Narrator: Zhao Lihong
After I had a child, my father-in-law often came to my room to watch the child, and suddenly one day my wallet bulged, and when I saw it, I couldn't stop crying.
I was born in an ordinary peasant family, my parents gave birth to 8 brothers and sisters, and I was the sixth in the family.
I don't have a deep impression of the eldest sister and the eldest brother at home, the eldest sister got married at the age of 20, and the eldest brother joined the army early.
When I was young, it was the era of scarcity, my family was very poor, and I didn't have enough to eat, it was the production team period, and the most planted in the team was sweet potatoes.
Because sweet potatoes don't need much fertilizer, its yield is quite high, every autumn, our family will divide a lot of sweet potatoes, my father has to dig a big sweet potato cellar every year, and put sweet potatoes in the winter.
One winter we are all sweet potatoes staple food, boiled sweet potatoes, eat dried sweet potatoes, sweet potato noodles, sweet potato porridge, I remember winter morning, we are a big family around the dinner table, my mother cut a large pot of cold cabbage, we hold boiled sweet potatoes in our hands, drink sweet potato porridge, eat cold vegetables.
When I was 16 years old, my mother didn't see each other for a year in order to get married to my second brother, and my mother put the bags of wheat in the team, and covered it with a big pot with mud on the edges.
The second brother was married on the sixteenth day of the lunar month, and my mother only picked up the mud on the tank on the tenth day of the first month, and I saw the wheat grains one by one, and my mouth was drooling.
Mother took it out, and then wiped it twice with a rag, sent it to the mill, pushed it into noodles, my father pushed the noodles home, my mother also steamed during the day, and steamed at night, I don't know how many pots of steamed buns, to the sixteenth day of the lunar month, to marry my sister-in-law into the house, we ate white flowers, hot, fragrant steamed buns, it was really good to satisfy hunger.
After the state implemented the production responsibility system, our family's life was considered richer, and the income of wheat was also more, and we began to eat white flour steamed buns.
When I was 18 years old, someone in the village gave me a matchmaker, saying that the young man in our village is called Rong Qiang, and Rong Qiang and I have been classmates since we were children, and we are very honest people.
His family conditions are relatively good, his father is a public official, he also has an older sister, his sister does not do farm work, his father found a job for his sister, and the family has Rongqiang and his mother.
That year, his father wanted to turn Rong Qiang and his mother into non-farming, and the whole family had to move away, and his mother was a little nostalgic for her hometown and was willing to say a daughter-in-law for Rong Qiang in this village, and the matchmaker took a fancy to me.
In fact, I don't know Rong Qiang's father, because we are far away in the village, and his father often doesn't come home.
When the matchmaker came to tell us, my mother agreed to this family business, and I also agreed to this family business, and after we made a marriage, I followed Rong Qiang and his mother to his father's place.
In that year, Rong Qiang went to a far away place as a soldier, I was at home with his parents, and his father also found me a job, and I worked in a sewing factory.
During this time, I got along very well with the two of them, I came here from a raged family, I was content, I didn't have to go to heaven every day, I was no longer exposed to the scorching sun, I went to work cleanly, and I came back at noon Rong Qiang's mother cooked a cooked meal, I was very relaxed.
After the first month's salary was paid, I took it out and handed it to Rong Qiang's father, who said that he didn't want anything, he said that the girl's expenses were large.
Three years later, Rong Qiang changed jobs and came to our city, we got married, and I officially changed my name to Mom and Dad.
A year later, we had a son, grandpa named it confidence, the child became the treasure of the family, grandpa also watched, grandma also teased, Rongqiang even hugged the child around.
After the full moon, I continued to go to work, and the children were taken care of by my mother-in-law at home, at this time I felt so happy, we were a family of five, three of us earned wages, and my mother-in-law took care of the children at home.
One day, my wallet was on the bed, I went to the bathroom, my father-in-law came to our room to tease the children, and when I came out of the bathroom, my father-in-law had already gone out, I found that my wallet was bulging, I opened it and saw that there was a lot of money in it, I knew that it must have been put by my father-in-law, and my tears flowed out.
After marrying Rong Qiang, I felt that I had stepped into a silver basin, and I was very satisfied, I didn't expect my father-in-law's character to be so good, which made me love this family even more.
Decades have passed since this incident, and I am now an old man, and my parents-in-law have passed away, but when I was young, my parents-in-law treated me well, and I will never forget it.
The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and our custom here is to write a good spirit card for the deceased old people and let them go home for the New Year.
I want Rong Qiang to write the spirit card early and let them go home for the New Year. #WinterLifeCheck-in Season##爆料#