A pair of rain shoes

Recently, my feet are growing fast, and at 8 weeks old, I already have to wear size 35 shoes. It's just winter break and I have to buy new rain shoes.

When I went to the store with my mom, there were all kinds of beautiful rain shoes, I was so confused. Finally, I chose a pair of pink mid-calf rain boots with many strawberries on the barrel and a lace-up upper, which looked like sneakers at first glance.

When I got home, my mom sighed, "It's a good thing you live in the present, where you can get the right shoes for your feet. Unlike when I was a kid, I couldn't even buy a pair of pretty rain shoes if I wanted to."

"Were your feet bigger than mine when you were a kid, Mom?" I asked.

"Actually, they were about the same, but at that time there were only two stores in town that sold rain shoes, and both stores still sold the same rain shoes. There was only one rain shoe for girls, a tall one, and customers could only pick the color, not the style. My instep back then was too high for tall boots to fit in, so I didn't have pretty rain shoes in my childhood."

"Huh? So pathetic!"

Grandpa heard our conversation and said, "Speaking of rain shoes, I also have a childhood story. When I was a child, I did not have rain shoes, it rained, and wore straw shoes, the kind worn by the Red Army when crossing the grass, and then wrapped in a layer of shell outside the straw shoes. Later, once I went to my grandmother's house for a visit, halfway to the rain, my mother bought me a brand new pair of rain shoes, I was so happy. However, after leaving the store, my mother let me carry the rain shoes and walk barefoot on the road, until I reached the door of my grandmother's house, then let me go to the river to wash my feet and put on the rain shoes into my grandmother's house. I asked my mother why she let me walk barefoot on the road when she had rain boots, and she said that she was afraid that they would be broken if I walked more."

"Are rain shoes that precious?"

"Yes, in those days, not many families had rain shoes, so if anyone bought a pair of rain shoes, it was a luxury." My grandfather came to life, "After I entered the factory at the age of 16, the factory issued each of us with a pair of super-high rain shoes, which were issued as labor protection supplies and not sold in the stores outside, so I couldn't mention how elegant it was to wear them."

"What did everyone wear then? Also, wear the kind of straw shoes wrapped with shell you just said?"

"When working in the field, shell straw shoes are too easy to break, generally we wear a kind of rain shoes called 'the bell'."

"'s bell'? What is that?" Mom had never heard of it either and asked with interest.

"I have seen my father make the 'dang', he first took two wooden boards, sawed the shape of the sole with a saw, then took two pieces of rubber, cut them into wide straps, nailed the rubber straps to the wooden boards with nails, and pulled out the stripes on the sole. s clang'' is done, and now the slippers are a bit like. They are durable, non-slip, and because of the 'clang, clang' sound when they walk, they are called 'the clang'.

The story of my great-grandfather's "Dang", my grandfather's Ruo shell straw shoes, my grandfather carrying his new rain shoes, walking barefoot in the rain, my mother's feet not being able to fit into the only children's rain boots, and the cool new strawberry lace-up rain boots I just bought ...... rain shoes frame by frame like an old movie playing in my mind.

Today, we can buy rain boots from a wide range of physical stores, use convenient online shopping, pick a variety of styles, and also choose personalized and exclusive customization. These daily life, which I originally thought were so ordinary, were the paradise on earth that my grandparents once dared not even think about. Today we live in such a paradise, we should be grateful for the hard work of our ancestors, and cherish this hard-won happy life.