Grandpa's "happiness"
Text/Chen Yujin
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For school students, happiness is the bright and high score on the report card, which can be exchanged for several months of self-confidence; for young people who have just entered the workplace, happiness is the proud number on the salary strip, it is the guarantee of life, and it is also the embodiment of ability; for the new new family, happiness is to accompany the loved one chai rice oil and salt, the earth is desolate; but for my grandfather, happiness may be full of children and grandchildren, raising the heavens and the earth; but for my grandfather, happiness may be full of children and grandchildren.
My grandfather, who was born in the 1940s, grew up with the motherland, experienced ups and downs, and the thorns and bumps along the way, let me see the great shore and vicissitudes from his resolute and simple face. From Liaocheng in Shandong to Mudanjiang in Heilongjiang, and back to Linqing Jinhaozhuang, where he was born and raised, more than seventy years of legendary life have written the ordinary and great years of the older generation. Grandpa's local complex, family concept and responsibility are integrated into the excellent family style, and always affect the work and life of our young descendants.
Grandpa raised three excellent children, all of whom shone in their respective posts, but what made him most proud was that his grandchildren and grandchildren had their own achievements. In the family tree, the grandfather's branch is thriving, prompting the grandfather to be able to raise his eyebrows, whether in the family or in the village. He often said that he was blessed and was the happiest person in the old Song family.
Yes, for the elderly, watching the children and grandchildren's families full of happiness, watching the great-grandchildren full of chirping and noisy, is undoubtedly the most beautiful and moving scene. Nowadays, although Grandpa is too old, his body is very tough, and every time he goes back to his hometown to visit Grandpa, he always tells us like a credit, that he can eat several steamed buns at a meal, drink several bowls of porridge, and walk dozens of miles in his free time. He said happy, we listened even happier, there is an old family, such as a treasure, grandpa's health and peace, as the greatest wish of the future life.
Because of the good health and family, Grandpa has few worries, but he has a lot of worries for his children and grandchildren. When he can't sleep at night, he always thinks like a movie, thinking about the work and life of every child and grandchild in his mind, and whether his daughter's logistics company has been affected by the epidemic? What are the benefits of the injection molding industry of the eldest grandson? Is the second grandson's family doing well in Qingdao? Are the great-grandchildren improving in their academic performance? We always advised him to be content and happy, to play with tricks every day, but he only smiled and nodded his head in agreement, while looking at me and saying, now the biggest wish is to see his little grandson get married and have children.
The years are like songs, Grandpa is getting old day by day, but his love and expectations for our descendants have only increased. Last year's Spring Festival, the aunt's family went home for the New Year, Grandpa was overjoyed, prepared the ingredients several days in advance, the grandson successfully admitted to the lawyer, which can become the capital of the grandfather and the neighbors to "brag", after three rounds of wine, the grandfather took the grandson and my hand, incoherent praise is full of pride and excitement, in the grandfather's eyes and tone, clearly hidden his ardent care and expectation for his children and grandchildren.
The old man is as strong as a grandfather, not only his own health, but also always proud of his children and grandchildren, the wine sent to him by the younger generation when he returns home, he is kept, even if it is an empty bottle, he is reluctant to throw it away, pour loose wine to continue to use, and also enthusiastically and accurately say which bottle of wine is sent by which child, such as several family treasures, not confused at all.
Time is gone, the past is like smoke, Grandpa is here, the hometown is there, get together and cherish each other, cherish each other, wish the grandfather who is old and strong continue to be happy and happy, and continue to be proud of his children and grandchildren!
【About the Author】Song Yuhao, a native of Dongchangfu District, Liaocheng City, a front-line young teacher of Douhutun Town Middle School, is committed to realizing the writing concept of organic integration of writing and culture and education, with feelings and hair, free to think, in reading to understand the world, in writing to expound what they think, in life to feel the beauty of the world.