So the spring swallows fly away, the end of summer, they will fly back? They are the swallows that fly in the sky, but also the five sisters of an ordinary farmer's family in the countryside of southern Anhui, where do these swallows fly to? What kind of story do they have?
Author Shen Shuzhi, a native of Nanling, Anhui Province, is a standard post-80s writer with a master's degree in Ancient Literature from Nanjing University, whose 2005 work Sisters won the first prize in the non-fiction category of the second Douban Reads Essay Contest. Later, he published works such as Where the Swallows Finally Flew, Eighty Ninety Flowers, and Plucked Pope Song, which were well received by the readers.
The book, Where the Swallows Fly Last, is a record of the lives of five sisters from childhood to adulthood, and is also a retrospective of the memories of family life.
First, the love paid by the sisters is enough to warm the sisters' lives
The author was born in a relatively special family, special because she has five sisters, she and her sister are twins, but also the youngest two, since their birth, the patriarchal ideology of the countryside has made them endure a lot of different eyes, and even is looked down upon, and even the parents are also looked down upon, because there is no son. The reason for this is that there is no son.
This is very common in the countryside at that time, in fact, in many rural areas nowadays is also still the same. The good thing is that there are a couple of understanding sisters on the top. The two youngest can often be loved by their sisters in various ways.
In the countryside, many children, parents busy with farm work or housework, basically free-range, as for the child's head lice such things, are generally a few sisters to help each other "eliminate". To the busy time, but all can do some simple chores to go to the field to help labor.
The Shuzhi family has many sisters, working together is also lively, but again lively and fun, if you want to be in the summer sun on a day, stooping to cut rice, holding rice back and forth in the field, even wearing long sleeves, will still be cut by the rice leaves and stalks of rice out of the dense red silk, through the sweat seepage, the pain is like a knife cut out a few slashes and then immersed into the salt water.
With the biggest sister difference of eight years old, read three years of junior high school did not get into high school after the big sister went to the nursing school, after graduation went to the Nanjing military hospital internship, and then also began to go to work to earn money independently of the stage.
After working on the sister's salary is not high, but she is also very willing to save some money from their own mouths to send to their sisters, or always bring snacks back to their sisters when they go home to relieve their cravings, you can imagine how much it was looking forward to the big sister to go home.
Just like the eldest sister, the second sister also studied for three years in junior high school and then went to the nursing school, but with the eldest sister's gentle and patient character is different, the second sister is more straightforward, spirited, like to accept new things, into the trend. This can be seen from her attire when she came home a year after attending the nursing school.
The second sister is not willing to be like the big sister, honestly do a nurse over a lifetime, halfway through the job change, and finally went to do sales, running business to pull down the face, to know how to figure out people's minds, but also open to go out and put up with people who do not understand the blank stares, which is all the second sister have endured, the high wage is the best reward for her. She brought a lot of rare things back to her sisters, and was very far-sighted in the house prices have not begun to rise sharply in the time in Nanjing bought a house.
And the third sister with the eldest two sisters is not the same, she loves to cry, but in the bullying younger sisters small illiterate, pointing to the book of the little girl said in a serious manner is her own, pointing to the textbook coaxed younger sisters that he also jumped parachute time, in the younger sisters by the boys in the class bullying immediately stood up and warned the boy when she was so lovely and lovely.
The third sister who didn't get into high school went to learn how to make shoes, but didn't stick with it after all, going round and round, and not long after that the third sister got married and got pregnant and had a baby. Then later, in order to make ends meet, this is the chef's third brother-in-law planning to open their own small restaurant.
The restaurant opened up, the business slowly stabilized, looking at the day more and more good, but did not want to, this time the third brother-in-law fell ill, and not long, on the death of the world, leaving behind a mournful third sister and a still very small child.
Destiny is sometimes like this, always like to surprise you to play a joke, a lot of families, because of such a joke, collapsed.
But even through how many difficulties and hardships, the love between the sisters is still like that trickle of water, with tenderness and resilience, and ultimately into the sea of years.
Second, the twin love, in the flow of years in the silent flow
Because it is the twins' sake, the time together is certainly the longest, because the age is similar, the pace of school work are similar. It is also because of the twins, life all kinds of because of small things produce arguments and fights is also inevitable.
Not to worry about the uneven, the contradiction is so come. Even two identical dresses, because one of them has an extra red heart pattern are going to cause a battle. The same school, eat the same jar of pickles, sleep in the same bed, so through the childhood to high school.
School life, especially high school life, bitter single, southern winter is particularly difficult, sitting in the classroom in the winter wind, feet are frozen numb, a move that numbness accompanied by dull pain has been stimulating the nerves. Into adolescence, the girl's mind is also more delicate, sentimental up, this time if in the heavy pressure of school, but also have a can talk to and share their own little secrets, the happiness of the side is estimated to be very difficult to experience.
Well, the efforts were not in vain, the twins also both got into a good school. Just may be because from childhood to eighteen years are together, curiosity and want to be independent of the desire to make them enroll in different provinces of the school, finally separated, but once the past will be more and more precious.
Separation does not mean estrangement, as a movie said, sisters were originally snowflakes in the sky, fell to the ground into the water into ice, and can no longer be separated.
Earlier, I saw a write-up on the Internet about the reasons for having a second child is this: having two or three children is not because of money, not because it must be a boy or a girl, but, in this era of competition, human indifference, full of utilitarianism, the most important thing for parents is not to leave their children with a silver and a house, but to leave him with a loved one.
Many netizens have also sunshine their own experience of warm enough to melt the heart of the love of hand and foot:
"When I was small, because my mother has not yet come home, I was hungry, my brother stood on the stool to give me fried rice to eat, and I also argued that I want to eat the eggs, my brother said the eggs should be left for mom to eat. When mom came home to see us holding the rice to eat a good look, heartbroken cried."
"My big sister like a mother to take care of me, I remember when I was a child in winter is very cold, my feet are always placed on my big sister's stomach, my big sister to me rubbing my back before I can sleep, my big sister also slept in my urine nest it, may be afraid that I accidentally rolled to the urine nest to sleep in the cold it."
"My sister was sending me to kindergarten when she saw a boy on a bike speeding towards me, instinctively and quickly blocked in front of me, and then the corner of the eyebrow was stitched with eight stitches, and the scars can still be seen to this day."
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From birth to the years after they grow up, the love between sisters stays with each other and never leaves. Just like the swallows nesting under the eaves, even if they are separated from each other by thousands of miles, when the coming year, after the summer is over, they will still fly back along the path in their memories.