Narrator: Lina Wang
My name is Wang Lina, I am 36 years old, and I am a family of three living in a second-tier city. My husband works in the human resources department of a large company, and I work in a foreign trade unit. The days are also dull and happy. Today's life is thanks to my aunt and uncle.
I was born in a small village in the north. The village is not very remote, at least the bus to the county seat passes by in front of the house.
My mother's house was very close to my father's house, just across the river. Mother, four brothers and sisters. The mother is an old pimple. The above are the eldest uncle, the eldest aunt and the second uncle.
Grandpa was adopted, and there were not many brothers of the same clan in the family. Grandma has a soft temperament, and it is said that she used to be bullied by the villagers. The mother's temperament follows the grandmother, but the aunt is not like it at all. The aunt is like a hedgehog with thorns all over her body to protect her family. The aunt is pungent in the eyes of outsiders and unreasonable.
The aunt is especially good to her mother, and the aunt doesn't let her mother do any work at home. The mother has been in poor health since birth. Sick easily.
In fact, the "thorn" on the aunt's body is just an illusion. The aunt is kind-hearted and good-looking. Later, the aunt married the great-uncle. My uncle's house is in the town, 20 miles away from my grandmother's house. At that time, my uncle's family was not wealthy. But my uncle read a lot. There is work.
My mother married my father for two years and didn't get pregnant, but she finally got pregnant with me. It is said that at that time, my aunt would always buy some delicious food and bring it to my mother. Often buy white sugar for those home necessities. After I was born, my aunt bought me several beautiful little dresses and brought me all the little ones that her cousin wore in them.
To say that my mother is a blessed person, when I was 3 years old, my mother's health finally got worse and worse, and finally I didn't survive to that year. Gone on a snowy winter day.
After my mother left, I lived with my grandmother. Grandma doesn't like me, maybe the old people like boys. More than a year later, my father married someone else.
Grandma thought that if she got out of the way and my father remarried, someone would be able to take care of me, but I didn't expect that stepmother didn't want me at all. My father listened to my stepmother. Grandma didn't want me anymore.
At that time, there was a family in the village who had been married for several years and had no children. I don't know where I heard that raising someone else's child can attract your own children, especially your son.
They knew that my grandmother didn't want to raise me, so they approached my father and discussed raising me. Father said that grandma was in charge of this. I don't know what benefits they gave my grandmother, so they took me home anyway to "recruit my brother".
After my mother left, my aunt often brought food to my grandmother, for fear that my grandmother would treat me harshly. One day, someone in the village went to the town to catch a big market, and met my aunt, who accidentally talked about my being adopted. My aunt came at that time.
The neighbors who raised me were not kind-hearted people, especially the hostess of the house, who was well-known in the village for being bitter and mean. My aunt was afraid that I would suffer. They just want to take me away.
But they didn't agree. The woman rolled around and said how much she had benefited her grandmother. Later, the woman put forward unreasonable conditions. Let my aunt get a motorcycle in exchange for me.
Motorcycles weren't cheap back then. A motorcycle costs 10,000 yuan. The aunt's family originally had two children, a cousin and a cousin. Although the eldest uncle is paid a salary every month, the family does not have much money. My uncle himself was not willing to buy a motorcycle to ride.
Later, in order to change me, my aunt and uncle still came to push a brand new motorcycle to change it for me. When I was young, I didn't understand the dedication of my aunt and uncle.
In this way, I became a part of my aunt's family. My aunt and uncle were very kind to me. My aunt combed me with beautiful pigtails, bought flower skirts, and told my cousin not to bully me. My uncle always brought me delicious food after work. Buy candy and buy delicious cookies.
Later, my aunt and my uncle opened their own factory. My aunt and uncle always said that it was a blessing I brought to them. Actually, I know that the reason why they say that is just to make my stay more peaceful!
My cousin didn't study very well. Originally, my cousin was smart, but he just didn't care. Later, I didn't go to school and got married early.
My cousin studied well and married her classmate after graduating from college. The two went to live in other provinces. Far from home, rarely come home.
My aunt and uncle offered me to graduate from college because I wanted to stay close to them and stay in the province.
My aunt's factory was a boiler producer, and the equipment was slowly phased out in the early years. As I get older, I can't change my equipment. The aunt and uncle stopped the factory.
My cousin and sister-in-law's factory is not bad. Do winemaking. An ancestral craft in my cousin's family. My cousin went outside to sell. An office was opened in the county seat. It's just that the child is more uneasy. He is a child with autism.
For so many years, it was an aunt with a child. The aunt put all her thoughts on the child, went to many places to see, and spent a lot of money, and nothing changed. My aunt was very worried. Later, my cousin-in-law gave birth to another daughter. My cousin and sister-in-law are busy with business and take care of their daughter, and they rarely have time to see their aunts and uncles.
After graduating from university, I stayed in a second-tier city. My husband is a local. I was very good to me, and my in-laws were excellent to me. When they got married, the aunt and uncle didn't ask for a bride price, and they gave a dowry of 100,000 yuan. It's just to make me more confident in my in-laws' house. My in-laws didn't ask for the money, it was all in my name.
My husband and I have to go back to my aunt's house every New Year's holiday, which is my mother's house. I usually buy food and send it to my aunt and uncle. My uncle always said that his children could not borrow the light, but borrowed my light.
I teased my eldest uncle and said, "Look at what you said, I'm not a daughter anymore!" The eldest uncle smiled and stopped talking.
Last year, my uncle needed surgery on his heart, and my cousin was busy on a business trip at that time, and my cousin was far away. My husband and I took my uncle to my city for surgery. At that time, a total of 80,000 was spent. Later, my cousin and cousin insisted on returning the money to me, saying that either the money would be divided equally between the two of them or the three of us, and I would not be allowed to pay it myself. I didn't take it.
I was originally raised by my aunt and uncle. My husband and I both think that we should take this money. After the year, the old house of the aunt's family was redecorated, hoping that they could live more comfortably! Now I only wish my aunt and uncle good health! I also hope that my cousin's son autism will get better!