The Life Of A Shoemaker

There is a very large market at the door of my house. There is a shoe repair master at the entrance of the market. He looks about more than 50 years old. When he was in good weather, he went home early.

Later, when I went there, I found another shoe repair man. He was almost the same age. His face was also covered with wrinkles and black spots. Only a pair of crutches were a disabled person.

Since then, the situation is different. The first shoemaker no longer left. No matter whether it was windy or rainy, he would stick to the end. The competition between the two men opened the curtain, because they all wanted to take the first place, so the two became more and more early.

The first person thinks, I earn a few dollars to buy a cheap lipstick for my daughter-in-law, till I am more than 50 years old to marry my daughter-in-law, so I have to love it very well, but how come I am coming out of such a cripple, or my little business is more moist. I want to get up earlier, and I want to be late later. Now I can't do it anymore. He has to get up five more.

The second case is similar to him. Only the daughter-in-law does not know the pain. He knows that every day he knows how to rub the rouge, and he still thinks he earns less money. So he must strive for the first place. In order to take up the first place, he even gets up at three in the morning.

The competition between two people is dark. They never speak. Whoever comes early will take the first place. The other person will never utter a word. He will go home and go to bed on the next side. On the second day, the person will come earlier, so repeatedly, and the two people will have nothing to slack off. All the other people have looked at what they are saying about the two shoes. But no one of the two people has come to a retreat. Then, the competition is almost white hot, especially in winter.

It's a "39" day. They sleep for two days, and continue to work during the day. Because of the cold sleep, their faces are very ugly during the day and their hands are too cold to crack. When the north wind blows, there are hardly any people on the street. But they have never been there before. They are like two statues in the snow. People passing by say, "master, hurry home. What weather is it? Go back to your wife and children for a while!"

But none of them had wavered.

The competition lasted for almost a year.

On one occasion, the cripple had not come for several days, and the other person thought he was sick. He wanted to inquire about it, but he was afraid that he would be a cat's cripple. He didn't come down because he didn't come. He thought he was really cheap. He felt uncomfortable after sleeping for a few days.

Then one day, he was lowering his head and fixing his shoes. He heard the old lady who was opposite the grocery stall said, "you said the cripple was poor. I didn't expect that the brain hemorrhage would die in such a few days.

He stopped, and the hand of his shoes stopped. The customer said, "how did you stop?" his tears suddenly came down, and he could not understand why he was crying.

When he died, how could he die? The customer asked him what was wrong. He sniffed and said, "frozen."

He no longer need to get up early and return to his old days. He should be happy and earn more money than he used to. He suddenly felt that he was foolish before. How could he sleep outside for 39 days to earn a few dollars? Money is really not a thing. He really regretted the past. After all, he was so lame. Why was he so selfish, and now he was finished. He could not see it. He didn't even say anything to him, but he didn't know what his last name was.

He finally realized that life is nothing more than eating, drinking and sleeping.

It is fate for people to meet each other. He thinks he is a little bit right or not. He bought some burning paper on the Ching Ming Festival and burned it on the side of the road. Others asked him who burned it, and he said, "friend."

Then came a shoe repair man, younger than him, always grabbing the first place. He smiled and gave him up and talked with him.

Not long after, two people became good friends. They had delicious food with two people, and the weather was bad.

At that time, two people took the stalls early and went to the nearby Bistro for a drink.

He thought, this is life: relax, be free, have friends, have a woman, have a son to call father (although son is not born).