Golden Pond | Chongyang Festival talks about old husbands and wives

Cloudy and sunny, stormy, the couple who maintained the family, unconsciously became old husbands and wives...

Is it already carved on the sansheng stone, or is it the red rope of the old moon? Or the sky is north and south, or it is close at hand, and people with a relationship have walked to the same eaves.

"Take a piece of mud, pinch a you, shape me, break both of us together, and mix it with water; pinch another you, shape me again." I have you in my mud, and you have me in my mud. "As the most basic element of a family, the husband is in the wife's home only intact. Cloudy and sunny, stormy, the couple who maintained the family, unconsciously became old husbands and wives...

The hand of the son

Lou Huijing

Last year's Chongyang Festival was particularly happy, and his father won the second place in community calligraphy and painting for his works. The parents received the Big Red Award and prize with trembling hands, and the excitement was indescribable.

The parents had just turned 20 when they got married, and for a long time, they complemented each other's personalities. On weekdays at home, parents never deliberately set "family rules" trees and "family style" but lead by example and follow good inducements, so that the family can become a harbor for their children to shelter from the wind and rain. In middle age, my mother suffered from severe Meniere's disease, dizziness, and extremely uncomfortable. Whenever this happens, the father clasps his mother's hand and gently comforts her: Don't be afraid of me! But I couldn't sleep or eat. Before dinner, the kitchen wafted with aroma, which must have been the father's supplement to the mother's stewed tianma chicken soup, which was a good recipe for dizziness. Years passed, and my mother's illness never recurred.

After retirement, his father returned to his hobby of learning calligraphy and painting. He is very particular about pen and ink, and often sees his father painting on his knees and his mother grinding ink for him. The ink in the yantai is delicate and moderately concentrated, so that the writing is smooth. In her later years, my mother's trembling hands seemed to be laborious, and I wanted to take over to let her rest, but I was robbed by my father, "Your mother is grinding ink next to me, and my father has the motivation to paint!" Then he gave a piece of emblem ink to his mother, and held her hand and slowly grinded it, a picture of husband singing and women following, and the piano was harmonious! I laughed and wept: the realistic version of the "double push mill"! Perhaps parents have never said the three words "I love you" to each other in their lives, but in the long-term company, every detail, every look, and every action is deeply embedded in their souls, making people moved.

The dying parents sensed that life was about to come to an end, their bare hands folded tightly together, and the old tears flowed with deep affection. At the end of last year, the old husband and wife who had been in the same boat for 73 years in the wind and rain have completed a happy life. All his life, he has followed the promise of "holding the hand of the son and carrying the old man with the son".

The old wife is like a mother

Wang Ke

Before my stomach surgery, the old wife hospital re-employed, although the "economic" status is higher than mine, but such as buying a house, buying a car and other major events, I can only make a final statement. Therefore, the status of the head of the family is "unshakable". But after I had surgery, I made a big move.

From the ICU to the ward, the "enjoyment" season officially began, and the old wife who was hired back was also officially "laid off". In the early morning, the old wife brushed my teeth with gauze dipped in mouthwash, then took my temperature, helped disinfect the wound, and changed the dressing. After the operation, he fasted for seven days, relying on hanging protein, fat milk and amino acids, and his wife was on duty 24 hours. In addition, I had to change my hospital clothes, wipe my body, and go to the toilet, which I was very "resistant". The old wife tirelessly coaxed me to "listen to gossip." I feel that the identities of the two have changed, I have changed from husband to "giant baby", she has changed from old wife to mother. In other wards, these tasks are all done by nurses, only I am special, the old wife is not only my "bed doctor", responsible for treatment, but also my "nurse", one-on-one nursing, other patients are envious of the red eyes after hearing it.

Half a month later, the indicators met the standards, and I was discharged from the hospital and went home to recuperate. The old wife still did not unload the responsibility of being a "mother", and the task given to me was two words - rest, either sleeping in bed or in a daze on the recliner. The old wife put all her thoughts on the conditioning of me, chicken, fish, shrimp, pork liver, sea cucumber, made very light, I taste heavy, do light I can not eat, the old wife said salty will stimulate the anastomosis, the wound recovery is not good, see I ate very reluctantly, had to compromise, poured a small dish of "beautiful" fresh soy sauce, add some water, dip to eat.

When friends and family came to see me, they all said that they didn't expect to recover so quickly and so well. They jokingly said to the old wife: Sister A, nong's brother-in-law should be raised as Ni Zi (son). The old wife said happily: Yes, I have no way, a big one, a small one.

My eye circles suddenly turned red...

A pair of beautiful big eyes

Gong Weiming

In the 1980s, young people in the factory had to make up classes, and then take the municipal examination to get the initial Chinese with high Chinese. On the day of the make-up class, I noticed a female colleague in the class flashing a pair of big eyes......... Later, she became my wife.

After marriage, making clothes for the family has become a wife's specialty. Being able to make your own clothes not only saves money, but also reflects your ability. My mother praised her daughter-in-law, and my wife smiled back and said that she liked cutting a sewing machine. We've moved several times over the decades, changed three sets of furniture, and the only thing that wasn't thrown away was a butterfly sewing machine, two tailoring books, and a wooden ruler.

Seeing that my pants were broken, the waistband was loose, and my wife changed them with her hands. Now that I can't find a tailor's stall outside for minor repairs, my wife can easily handle this, and I have a convenient sense of happiness.

To say that for so many years, the quarrel between husband and wife is really inevitable, but she never stares at the apricot, and I also take the initiative to show kindness. The next day, both men had sunny expressions.

I saw that in the headlines of today's mobile phone, someone talked about "Who makes clothes now?" I wrote, "Somebody still did it—My wife." ”

My wife likes to go to the shops near our neighborhood that specialize in small pieces of cloth. Last year, her sister's granddaughter was able to walk, and she made a small skirt out of a small flower cloth, and the children danced with their hands, and the adults were happy.

In the long summer of this year, my wife made several sets of pajamas and pajamas for her family and two long skirts for herself. A few days ago, the hostess WeChat my wife said that there were a few pieces of satin in the store. The wife bought it back and got busy again. The satin quilt was slippery, and she stepped on the sewing machine with her feet and pushed the stitches with her hands. That day I cut the pear for her to eat, and she said a few words, meaning that as soon as I ate it, the pear juice would stain the fabric, and I was a little confused. I said turn around and eat a piece oh, she still doesn't eat, a pair of big eyes through the bridge of the nose through the reading glasses, smiled at me, continue to focus on the needle and thread on the cuffs...

"Tofu" couple

Cheng Jieping

There is a story that I can't forget: there is an old couple making tofu in a certain town, although the tofu is tender and smooth, it will not collapse, and it can be lifted steadily by passing through a thin ponytail. The old man hangs it on a crossbar with a ponytail as a shop flag, and is famous for the fact that tofu is so tender to eat. Later, because the house was to be demolished, the son and daughter-in-law insisted that the old couple divorce, so that more houses and tickets could be divided. The old couple is as square and innocent as the tofu they make, but for the benefit of the younger generation, they have to "bend and accommodate". The old wife stayed away from town to show a "real divorce" rather than a fake divorce. The old man also had to make tofu by himself. However, the tofu can no longer be worn, and the taste is much worse. The old man could only look at the "beans" and sigh.

Although the story is touching, and tofu can really be hung up and sold, I don't believe this is true. But after learning the story of the neighbor's aunt, I believed it.

Not long ago, a neighbor told me that in the countryside of Jingjiang, there was an aunt who made tofu across the door, and people called her "tofu Xishi". The aunt can not have children, want to hold a child for the elderly, Mr. refused, said that the two world is very good. My aunt made a good job of tofu and opened a soy shop to live. When the neighbor was a child, she loved to eat her tofu and tofu skin, frozen tofu, and the thick blind leaves with the smell of beans. Later, I went to Shanghai to study at university and developed in Shanghai, and I have always missed the tofu in my hometown. Recently, I heard that Tofu Xishi died, but when he was 60 years old, he had a verbal altercation with a neighbor, and he felt ashamed of his husband and died "abnormally" after being choked. Although mr. Li also has the same exquisite craftsmanship as tofu Xishi, he can no longer make delicious tofu after his wife dies. The gentleman was disheartened and soon died of melancholy.

alack! Older couples also have loved ones and can also create miracles. But it is as cowardly as tofu, and if it is not careful, it will be crushed and dissolved, resulting in lifelong regrets!

"What about people"?

Fapin

"What about people?" These two words have become the "mantra" of the wife in recent years. It started to feel annoying, but now it feels both thoughtful and warm.

Thirty years of wind and rain have passed, there are vicissitudes and ups and downs, frictions, comfort and happiness, and now we both enter the ranks of old age, although sometimes bumping and bumping, discord is continuous, but the wife is also brewing the wine of love between the old husband and wife at all times. The first time I heard this sentence was a few years ago, when my wife was stepping on the sewing machine, I was on the toilet, and after about seven or eight minutes I only heard her voice shouting loudly, "What about people? I replied, "In the bathroom, what's wrong?" She said in a slightly reproachful tone, "I haven't heard from you for such a long time, so I can rest assured that I can give some sound!" "I thought it was funny, what is the sound of the toilet? Another day I was peeling edamame in the kitchen, and she was watching TV in the living room, and ten minutes later I heard her ask, "What about people?" "I'm peeling edamame!" "Oh."

I remember we once read a report, saying that there were two old people living in a certain place, the old man was taking a bath in the shower room one day, the old lady was busy with other things, nearly half an hour found out how there was no movement, and then saw that the old man had fallen to the ground and spat white foam unconscious, and rushed to the hospital to rescue the lack of surgery due to too long time... Looking at the current situation in our family, my daughter works in the suburbs and rents a house near the unit because of the long distance. Usually we are at home, with the increase of age, whether physical strength, energy, endurance, etc. are not as good as before, mutual care, mutual care is the top priority, so as long as the wife does not hear my voice for more than five minutes will shout "What about people?" This shout is like a fresh wind blowing from the hot and humid weather, which makes people feel extremely comfortable. Sometimes I write in front of the computer and don't see my wife after ten minutes, "What about people? "I'm sorting out my clothes in my room!"

The current situation of the aging society is that the old couple accompany the elderly, just like the stage of life, we experience the prologue of love, the midfield of marriage, the second half of the family and the final curtain, the old husband and wife are always the protagonists.