Presenter: Yang Yan'er
I want to laugh when I talk about it.
I heard my sister-in-law say that early in the morning of the fifth day of the new year, he and my brother blocked my father's best friend --- Uncle Ma in the middle of the road.
Uncle Ma is a big leader, and he is a well-known figure in our local area, often on TV and on the news, and has an excellent reputation.
People who don't know may think that such a big man has to eat gold and drink silver every day, and walk with the wind! It completely belongs to the kind of mysterious existence where the dragon has no head or tail!
Indeed, we do have a very inexplicable worship of Uncle Ma.
Although he looks ordinary and particularly amiable, he always feels different from others, and has a temperament that is faintly majestic.
Uncle Ma and my dad have known each other for more than 20 years.
An ordinary low-level security guard!
The other is the number one person in the city.
The disparity between identity and status is so big, it is estimated that no one would have imagined that such two people would be good friends, and they have been good for more than 20 years.
It can be said that without Uncle Ma, there would be no me and my brother today, and there would be no our family today.
It's a long story.
Twenty years ago, at that time, my dad was also a security guard, working in a large shopping mall near our house, and he was not a leader, so he only went to work for two or three months, and he was still in the internship period, which is the stage where you need to work hard.
Security guards at shopping malls work day and night shifts.
In order to make a good impression on the leader, my dad volunteered that he was in good health and could not only work the day shift, but also work late shifts appropriately.
And in this case, there is no need to pay a salary increase.
At that time, my father was a veteran, straightforward and arrogant, and he rarely cared about his family and outsiders.
Of course, their captain is willing, one person is used for two people, and there is no need to pay overtime.
So my dad started his busy security career, and I heard from my mom that he was busy, busy working day and night.
The salary of eight or nine hundred yuan a month is even busier than that of cadres with a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan.
The funniest thing is that he is also very nosy.
Ever since my dad started working the night shift as a security guard, my mom said that our house had become a shelter, and he had to bring people back from outside every once in a while.
Sometimes it's a child, sometimes it's an old man.
As long as he works at night, when he encounters some children and elderly people who can't find their home, and can't contact their relatives, my dad will definitely bring them back to our house first.
In this way, my mother has to take care of and cook.
If it was some men or beggars, my dad would often leave people in the duty room, eat and live with him, and help find his family until dawn.
When he was in his fifth month on the job.
It was winter and it was cold, and our shopping mall was not heated at that time.
At ten o'clock in the evening, my dad patrolled normally.
Then I found an old man with a burden, who looked thin and weak, with a gray turban tied on his head, and the old woman seemed to be a foreigner, and she couldn't understand what she said, so she kept sitting at the gate.
My dad came up and asked.
The old woman came to see her son, and she had already made an appointment at home, saying that she would wait here.
But she waited from dawn to dark, and no one came to pick her up, and her son had just joined the work not long ago, and she didn't know the specific address of his residence, only the location of the shopping mall, which was a relatively large landmark.
The old grandmother didn't dare to move, for fear of missing her son.
It was so late, but I didn't even eat lunch and dinner.
My dad ran back to the duty room to bring her hot water and instant noodles, and he waited with the old man.
The two of them waited until after twelve o'clock in the evening, when the lights were dark outside, and there was no one again.
The weather was getting colder and colder, so my dad suggested that my grandmother go to my house first, and then he asked my grandmother's son's name.
A few big signs were written: "So-and-so, your mother is coming to you, please contact the security guard." ”
A total of five or six were written, and they were set up in the most conspicuous directions of the mall.
My dad stayed up all night and went directly to the police near our house the next morning, because the information told by the grandmother was too incomplete, and he was worried that he would not find anyone.
Coincidentally, the police officer who received him that day was Uncle Ma, and he had only been working at the grassroots level for half a month.
Both men are warm-hearted veterans and hit it off.
In the end, through many efforts, they finally found the grandmother's son.
The mother and son are reunited, and my father and Uncle Ma are also familiar with each other.
Their second encounter was on the weekend by the river.
My dad doesn't have any other hobbies, he just loves fishing.
After becoming a security guard, I didn't work day and night, and I didn't have any holidays at all.
For a long time, even the iron body can't resist it!
My dad got sick in those days.
At my mother's insistence, my dad finally took two days off to rest.
When he was riding a bicycle to the river to fish, he met Uncle Ma again, and Uncle Ma, like him, also rode a broken bicycle and carried a plastic bucket to fish by the river.
The second time they met, they fished together for a whole day, and they became fishing friends ever since.
In the future, as long as there is time to rest, Uncle Ma will come to my dad, and the two of them will go fishing together on their bicycles.
When they first started together, they hardly did anything other than fishing.
My dad didn't know where Uncle Ma's family lived, he didn't know if he was married, and he didn't even know that Uncle Ma was transferred to work and promoted to become a leader.
The greatest pleasure for two people together is fishing.
Talk about which fish pond has more fish, and what kind of bait is easy to hook...... Wait a minute.
My dad didn't know anything about Uncle Ma.
He didn't ask, and Uncle Ma himself didn't say.
But he knows everything about my family.
He knew that my mother had rheumatism and her legs were weak, so she had to lie in bed all the year round.
He also knew that my dad was working as a security guard in the mall, and because his personality was too upright, he was finally dismissed by the captain.
I know that my brother graduated from a bachelor's degree, but he couldn't find a suitable job for a while, so he had to work part-time in other provinces.
When he learned of this, Uncle Ma was very angry and lost his temper with my dad when they went out fishing.
"Do you want to treat me as a brother? You've been unemployed for half a year, and your family doesn't even have a penny of income, so you'd rather go out and pick up beer bottles than turn to me for help, right?"
Uncle stumbled upon my dad picking up bottles.
Later, in order to help us, he asked an acquaintance to find another job for my father, working as a security guard outside the hotel, and he could receive a salary of 2,500 yuan a month.
My dad has been doing it ever since.
Uncle Ma also helped him find his brother's job.
After he learned that his brother had been wandering outside for two years and had no stable job, he asked my dad for his brother's information in detail, and then explained to my dad that my brother would continue to study while working outside and try his best to go to graduate school.
I also called my brother and instructed him on what major and what school he wanted to take.
These are very professional things, if it weren't for Uncle Ma's guidance, my dad, his high school culture, would definitely not have been able to think of anything.
Later, my brother was admitted to graduate school as he wished, and he majored in electricity.
Not long after graduation, my brother happened to be in the right major and had a suitable diploma in the power system recruitment on our side, so Uncle Ma supported him to take the exam.
My brother actually passed the exam, and now he is a regular employee of the Electric Power Bureau on our side, and he is on the staff.
For this, our family is especially grateful to Uncle Ma.
My brother, in particular, wanted to invite him out for a big meal several times as a token of appreciation.
In desperation, Uncle Ma politely declined.
He said: "You can get in the exam is the result of your own efforts, you will get as much as you pay, I really didn't help much, just occasionally gave you a few pointers." ”
In my impression, Uncle Ma doesn't seem to like to eat any big meals.
He doesn't eat any of the fish he and my dad catches.
Every time I catch those fish, I either leave them for my family, or let my dad distribute them to the uncles and aunts who sell vegetables on the street.
Uncle Ma's favorite meals at my house are my mother's steamed sweet potatoes and steamed buns.
He said that the food was original and that it was very comfortable to eat.
Don't tell any lies.
Uncle Ma and my dad have been friends for almost 20 years, and none of us in my family know the exact location of his house, but we can often see him on TV and on the news and know what kind of work he is doing now.
If he didn't ask my dad to fish, my dad would never take the initiative to find him.
The main reason is that he seems to be very busy, and we don't want to disturb people.
But Uncle Ma would ask my dad to go fishing every once in a while.
When I went out, I was dressed exactly like my dad.
Dressed in old clothes, pedaling cloth shoes, and riding an old old bicycle by himself, you can't tell from where he is working.
Those who don't know think he's an old man who retired as a security guard.
In June last year, my mother's rheumatism worsened again.
On a hot day, she could only lie on the bed and cover the thick quilt, which was known to Uncle Ma.
He helped contact his own apprentice, who was a Chinese medicine doctor from another province.
Since it was inconvenient for my mother to travel far away, my uncle specially asked my brother to take the doctor to our house, and he stayed at home for two days to learn more about my mother's situation before leaving.
After more than half a year of intensive psychotherapy, my mother's legs are almost healed, she can walk at will, and even do some gravity work.
My mother asked my brother to buy two cartons of milk for Uncle Ma to express his gratitude, but he didn't keep any of them, but jokingly said, "You can keep the milk for yourself!" ”
Over the years, Uncle has helped our family countless times, but he has never confiscated a penny of our thanks.
Not only for us, but in fact, he is the same to other poor families and people living at the bottom, and he has never seen him speak harshly.
As long as you see him, you will always be smiling and very approachable.
During the Chinese New Year this year, my mother's leg was much better.
She cooked a lot of delicious food at home, and thought of inviting her uncle to come to the house for a meal.
But no matter how my dad and brother called, my uncle always smiled and said, "I'm not at home, I'm out on a tour." ”
I didn't see his shadow throughout the Spring Festival.
My mom took the finished dishes out of the fridge and put them back in.
Coincidentally, it was the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.
My brother accompanied my sister-in-law back to my parents' house, but I didn't expect to meet Uncle Ma on the road, although he was dressed very ordinary, but my brother still recognized it at a glance.
He and his sister-in-law rushed over excitedly and blocked the uncle directly in the middle of the road.
The elder brother said excitedly, "Okay, uncle, I can block you today, you can't go anywhere, you must go home with me for a meal." ”