The 73-year-old and 68-year-old brothers are admirable and make people cry bitterly

The gray sky hangs a lazy sun, how can not warm the cold winter, it is the middle of the Waxing Moon, people who work outside the home are returning to their hometowns one after another. There are always some people, some jobs, who can't go home until around the beginning of their childhood. Like these two uncles, they also prune the branches on the sidewalks in the city in the cold wind, and also let these green lives, refreshing new year, let the people in the city enjoy the beauty of green.

The old brothers are Guizhou Tongren people, to the city to do greening work has been eight or nine years, the brothers came out early and returned late, only to work for more than nine hours a day, although the work is not tired, but they are already about 70 years old, those who have pensions, superior family conditions of the old people, their old age is how happy and happy. It is true that people are different from each other, the flowers have several reds, everyone has everyone's journey, and every family has the difficult scriptures that every family can recite.

I chatted with them for a while, and the boss smoked a dry cigarette, only a few front teeth were blackened by smoke, and he was rattling the bamboo cigarette pole, and the smell of smoke was choking. The brothers are called by acquaintances who have been mixed in the city for more than 20 years, and now they are a boss, specializing in greening work in the city, looking for the elderly over 60 years old in the countryside to work, so that the boss earns more, and the rural elderly can earn more than 4,000 yuan a month, which is quite satisfied, and the work is also real and easy to manage.

The eldest brother has three children, two girls and one man, all of whom have become families. The two daughters married far away, the son worked in Ningbo and married, had two or two sons, and when the grandson was seven or eight years old, the daughter-in-law ran away with someone, and there was no news. The son had to take the two grandchildren back to his hometown, handed them over to his parents to raise, and then went south to Guangzhou to work, met a second-married woman in the factory, and gave birth to a son after marriage, and he did not return to his hometown, and the second son did not care. The two grandchildren grew up and went to school under the arduous upbringing of their grandparents. In the countryside, there is no problem in solving the problem of food and clothing, but the miscellaneous costs of schooling for the two grandchildren are difficult. Moreover, the grandchildren are well read, have good grades, and are self-motivated. In order to raise the two grandchildren to adulthood, the eldest brother left his hometown and went to the city to work as a greener.

They are very frugal, they only eat three hundred yuan in January living expenses, they do not drink alcohol, and smoking is dry smoke brought from their hometown, a large bundle is enough to smoke for a year. His eldest grandson graduated from college and has been working in Beijing, the second grandson is in the third year of high school, the results are quite good, he said to me with satisfaction, he said to the second grandson, as long as he is admitted to Tsinghua Peking University, he will reward the second grandson with 20,000 yuan, the second grandson said that grandpa you lost, he smiled at me happily, I have suffered all my life for my children and grandchildren, as long as the grandson is admitted to college, I will be relieved. If the boss doesn't quit me, I'll keep doing it, and when I can't move, I'll go home. He said that his eldest grandson was very filial and obedient, and he had to give his mother-in-law a few thousand yuan every month, so that he would stop working and go back to his hometown to retire.

The eldest brother said that his brother's life is also bitter, this year is 68 years old, and both children have started a family outside. But his wife is a melon, she can't do anything, she can't even cook rice, and every day she does it inside and outside her house. At that time, the family was poor, and in order to continue the incense, my parents entrusted someone to tell the melon girl from the neighboring village to be his brother's wife. They had two children both smart and both graduated from college to work in the field.

From the words of the old brothers and their faces that have been trampled by the years, as well as in the eyes that have been weathered by the wind and frost, I see how difficult it is for ordinary people to live, and they do not know how much pain and fatigue they have endured in life for the sake of their children and grandchildren, for the dream in their hearts. In their conversation with me, the old eyes were shining with tears, but there was a sad smile on their faces, they were just to earn some money for future generations to read out the books, have an interest, no longer suffer and be poor, let people look down, not be a slut, not do a lifetime of hard work. They also seem to see the efforts and achievements of the people after them, which is the best answer to the older generation.

In order not to mistake the brothers for work, I drove away, and I looked at their labor figures in the rearview mirror, just like the trees they trimmed, so green, so straight, so able to withstand the test of wind and rain and frost, and dedicated the green of spring to the walking people...

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