On the winter night of 1975, Lin Sumei was reborn at the age of 28.
The first thing she did was to cut down the old locust tree in the courtyard with the words "filial son and virtuous grandson" engraved on it.
The mother-in-law called her crazy, and the child cried that it was passed down from the ancestors.
Only the man with a dull gourd, despite the objections of the whole family, held up her worn hand and said, "Does it hurt? Call me next time, I'm strong."
Later, Lin Sumei learned that this boring gourd had been saying "call me next time" for thirty years.
She led the widows to weave a household worth ten thousand yuan from corn husks, and he stayed up late to make three hundred knitting frames.
She woke up the whole village on the eve of the earthquake, and he was the first to move into the threshing floor with his quilt in his arms.
She adopted an abandoned six-fingered baby girl, and he silently made a small wooden bed: "There is a new baby in the family, and we need a place to sleep."
The five children also gradually changed, from waiting to be fed, to learning to exchange labor for points, and staying up late to weave baskets to treat their sister's illness.
Years later, a reporter asked: "Director Lin, what are you most proud of?"
Lin Sumei looked to her side. Chen Housheng was carefully arranging her collar, just like he used to pick out blood bubbles for her.
"What are you most proud of?" She smiled, teaching this boring gourd to say three sentences. "
Chen Housheng raised his head next to him, his ears a little red: "The first sentence is 'I help you', the second sentence is 'I believe you', the third sentence..."
He paused, and his voice was very soft, but he couldn't hide his tenderness: "In the next life, I will chop down the trees and walk with you on the road. You just need to move forward. "
Later, the grandson asked: "Grandma, why did you cut down the tree? "
Lin Sumei touched the child's head: "Because the trees were cut down, the sun can shine in.
