Recently, I chased a drama called "Old Girlfriend".
Five aunts with different family backgrounds and personalities became good friends after jointly exposing the scam of a health product sales meeting.
They are the fashionable and arrogant Irene, the enthusiastic retired doctor Liu Yinan, the retired teacher Song Lina with a girlish heart, the outspoken and chivalrous retired worker Li Yuhong, and aunt Mei, who runs a café for her deceased son.
Of the five aunts, I felt the most pain for Aunt Mei.
I think the saddest thing in the world is that the white-haired people send the black-haired people and the children to raise and not wait.
Aunt Mei is a white-haired person who sends a black-haired person, and I am a son who wants to raise and does not wait.
Maybe that's why, throughout the show, I pay more attention to Aunt Mei.
Aunt May is the owner of the café. The café was opened by her deceased son, and the furnishings of the café were completed by mother and son.
It can be seen that Aunt Mei is an enlightened mother, whether her son runs a café or goes to volunteer teaching, she has given support.
After the death of her son, Aunt May continued to run the café. That was her only thought, the café was still there, her son was there.
There is a children's hospital near the café, and due to the terrain, sick children need to queue up for a long time to see a doctor.
As a result, the government decided to expand the children's hospital, and nearby buildings, including cafes, needed to be demolished.
Aunt Mei could not give up her feelings for the café and was unwilling to accept the demolition arrangement. She played sloppily with the staff of the demolition office and pretended to be ill.
In the end, she won.
Demolition office staff informed her that her café was suspended from demolition.
Soon after, Aunt Mei went to the Children's Hospital for Dr. Liu to get medicine. She witnessed the scene of the parents of the children waiting in long lines for registration, medical treatment, and medicine.
The cries of the children and the complaints of the parents made Aunt Mei think, and she had to make a difficult choice.
In this café, there are memories of her and her son. However, the matter of children seeing a doctor is even more important.
After a night of consideration, the next day, Aunt Mei took the initiative to go to the demolition office, signed the demolition consent, and politely refused the resettlement house arranged by the government.
Aunt Mei's son is a volunteer teacher, so that the children in the mountains can learn knowledge and then change their destiny, he gave up the comfortable life in the city, went to Shangri-La, and finally left himself there forever.
Aunt Mei knew that if her son was still there, she would definitely give up the café without hesitation in order to facilitate the children's medical treatment.
So, she did.
Aunt Mei was very unfortunate, she lost her only son and became an old man who had lost her independence. On countless nights, after the café closed, she sat alone in the bedroom upstairs of the café crying.
But Aunt May is also lucky, she has four old girlfriends. They chatted with her, prepared supplements for her, and watched as the café sign was removed.
Without the café, all of Aunt Mei's psychological sustenance was placed on Song Lina's cross-stitch of the Qingming River Map.
It was bought for her by Song Lina's husband to pass her time. Who knows, she embroidered endlessly.
Just when Song Lina embroidery was on the verge of collapse, the girlfriends came, everyone did a good job of division of labor, arranged a good time, and gathered every day to embroider cross stitch at Song Lina's home.
Song Lina heard her husband say that this cross stitch could sell for 200,000 yuan, and decided to sell cross stitch when the time came, and traveled to Europe with her girlfriends.
Aunt Mei is also distressed by the fact that she knows that Irene has cancer, and she has to help her hide from everyone, and sometimes she has to help her play sloppy.
It's hard to keep a secret, but Erin is determined not to let anyone else know about her condition. Aunt May chose to respect her decision.
When everyone knew about Irene's condition and blamed Aunt Mei for helping her hide from everyone, Aunt Mei cried bitterly.
On the one hand, it is the respect for Irene, and on the other hand, it is the concealment of other girlfriends. Who can understand Aunt Mei's suffering?
After the five old girlfriends experienced the unhappiness of their respective lives, the contradictions and run-ins between the girlfriends, the Qingming River Map was also completed.
At the suggestion of Liu Yinan, Erin came to the horticultural base of her old friend Lin Qingshan and accompanied her flowers and plants every day. The gardening base is pleasant, Irene is in a cheerful mood, and her condition is stable.
Watching her girlfriend Irene's condition improve, Song Lina and Li Yuhong also eased their relationship with their respective husbands and children, Liu Yinan and Lin Qingshan also accompanied each other, and Aunt Mei was also ready to complete her new dream.
By chance, Aunt Mei learned from Xiao Xue that her son Haihai had formed a choir.
After the death of the sea, the choir disbanded.
Aunt May wanted to put the choir together again.
So Aunt Mei went to Shangri-La. She came to the school where her son worked and lived in the dormitory where his son lived.
XiaoXue gave the roster left by the sea to Aunt Mei. Aunt Mei took the roster and went to visit the house one by one, trying to get the children of the choir back.
In the end, she did not return.
The lost Aunt May tries to clean the classroom again before leaving, and the principal apologizes for not being able to help her.
Aunt May gave the headmaster the money for the demolition of the café, hoping to use the money to help the children in the family's difficulties. The headmaster was very grateful to her.
The class bell rang, and Aunt Mei did not want to delay the principal's work, urging him to hurry up and give lessons to the children.
The principal turned and walked out of the classroom, and the scene in front of him surprised him and quickly called out to Aunt Mei.
Aunt Mei sniffed and walked out of the classroom.
In the small courtyard outside the classroom, stood the children of the choir of Hatta and their parents. They paid the highest respect to the mother of Teacher Hai.
The choir assembled again, and Aunt May's girlfriends also arrived at Shangri-La.
The Qingming Upper River Map sold for one million yuan through the love auction. Everyone donated all the money to the children of the choir.
Amid the children's singing, the five old girlfriends also seem to have a new plan for the rest of their lives.
At the end of the story, Erin decided to stay at Shangri-La, and Aunt Mei, Liu Yinan, Song Lina, and Li Yuhong left in the car.
I believe that the five old girlfriends will often exchange heartfelt messages through phone, WeChat, and video.