Dictation: Jiao Zhensheng
Finishing: two into three
Pictured: Vulgar photography
When I was ten years old, my father was killed in a car accident, and I have been living with my mother ever since. Grandma and aunt had advised their mother many times, hoping that she would take a step further and have a good care in her life. But my mother thought that if she brought me into a strange family, it would inevitably bring unexpected trouble, and even if she married and had children in the future, she was afraid of being bullied because she was an outsider.
Later, someone introduced a foreigner to my mother to settle in my house, and unexpectedly, less than two years later, the person was taken away by the police, and it turned out that he was a wanted person on the Internet. Since then, my mother has decided not to marry anyone again, but only to bring me up and make me a talent.
Unfortunately, when I was a teenager, I could not appreciate the hardships of my mother's life, did not work hard in my studies, and did not even enter high school after graduating from junior high school, so I was ready to go out to work with my peers in the village. Although my mother was disappointed in me, my dropping out of school also alleviated a lot of financial pressure.
When I was about to go out, my mother told me: "When you go out by yourself, everything must be careful and cautious, no matter what you do, you must think about it in advance, and your mother does not expect you to make much money now. "Although I was not a good student when I went to school, I did a good job in the factory, and of the few people who went out together, my salary was always the highest.
At the age of twenty, I was in charge of the maintenance of machines in a woollen mill, which was really a place for female workers, and most of them were unmarried girls. At that time, the mechanics were a very popular kind of work, and every day there was always a group of beautiful women of warblers and swallows around, which had a feeling of "random flowers gradually attracting the eyes".
It wasn't long before I fell in love with a girl named Su Fang, the two of us were fellow villagers, the two villages were only five kilometers apart, she was also the father who died early, the mother took her and her sister to live, perhaps the similar experience made us have a lot of common language, two years later, we are ready to get married.
In the countryside, weddings for sons have always been a top priority in Chinese families, and some not only have to exhaust half of their life savings, but even have to borrow money to survive. Su Fang knows the difficulties of my family's conditions, and also understands the hardships of my mother's life alone for many years, and has not put forward too high requirements, which still makes me grateful to her.
Although we held the lowest wedding, but the hardware facilities are always indispensable, so the family also owes a debt of fifty thousand yuan, more than ten years ago, fifty thousand yuan is also a big number. After getting married, Su Fang and I continued to work outside the home, trying to earn more money and try to pay off our debts as soon as possible.
Two years later, Su Fang gave birth to our son, and when his son was three years old, the family finally paid off the debt they owed when they got married, and the two of us were relieved. Then Su Fang had a long-term goal: to buy a car.
Private cars have become very popular in the countryside, 200,000 cars have now become the standard for weddings, because there is no car, in the New Year's Festival to visit relatives and friends, often by shallow relatives and friends or explicit or covert ridicule, people live, sometimes is to live a face, so I also agree with her idea.
Handing over our son to our mother, the two of us came to a foreign country thousands of miles away, and after several years of hard work, we finally had some savings in our hands, and buying a car was no longer a distant dream.
When she came home a few years ago, her mother said that she always felt difficult to swallow during this time, and there seemed to be a foreign body in her throat. After the New Year, he took his mother to the city hospital for examination, and the result was that his mother had esophageal cancer.
There must be a lot of money to treat the disease, and I discussed with Su Fang whether I could slow down the purchase of a car and treat my mother first.
I can't imagine that Su Fang actually replied: "So many years with you to live a hard life, I have not complained, your mother is sick, we are not not to treat her, I have asked the doctor, even if it is radiation therapy and chemotherapy, her survival period will not exceed two years, instead of wasting money on useless treatment, it is better to take the car home first, which step of the disease is treated!" ”
Her words made me very angry, remembering that my mother had raised me with hard work for many years, and now that she was terminally ill, Su Fang actually decided where to cure me, and emotionally I could not accept it.
Because of this matter, I have been in a cold war with my wife for a long time, and even have the idea of divorce, and several friends who are close to me around me have advised me: "At this point, you can only look at the problem calmly, Su Fang's words are not unreasonable, and the words are not rude!" ”
On the one hand, the mother in the hospital bed, on the other hand, the wife who accompanied me in the hard days, feelings and reason made it difficult for me to choose.