I heard a knock on the door and hurried to open it, and when I opened the door, I saw a strange lady with a lot of gift boxes in her hands.
"Hello, who are you looking for?"
"Are you Sister Wang Meng?" the woman asked me with a puzzled expression.
"I am, what are you looking for me?"
The lady put down the gift box in her hand and took my hand, "Sister Wang, I have found you, I am Uncle Zhang's daughter." ”
Hearing her say this, I immediately remembered, and I quickly beckoned her into the house and asked Uncle Zhang how his health was.
"This farewell is ten years, Uncle Zhang's health is okay?"
"Sister Wang, my dad misses you very much, can you come with me to see him?"
"Of course, you wait for me to clean up, and then I'll go with you. ”
I followed Uncle Zhang's daughter to my previous village, where I had lived for 20 years......
Twenty years ago, I married into this village.
I had just turned 20 and met my current wife.
We were introduced to each other, he was three years older than me, he was a hard-working young man, and he had been in the carpentry business with my father-in-law.
At that time, my father-in-law was a well-known carpenter in ten miles and eight towns, so my husband was still very busy with him, and sometimes he couldn't even eat a hot meal.
My mother-in-law and I usually do some chores at home, clean up the house, wash the dirty clothes at home, cook the food and wait for them to come back, we are a happy family in the mouth of the villagers.
Our family of four sat in the courtyard all day, eating and chatting together.
In the second year of marriage, I was pregnant, and we were very happy at that time, but my husband and mother-in-law were even more distressed that they didn't let me do any work, not even food.
The two of them took turns to take care of me at home, and during the year I was pregnant, my husband didn't go out to work anymore, and took care of my diet and daily life at home.
When the child was born, we held a banquet at the door of our home, and relatives and friends came to congratulate us, "Congratulations, congratulations, you have added a new person to the old Li family." "My daughter-in-law is really capable, and she gave birth to a big fat boy for your family......"
There were many people who came to congratulate, I was holding the child, my husband and father-in-law were entertaining everyone, and then I saw that our neighbor Uncle Zhang also came.
"Congratulations, I see that your house is very lively, so I want to come and join in the fun, look at your children, don't you mind?" Uncle Zhang scratched his head embarrassedly.
"How can you mind, you go in and sit, you're welcome. My husband said as he pulled Uncle Zhang into the seat.
At the dinner table, everyone chatted with me one by one, and they were all very happy.
After eating, it was already half an afternoon, and we began to send off the guests one by one, and after sending off a circle of guests, I saw that Uncle Zhang was still sitting there, so I walked to Uncle Zhang with the child in my arms and sat down, "Uncle Zhang, have you eaten well?" ”
When Uncle Zhang heard me say this, he quickly rubbed his hands on his clothes, carefully took the child, and kept saying "It's good, it's good......
When I saw Uncle Zhang like this, my heart felt sour, I felt that he liked the atmosphere of our house, and he reluctantly said goodbye to us and returned to his yard.
After the child fell asleep, I accompanied my husband and mother-in-law to clean up the remnants of the feast.
During the chat, I learned that Uncle Zhang was an old man who lived alone, and his wife died early, and a daughter was sent abroad to study very early because of her good academic performance, and she has not come back for several years.
"That Uncle Zhang is quite pitiful, I just said how to end the banquet, he doesn't want to leave yet, maybe he is too lonely at home. I said to my husband.
"It's quite pitiful, it's okay in the future, let's call him to our house to be lively, anyway, we have a lot of family. ”
In the following days, I asked my father-in-law to call Uncle Zhang to the yard to chat.
"Lao Zhang, it's okay for you to come to our yard, what's the point of you being at home. The father-in-law said to Uncle Zhang.
Uncle Zhang rubbed his hands embarrassedly, "Oh, I'm embarrassed to be here, you guys, I'm an outsider." ”
"Uncle Zhang, what's so embarrassing, you should come to help me watch the children, I think you like children a lot. I took Uncle Zhang's arm and said.
"I like it, I really like children, when I see your children, I think of my daughter when she was a child, I raised her since she was a child, and I haven't seen her for a few years when I went to school abroad......"
I watched him say as he wiped the tears that came out of his hands and felt a pang of discomfort in my heart.
I proposed, let Uncle Zhang not go home for dinner, let's make dumplings together at noon today, my husband and parents-in-law hurriedly agreed, "That's it, let's make dumplings and eat together, Lao Zhang, don't go back." ”
Uncle Zhang shirked at first, and I knew he was embarrassed, so I asked my husband to pull his arm and soak it softly before he agreed to stay.
In this way, the five of us took the children, in the yard, I rolled the skin, my mother-in-law bag, my father-in-law and Uncle Zhang watched the children, and my husband went to chop wood and boil water.
We were busy for a while, and soon made a few large plates of dumplings, and my husband took them to the next dumpling.
After a while, a few plates of dumplings were brought and asked Uncle Zhang and his father-in-law to eat first, but Uncle Zhang held the chopsticks and did not move for a long time.
"Uncle Zhang, why don't you eat it? Don't you like to eat dumplings?" I thought Uncle Zhang didn't like dumplings, so I couldn't help but asked.
"I love dumplings, but I haven't eaten dumplings at home since my wife passed away. ”
"Then you must eat more today, try our dumplings, if they are delicious, I will often wrap them for you to eat in the future." "I regret asking Uncle Zhang such a question, and I feel that it reminds me of his previous memories.
Uncle Zhang should have not eaten dumplings for a long time, and after eating two large plates, I whispered to my husband when I saw this scene: "In the future, we will make dumplings and send two plates to Uncle Zhang." My husband nodded repeatedly.
Early the next morning, I saw Uncle Zhang go out in a hurry, and I was still wondering, I had never seen him go out so early, and I didn't know what he was doing, whether there was something urgent.
At noon, I saw Uncle Zhang knocking on our door with a bag.
"Come, take it, this is the clothes I went to town to buy for my children." ”
"Oh, Uncle Zhang, what kind of clothes are you buying for the child, you were in a hurry to catch an early train to the town in the morning?" I hurriedly came out of the house and complained to Uncle Zhang.
"I always eat at your house, and I don't have anything for you, so I went to town and asked the clerk to recommend it to me and buy some clothes for the children. ”
He shoved the clothes into my hands as he spoke.
From this day on, the relationship between our family and Uncle Zhang has been better.
My mother-in-law and I will cook more, no matter who cooks, and ask Uncle Zhang to eat together, Uncle Zhang also refuses, but every time he refuses, I ask my husband to send him the food, and after sending it a few times, Uncle Zhang is even more embarrassed.
He said to me, "Don't send it next time, don't call me, I'm really embarrassed to go to your house for dinner again." ”
"Uncle Zhang, tomorrow our family will eat dumplings, are you sure you won't eat them?"
When Uncle Zhang heard me say that he was eating dumplings, he shook his head and smiled embarrassedly.
I know that Uncle Zhang loves to eat dumplings, so our family ate dumplings two or three times a month at the beginning, and then ate dumplings every three or five times, and every time we made dumplings, we sent two plates to Uncle Zhang.
In this way, I sent it for six years in a row, and slowly he saw the dumplings I sent and no longer refused.
One year during the Chinese New Year, Uncle Zhang's daughter came back from abroad, and her daughter was very competitive and had already settled abroad, and this time she came back to pick up Uncle Zhang and go abroad together.
The day before departure, Uncle Zhang knocked on our door.
"I'm here to say goodbye to you, I'm going to go abroad with my daughter, I may not come back again, I'm very reluctant to your family, your care for me, I remember it deeply, you gave me dumplings for six years, and I will always remember. ”
"Lao Zhang, if you leave, we may not see each other again, after you get there, you have to go out for a walk often, don't hold yourself at home, it's easy to get sick. The father-in-law took Uncle Zhang's hand.
"Uncle Zhang, you have to take care of your body, and when you want to come back to see us, come back. My husband took Uncle Zhang's hand and refused to let go.
Uncle Zhang looked at me and said with tears in his eyes: "Girl, thank you for the dumplings, Uncle will never forget you for the rest of his life." ”
Hearing him say this, I also stepped forward, took his hand, and told him to take care of his body, when he wants to eat dumplings, when he will come back, I have been waiting for him here.
Time flies, my husband and I have grown up day by day, we have saved some money, bought a house in the city, and our family of six has also moved.
On this day, Uncle Zhang's daughter knocked on the door of our house, as if to bring my memory back to 20 years ago, when I was still very young, and our family was still chatting in the yard, and Uncle Zhang was still holding our child.
When I saw Uncle Zhang again, he was already full of gray hair, and his ears couldn't hear a little, but when he saw me, he still recognized me at a glance.
"Girl, come and let me see you. ”
I hurriedly stepped forward and took his hand, "Uncle Zhang, are you okay? Do you want to eat the dumplings I made when you come back this time?"
He couldn't hear what I was saying anymore, and Uncle Zhang's daughter repeated my words loudly again, "Dad, Sister Wang said, do you want to eat the dumplings she made?"
This time he heard clearly, and he nodded again and again.......
From the mouth of Uncle Zhang's daughter, I know that his body is not as good as day by day, and when he was abroad, he was talking about the dumplings at home every day, so his daughter brought him back this time, and she also thought that she could let him stay at home at the last moment of the uncle's life, which was also a wish of the old man.
After hearing this, I hurried to buy some flour and ingredients to make dumplings for him again......
This story is purely fictional, if there is any similarity is purely coincidental, please do not sit in the opposite seat.