Melaleuca cloth shoes made by mom.

When I was a child, all seven people in my family wore cloth shoes, as well as the cloth shoes worn by my grandfather. Mother sewed the soles of shoes.

Whether it's single cloth shoes or cotton shoes made by mom. Every layer of cloth comes from mother's hard-working hands, and every pair of cloth shoes is soaked with mother's hard work and sweat.

Black corduroy cloth, soft upper sewn, and white Melaleuca sole sewn with one stitch and one thread. Finally, from their mother's hand, they all made a pair of Merlot shoes. Melaleuca cloth shoes made by my mother are not only comfortable, but also not easy to sweat and stink.

Mother, like many rural women, has no idle days all the year round. Whether it's weaving, making shoes, cooking, doing housework, raising chickens, ducks, sheep and doing farm work ... when I was a child, I hardly saw my mother idle all year round.

Mother is not only very hardworking, but also very diligent in managing housework. Mother often said, "This family lives thicker than leaves." Sometimes we want to eat pancakes. My mother said, "Eating soup (noodles) saves money, and eating pimples (acne) costs money. We want to eat pot (pancakes) and sell a piece of land."

During the slack season, my mother is either busy weaving or making shoes. In the dustpan woven by mother with sorghum stalks, there are some needles and thread, scissors, thimbles and cloth ends. Whether in the yard during the day or under kerosene lamps at night. Grandma is busy spinning and mom is busy making shoes. Often as soon as this pair of shoes is finished, she is busy making another pair of shoes.

When I was a child, I used to run around the village wearing my mother's cloth shoes and play hide-and-seek with my friends. When playing high jump in the field, sometimes the shoes are covered with dust. Take off two shoes, one in each hand, pat hard to remove the dust inside, put them on and continue to play, regardless of whether the shoes are dirty or not. In summer, we don't even have to wear socks, only cloth shoes, and our feet don't sweat, let alone stink.

Because grandma is wrapped in her feet, whenever I see pointed shoes, I know that they are shoes made by my mother for grandma. The shoes worn by my sister and mother are women's cloth shoes with pots. Our three brothers and father's shoes, although the style is the same, are different in size.

Later, we grew up. When I first went to school in the town, I spent seven yuan for the first time and bought a pair of canvas blue sports shoes. Although it looks beautiful, it is not only airtight, but also easy to sweat and stuffy feet, and it is easier to stink feet.

After I came out from my hometown, I have worn the cloth shoes that my mother sewed for my father several times in the past twenty years. It's just that the sole was replaced by the plastic foam sole my mother bought. Not only is it uncomfortable to lift my feet, but I also feel that I am not used to wearing cloth shoes with plastic foam soles.

Once I jokingly said to my mother, "The cloth shoes I wore when I was a child were very comfortable to support my feet. When I am free at home, help me make a pair of cloth shoes with acceptable soles. " Mother said, "I can't make those cloth shoes now." Not only does my hand have less strength to accept the sole, but my eyes are no longer good. "

For me who used to wear Melaleuca shoes since I was a child, I never wore leather shoes since I was a child. There are a pair of sports shoes in the shoe cabinet at home, from thin to thick. I wear sports shoes all year round.

Those cloth shoes sewn by mother's thousands of hands have long been worn out with mother's aging and our growth. A pair of mother's quilted cloth shoes will always be a memory.

Although I can't wear my mother's Melaleuca shoes for many years now, I often recall the appearance of my mother's soles. Inside and outside the yard or under the kerosene lamp, my mother holds the sole in her left hand and the needle and thread in her right hand, and she shuttles back and forth intently, scratching her hair with the needle tip from time to time. Now think about it, what kind of strength does mother's thin body use to put the needle through the one-centimeter-thick thousand-layer sole?

Melaleuca cloth shoes made by my mother once grew up with us and grew up together. With hard-working hands, my mother, together with my father, supported a family in obscurity.

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