我的母亲有一头乌黑浓密的头发,编成又粗又长的辫子,甩在脑后,一直垂到衫尾下面,村里人都叫她长辫大嫂。我小时候爱看母亲梳头,乌黑的头发垂下来像瀑布,撩上去像浓云,好看极了。那时候常有货郎挑着货担,摇着铃鼓,走村过巷叫卖。没有现钱的孩子,可以用鸡毛、鸭毛、头发等杂七杂八的东西去换货郎的石头糖、姜糖、薄荷糖,吃得津津有味。当鸡毛和鸭毛换完之后,我就看着母亲的头发问: “妈,剪一点头发给我换糖吃吧?”母亲说: “不行,这是我的命根。”不久,母亲舍不得剪的头发不剪自掉了,每次梳头都掉下不少。我把母亲掉落的头发收集起来,如获至宝,缠成拇指大的一小结,藏在墙洞里,等到货郎下村时,就飞也似地拿去换糖吃。从此,我天天盼望母亲梳头。母亲一梳头,我就守在旁边,一边收集脱落的头发,一边央求母亲: “妈,你看这么少,还换不到两颗姜糖,再梳点出来。” My mother had thick black hair and braided long, thick braids. She slammed her head behind the hem of the sweater. The villagers called her to grow up. When I was a kid, I loved to look at my mother’s hair. The black hair drooped like a waterfall and it looked like a thick cloud. It looked very good. At that time, the seller often carried the goods, shook his tambourine, and walked across the village to sell. Children who don’t have cash can use wool, duck feathers, hair, and other miscellaneous items to exchange their stone sugar, ginger sugar, and mints, and enjoy it with relish. When the chicken and duck feathers were exchanged, I looked at my mother’s hair and asked, “Mom, cut my hair for sugar and eat?” My mother said, “No, this is my lifeblood.” Soon, the mother could not bear to cut. The hair is not cut off, and each time the hair falls off. I collected the hair that my mother had dropped, and if she was a treasure, she wrapped up a big thumb-like knot and hid it in a wall hole. When the buyer went down to the village, he flew it for sugar. Since then, I look forward to my mother’s hair every day. As soon as my mother combed her hair, I stayed beside me, gathering her lost hair and begging for her mother: “Mom, if you see so little, you can’t get two ginger sugar and comb them out.”