Narrator/Chen Qingshuang
Text/Yiyue
My name is Chen Qingshuang, my family lives in a small village in Shandong, my father is machismo, since I can remember, my mother listens to him for everything, and all the housework and three meals a day are done by my mother.
My mother had a weak personality and was not assertive, and every time my father scolded me, she did not dare to speak out.
It was in this family environment that I grew up until I was 7 years old, and an accident broke my life.
After my father got drunk again, he passed by a river, staggered, plunged headlong into the water, and never returned.
When we saw him, he was no longer breathing.
The mother did not cry, but sighed for two days in a row.
After burying my father, my mother took me back to my grandmother's house, she said that she wanted to go out to work to earn the living expenses of our mother, but my grandmother did not agree, saying that it is not so easy to work, and you have no culture.
The uncle wanted his mother to remarry, and asked people everywhere to tell his mother about matchmaking.
A few months later, my mother finally remarried, and the other party was also a wife who had just passed away a year ago.
My mother took me to remarry with me, and my stepfather treated me very well in front of my mother, but behind his back he looked at me with vicious eyes, and I was very afraid of her.
Two years later, my mother and stepfather had another younger brother, and my stepfather looked at me even more unpleasantly, and the family had to raise three children at once.
Every time there was a little bit of trouble, my stepfather always put the fire on me, he came back from work, there was no food, he thought I didn't cook, and said that I was the eldest in the family and should do all the housework.
Sometimes I was drunk and beat me, but my mother was still weak and didn't dare to protect me.
When I was 9 years old, I couldn't stand this life anymore and ran a few miles on my own to my only aunt's house.
My aunt felt sorry for what had happened to me and said, "Son, follow my aunt in the future." ”
I nodded earnestly.
My aunt has been very nice to me since I was a child, and I used to like to live in her house and play with my cousin.
My cousin is three years younger than me and is my aunt's only child. My uncle was also very welcoming to me and said that I could be a companion with my cousin.
My aunt and uncle were also ordinary farmers, living by farming and living very frugally.
Every morning, my aunt would steam an egg for my cousin and me, and then make some porridge, while he and my uncle had never eaten it, so they would drink some porridge and eat some pickles, and then go to work in the fields.
When I was 9 years old, I was old enough to study, and my aunt rushed me to school and told me to study hard and go to university in the future.
My mother later found out that I was staying at my aunt's house and did not come to me, so I lived with my aunt all the time.
Sometimes I want to help with the work at home, and my aunt always says, "To study, as long as you read well, you are better than anything else." ”
My aunt has never been short of food and clothing for me, she spent all her money on me and my cousin, and only hoped that we could both be admitted to college and achieve something in the future, and now she is working hard to persevere.
I know that it is not easy for my aunt and uncle, and I work hard to study, and every time at the end of the term, my cousin and I go home with the certificate of "three good students", and my aunt always has a happy smile on her face.
She said her hard work was worth it.
In the blink of an eye, we grew up, I was admitted to a satisfactory university first, and two years later my cousin was also admitted to his ideal university.
At this time, my aunt was almost 50 years old.
In order to save money for my family, I worked part-time at school, worked as a tutor on weekends to earn living expenses, and worked part-time during winter and summer vacations.
My aunt felt sorry for me and always called me and asked me to buy some good food for myself and pay attention to my body.
Once, because I was too frugal, I only ate steamed buns and pickles, and fainted after a strenuous exercise, and my aunt listened to the counselor's narration, bought a bus ticket overnight, and rushed to the hospital to take care of me.
I said that there was nothing wrong, my aunt was not at ease, and after being discharged from the hospital, she stayed with me at school for three days, and made sure that I was really okay, so I bought a ticket and went home.
In this way, I completed four years of school. And successfully went to work in a foreign company, and the salary was good.
After working, I kept part of my monthly salary for living expenses, and sent the rest to my aunt.
A few years later, I found my other half, who is also a child from the countryside, who can endure hardships, has perseverance, and is very good to me, we have a common topic and a common goal.
On the day of the wedding, I didn't tell my mother, we hadn't been in touch for many years, and my aunt and uncle sat in the parents' seat, and I looked at them with a very solid heart.
During the toast, my aunt took out a bank card and said that she had kept the monthly salary I had sent her every month over the years, and she was waiting for me to give it all to me when I got married.
My aunt shoved the card into my hand and said, "Good boy, live well in the future, and the good days are ahead!"
I couldn't hold back any longer, hugged my aunt and cried, saying, "Thank you, Mom." ”
My aunt wiped my tears and said, "Don't cry on a big day." ”
Then we laughed again. He smiled with tears in his eyes.
After I got married, even though I was busy with work, I still found time to call my aunt every week to ask about the situation at home and about my aunt's health.
My aunt raised me from the age of 9 to outperform my biological parents. Looking at my aunt's slowly aging face, it records the long and difficult years we have gone through.
There are still a long days ahead, and in the future, I will take care of my aunt and uncle, and they can enjoy their old age in peace.