Text: Jingfeng listens to history
Editor|Jing Feng listens to history
(Note: This article is purely fictional, if you have similar experiences, it is purely coincidental, please read it sensibly)
My name is Li Yiyi, I am Chinese New Year's Eve three years old, although I don't want to admit it, but I had a bad childhood.
I was born in the countryside in the early 90s of the 20th century, and the patriarchal mentality was very serious.
Because I am a girl, my father and grandmother have looked down on me since I was a child, and I don't have a good face for my mother.
It is said that when my father came back from working outside, he saw that it was a girl, and he didn't say a word, and the next morning he packed his bags and left.
I barely saw my father when I was a kid, and just when I thought life would go on like this, an accident happened.
When he was five years old, his father, who had been away for many years, died because he was hit by a car on the way back to his hometown, and because he was not taken to the hospital in time and missed the best time for treatment, the perpetrator also ran away.
In those days, it was really impossible to find it if you ran.
Although my father was not very kind to us and my mother, at least he would not lack food and clothing, and he would send money to the family every month, but since my father left, my mother and I, orphans and widows, have had a hard time.
In order to support me, my mother could only get up every day when it was still dawn to serve the few plots of land at home, and at night she would go out to do odd jobs, working until late at night, and so on.
Even so, my grandmother still looked at my mother and how it was unpleasant, she never helped my mother take me, she even thought that my mother had killed my father, and cursed to my mother every day: "Why don't you die? Why didn't you die.......?
In this situation, the mother persevered for five years, during which the heavy labor made her body deteriorate, and at the end of her life she could no longer even speak.
One day when I was 10 years old, my mother, who had been bedridden for many days, suddenly got out of bed in high spirits.
She took me to the county seat, bought me a new dress with my mother's little savings, and then bought me a string of sugar gourds when I returned to the village.
Sugar gourd, is a delicacy that both of our mothers love to eat, I took the sugar gourd and licked it excitedly, and then handed it to my mother and said, "Mother, you eat it too." ”
Mother smiled and excused herself: "Mother doesn't want to eat sugar gourd today, let's eat it." ”
"Mother, do you want to eat tomorrow? I'll leave half for you. ”
"Okay, if my mother doesn't want to eat tomorrow, Yiyi will eat the remaining half. ”
At that time, I naively looked at my mother's rosy cheeks, thought that my mother's illness should be cured, and was happy about it, and went to bed at night.
My mother suddenly took my hand and said to me: "Yiyi, my mother can't stand you, if your grandmother doesn't want you in the future, you can go to your uncle and aunt, and the half of the sugar gourd, my mother doesn't want to eat it tomorrow, Yiyi will eat it tomorrow." ”
My aunt and uncle, who were very strangers to me at that time, I only met my uncle when I was five years old.
I took my mother's hand and said, "Mother, I don't want any uncle, the half of the sugar gourd is still waiting for you to eat." ”
My mother looked at me for a long time, and suddenly smiled: "Okay, my mother will eat tomorrow morning." Yiyi must study hard in the future and get admitted to a good university. ”
But the mother never got up. Her mother died, and she was only thirty-four years old when she left.
On the day of her burial, I put half a bunch of sugar gourds that my mother hadn't eaten in front of the grave.
Since then, I don't eat sugar gourds anymore.
On the third day of my mother's burial, my uncle came to take me away and live with him, and it was my mother who asked her brother to take care of me in the last moments of her life.
After knowing her uncle's intention, her grandmother said directly: "Let's go, this money-losing goods should have left a long time ago." ”
After listening to my grandmother's words, my uncle didn't say anything, but just took me by the hand and led me out of the home where I had lived for ten years.
On the way to my uncle's house, my uncle suddenly said to me:
"Yiyi, you have never been a loser, you are your mother, your uncle and aunt's baby. ”
After a two-day long journey, we arrived at my uncle's house.
As soon as I entered the yard, I saw a sturdy woman cooking, and this should be my aunt.
When the woman saw her uncle and me, she smiled and said, "Dad, this is Xiao Yiyi, right? I'm your aunt, let's not talk about this yet, you came back at the right time, just in time for dinner." ”
At the dinner table, my aunt said to my cousin and cousin: "This is Yiyi, and you will be your own sister in the future, if you let me know that if you two dare to bully Yiyi, see if I don't knock you off."
After saying this, my aunt looked at me with a smile and said, "Yiyi, this will be your home in the future, and if anyone dares to bully you in the future, you will tell your aunt, and your aunt will help you take revenge." ”
I was very touched when I heard it, this was the first person besides my mother to say that I was going to give it to me.
After that, I stayed at my uncle's house, and I also went to school nearby, and my uncle's family was not very good, but he still provided for us to go to school.
He said that no matter how hard it is, he can't work hard for the children's education, and in order to make up for our tuition, my uncle went to work in other places, and my aunt was responsible for taking care of our lives.
My aunt took extra care of me, and sometimes even made my cousin very much surprised.
My aunt is a very strong woman, and she always tells us that only by studying can we change our fate.
Sometimes, my aunt would go to the county town to do odd jobs in order to make up for our tuition and miscellaneous expenses.
I still vividly remember that my aunt once said to me personally: "Yiyi, there is only one way for you to change your fate now, and that is to study." ”
When my mother was still there, she always told me that studying can change your fate, I firmly remembered the words of my aunt and mother, studied hard in school, and through my continuous efforts, I was admitted to the best normal university in the province, and my uncle and aunt were very happy.
held a banquet in the township, and I couldn't wait to say that their niece had been admitted to university.
I chose Normal University because it has a state subsidy, can be exempted from tuition, and can return to my uncle's hometown to teach and educate after graduation.
When I told my aunt and uncle that I was going to college for free tuition, I was obviously stunned when I saw my aunt and uncle.
When I said that I wanted to ease the burden on the family and that I wanted to return to my aunt and uncle after graduation.
My uncle and aunt were moved to tears.
But when I left for college, my aunt gave me a box before I got in the car.
Say to me, "Open it when you get to school." ”
When I went to school and opened the box, I found that it contained a lot of money and a note on it:
Yiyi, this is your living expenses for college, although you said no, but your brothers and sisters have living expenses for college, and you can't do without it.
I cried when I looked at it, and suddenly I remembered what my aunt had said when I had just come to my uncle's house:
"Yiyi, this will be your home from now on. ”
Time flies, time flies.
In a blink of an eye, four years of college have passed, and during these four years, I studied hard and won a scholarship for four years.
Every time I went home, I would stuff some money into my aunt and uncle and tell them that this was my scholarship, and they would always say:
"We're not old, we can work for another twenty years, and we have to marry you off with our own hands, and we don't need you to give us money. ”
But I would forcefully stuff them with money every time.
After graduating, I returned to my hometown and worked as a junior high school teacher in the county, where I met my lover.
When I got married, my aunt was such a strong woman who cried uncontrollably, and my uncle also wiped her tears on the side
While saying: "Sister, you can go with confidence, our family is married." ”
My aunt was worried that I would be looked down upon if I went to my in-law's house for too little dowry, so she gave me 20,000 yuan on the day of my wedding.
After I got married, I often went to the countryside to visit my aunt and uncle, and every year I would leave them a sum of money for living expenses.
In the fourth year of work, because of his serious work and hard work, he was promoted to grade director by the principal.
She also gave birth to a daughter with her husband, and her husband and mother-in-law are very attentive to the new members of the family, especially the mother-in-law, who can't wait to watch her granddaughter 24 hours a day.
This suddenly reminded me that I didn't take my family of three to see my mother, and the last time I went to see my mother was when I was admitted to university.
In that year, my husband and I went to see my mother, and I repaired her small piece of the world for my mother, and brought her sugar gourds, which I originally wanted to eat with my mother, but I haven't eaten them for many years.
Every summer vacation, I would take my children and my husband to my uncle's house for a while, and for this reason, my proposal to build a new house for my aunt and uncle was also agreed to on the premise that they would consider that we would come back every year.
I'm very happy about this, and after so many years, I finally have the time to repay my uncle and aunt.
Last summer, because the unit organization required us to study in other places, when I came back, school had already started, and my husband and I didn't go to my aunt's house until two weeks after the start of school that we learned from my cousin that my aunt was sick.
After learning the news, I quickly went to the bank to withdraw 30,000 yuan and rushed to the hospital, learned about my aunt's ward from the nurse, and heard my uncle's voice as soon as I arrived at the door: "Inform Yiyi that her brother and sister should come back." ”
When my aunt heard this, she said, "It's not a big problem, didn't you tell Yiyi, right?" I'm afraid that she will worry, she is so close to us, if she knows that she is sick, she will definitely have to take care of me every day, that child is working too hard now, and she can't make trouble for her anymore." ”
When I heard these words, I was so moved that I immediately pushed open the door and entered the ward, and my aunt was shocked when she saw me, and then looked at my uncle and said, "You told Yiyi?"
I hurriedly said, "It's not my uncle, it's my brother and sister who are worried about you, so they told me, what's wrong with you?"
At this time, the uncle said: "The doctor said that he was tired when he was young, and he left a dark wound, so it would be good to rest and recuperate." ”
When I heard this, I remembered how hard my aunt had worked to make up for our tuition, and tears rolled in the corners of my eyes.
Then I took out 30,000 yuan from my bag, stuffed it into my uncle's hand and said: "My aunt was a secret wound left for us when she was young, and now that I have the ability, I should repay you, I will take the 30,000 yuan first, and I will send you another 30,000 yuan tomorrow, and then find a nurse, I can't let my uncle be tired." ”
When my aunt heard what I said, she also hugged me and said, "I didn't hurt my family in vain." ”
I hugged my aunt with my backhand and said, "You must not be in vain, I am also your own daughter." ”
Hearing this, my uncle and aunt laughed heartily.
I think that my aunt and uncle have supported me with their shoulders, and I should also support them in their old age.