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Preface
My name is Wang Chunrong, 58 years old this year, when I was a child, my family was poor and couldn't afford to eat, and it was my third uncle who took care of my family in every way to keep the family afloat.
In 1978, the third uncle braved the snow to send 4 catties of pork, last year he was sick and hospitalized, I rushed back to my hometown overnight, and the first time I saw the third uncle, tears couldn't stop flowing......
Tragic childhood
I have four brothers and sisters in my family, and I am the eldest sister. At first, all four of us were in school, and my father was introduced by a distant relative to the county seat to work in a steel factory, where we had to do tiring work every day, but the wages were pitiful.
As a result, only my mother was earning work in the family, and my strength was really limited, and our family had a lot of mouths to eat, and every time we didn't have enough food, my father would buy food in the county town every time I came home, so that we could maintain our livelihood for the next month.
I remember that when the fourth sister was 5 years old, the food in the family was almost the same, and the father's salary had not been paid for two months, and it was a problem for the family to survive.
The mother's home is about a dozen kilometers away from the father's house, and there is a small river in the middle.
The younger brother had to get off his mother's back when he walked to the bridge, and the child was more naughty, so he insisted on walking across the wooden bridge by himself, but accidentally stepped into the river with one foot and washed away his shoes.
Mother only sighed at this: "Before I arrived at your grandmother's house, I dropped a shoe, why are you so unlucky." ”
finally walked to the entrance of the village, but her mother was suddenly embarrassed to go to her mother's house to borrow something, so she asked the fourth sister to go to her grandmother's house by herself, and she was waiting for the fourth sister at the entrance of the village.
The fourth sister wore a shoe and carried a dog-headed basket to her grandmother's house, this basket is not big, it can hold almost four or five catties of noodles, enough for us to eat for a few weeks.
My grandmother has a large family, my mother is the eldest sister, and there are three younger sisters and four younger brothers, my third uncle went to work in the coal yard early, and the remaining aunts and uncles are working in the production team at home.
Grandma's family has a lot of labor, and it naturally earns more work, and the food can't be eaten at all, and there are dividends every year, plus the third uncle works in the coal yard, and he can send wages to the family every month, so the life of grandma's family is much better than ours.
But my mother is a face-saving person, although we can't open the pot at home, but every time I go to my grandmother's house, my mother will always grind the wheat at home into noodles, steam a few big white steamed buns, and buy a few catties of pork for my grandmother to bring.
However, every time grandma just symbolically took a few steamed buns, and then asked her mother to take away the remaining pork and steamed buns, because grandma understood her mother's character, and her mother never brought her weak side to her relatives.
Grandma asked her mother how her life was, and her mother always replied: "Mom, don't worry, my daughter and I are doing well, and the children can eat enough." ”
This time, my mother went to my grandmother's house to borrow grain, but it was because the family couldn't open the pot, but my mother was embarrassed, so she could only let her sister borrow food, and she sat at the entrance of the village and waited.
Third uncle and grandmother
The mother waited for the fourth sister at the entrance of the village for a long time that day, but did not see her come out, and when the mother was very anxious, she found that the grandmother was carrying a big bag and led the fourth sister to her mother.
Seeing this, my mother immediately ran over to catch my grandmother, but when I saw my mother, I immediately scolded her: "You girl, why are you still playing with your mother?
"Aren't you separated from your mother's family? Who doesn't have a difficulty, just help it, what's the shame, even if you get married, you will always be my daughter!"
When my mother heard this, her tears flowed uncontrollably, and that day, her mother took away a large bag of soybeans and a full of dog's head flour from her grandmother's house.
After returning home, my mother grinded the beans into two catties of soybean oil, and the remaining beans were crushed to make bean foam to eat. It can be said that in the most difficult days of my family, my grandmother's family helped us a lot.
As time passed, several of my aunts and uncles got married one after another, and only my grandmother and grandfather lived at home, and the labor force in the family decreased, so they naturally earned less work, and gradually they were no longer able to help our family.
I remember it was in 1978, and in the summer we had no rain here for several months, and the crop harvest was very low, and each family was only given a small half pot of corn. During that time, it was corn porridge every day, and with some vegetable leaves, the porridge was so thin that it could even shine a human figure.
That winter was even more difficult, my grandfather was not in good health and the weather was cold, and there was nothing to eat at home, and even in order to see a doctor for my grandfather, my father went to the production team to borrow 25 yuan, which made our family's life even more difficult.
One night it was snowing heavily, and our family was sitting by the fire to keep warm, when we suddenly heard someone knocking on the door, and when we opened the door, we found that it was the third uncle, who was returning home from vacation and braved the heavy snow to see my mother.
Mother excitedly dragged the third uncle into the house, wanting him to warm up, at this time we found that the third uncle was carrying a cloth bag behind him, only to see him walk to my stove, from the cloth bag out of a large piece of pork with bones, our family instantly widened their eyes, you know, even if it is the New Year, we can't eat so much pork.
"Eldest sister, this is the 4 catties of pork that we sent from the mine, you have many children, so I brought it to you, you can quickly cook some soup for the children to drink." ”
The mother did not answer, turned her head and began to cry. She was not only moved, but also distressed by her third uncle. At this time, the third uncle patted his mother's shoulder: "Eldest sister, don't be sad, tell me if you have any difficulties in the future, and I will definitely help you." ”
The third uncle left very early that night, and he didn't even eat the meat he brought, and when he left, he also stuffed his mother with 10 yuan to buy food for us to survive this winter.
"Eldest sister, you must tell me if you have difficulties in the future, we are a family, I grew up lying on your shoulders when I was a child, and every time something happens, you are protecting me, and now that I have grown up, it is time for me to take care of you, eldest sister. ”
After the third uncle left, my mother said to the four of us with tears in her eyes: "You must repay the third uncle when you grow up, he is a great benefactor of our family." ”
The third uncle was sick
Later, the village began to implement the production responsibility system, and life was correspondingly much better, my father returned to the village and planted the land with my mother, and after the farm was over, my mother would grow vegetables in the greenhouse, and my father went to the city to work, although it was harder, but life was getting better little by little.
In 1985, I was admitted to a normal university, and after graduation, I went to teach in a middle school in the provincial capital, and after I went to work, I was able to earn nearly 70 yuan a month, except for living expenses, and the rest of the money was sent to my mother.
The younger siblings also joined the work one after another, and they all began to reduce the burden on the family, and their lives became better little by little. I am also married to a doctor husband, and I live happily ever after, and when I have time, I go back to see my parents and bring them a lot of good food.
After the third uncle retired from the mine, he chose to go home to retire. The third uncle's family has two children, a boy and a girl, the male worked in Shenzhen after graduation, and the female married in Guangzhou, each of whom started a family in a big city.
Therefore, every time during the holidays, my mother and I went to the third uncle's house to visit relatives, due to the poor environment of the mine, which led to the third uncle's physical problems in his later years, I advised the third uncle several times to take medicine and recuperate his body. He also happily agreed, trying to appear healthy in front of us.
During the summer vacation last year, I suddenly received a call from my mother, who said that my third uncle was unconscious and was taken to the intensive care unit, hoping that I could come and see my third uncle when I was free.
I panicked when I heard it, and immediately called my husband up and asked him to go with me to visit my third uncle, my husband didn't think so at first, and wanted to wake up the next day and go again, after all, the two places are separated by more than 200 kilometers, and it is not safe to drive at night.
When my heart was extremely flustered, eager to know the health of my third uncle, I kept tears and told my husband about the kindness of my third uncle to our family, I had never told my husband this before, and my husband's eyes were red after hearing it.
My husband didn't say a word, he put on his clothes and drove to the hospital where his third uncle was, and after running all night, we finally arrived at the hospital in the county, where there were several relatives.
I didn't have time to talk to them, so I went directly to the attending doctor of the third uncle and asked about the third uncle's condition. The doctor said that the third uncle's situation is more complicated, and he may not be optimistic here, and if he has the conditions, he can go to the hospital in the city.
After hearing this, I hurriedly asked my husband to contact his classmates in the city hospital to arrange the transfer of the third uncle, and sent the third uncle to the city hospital that night, and finally pulled the third uncle back from the ghost gate after all-night rescue.
The next morning, my son and daughter came, and it wasn't until 5 p.m. that my uncle came to his senses, and when he learned that it was me and my husband who had saved his life, he hurriedly took my hand and thanked me.
In fact, these are all things I should do, after all, when we were children, when we were in the most difficult time, it was always the third uncle who helped us silently, and he had no hope of getting anything in return.
For the next month, I was in the hospital to take care of my third uncle, whose two children flew back to work the next day. I don't have any objection to this, after all, it's good to have me take care of my third uncle.
When I was discharged from the hospital, my third uncle still wanted to reimburse me for the expenses during this period, so I hurriedly excused myself, saying that this was what should be done, not to mention that we were relatives, and it would be too much to give money.
epilogue
You have to be grateful, no matter how good I am to my third uncle, I feel that it is far from enough, after all, his help to our family back then can be described as a charcoal in the snow.
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