An autumn rain and a cold, three consecutive days of heavy and small rain, the dawn is considered to be rainy, the market center of the large amount of water, so that the stall owners can not set up stalls to sell goods, vendors had to place stalls around the market, a small stall selling groceries from time to time there are customers patronizing, occasionally there is a sound of bargaining, occasionally there is a burst of giggles, a hunchback old man slowly walks to the stall.
Uncle Zheng Zheng, 89 years old this year, although the old man's life is not bumpy, but the sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty have tasted it over and over again. Uncle Zheng has an older brother, a younger brother and a younger sister, when he was a child, his family was poor, often hungry, to the age of love, Uncle Zheng helped his parents to marry his brother and have children, 3 years later, he used all his savings to get a daughter-in-law for his brother to come back, the next year his sister married to a foreign village, just like this, Uncle Zheng guarded his parents to live a poor and satisfied life.
With the age of getting older, coupled with the poverty of the family, the dream of the uncle getting married and having children gradually drifted away, and then later, the parents have died, the family is left only by Uncle Zheng to keep the old house, the uncle said that his brother was sick when he was young, gave birth to a pair of children, at the age of 67, he left the family early, half a year later, the sister-in-law suffered from a strange disease, every day in the dark, he went out and walked around, at first he walked around a few laps to go home, and then as the illness worsened, the sister-in-law went from dawn to dark, and also forgot the way home, and the children were afraid that their mother would be lost. Just take turns and follow closely behind.
Uncle Zheng saw that the juniors followed behind his sister-in-law, delayed a lot of things in the family, he offered to follow his sister-in-law behind him, the sister-in-law set off, the uncle followed behind, the sister-in-law went home, the uncle went home to cook, by the way, the sister-in-law's meal was done well, Uncle Zheng this is 7 years, that winter, the sister-in-law can no longer walk, close his eyes and want to go to the river outside the village to see, Uncle Zheng will carry his sister-in-law to the frozen river, the sister-in-law looked for a while, returned home for less than a quarter of an hour, and closed his eyes forever.
Because the house where Uncle Zheng lived was an old courtyard that was about to collapse, after the brother and sister-in-law left, the juniors persuaded Uncle Zheng to move to his brother's house, and because he and his brother were neighbors, Uncle Zheng moved there the next day. Uncle said that his parents and brothers are the closest relatives in this life, and he is willing to get closer to them and be neighbors with his brother, just like guarding his parents.
Uncle Zheng said that his brother suffered from heart disease and diabetes, moved to the neighbors, it was also very convenient to take care of his brother, people and people will eventually be separated, that autumn of that year, Uncle Zheng was harvesting corn in the field, the village loudspeaker broadcast that let Zheng Zheng go home, the younger brother was seriously ill, Uncle Zheng put down the sickle in his hand and ran home, before The uncle stepped into the house, Uncle Zheng's brother closed his eyes, the departure of the brother and brother hit Uncle Zheng a lot, after a few days of sadness, he looked at his sister-in-law and took on the responsibility of taking care of his brother-in-law alone.
Uncle Zheng said that the younger brother and sister-in-law have not had their own children after marriage, in order to reproduce, they adopted a baby girl, after the child grew up, married to the far south, rarely went home to visit, is a child who does not pay attention to feelings, the younger daughter-in-law said that she did not dare to ask this child to be able to provide for her own pension, just like this, Uncle Zheng and the younger 10-year-old sister-in-law depended on each other in their old age.
Uncle came to the market today to buy lighters and mosquito liquid, one in two parts, one for his sister-in-law, and one for himself. Uncle said that his parents are gone, his brother and sister are also gone, and now his brother and daughter-in-law are the only relatives, and the rest of his days are not much, he has enough to eat and wear warmly, and he takes good care of his brother and daughter-in-law for his brother, even if he arrives under the Nine Springs one day, he is worthy of the ancestors.