At that time, love was a bicycle, a seat of stars

This article was written nearly ten years ago (2013.11.24), and the content comes from some oral life stories when I had breakfast and chatted with my grandmother. Now grandma is traveling, so it has been slightly revised and republished to commemorate it.

There was a girl who came to Hong Kong from Haifeng County, Guangdong Province at the age of nineteen. When she first came to Hong Kong, she lived in an aunt's house in Hung Hom. The old wooden house had only one room, which could accommodate a bed and a small cabinet. The girl sleeps on the bottom of the bed, leaning on the wooden board of the mahjong table, and there are often mice and cockroaches running around.

The girl found a job in the factory weaving clothes, and rented a room with a few other female colleagues. Just when she thought her life was going well, the factory closed down a few months later. Fortunately, the manufacturing industry in Hong Kong was booming back then. There are businessmen from the Mainland who come to Hong Kong everywhere, so they don’t have to worry about not having a job, so the girl works in different factories, some in Tsuen Wan, and some in Fanling; later, many factories have added dormitories and meals. Tang, the girl's life settled down like this.

When she was in her early twenties, there was a senior who was a few years older at the place where the girl was working, who supported her very much, so the girl recognized her as "Qi Ma". Qi's mother rented a room in the house of a minister of the factory, and the girl would visit her from time to time, and every so often, she would run into a boy who was a few years younger than herself and came home from high school: that was the minister's son. In those days, going to school was still a luxury. The two got acquainted like this, and he would share his daily encounters with her, and occasionally tease his grandmother who had to work every day.

Later, the girl transferred to a new factory, but the dormitory for the female workers in the new factory was just two roads away from the minister’s house, so she would still visit Qi’s mother, and every time she went, she would still meet that boy, and the immature love grew with each passing day. long.

The girl’s working hours are long, from seven to seven every day, the girl’s uncle loves the girl, and brings her fruits to the dormitory from time to time, and the boy doesn’t want to wait for the girl at home all the time. The dormitory knocked on the door and asked the girl to open the door and take him in. In fact, boys are not allowed to stay in the female workers’ dormitory at night, but there is no warden in the dormitory, and there are not many people who will stay overnight at night, so they will go to the roof of the dormitory, watch the night sky, and share the seasonal mango brought by their uncle. It's just a date between the two of them, without holding hands or talking about love.

Once, the boy said to the girl: "Let's go to the movies together someday!" But the theaters at that time were not as good as they are now. There were new shows every 20 minutes, and one of the girls and the boys had to go to work and the other to go to school. Always not worthy, "Haha, I didn't watch that movie in the end." Many years later, the girl said this to her grandson.

Boys love to play small rogues, and they always say to girls with a smile: "You have a job and make money, so you can support me for my education." "How can I support you?" The girl is not happy He said angrily, until slowly, from a certain day, the needle and thread in the hands of this garment factory girl had an extra item that was not for sale with a lot of cotton and a very dense needle.

Movies always inadvertently fall on every part of life, this girl who takes nonsense seriously, and this boy who likes to play rogue, the two get closer and closer until they decide to get married together on a certain auspicious day. The girl was born into a virtuous girl who worked in a health center, and the boy found a handyman at the airport after graduation, and later became an aircraft maintenance technician, sending iron birds to the sky. There are lovebirds in the sky, and his twigs on the ground. After get off work every day, he rides a bicycle and lands at his own destination, where there is a beloved girl who has already cooked a table of meals.