Happiness is like a pair of cloth shoes

Cloth shoes accompany me through my innocent childhood, accompany me through the passionate youth, send me to mature and steady middle age. In this life, I have formed an inextricable bond with cloth shoes, because wearing cloth shoes is not only comfortable, generous, foot care, but also has a strong love to warm the body and mind. Now that I am in my sixties, I walk briskly and have never suffered from diseases such as beriberi, which may have something to do with wearing cloth shoes for a long time.

When I was a child, when I went to school, others wore liberation shoes, Hercules shoes and sneakers. I was the only one wearing cloth shoes in spring, summer, autumn and winter. At that time, my greatest wish was to get back a pair of sneakers through my own work. Use Sunday to pick honeysuckle, dry and sell it to the infirmary. You can get 20 cents at a time. After school, you can chop firewood on the mountain after school, and then choose to sell it in the town. You can sell it for 30 cents at a time. I saved up for a month and bought a pair of sneakers with 3.50 yuan. When I went to school in my newly bought sneakers, I held my chest high and looked like a general who had returned from a victory on the battlefield. I was still laughing and laughing in retrospect. But I don't know how to wear sneakers for a long time, my feet become itchy and uncomfortable, and when I take off my shoes, there is a bad smell coming to my nostrils. I thought, it's still comfortable to wear cloth shoes. Since then, I still go to school and work in the cloth shoes my mother made me every day. Maybe I was young and ignorant. I would disdain every time my mother made me a pair of new cloth shoes. I couldn't feel my mother's hard work until the middle of the night and the hardship and hard work of making shoes for me and the whole family. I thought it was my duty and duty to make shoes for me, and it was so easy to get a pair of cloth shoes!

Later, people's clothing has changed greatly with the changes of the years. Suits, casual wear and fashion clothes have replaced Zhongshan clothes, liberation clothes and other traditional clothes, and there are a variety of shoes on their feet. Leather shoes, leather boots, sandals, warm shoes and so on competed to appear on the stage with seasonal changes. If someone is still wearing handmade cloth shoes, they will not be looked down upon as in the past, and it is a kind of fashion and elegance. I still wear a pair of cloth shoes all the year round, go to work, go shopping, take a walk in the envy of others, and walk every step of life smoothly. Now that my mother is an octogenarian, she can no longer make cloth shoes for me, but she always tells everyone that my son likes to wear my shoes best. At this time, I am often intoxicated by a sense of selfless maternal love and happiness.

Most of the cloth shoes I wear are made by my wife herself. Dear netizens, you may not know that it takes a lot of work to make a pair of cloth shoes by hand. First, use the cloth brush to paste the cloth board, dry and flatten it, cut the sample according to the size of the foot, then find some rags to make the bottom, use the clue to take the sole, and then sew the upper and sole to make the cloth shoes. In the evening, when my wife makes shoes for me, I read newspapers, tell jokes or tell anecdotes to her, and the room is always filled with incomparable warmth. When I put on the new cloth shoes my wife made for me, stroked her rough hands, and looked at the spots of blood on her hands, clearly printed with needles of all sizes, I was so distressed that I didn't know what to say. Tears of gratitude always rolled in my eyes, and I seemed to see my mother working hard on the soles of her shoes under the dim oil lamp. It turns out that both my wife and mother love me so deeply.

The cloth shoes made by my mother are firm and durable, while those made by my wife are exquisite and novel in style. My shoe cabinet is full of cloth shoes made for me by my mother and wife, which I can never wear all my life. I often wonder, what is happiness? In fact, happiness is really very simple, as simple as this pair of cloth shoes.

Author: Luo Dingkun