"Comrade, please give him one year older!" As he said that, an old lady handed a portrait to the staff of the portrait museum.
This old lady is Mrs. Wang from Dashan Village. People are used to calling her "crazy old mother".
The night before her marriage, her husband was arrested by the Kuomintang and joined the army.
The next day, she had to hold a red rooster and enter the bridal chamber. She was only 17 years old that year.
From then on, she respected her parents for her husband whom she had never met before. Three-inch golden lotus small feet always run...
One day, she came to her mother-in-law's room shyly and asked shyly: "Mom, what does he look like? If he comes home, will I not recognize him?"
The mother-in-law knew her daughter-in-law's thoughts, so she told her son's height and appearance.
On that day, she quietly came to the county town and found a portrait museum. She asked someone to draw a picture of him as her mother-in-law said. She looked at the handsome young man and said with satisfaction, "He is my man!" After
returned home, she carefully placed him under the pillow. When she couldn't sleep at night, she took him out and talked to him secretly...
The first year after marriage passed, and he did not come back. She was looking forward to the second year and drew the second one.
The second year has passed, and he still has not come back. I drew the third one...
Just like that, year after year, I drew 28 pictures, but I still didn't see my relatives come back. One day, a group of young people wearing red armbands broke into the house and forced her to ask her if the man was the Kuomintang and if she was a spy from the Kuomintang. Then, they pushed her into the street to march and criticize her...
Then, she went crazy. I've been crazy for a long time.
At that time, she shouted everywhere: "My man is a high-ranking official outside, he is going to ride a horse home..."
Ten years later, the turmoil ended. The first thing she did after she was arranged by the government to get back to normal was to go to the portrait museum and draw ten portraits. Every time she draws a picture, she would say to others in a pleading tone: "Comrade, please make him one year older!" Every year after
, she still had to draw a picture for him. When it was late at night, she would caress his increasingly aging appearance and discuss, "Come back, if you don't come back, you won't see me..."
In June 2005, the 84-year-old Mrs. Wang seemed to feel that the King of Hell was going to call her, so she went to the portrait museum half a year in advance and drew the 69th portrait...
In the early autumn of this year, she lay on the hospital bed, looked at the 69th portrait one by one, and finally stared at the 69th picture. She smiled: "No matter how old I am, I can find you..." After saying that, the portrait fell all over the floor...
Some people say that in the photos of anti-Japanese heroes in Taierzhuang Memorial Hall, there is a person who looks very much like him...
Author profile: Wu Honghui, a senior middle school teacher, Tengzhou Top Ten Star Teachers, Zaozhuang City Outstanding Teacher, a member of the Flash Novel Professional Committee of the Chinese Fable Literature Research Association, and a member of the Gaomi Northeast Township Writers Association. He has won 35 teaching paper awards (3 national first prizes); 3 students' books and 1 teacher's teaching book; teaching articles are scattered in many newspapers and national core Chinese journals and magazines; the flash novels he created have won many awards in the national essay competition, and some works have been made into literary micro-films.
This article was first published in Tengzhou Literature, and the purpose of reprinting is to spread more local culture.
