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(Note: This article is purely fictional, if you have similar experiences, it is purely coincidental, please read it sensibly)
My name is Zhang Shui, and my family lives in a mountain village in the northwest of the motherland, and my name was given to me by my father, because he felt that my arrival was as precious as the water in this mountain village in the northwest.
His father's name is Zhang Jianguo, and he is one of the few people in the village who has studied in high school, and he has been a village teacher in the village all his life. My father's reputation within a radius of dozens of miles can be described as highly respected, not only because he is a rural teacher.
Because he is kind and generous, his father will do his best to help his children when they are in trouble, and he will not be stingy with his helping hand when his family is in trouble.
He also took the lead in digging a well for the village, which is called Mr. Zhang's Well.
In that era when all kinds of materials were scarce, especially in our mountain village in the northwest where water was extremely scarce, because of the well dug by my father, my village could be self-sufficient in water, and the villagers were very grateful to my father.
Every year during the Chinese New Year, there is an endless stream of visitors to the family, including the students he has taught and the people he has helped.
However, the uncle's evaluation in the village is diametrically opposed to his father's, and the villagers all shake their heads when they mention the uncle.
The uncle's name is Zhang Jianjun, and he is the younger brother of his father, and the younger father is ten years old.
Although the uncle and his father are brothers, he is a master who does not hesitate to wander around the village every day. This would have been disciplined in someone else's house a long time ago, but my father didn't mean to discipline my uncle at all.
For as long as I can remember, I can see my uncle come to my house almost every day to eat, but my mother never said anything, just prepare an extra pair of dishes and chopsticks every day and wait for my uncle to come.
When I was a child, I had a good relationship with my uncle, and he would often take me to roll hoops.
But as I grew older, my father began to enlighten and teach me, and the time I could go out to play also decreased, but every night my uncle would play with me after dinner, so in addition to my daily study, what I was most looking forward to was my uncle's arrival.
Inadvertently, time passed quickly, I finished elementary school, and as I grew up, I gradually wondered: why does my uncle come to my house every day to eat?
But before I could find the answer, my father had already entrusted me
The relationship sent me to the county seat hundreds of miles away to go to middle school, although I was a little frustrated that I didn't get an answer, but I soon entered into intense study again.
Because it was far away from home, I could only go home during the winter and summer vacations, and on the first day of school, my father had no time to send me to class because he had to ask my uncle to send me to school.
On the way, my uncle told me that I must study hard when I get to school and strive to get into a good high school, and asked me if I was interested in being a soldier.
When he arrived at the school gate, he took out another hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it to me and said, "At school, it is not as good as at home, you can take this hundred yuan, buy whatever you want to buy and eat, and don't get tired of studying." ”
After finishing speaking, my uncle stuffed the money into my hand, and regardless of whether I shirked it or not, he turned around and left.
In the following years, it was my uncle who came home to pick me up, and through these years of study, I was admitted to the best high school in the county, and when I came home and announced the good news, everyone was happy for me.
Soon when it was time for the start of high school, this time my uncle sent me there, and on the way my uncle asked me again and again if I wanted to be a soldier, and after a few years of study, I realized that being a soldier is a great thing, and I also had a longing for being a soldier.
So I immediately said that I really wanted to be a soldier, and my uncle was also very happy when he heard my answer.
With a goal in mind, I am more motivated to study, and in addition to studying hard, I also use all my free time to improve my physical fitness.
After a semester of high school life, I was even more convinced of my choice to become a soldier.
So when I first got home, I immediately told my parents about the idea of becoming a soldier, and my parents frowned when they heard it, and then asked me if my uncle had told you anything.
I honestly said that my uncle only asked me if I wanted to be a soldier, and he never encouraged me, and it was completely my own will that I wanted to become a soldier.
I said again: "I've wanted to ask for a long time, why does my uncle live with my grandmother, why do you often come to our house for dinner? And my uncle is in his thirties, why don't he get married?"
When I heard my question, my father, who had always answered all my questions, did not answer me, and my mother slapped me on the back of the head and said, "Adults should not interfere with children, and they will tell you when it is time to tell you." Also, I don't care if your father agrees with you to be a soldier or not, I definitely won't agree, I'm just a child of you, if you have three long and two short, I won't live. ”
I had no choice but to stop mentioning this topic, and when I started school at one time, although I was very reluctant, I still told my uncle that I would not go to the army because my mother did not agree.
When my uncle heard my reason, he was stunned for a moment, and then said to me with a smile: "Ah Shui has to study hard, and he will be admitted to a good university, so that your father and mother can rest assured." ”
I nodded yes and went to study harder in school, just as I was fighting for the future of me and my family, bad news suddenly came from home.
My father was sick, very suddenly, but it didn't seem to be so accidental, my father fell ill in the early years when he was on a business trip to save people who fell into the water, plus my father taught students all year round, pharyngitis, varicose veins, frozen shoulder, stomach problems, these seemingly inconspicuous diseases eroded my father's body little by little, but my father still insisted on the podium for the sake of the children.
Eventually, my father fell ill, and as soon as I rushed home, I saw him lying on the kang, panting there.
When he saw me coming back, he beckoned me to go to him and I sat down beside him.
As soon as I sat down, I listened to him say: "Ah Shui, I'm afraid my dad is about to die, my dad hasn't done anything foolish in his life, and it's not bad in the mouths of the villagers, but Dad, I'm only sorry for your uncle, after I leave, you orphans and widows will have to rely on him to take care of them." You go and call your uncle, I have something to say to your uncle. ”
I went out and called my uncle in, and after a while, my uncle came out, and my uncle's eyes were red when he came out, but he still left angrily.
My father still didn't survive the winter of that year, and when I got the news that my father was critically ill, I rushed home, but I still didn't see my father for the last time, and my father was only forty-three years old when he died.
My father's funeral was presided over by my uncle, and at the funeral, my uncle was not as stingy as before, and he sincerely thanked everyone who came to the funeral.
After my father's funeral, I looked at my aging mother, and finally made a decision - I want to quit school to help the family with difficulties, at this time my uncle stood up and said to me: "Go to school, only by studying can you get out of this small world, don't worry about tuition, everything is up to me." ”
I was very moved, but there was still a huge question in my mind that I hadn't figured out, but as the study task became heavier, I didn't think about it anymore.
Two years passed in a flash, because my father's death gave me the desire to become a doctor, and after the admission letter came down, I was also successfully admitted to a top medical university in China.
When the uncle found out, he also smiled with relief, and then he held a banquet for me, and took me to my father's grave and said: "Big brother, Ah Shui, this child is angry, he is admitted to a good university, and he will definitely have a good life in the future, so you can rest assured over there." ”
During the four years of university, I studied professional knowledge seriously and contributed my own strength to the people in my hometown when I returned to my hometown in the future.
After graduating from university, I returned to my hometown and entered the county hospital to become a doctor.
One day off, my mother suddenly wanted to talk to me for a while, and my mother said, "Son, do you know why your uncle always came to our house for dinner in those years?"
Then my mother told me the story of my uncle.
My grandfather died just after my uncle was born, and my father was only ten years old that year, and they all said that the eldest brother was like a father, let alone a child without a father.
Uncle was almost raised by his father, and when he was eighteen years old, he wanted to be a soldier, but after all, Uncle had been taken by his father and grandmother for so many years, and they didn't want him to go.
So the grandmother made up a lie: the grandmother was dying, and she hoped that her children could be by her side to spend the last days of her life. At that time, my father had just gotten married, and he usually taught the children, so the responsibility of taking care of my grandmother was handed over to my uncle.
Uncle actually knows the thoughts of his father and grandmother, although he complained that his grandmother and father did not let him go to the army, but he couldn't bear to refuse his mother, and within two years of his grandmother went, the uncle ignited the idea of becoming a soldier again, but this time he was defeated because the uncle was too old.
After returning home, the uncle had nothing to do, just wandering around the village every day, and the father just told the uncle to go to the house to eat every day because he felt ashamed of the uncle, and the uncle didn't care what others said, and came to the house to eat every day.
Originally, there was a girl who liked the uncle, and she looked for the uncle several times, but she was so scared that she never looked for the uncle again after knowing that the uncle had to take care of her grandmother.
After the death of grandma, my father wanted to find a suitable partner for my uncle, but at this time, my uncle's bad reputation had spread to a radius of hundreds of miles, and my uncle didn't have the idea of finding a other half, so in the end, this matter has been dragged on.
Before his father died, he said two words to his uncle:
Jianjun, it's me who can't stand you.
After I leave, your sister-in-law and your nephew will ask you to take care of me.
These are all things I said when I drank with my uncle after work, and my uncle drank until he got up.
The uncle also said at the time: "My brother, it's just too kind, I didn't become a soldier, I didn't become a soldier, just because I didn't become a soldier, I felt guilty for a lifetime? I guess if I really go to the army, my mother will die, and I will have to rely on my brother for not taking good care of my mother. ”
I looked at the uncle who was already white-headed, and said to him with tears in my eyes: "Uncle, thank you for helping our mother and daughter for so many years, don't worry, I'm going to put my words here today, and I will definitely give you a pension." ”
Uncle didn't expect that just a casual chat would make me give him a guarantee, and at the same time said with relief: "Okay, okay, I have a heart, Uncle is waiting for our Ah Shui to provide for Uncle Xiao's old age." ”
I don't care what others think of me, but I know that my uncle and mother are the two closest people in this world, and my most important family members, and I will definitely let my uncle have a peaceful and peaceful old age.