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(Note: This article is purely fictional, if you have similar experiences, it is purely coincidental, please read it sensibly)
When my father died suddenly when I first started college, I wanted to give up my studies, but my stepmother said that she would provide for me to finish college.
I thought at the time, when I worked, I must let my stepmother enjoy the blessings.
But it backfired, my stepmother, who had just joined the job after graduating from college, suddenly sent me a letter by asking someone to send me a letter, saying that I had found a wife, and my wife's retirement salary was very high, and she would be able to enjoy Qingfu in the future, and asked me not to disturb her life anymore.
Although I am happy that my stepmother can live a good life, I have always regretted that I did not fulfill my filial piety to my stepmother.
So I decided to go back anyway.
I was born in a remote mountain village where the main source of income was the men, and my father was one of them.
My mother was already frail, and she had a fetal gas when she gave birth to me, so I took care of her for as long as I can remember, because most of the money my father earned had to be used to treat my mother.
So in my memory, my family has always been very poor, although the family is very poor, but my parents did not let me drop out of school early like other families in the village, on the contrary, they often encouraged me to study more, and reading can change my fate.
Although my father didn't know a few big characters, he would bring me a few books every time he came back from the county seat.
Only the sentence of reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles made me remember deeply.
I still remember thinking when I read this sentence:
As long as I read enough, I will definitely be able to travel to many places, so that I will definitely find a doctor who can cure my mother's illness.
When my mother heard my thoughts, she laughed and cried, but I didn't understand it at the time, but now I think it should be my mother's reluctance to me, right?
My mother left me and my father without waiting for me to go all over the world to find a doctor who could cure her, and when she was dying, she took me by the hand and told me to study hard, so that my father could worry less and my father could enjoy his happiness.
I also seriously promised that I would study hard, be admitted to a good university, and let my father enjoy happiness.
My mother left, and after my mother left, my father took me to school in the city where he worked.
During the first two years with my father, I was silent about the loss of my mother, and I didn't care much about anything other than studying, whether it was clothes or food.
But when I was in the fourth grade, I suddenly realized that my father seemed to need a good helper to live, and I ate at least nutrition at school every day.
And my father eats steamed buns and pickles every day, and my heart is always not delicious.
It dawned on me that the death of my mother had not only devastated me, but also my father, who had not seen him smile for a long time.
I began to take the initiative to persuade my father to find another partner to live with, perhaps because my father listened to me, and when I graduated from elementary school, my father brought a gentle woman into our house.
She is from a neighboring county, and her father introduced her through a matchmaker, and she has experienced the same pain of bereavement as her father, and her stepmother had a son who also died a few years ago.
She gave all her love to this new home that she, her father, and I had formed.
Since my stepmother came to our house, a lot has changed in the family.
My clothes have become cleaner, the family table is no longer full of steamed buns and pickles, my father can eat nutritious meals, and my father finally has a smile on his face.
Since then, after no worries, I have also studied harder,
Time flies, six years have passed in a blink of an eye, and I have graduated from high school and been admitted to the university of my choice.
But my college tuition hadn't been settled, so my father sat at the door and smoked a cigarette all afternoon, and the next day he went to the construction site.
I also understand my father's difficulty, and after graduating from high school, I also found a part-time job in order to save up for college tuition.
While I was still working hard, I suddenly received a call from my stepmother, and I rushed to the hospital in a panic.
In order to save my college tuition and living expenses, my father went to the construction site to work as a scaffolding worker, but after all, my father was in poor health a few years ago and fell off the scaffolding on the construction site carelessly.
My father didn't make it through, and he left us a week later.
After my father died, the construction site gave me a compensation of 100,000 yuan, and I thought about what to do in society and not go to college.
But my stepmother disagreed, and she said to me, "Go to college, even if you smash the pot and sell iron, I will provide for you to go to college, not only for your future, but also for your father's last wish." ”
To this day, I still remember the persistence in my stepmother's eyes that day.
In the end, I didn't twist my stepmother and went to college.
In the four years of college, I didn't go back to my hometown for four years to save money.
My stepmother not only pays me tuition every semester, but also pays me living expenses every month.
I always told her not to call me and that I could get scholarships that would cover my living expenses at the university.
And I also work as a holiday worker during the holidays to make ends meet.
But my stepmother didn't care, she still sent me money as she pleased, and I secretly calculated it
After a while, by the third year, my stepmother had already spent all my father's compensation money on me.
But in the fourth year, my stepmother still sent me money as usual, and my stepmother didn't listen to me a few times, and then I saved all the money my stepmother sent me, and planned to return it to my stepmother in the name of honoring my stepmother by paying my salary after graduation and working.
Finally, when I graduated, I also found a job that satisfied me with both the salary and the benefits.
Just as I decided to wait until this weekend to go back to see my stepmother, I suddenly received a letter from my stepmother's trustee.
The letter was accompanied by a bank card, which read:
Child, you have graduated from college, and I have nothing to help you, thanks to your hard work in the past few years, there are still scholarships in school, so I don't spend a lot of money for you.
Two years ago, an uncle pursued me, and I thought I'd wait until you graduated.
Now that you have graduated, I should also plan for the future, the person I promised to pursue me this year, I can also enjoy Qingfu in the future, this card is your father's compensation back then, I will return it to you as a wife.
You also have to find your other half as soon as possible, and your parents can be comforted in the heavenly spirit.
You don't have to look for me, I'm doing well, I don't contact you just because I don't want you to disturb me, you will live on your own in the future, take care of yourself.
After reading my stepmother's letter, I froze in place for a long time, I have been with my stepmother for more than ten years, and in my heart there is no difference between my stepmother and my biological mother.
But my stepmother also said that she had a better life, so I shouldn't bother her. Reason tells me that I should forget it, but emotion tells me that it can't be like this.
The day after receiving the letter, I asked the leader for a long leave and embarked on the journey home.
I thought it would be a difficult task to find my stepmother.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I got off the train, I saw a familiar figure selling a boxed lunch.
I shouted at the figure, "Mother!"
I saw the figure visibly stunned, then looked back tremblingly, and when I realized that it was me, my eyes were red and I said, "Why did you come back?" ”
I said, "I want to come back and see if my mother is doing well." Fortunately, I came back, otherwise I wouldn't have known that my mother was so hard. ”
My stepmother and I went back to our house, and my stepmother was busy cooking for me, while I took advantage of this time to go to the neighbor's house to ask about my stepmother's situation in recent years.
In the explanations of several neighbors, I also pieced together my stepmother's life in the past few years.
Every morning, I would go to deliver milk and newspapers to people's homes, sell lunch boxes next to the train station at noon, and even go home in the evening to paste cardboard boxes for the nearby matchbox factory.
There is not a single day off 365 days a year.
Sometimes, in order to earn a few extra dollars, I paste cardboard boxes at home until midnight.
The neighbor wakes up in the middle of the night and can see the faint light in the stepmother's room.
In order to make more money, she sometimes goes to the construction site to do odd jobs.
After listening to the neighbor's story, I was moved by my stepmother's dedication, and at the same time I was ashamed of my laziness, if I had worked two more part-time jobs in school, wouldn't my stepmother have to be so tired?
With this in mind, I went home, and when my stepmother saw me coming back, she quickly said, "I'm just going out to look for you, let's have dinner." ”
I looked at my stepmother with a serious face and said, "Mother, come with me, it's time for me to honor you." ”
After hearing this, the stepmother just smiled and said, "Didn't I say it all in the letter, there is an uncle who pursues his mother, and his mother will go to enjoy happiness in the future." ”
I didn't refute it, but said:
"I just went to ask the neighbors around, they said that you have been going out early and returning late every day for the past few years, and you have not had much rest, and you don't have time to meet anyone at all, I know you don't want me to worry, but our mother has been treating me like my own son for so many years, why can't I treat you like my biological mother?"
When my stepmother heard what I said, the corners of her eyes were red, and she couldn't stop nodding and shaking her head, I walked up to her, hugged my stepmother and said:
"In the future, I will raise you, and I will definitely give you a happy and healthy old age, and I will let you take your grandson, if I pay it in the future."
's girlfriend doesn't look down on you, so let's change it until we find someone who doesn't dislike our mother and son!"
My stepmother finally agreed to my request and returned to my city with me for another five years.
In the past five years, I have married a wife, had children, been promoted and raised, and supported my stepmother in her old age.
My wife also respects her stepmother very much, and she always teaches her children to be filial to their grandmother.
There is no greater love in the world than the love of parents for their children, whether it is my father and mother or my stepmother, their love for me is selfless and unrequited.
I will spend the rest of my life repaying my stepmother for her love for me.