is said that since the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the families on this street have been engaged in the plough wood business, and the plough wood produced has been genuine and has become a "famous and excellent" product in the Xiahe area of Northern Jiangsu. In the spring and autumn, through the dense reeds on the shore, you can see that the river is full of ships that come to order goods.

From the moment he wore his crotch pants, Zhang Shiwen rolled around in his father's shop, often staring at his father's two hands with good eyes, wondering how the wood was tossed around and turned into a farm tool for doing work.

After graduating from junior high school, 15-year-old Zhang Shiwen refused to go to school to continue his studies, saying that he wanted to learn carpentry and design the best and most practical agricultural tools for farmers. The father disagreed, slapped him in the face, and said that the carpenters who are now carpenters are all incompetent people, and in the future, if they ask their daughter-in-law, she will go with others.

Zhang Shiwen bowed to his father, locked the courtyard door, and went to the "farm tool shop" on Limu Street to do apprenticeship without turning his head.

In the evening, Zhang Shiwen likes to come to the Yanxi River and watch one wooden boat after another shuttle on the river. As soon as he saw someone carrying farm tools to the ship, without anyone greeting, he immediately joined the ranks of porters. After returning to the shop, Zhang Shi memorized the farm tools he saw on the paper, and then scribbled and drew, always until late at night.

However, in the past two years, the dealers and vendors who came to the "agricultural tool shop" to negotiate were one after another, on the grounds that the plough wood and agricultural tools made by this family were reasonable in angle, smooth in tenons, and compact in structure.

At this time, he could no longer find the appearance of a thin and weak post-birth half a year ago, like an adult man, with a black face, sharp eyes, and a circle of beard on his chin. At the opening of the opening, Zhang Shiwen swore: I will never please my daughter-in-law if I don't mix up, and whoever accepts me, I will shave her beard for her and restore her true face!

Since then, beard has become synonymous with Zhang Shiwen.

Don't look at Ploughwood Street, which is only seven miles long, but the eyes of the residents are not short. The bearded oath is like a kite flying wildly, floating in the air without a landing point. Seeing that "Ben San" was gone, I didn't see many people around him, but I saw his beard grow like a wild grass, and wrapped his entire chin tightly.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, beard finished delivering the goods, and walked along the Yanxi River to the Bazi Bridge. The Bazi Bridge is the tallest bridge on the street, and standing at the head of the bridge, the line of sight can sweep across the east-west seven-mile long street. It was the winter solstice, the sky was gray, and there was not a single figure on the street. It looks like it's going to snow. Beard stood for a while, feeling the wind drilling into his heart like a knife, so he turned his head and prepared to go back to the store, but he caught a glimpse of a figure, flashing into the kindergarten west of the bridge against the courtyard wall. The bearded man's heart climbed for a moment, and without much thought, he ran over with his legs.

The cries of children came out of the classroom. Two gardener-like aunts stood outside the door in a hurry. When he saw beard come in, he dragged him along, and said in a loud voice that beard quickly rescued the moon girl and quickly saved the children, and the man had a knife, you should be careful.

Through the window, bearded saw a strange young man with a knife against the woman's neck, shouting to see the headmaster. Under the corner of the wall, more than a dozen children gathered together, crying and shouting: Teacher He, I am afraid, I want to go home.

Beard kicked open the classroom door and said I'm the principal, what's the matter, don't hurt the girl's family!

You lied, the principal can't grow a beard, go and call the principal!

Lie to you, the principal of Limu Street is like me, not to mention beating you!

The beard roared, and the man's hand holding the knife actually shook a few times. The woman took the opportunity to push away the knife, squatted on the ground, and showed a martial arts move. Saying that it was too late, bearded also stepped forward with an arrow, and the two of them simultaneously threw the man to the ground.

Afterwards, Beard learned that the woman's name was He Yue, and she was a newly assigned teacher. What surprised Beard was that He Yue, who looked petite and exquisite, had a calm and calm that was rare in ordinary women, and she shot extraordinary, such a woman, Limu Street could not find a second.

In the blink of an eye, the flowers along the river on Limu Street are in full bloom. The blood donation truck of the county hospital was parked on Limu Street, and the doctors in white coats publicized the old half day, and few people dared to get on the car to donate blood.

When Beard stepped into the blood donation cart, he found that someone had come before him, and he was stretching his arm out, waiting for the doctor to do a skin test. The man turned back, and it turned out, it was He Yue again.

He Yue giggled.

The two lay reclining facing each other. He Yue's smiling and bent eyes were just like the water of the Yanxi River, which won the hearts of people wave after wave.

Beard hoped to be flooded by such water, but he knew that he and He Yue, the door was not right, just like a day and a earth, how could heaven and earth merge into one piece? When He Yue came back to the store to chat with him, Beard excused himself to hang He Yue aside.

This evening, Mama Zhang of Limu Street came to his shop, saw many people, dragged him to the back room, and said that there was a female gentleman in the kindergarten who had taken a fancy to him and came to listen to his opinions.

Beard's eyelids jumped three times. After a long time of deep groaning, Beard told Mama Zhang that she had ordered more goods this year and did not consider personal matters for the time being.

Zhang Mama narrowed her eyes, crossed her hands and waist and accused him: Your boy has the ability to endure, this heavenly fairy-like, you don't want, you, it's really hemp rope skewer tofu, can't lift it.

Beard knows what is at work inside. Distraught, he slipped the razor in his pocket, opened the door and went out, pacing back and forth along the Yanxi River. At this time, the winding moon has just risen to the middle of the sky, and the lights of the people along the river have long been extinguished. However, not far away, there was a light shining on the dark night sky. He knew that it was the location of the kindergarten.

In a trance, Beard saw a petite figure appear in front of him.

In the moonlight, the female husband He Yue, her complexion was even more white.

【Appreciation by Yang Xiaomin】

"Moonlight" is a small novel written by the female poet Sun Hui: the mood is beautiful and the writing is smooth. When the protagonist Zhang Shiwen was a teenager, he was obsessed with wood and indulged in such a job as turning wood into agricultural tools. He even dropped out of school to compete with his father. This is a rather puzzling move. It seems that after Zhang Shiwen was born in the womb, he suddenly found that he had a carpenter soul in his heart at this moment.

Zhang Shiwen seems to have become a symbol. The "love of wood" became a style of life and a stubborn appeal to life, that ancient craftsmanship, and the potential attachment and dependence on the land, which was pinned down and passed on through the wooden tools under his hands. This craft is not only a business, but also a kind of nostalgic culture. He and wood are a kind of confidant, and wood is a spiritual existence and sustenance for him. Therefore, Zhang Shiwen, who seems to be wooden and weird, actually has an aura that others cannot see, and his emotions will not be easily delivered.

The time has finally come. Zhang Shiwen showed his sincerity and persistence to the heavens, and the heavens finally allowed him to have a coincidence and encounter. The hero saves the United States, with the frontier naturally there is a follow-up, this woman seems to be prepared by heaven for him alone, and love reduces him from a man who stands tall in the sky to an ordinary man with seven passions and six desires. Under the clear evidence of the moonlight, Zhang Shiwen looked at the petite figure standing with a smile, and he couldn't help but feel excited.

The story of wood and love is also a soothing to the public's psychology.