An old couple away from home

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Author: Li Liushen

Enter the Sweet Kingdom

Typography: Years of Retention

Couples away from home

Author: Li Liushen

He is 63 years old and goes out to work when he is 33 years old.

Due to the long distance, motion sickness, seasickness, so many years rarely go home.

Home, what has become of it? Only in his brain can he imagine it at will.

In the dead of night, people repeatedly recall the scenes of the past, perhaps, those things can only be suppressed in the memory.

The kitchen of the old home is a small low single room, the corner of the wall is cracked with four slits, and there are several places that cannot withstand the rain and let the river flow down that day.

On the other side was a small shed made of canvas, temporarily putting some debris, and the most memorable thing for him was the crumbling main room, the four walls could not withstand the pressure of the ceiling, leaning as if peeking into the secrets of the outside world. In desperation, I had to raise funds to renovate.

What he did not expect was that he had just renovated his house and encountered unprecedented changes - his unit had collapsed.

At that time, there was only one thought in my mind, and I quickly found a way to earn money to pay off my debts and provide for my children's schooling.

He clearly remembers that when he went out to work with a package on his shoulder, his wife was sent to the village, with a smile on her face and tears in her eyes. The wife said emotionally that a person outside must learn to take care of himself.

He said, rest assured! I'm not a kid anymore.

Say it again! The wife said with disgust, it is not as good as a child.

He said, go back, the children are about to leave school.

He chose to leave his hometown when his children were studying on campus, because he was worried that he would not be able to face his children.

In an instant, he was heartbroken and burst into tears.

In her third year of working outside the home, her wife showed up next to her, and she said it was too difficult to be at home alone.

Yes, in addition to taking care of students, but also farming, what is more difficult is to stay up day and night.

Today, one student enters secondary school and another goes out of school to join the ranks of part-time workers. She arranged things for the students and decided to go out to find a husband.

This decision may be biased, but it is indeed not comprehensive. It is indeed inappropriate to have a woman stay at home.

When he saw his wife, he was surprised and frowned.

Husbands and wives all work outside the home, leaving an unattended home, what will it look like in the future?

What worries him even more is that students will become left-behind children from now on.

He grabbed his wife's hands and suddenly threw them into his arms, and his mood was extremely excited.

The wife's tears flowed in the husband's arms, and the husband blinked his eyes and showed a happy smile on his face.

Whether it was coming or not, the husband and wife could take care of each other and work hand in hand, he grabbed his wife's shoulder and looked intently at her face.

He said, you're thinner and you're getting darker.

The wife's eyes widened and she didn't look away.

I'm so sorry I made you suffer.

The two embraced each other again, unwilling to be separated for a long time.

Today, the two people have passed the age of flower armor and are still making money day and night. The well-meaning people around me kept persuading that the children had already started a family, so why work so hard.

Looking back on the past, he was indeed a little sad, and when he looked at today, he was very relieved. The two children have become a family, both have their own struggles, what else to worry about?

He sat quietly on the edge of the bed, thinking back to his working life for several years.

When I first went to the south to work, I filled my hunger with white rice at every meal, and I couldn't swallow it, so I added a little sugar or a little salt. When the wife came to the side, they prepared simple tableware, but they were reluctant to buy good food.

I remember that at that time, a cabbage could be eaten for three days.

He said to his wife, isn't it just a dish, why eat so much?

The wife said that a cabbage leaf was fried, a little water was added, a little salt was added, and it was like this, meal after meal. Now, I have a little savings in my hands, but... Eating, wearing, and living in old age, can you spend it indiscriminately?

With the sudden change of the climate, the working life is also constantly changing, especially in recent years, they are even more hard. Money is not easy to earn, work is not easy to do, and life will pass. They work hard in their respective jobs, without complaint or regret, so that they can have a happy life in their old age.

He was thinking, Wife, it's really hard for you.

Every night he returned to the bedroom very late, and his wife had fallen asleep, and in order not to disturb her sleeping wife, he lay carefully on the bed.

The next day, he was still asleep, and his wife was already busy.

Two people can't meet during work hours, and the time to meet is in sleep.

He kept shaking his head and sighing, not knowing how long such a life would last.

He has some relief in his heart, a little joy, he still has a job, he can earn a little yuan, maybe it will be of great use in the future.

In my spare time, looking in the direction of home, what has become of home? How much has changed in my hometown?

Late at night, he looked at his sleeping wife, meditating in his heart, holding the hand of his son, what did his husband ask for?

Part-time work is not easy, it is even more difficult to reach this age, but with you around, I will no longer have any complaints, and when I return to my hometown in the future, I must get back the happy life I lost.

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