Because of the demolition in the village, everyone was scattered in several neighborhoods in neighboring villages or towns. The fourth aunt and the fourth uncle did not go with their sons because of their age problems, but were taken home by their daughters.
They are all old, the fourth aunt has perennial high blood pressure, decades of rural re-work has long deformed her legs, varicose veins on her calves are entangled like earthworms, and people who are secretly afraid can't see at all, how much pain only she knows. The inner thighs have long since differentiated into an O-shape, the circle is strong, and the crutches are in hand all year round.
For more than ten years in her life, she spent most of her time sitting at the gate because of the difficulty of walking. You greet her, she does not agree, after a few more shouts, she slowly reacts, trying to think about who you are.
You don't dare to get too close to her, not because she hits people and scolds people, but because she smells too much. It was the smell of decaying old bone rust, mixed with the sour smell of not bathing for many years, emanating from every part of her body, and it could not be stopped.
She has not been easy to clean since she was young, and often goes out without washing her face, whether it is going to the ground, going to the street, or visiting relatives, the secretions at the corners of her eyes, the oil stains on the corners of her mouth, the rice residue between her teeth, and the cloth shoes with thick mud, many years later, they are still in the memory of the people in the village.
There was a cousin who was so clean, when he was a child, when he was about 5 or 6 years old, he took an apple and walked past the door of the fourth aunt's house while eating, and the fourth aunt saw it and shouted: "Let your apple let the fourth aunt take a bite." This cousin was honest, so he obediently handed it to her, thinking that the fourth aunt would be teased, but the fourth aunt really took a bite, and it was a big bite.
When you bite, you bite, you eat, but the residue of the fourth aunt's morning Baogu Zhenzi porridge also remains on the cousin's apple with the bite, and there are several bright red blood stains in the tooth marks. The cousin wanted to cry without tears, but calmly took the apple, and when he was far away from the sight of the fourth aunt, he threw the uneaten apple without nostalgia.
Since then, the fourth aunt has praised her cousin for being sensible and generous, but since then, the cousin has preferred to take a detour rather than pass by her door.
The fourth aunt has been 83 years old, this illness does not know where the problem is, severe coma, do not know whether to drink. Doctors in small hospitals in the town can see headaches and brain fever, and then they have no experience with complicated incurable diseases. The children were reluctant to be transferred to a good hospital, and the doctors could not save them, and the tug-of-war between the two sides lasted for several days. The hospital's ultimatum allows you to be discharged, which means that there is no need to occupy the ward without treatment.
Where does the doctor know that the family has been demolished, there is no relocation to live, the fourth aunt and her husband live in the daughter's home temporarily, how to say that they can not die in the daughter's home.
As for the son, renting someone else's house, the landlord clearly said that people over the age of 75 were not allowed to live, not to mention that people would take in people who were about to die.
After 60, every year to prevent death, 70 years old, monthly anti-death, 80 years old, every day to prevent death. Who is the landlord, and does not want to die outsiders in their own home, living and renting in the future are all problems.
The son of the fourth aunt sent the problem to the family group, and everyone came up with an idea without a word, and the seven tongues converged into one sentence: Lai is in the hospital, no matter what.
Others say it even more excessively: if you can't do it, you will be pulled to the morgue and die there slowly.
After living for more than 80 years, the fourth aunt could not imagine that she would not even have a place to die in the end.
After holding on to the hospital bed for a few days, the fourth aunt finally swallowed her breath, and the whole family was relieved. Everyone also commented in the group that this is a good thing, relieved.
It was as if it had been said to her, and it was as if it had been said to her children.
Because of the epidemic, the fourth aunt did not have a funeral, and even the morgue was pulled to the crematorium.
Everyone remembers that the cousin who once bitten the apple said the most, and the shadow of his childhood has now become the deepest memory of his four aunts.
Several people also ridiculed the four aunts for not paying attention to hygiene, saving water and not willing to take a bath, and enthusiastically coming to you.
There are more emotions in the laughter, and more cherishing. Death is the best education!
Some people say that every life that comes to the world should more or less leave a mark for the people associated with it, even if there is only one person, and those souls who have quietly left should not disappear.
When the people who appear in life slowly leave one by one, the living people can't help but think about how to live better.
Time is getting less and less, cherish every day.
