Text: Sun Lanrong
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There are now more than fifty elderly people over the age of sixty-five in our village, and I consider myself the most pitiful, hateful, helpless, and hard-working old man.
At that time, my father-in-law was also a well-known figure in Fangyuan, he became a production captain in his early twenties, and when he was 24 years old, he married his mother-in-law, who worked as a substitute teacher in the primary school in the village, and gave birth to my wife and brother-in-law.
In 1986, the ambitious father-in-law contracted a brewery in the town, and the business was booming due to his relatively strong marketing ability.
In 1989, when most people in the village were still riding bicycles, my father-in-law had already bought a Santana sedan, my wife and brother-in-law had particularly good grades when they went to school, and my mother-in-law was also virtuous and filial, and my father-in-law's family became the envy of everyone at that time.
My father-in-law is relatively handsome in the countryside, especially after he reaches middle age, he exudes the charm of a mature man. Although his father-in-law was a conservative by nature, he could not withstand the attack of some young women, and in the end he was defeated.
Lust can take one's soul directly to hell.
Gradually, the father-in-law from the initial occasional home, to a long time to live outside, the sensitive mother-in-law became aware of the father-in-law's abnormality, once the careful mother-in-law rode to his factory at night to stalk, found the drunken father-in-law, holding a woman in the same village as an accountant, returned from outside, and then the two went to the father-in-law's dormitory, and after ten minutes the lights were turned off.
Sometimes, people's choices, one wrong step is one wrong step. The mother-in-law told her in-laws what she had found, but the family's advice did not make the father-in-law turn back, because the accountant from the same village was pregnant.
My mother-in-law had also gone to the woman to make trouble, but to no avail. In the web of lust, the father-in-law was unable to extricate himself, hopeless, and he ignored anyone's advice. In the end, the father-in-law chose to come from a pure household and came together with the "second milk".
The father-in-law's approach made the mother-in-law, who was originally an enviable family, a disgraceful family, especially the woman and the mother-in-law were in the same village, and they usually did not look up and look down, which made the childhood of the wife and the brother-in-law also cast a thick shadow.
After 1992, several breweries appeared in the neighboring town, and the fierce competition scarred everyone, and my father-in-law's beer business plummeted. In order to maintain his position, his father-in-law did not hesitate to fight a price war at a loss, but in the end he could not lock in the victory.
In November 1994, my father-in-law's brewery was declared closed, and for the first two years, there were debt collectors in his home almost every day. Later, my father-in-law also started a business twice, hoping that he could make a comeback, but he did not succeed, and he embarked on a path that he could never turn back in this life.
My mother-in-law took my wife and brother-in-law alone, and it was difficult to live a hard life, and later, after my mother-in-law's private teacher turned positive, the life of the family gradually improved.
Every time I went with my wife to visit my mother-in-law, I would sometimes meet my father-in-law, and I would say hello to him, he no longer had the arrogance of the past, he was just an ordinary old man in front of me, his clothes were also very worn, I heard people say that he and the woman had three children (one son and two daughters), the economy was relatively poor, and the cigarettes he usually smoked were very cheap.
In fact, if you think about it, the reason why my father-in-law has come to this point is that he has done it himself. Because of his shallow knowledge and obsessiveness, he abandoned his wife, self-exiled, and took his second grandmother and children, who were more than twenty years younger, and lived hard, leaving endless regrets for his life.
My wife and brother-in-law were admitted to China University of Mining and Technology and Soochow University respectively, and both stayed in the city to work and lived a relatively wealthy life.
However, what people did not expect was that in the old age of the father-in-law, there was unbearable bad news at home, and the son he and the second grandmother gave birth to, in July this year, suffered from acute myeloid leukemia, first in Xuzhou for treatment, and then transferred to Tianjin for treatment, which cost more than 200,000 yuan.
Now the father-in-law is borrowing money everywhere, planning to give his son a bone marrow transplant, and I heard that the cost is more than 500,000. According to the father-in-law's economic situation, even if he sells the house and sells blood, it is impossible to smash the pot and sell the iron to pay for the full cost of the operation.
After learning of the difficulties faced by his father-in-law's family, some people in the village donated money, but the mother-in-law hated this negative person and was unwilling to help with a penny. When my father-in-law was old, he encountered such a catastrophe, and I don't know if it was fate.
In fact, I myself was also very contradictory, I said to my wife: "No matter what your father did wrong, after all, he has raised you and your brother for so many years, and now his family has encountered so much difficulty, the neighbors have helped, we can't always watch him and ignore him, right?" ”
Later, at the behest of my wife, I gave my husband 10,000 yuan, but this little money is also a drop in the bucket for expensive treatment fees, which can only solve the urgent need, not for a long time!
Poor old man, who does not want a good family, but would rather live a life of being pointed out, it is really infuriating to think.
Speaking of which, I'm not qualified to dictate my father-in-law's life either, because everyone has their own choices and has to pay for their choices.