Narrator: Chan Kar Keung (distant relative)
I am Chen Jiaqiang, 66 years old this year, my wife has passed away for 20 years, I have not found a partner since I am single, I have a pension and medical insurance, and I feel that life is okay.
But I live with my daughter and grandson, who is 32 years old and my grandson is 5 years old.
Some people will say that this is not quite a happy life? Having someone to accompany you is a life that many elderly people yearn for.
Only I know my sorrow, you listen to me slowly.
When my wife died, my daughter was 12 years old, I didn't know how to do housework, and I was a father and a mother, every day in addition to going to work is to pick up my daughter to and from school, so busy that I miss my wife even more.
My daughter was cheerful and sunny when she was a child, and the short-term sadness after the loss of her mother did not affect her future growth, I hope that she will grow up, and I hope that she will get married and have children, so that I can start a new life.
In a blink of an eye, my daughter graduated and worked, and when she reached the age of talking about marriage, relatives and friends around her introduced the object, talked about a few, and in the end it was unsuccessful, I told the girl that she had a big event, and she couldn't be anxious that a woman's marriage was the second reincarnation, and she must be cautious and cautious.
But my daughter was very impatient with my advice, thinking that I was out of touch with society and didn't know anything about today's young people.
It stands to reason that a girl in her 20s should know that she feels sorry for my lonely father, after all, we are the closest people in the world, but I never feel the affection of my daughter. Maybe the age is too young, I comfort myself, people say that if you don't raise children, you don't know the kindness of your parents, and it will be good if you get married and have children in the future.
Suddenly, one day, my daughter told me that she was going to get married, and she had never mentioned the matter of the object before, so how could she say that she would get married if she got married.
The girl said that she had known the man for four months, and she felt that her character was not bad in all aspects, and she was not too young, so she decided to get married.
I calmly told her that the time spent together was too short for such a big event as marriage, and it was impossible to fully understand each other, so it was better to talk about it for a while longer.
My daughter didn't listen to anything, and she couldn't listen to my words at all, so she got married in a daze.
Maybe it's my old father who thinks too much, for fear that his daughter will be unladylike. Now that she is married, of course I hope she is happy.
After my daughter got married, I was left alone, and I suddenly felt lonely. And my heart is always up and down, anxious. I have also lost faith in the good life I once dreamed of.
When my daughter came back three days ago, she told me that she was three months pregnant, no wonder she was in a hurry to get married, it turned out that she was pregnant out of wedlock.
What can I say when I am a father, I can only endure my anger, after all, I am married now, and now this society does not have to be afraid of other people's jokes.
But what made me feel uneasy still happened, just when my daughter was confined, the little couple began to divorce, I persuaded my daughter, already have children, we can't be too willful, life bumps and bumps can not be avoided, and you have to be responsible for the children, it is too funny to get divorced after less than a year of marriage.
Let me wear out my mouth, my daughter just doesn't listen, the reason is that the two have different personalities, and they can't live together because they have different views.
Who can blame her? Everything is found by herself, and it is impossible to get married hastily without being pregnant out of wedlock, and she cannot get married immediately if she is not in a hurry to get married, and she cannot divorce immediately after having children.
The man didn't want children, he gave living expenses every month, and the girl went out of the house and moved back, but this time she had an extra grandson.
My daughter goes to work every day, and the heavy responsibility of taking care of the child naturally falls on my shoulders, and the full-moon child cries during the day and makes trouble at night, torturing me to the skinny bones of a sixty-year-old man.
The girl can't point to it at all, she either works overtime or has a party at night, not like a mother with children at all, she doesn't care about her father or son. There is only herself in her heart.
My grandson is five years old, I am full of gray hair, hunched over, my image does not match my age at all, I am at least ten years older than my peers.
My daughter turned a blind eye to my efforts, but relatives and friends always sighed when they looked at me, lamenting the unfairness of fate.
Middle-aged widowed, living alone with his daughter, and then taking his grandson in his later years, he didn't dare to hope for the future, so he could only move forward silently.