In the first episode of the TV series "The World of Man", Zhou Zhigang took his wife and three children to the photo studio to take a family portrait, saying that the next time they got together, I don't know if it will be a few years later. Sure enough, it wasn't until episode nineteen that the whole family gathered again, with an interval of more than ten years.
The Zhou family has also changed from a family of five to a family of eleven. The eldest son Zhou Bingyi had Hao Dongmei, the daughter Zhou Rong married the poet Feng Huacheng, and the daughter Yue Yue, the old knot of the Zhou family, Zhou Bingkun, had Zheng Juan, and a son, Zhou Nan, and now Zheng Juan was pregnant with another one in her belly. The Zhou family has experienced too many twists and turns and tribulations in the past ten years. But now the family is all neatly reunited. Can Zhou Zhigang and Li Suhua be unhappy?
On the first day of the Chinese New Year, Zhou Zhigang took the Zhou family and the children out to pay tribute to the neighbors of the photon film. More than ten years have not had a good New Year, this year is rare so qi, of course, to go out to give everyone a good New Year's greeting. It would have been a very happy thing. Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan were not happy at all in their hearts, but instead looked embarrassed.
Bye Nian became a "show baby"
Along the way, when we meet each other, we greet each other, and the New Year is strong. Neighbor boasted: "Photon films produce a total of two college students, both of whom are surnamed Zhou." "Zhou Zhigang don't mention how happy he is, this parent, the children fight for anger, there is light on their faces, and those who do children also hope that they can compete and make their parents proud of themselves."
At this time, Zheng Juan and Zhou Bingkun followed behind the team, followed by everyone's joyful New Year's greeting, and the neighbors praised their brothers and sisters, and Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan were also happy.
When I arrived at the National Day family, Guoqing's mother first praised Zhou Bingyi, Peking University student, couldn't help it, and almost said that when Bingyi was a child, she changed diapers for Bingyi. He also exaggerated Hao Dongmei, the daughter of the provincial governor. Then there was Zhou Rong and Feng Huacheng, a talented woman of Qinghua, a poet, a talented woman, born a pair.
The three children of the Zhou family, the National Day mother praised Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong to the sky, and even the daughter-in-law and aunt did not praise one by one. But they didn't say a word about Zhou Bingkun, the youngest son who had been taking care of Li Suhua at home, let alone Zheng Juan, and they didn't even think of Zhou Bingkun, how could they think of her daughter-in-law. It was as if the Zhou family only had two children, Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong.
Zhou Bingkun's face was no longer smiling, and he lowered his head in embarrassment, and Zheng Juan smiled and held out his hand and shook Bingkun's hand. Even if no one cared about Bingkun, she cared about him. Even if she is not a college student, Bingkun is a good husband, a good son, and a good father in her heart.
Arrived at Chunyan's house, the rhythm of touting each other's flowers did not stop, Chunyan's father was not convinced and envious of the two college students in the Zhou family, Chunyan's mother was not convinced, although her children were not college students, but Chunyan is now also a deputy director, not bad.
At this time, Bingkun did not say a word, did not have any expression, just looked down at the melon seeds, he knew that there was nothing for him to do this New Year, Zheng Juan still smiled politely. Out of Chunyan's house, Bingkun and Zheng Juan went home to cook for everyone.
The person who has not been able to fulfill filial piety in front of his parents because of his status as a college student, as soon as he returns, he brings his own protagonist aura and becomes the pride of the Zhou family, and the person who has been paying silently, because he has no high education, has become dim and dull. If outsiders are snobbish and climb high and low, then how can parents forget the efforts of Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan? When others praised Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong, Zhou Zhigang or Li Suhua could completely say: "Over the years, the eldest and second elders have been outside, and the family has all relied on Bingkun and Zheng Juan, if it were not for them at home to consolidate the rear for us, his brother and sister would have had the current results." ”
If Zhou Zhigang had said such a sentence, Bingkun and Zheng Juan would not have been so disappointed, and they would have gone home directly to cook for everyone after the year had not finished worshipping. A large family returned home and saw Zheng Juan cooking alone, and no one said a word of "hard work", everyone seemed to think that this business was Zheng Juan's alone.
Zhou Zhigang saw that Zheng Juan was the only one cooking, so he asked Zheng Juan, what about Bingkun? Zheng Juan said to fetch water. Zhou Zhigang's face was displeased, he was not dissatisfied with Bingkun to carry water, but three children, only Bingkun humiliated him. Chun Yan's mother was not convinced, her own child did not have the Zhou family's child, she said that Zheng Juan was pregnant before marriage, and she did not know whether Nan Nan was Bingkun's biological son. Zhou Zhigang and his party had already come out of Qiao's house, and when they heard Qiao Chunyan's fucking words, Zhou Zhigang returned and scolded Chunyan's mother.
At this time, Zhou Zhigang may be maintaining the face of the Zhou family, perhaps maintaining the face of Bingkun and Zheng Juan, maybe both, but it is true that this matter makes Zhou Zhigang unhappy, back home, the attitude towards Zheng Juan is different, Zheng Juan knows that she has just humiliated the Zhou family, and she has become cautious in speaking.
Feng Huacheng said: "There are two kinds of filial piety, one is to nourish the mouth and the body, and the other is to nourish the mind. Serving by the side of parents, taking care of food, clothing, shelter and transportation, is to nourish the mouth and body, to go far away and fly high to achieve achievements, to make parents proud of this, is to nourish the mind. ”
That Zhou family of three children, Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong is to cultivate the mind, Zhou Bingyi is to raise the mouth, the same is filial piety to the parents, and even the mouth body will pay more, then why is the mouth body not respected by the mind, the mouth body in front of the heart become worthless, it becomes the most unproductive person?!
Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan's filial piety
More than ten years ago, when Zhou Bingyi went to the countryside, Zhou Zhigang was transferred to the third line, Zhou Rong left Guizhou for love, and there were only two people left in the Zhou family, Zhou Bingkun and Li Suhua.
These three children of the Zhou family, the eldest and the second, have come out, when they were studying in school before, they were all good students with excellent character and learning in the school, only Zhou Bingkun, whose brain was not as good as his brother and sister, became the most indisputable child in the family.
But after his brother and sister left, Zhou Bingkun has been trying to become a good child of his mother, a good child, and everything is in line with his mother. One year, it was said that his brother and sister were going to come back, but the supply of meat was limited, and Li Suhua was afraid that the child would not eat enough when he came back, so he saved the meat little by little. Zhou Bingkun knew his mother's thoughts, and in order to make his mother happy, he went with Lu Chuan and Cao Debao to buy a large piece of meat and came back. This time it was pleasing to him, humming a song early in the morning and cutting meat there. Zhou Bingkun was woken up by his mother, leaned out and asked his mother: "Mom, what do you think of your young son?" Li Suhua said: "Oh, my son may have done it, but it is out of the way." ”
Zhou Bingkun was happy and said to his mother: Then my father came back and said the same thing.
In terms of academic performance, Zhou Bingkun is inferior to his brother and sister, but he also wants to be recognized by his parents, and he hopes that his parents will not only compare three children from their academic performance, and hope that their parents can also see his advantages. Academic performance is not as good as that of his brothers and sisters, but he is good to his parents and his family, and Zhou Bingkun is the best.
That year, Li Suhua was paralyzed in bed because of Zhou Rong's affair. Zhou Bingkun can only take leave, every day at home to take care of his mother, but this is not a long time, Chunyan mother said to ask the National Day mother to help, give her work money, but the National Day mother wants to take the child, it can not come.
After Zheng Juan knew this, with Guangming and Nan Nan, regardless of other people's gossip, she resolutely went to the Zhou family to take care of Li Suhua, a woman, not only to take care of the old man paralyzed in bed, but also to take care of her own children and Zhou Rong's children, the degree of hardship can be imagined. Originally, Zhou Bingkun came home from work, and Zheng Juan could take a rest when she returned home, but not long after, Zhou Bingkun was arrested and imprisoned for Feng Huacheng's poems.
Zheng Juan, who did not know how long Bingkun was going to go, took on all the pressure and hardship, because Bingkun told him before leaving that unless it was a big thing, don't tell his brothers and sisters, they are all preparing for the college entrance examination, afraid of affecting them. For half a year, Zheng Juan was carried alone, and only used 200 yuan for half a year, and it was also the money left by her mother.
Li Suhua was paralyzed in bed, for nearly three years, Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong did not take care of a day, Zheng Juan's hands were deformed because they insisted on giving Li Suhua a massage every day, and the two of them did not dare to have their own children because of this matter.
It is precisely because Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan have properly arranged the affairs of the family that Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong have no worries and have the time and energy to fight for their own careers. Only now has this decent. But in one New Year's Eve, Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan were forgotten cleanly. The person who gave the most for the family became the least worth mentioning in the family. Whoever you change to, your heart will be sad.
The scale in the hearts of parents
No matter in that era, going home for the New Year is a big thing, working outside for a year, is not looking forward to going home happily for the New Year? But this New Year, some people are happy, some people will be sad, those who have found money, those who have made a fortune, those who have a high status, and the scenery of going home is unlimited. Not only do they have a light on their faces, but they also have a light on their parents' faces, and those who have not found money and have nothing to do with it are not so happy in their hearts.
Before Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong did not return, Zhou Zhigang and Li Suhua both felt that it was a blessing to have a child in the family who was so considerate and caring for people as Zhou Bingkun, and it was also a blessing that Zhou Bingkun could marry Zheng Juan so diligently and kindly. But as soon as Zhou Bingkun and Zhou Rong returned, the things that Zhou Bingkun did at home were eclipsed in front of the identity of "Peking University High-achieving Students".
When outsiders praised his eldest son and daughter, he did not think at all that Zhou Bingkun would be embarrassed and sad. I didn't even think that in front of outsiders, I would also praise my young son. Back home, he also turned a blind eye to Zhou Bingkun's emotions.
I have always disliked Zhou Rong and thought she was too selfish, but this time, I think she still has a little bit of humanity, after all, she is the only one who has been observing Bingkun and Zheng Juan, knowing their embarrassment. After returning home, I heard Zheng Juan say that Bingkun had gone to fetch water, so she ran to comfort Bingkun: "Don't care about their words, a bunch of small citizens." Although there was something wrong with this statement, it was equivalent to emphasizing the gap between Bingkun and them, but this time, she really cared about Bingkun's feelings, and really felt that she was sorry for Bingkun, and it was she who dragged him down.
It is said that children who have not shown up are here to repay the favor. Zhou Bingkun had come to repay the favor.
Although the brother and sister can make their parents proud, how many days do they stay by their parents' side to serve tea and pour water. For more than ten years, Zhou Rong drama came back twice, the first time she came back, Li Suhua was still lying on the bed, did not see her scrub her mother, feed once, change a diaper, and ran to the hotel to sleep at night, and did not accompany her around, but don't network, Li Suhua was paralyzed by a stroke because of her affairs. Li Suhua's eyes were also because she ran to Guizhou privately, so angry that she almost cried blind.
Although Zhou Bingyi did not let his parents worry about anything, he was always outside, and he did not help anything at home.
The Zhou family's parents are eccentric at this point. Zhou Bingyi and Zheng Juan, who are concerned about this family, are willing to give everything for this family, and everyone in the Zhou family should not ignore their efforts.
If all the parents are unreasonable, eccentric and earn money, have a high status, snub and do not earn money, ordinary children, this is not to hurt the hearts of children, how to get along with children. There is nothing "harmonious" in this family to speak of. What is the "peaceful old age" in old age?