The pictures were taken in the house where my best friend in the world lives. I visited her in the night before I left my hometown. She and her husband picked me up in my father’s house with their car. We then spent a night together. The second day, they took off a day from their duty, and drove me to the tomb of my mother, we burnt something for my mother and then they drove me to a bus stop and saw me off.
They are both from the same village as me. The wife is bigger a few days than me, less than 60 days. Moreover, there were less than 60 walk steps from her father’s house to my father’s house. So, she was one of a few persons in the memory before I was five besides my cousins. Of course, it was not a good memory, we fought for a stone and something like that. Anyway we studied and grew up together. Her father was a teacher in our primary school, so she was the leader of Children, I was the one who always tried to fight with her…..with a very fewer friends who were occasionally abandoned by her.
Anyway, we were two students who passed an examination for selecting excellent students to be trained emphasizingly from the whole county. Two years later, I entered into a higher school, she failed, after an extra year’s study, she entered into a technical secondary school.
We became very good friends during we studied in the class. After we separated each other, we began to write each other. We shared every private secret of a little girl. We exchanged the feeling from a little girl to a woman.
We were united so tightly at that periods, and at that periods, a boy, her husband later, inserted to us. Certainly I was not happy at all. And one day the boy wrote to me a letter. I still remembered the content of the letter: 如果她的爱我,如我的爱她,那么我如父般的早逝,也无憾了. (If she had loved me to such an extent that I had loved her, then I would have had no regret anymore even if I had died as early as my father.) His father, the top leader of our village, died in his early 30s because of liver disease when he was a little boy. From that time, he suffered a lot, from a prince to a pity one. He had to be strong to face all difficulties the life gave him.
I was so touched by his words that I allowed my friend to intercourse with him. I sent her to him in their wedding, warning the husband to treat her well for all her life….. She is so luck, her husband still loves her. Certainly she loves him too, and they acknowledged all the duty as the oldest son and daughter-in-law of the oldest son of a family. I mean they acted as the father and mother in their family. The mother of her husband re-married again, and gave birth to three other sisters and brothers, with three children of his father, there are six children in the family, and his step father didn’t do honor his obligation as a father, they divorced again. My friend and her husband, with their mother, brought up all children and arranged their weddings. It is a lot burden and their life is harder…….
They still do not have their own house or apartment. They live in a house which owned by a couple of friends. The wife of the couple was the first girl who entered into the heart of the husband of my friend. Seemed in a fighting when they studied in a normal school, the girl protected him from the fighting, which warmed him and strong him. But at that time, the girl had already fallen into love with a friend of the husband of my friend. He could not help for a long time. But after he fell in love with my friend, they became family friends. Two families have lived in a town for many years, after the couple moved to a bigger city, they let my friend live in their house for free. The house is very big and beautiful, though from the photos, the wall is a little dark. But it is because of light. There are two floors, more than 200 square meters. They lived in the first floor, in the second floor, they arranged a classroom where they recruited and taught some students who were interested in brush writing. Anyway, they will have their own apartment in the near future.
They had been pursuing their future in the official career. They gave up when they realized they had to buy it...... they felt it was no sense for their life. So they quitted and began to devote themselves into their hobby. They Pursed happiness among friends and family members.
They even took care of my family. my mother died when I was taking part in an examination for my master entrance examination, and I could not go home immediately. She bore the duty of a daughter of my mother, gave a lot support to my father. She always invited my brother and his son to eat something when she saw them. …..and do whatever she can do for me. She even wove two sweats for my son……
They like calligraphy very much, even their daughter can write very good. the works of calligraphy have been exhibited in Japan...You can see in the photos when the husband finished a Chinese characteristic, the wife put a paper on it immediately to dry the ink, in case the ink flowed when the paper was moved. And you can feel how harmonious they are.
I am very happy for their happiness and for they finally find a right way to purse happiness. Though for many years, they have done a lot for me, and I did little for them. I just stop some ideas of them. When her husband quitted from his official career, they tried to do some business based on the information from internet, I stopped them because it was not reliable……she has two daughters, the bigger one will take part in the entrance examination of university, sometimes we discussed how to raise children, how to make a choice for children. I always feel lucky when I think of her, Fourties year passed, we are totally difference, but we still trust each other……the friendship and the trust endow a sense to our life.