Gourd, before I came into contact with cultural play, I always thought that it could only be used as a scoop for scooping water and drinking, and I made jokes about it.
Seven or eight years ago, Comrade Youli (a colleague at the time) asked me if there were any gourds in my hometown, and he wanted a few, I was puzzled, because at that time, there were very few people who used gourd scoops to scoop water, and every household was made of steel or plastic scoops.
You want a scoop at home, how good it is to buy a steel one. ”
I vaguely can't remember what I said to Comrade Youli, but that's probably what it means, but I can still remember that I was ridiculed by Comrade Youli, Master Su, and Lao Liu Tou for a long time, it seemed to be an afternoon, the blazing sun shone on my face through the huge floor-to-ceiling window, laughing together, sweating hot, and my face must have been hot at that time.
Later, I learned that the gourd can not only be used as a scoop, but also as a literary play, and even into a musical instrument, and then I had my first literary play gourd.
It was also three or four years ago, it was during the Dragon Boat Festival, I passed by the overpass, and saw that the overpass was full of stalls, mostly selling colorful ropes, cloth monkeys and mugwort, and all kinds of gourds were also placed in it, which I had never seen before, I remember that the Dragon Boat Festival when I was a child did not sell gourds, and I don't know when it appeared.
Asked the price of the eldest sister who sold the gourd, the stall ranged from ten yuan to one hundred yuan, and the five yuan in the plastic bag next to it was picked at will, I decisively went to the plastic bag, and chose the most thoughtful one over and over again.
Gourd, Fulu.
Maybe it really gave me blessings, and in the following year, I encountered two happy events, one big and one small, the small promotion and salary increase, and the big one was to visit the 'Tuan Lady' and become a parent.
Happy, buying a gourd, is the more you look at the more you like, the more you look at the more you love, all day long, when you are about to sleep, you have to rub it twice and then put it on the pillow, in the morning, when you open your eyes, you are looking for a gourd, and the most said sentence all day long is 'what about my little gourd', 'daughter-in-law, have you seen my gourd'.
I don't think of it as a literary play, I feel comfortable in my hand, decompress, less than a few months the yellow shell of the small gourd began to turn red, I feel more liked, I want to give it a whole red, almost everywhere I take it, go to and from work, whether it is to go to the field or go home, I have to rub two handfuls when I have time.
However, people who play gourd know that the most vulnerable part of the gourd is the 'dragon head', that is, the little vine left on its head, which will break if you are not careful, especially if you take it wherever I go, it will be put in your pocket, and there is no protection, and it will be broken sooner or later.
One day at work, autumn, wearing a lot, I didn't pay attention when I got out of the car, and I crushed the faucet of the gourd in my pocket, which made me feel distressed, and I was sad for several days.
Another time, I was distracted by chatting with others, and the gourd in my hand fell to the ground, and I fell out of three cracks directly, and I was distressed, and I wanted to say sorry to the gourd, but it was also after this time, I didn't dare to take the gourd out casually, for fear of another bad thing.
After playing like this for more than a year, the gourd has become a lot redder, just look at the spots, a piece of red and a yellow, looking like the ugly son of the landlord's house, the Internet said that it was because of the reason that there was no sun, the gourd should be combined with the sun, I immediately did it, and took the gourd to the balcony every other day to 'sun bathing', and I was afraid of giving the paste, so I put the gourd in the shade for a few days.
Intermittently for a while, the effect has not improved much, the skin shell of the gourd is hung with 'porcelain' first, a translucent layer under the sun, it is indeed beautiful, for which I have shown off in front of friends more than once.
It wasn't until later that I bought two gourds one after another, checked a little bit of information in this regard, and guessed that the reason why this gourd did not turn red may be the reason for the gourd cortex, just like some people are born with **white, and some people are born with **black, but my gourd was born with a pair of raccoon skin.
To be continued......
If you have leisure, next time, please continue to listen to me talk about my days of poor play.
Wen plays gourd