Whether it is in a big city with high-rise buildings and red wine, or in a small mountain village with smoke and smoke, there will be a few single old men who will not marry for life, some because of poverty; some because of physical disability; and some are not high or low, just as others say that they are arrogant, resulting in a lifetime of marriage and no children. These old people lived with their parents when they were young, and when they were old, after their parents left, they stood alone against the ruins and broken walls, which seemed very desolate.
Uncle Zhang Yongguang, 71 years old this year, has an older brother, the next 4 sisters, the old man was born on the day, there are eye diseases, the left eye can not open, can not see things at all, even the strong sunshine does not feel, the father of the grandfather is sick, heavy physical work can not be done, the mother is inconvenient, the six brothers and sisters often do not eat enough, wearing rags and rags to grow up.
At the age of 20, uncle helped his parents to marry his brother and have children, 5 years later, his parents died one after another, leaving only Uncle Zhang in the family, in order to have a skill, the flexible mind of Uncle Zhang taught himself a carpenter, after completing the study, he made furniture, cooking, etc. for the farmers in the eight villages outside the four, the income was not high, but there was no worry about eating and drinking, and there was a slight surplus.
Uncle Zhang said that his brother is not in good health, when he is more than 40 years old, he can not do heavy physical work, the marriage of the two sons, are All uncle Zhang to help manage, build a house, blind date, betrothed, marriage, the old man will most of the savings are also sponsored to the brother's two sons, unfortunately, the brother has not waited for the birth of the grandson, he passed away.
After the brother left, the sister-in-law's life can not take care of themselves, the brother's two sons work outside the home for many years, the daughter-in-law needs to take care of the children, in order not to affect the normal life of the younger generations, the uncle shoulders the heavy responsibility of taking care of the sister-in-law, builds money, the sister-in-law wants to eat what to buy, for the sister-in-law and paid out their own pension money, 2 years later, the sister-in-law died of illness, Uncle Zhang continued to live a life of eating the whole family without hunger.
Speaking of his marriage, Uncle said that when he was young, there was a matchmaker who helped introduce several girls, one was deaf and needed to communicate in dumb language, there was a girl who was 2 years older than himself who was a polio patient, which led to a limp, and there was a little uncle 4-year-old girl, mentally not normal, 3 girls, uncle did not match one, and then later, someone helped introduce the dead husband, with a widow with a 5-year-old son, the uncle said that he still retained the child body, would rather be single than marry a widow as a daughter-in-law.
In that era when carpenters were popular, Uncle's carpentry work was highly sought after by the villagers, Uncle said that when he was young, he had a crush on a girl in a neighboring village for several years, and he had saved money in his hand, and When the woman learned that she was a "one-eyed carpenter", she refused to look at the matchmaker on the spot, and in this way, The dream of Uncle Zhang marrying a wife and having children gradually faded away.
Some people say that Uncle Zhang is lonely all his life and has no children and no daughters because he is not high or low, and he is proud and arrogant; some people say that Uncle Zhang missed the opportunity to marry and have children in order to help his brother and serve his sister-in-law.