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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 Wang Ying, I am 53 years old this year, and I spent a long time in a sad atmosphere after I gave my uncle a funeral last year, but now, I want to collect my emotions and tell the story of my uncle.
I was born in a remote village in the north, which is nearly 100 miles away from the nearest county seat, so the villagers usually don't go to the county seat.
One is that the transportation is not convenient, and the other is that everyone is poor, unless they really want to go to the county to do things, no one will have nothing to do with the county to wander around.
I am the second oldest in the family, there is an eldest sister in the family, ten years older than me, when I was five years old, there was a new person in the family, and my parents gave birth to a younger brother, and since he was born, I have not had a good day.
In the countryside, there are no boys in the family to be gossiped about, so our family suffered a lot of white eyes before my brother was born, and the situation only improved after my brother was born.
So my parents love my brother a lot, and they keep everything delicious for my brother, and my parents often tell me and my sister that my brother is still young, and we sisters should let my brother go, but I don't quite understand why my parents' attitude towards our sisters and my brother is so different.
When I grew up, I realized that this was not a younger brother who wanted to let him, this was obviously the patriarchal preference of my parents.
Although my parents don't care about me, there are still people who care about me, that is my uncle, my uncle is my father's eldest brother, at that time the uncle was in his forties and had not yet married, it is said that in the early years, he worked hard for his brothers to get married and had no time to get along with girls.
When the brothers got married, the uncle was already in his thirties, and his parents died two years ago.
It may be that I have been well-behaved since I was a child, and my uncle likes me very much, and every time I go to my uncle's house, my uncle will bring me delicious food, which I have never eaten at home.
I still remember what happened when I was in the third grade of elementary school, when my sister got married, and my brother-in-law's house made a big table of delicious food to entertain us mothers.
But then my mother, who was sitting next to me, suddenly turned her head to my ear and warned me, "You are not allowed to touch those meat dishes for a while, they are your brother's, if you dare to watch me go home, how will I clean you up." ”
When I heard this, I also thought of my mother's method when she beat me: she would pinch the weakest parts of my body, and every time I lectured me, it would make these places turn black the next day, and I was afraid that my mother would teach me a lesson.
I was still a child, and I didn't resist the craving for meat, so I grabbed a large piece of fat and thin meat with chopsticks in front of my mother and stuffed it directly into my mouth.
When my mother saw this, she glared at me directly, and stretched out her hand to slap me, and I got under the table in fear, and at the same time did not forget to speed up the speed of chewing meat.
When my mother saw me hiding under the table, she was angry and gave me a kick in front of so many relatives and said, "Loser, this meat is for your brother, and you still eat it?" ”
As he spoke, he was about to drag me out and beat me, but at this moment the uncle spoke: "What's the matter?" Brother and sister, are these dishes for your son? Then what did you call us to do, I knew that you were like this, and I would have left with the salute. ”
The uncle's voice was very loud, and the questions were very sharp, which suddenly put the mother in a dilemma, and repeatedly said that it was not a no, but just a lesson to his own children.
When the uncle heard this, he sneered and said, "Oh, to teach a child is to not let this child eat when another child is happy?" Brother and sister, your family doesn't treat children differently, right? ”
Mother usually likes to flaunt herself in the village and treats her children equally, but this time let the uncle make the real situation known to everyone, so that her face is a little unbearable, and the mother is still pale and powerless to explain.
But the uncle didn't care about him, and beckoned directly to me who stood up: "Yingzi, come to the uncle's place to sit and eat, I think who would dare to let your sister not have enough to eat on your sister's big day today." "Uncle kept staring at his father and mother as he spoke.
My parents knew that they were at a loss, so they stopped talking, so I opened up to eat that day, as if I wanted to eat all the delicacies I hadn't eaten for so many years, and my uncle was watching me eat at the table while smiling and telling me to eat more slowly.
Although I was beaten by my parents when I finally went home, it was the best meal I have had since I was born, and until now I miss my sister's wedding wine when I sat next to my uncle.
After I finished elementary school, my mother didn't want me to go to school, but wanted me to help out at home after finishing primary school like my sister, and when I was old enough to get married, she would marry me off in exchange for my brother's bride price.
But I still wanted to continue studying, but I couldn't resist my parents, and that was the darkest time in my life, and I couldn't find the direction of my life at all.
In the end, my uncle helped me, and he heard my parents' decision not to let me go to school from a chat with regret from my neighbor, and immediately came to my house, saying that in the future, he would pay for my tuition, so that I could continue to go to school.
When the uncle left my house, I went out to send him, and when I sent the uncle to the door, the uncle turned his head and said to me seriously: "Yingzi, you just have to study hard in the future, and the rest of the uncle will solve it for you." ”
It was only later that I learned from my sister that my uncle had said the same thing to every child in my family who had dropped out of school, but after so many years, I was the only one who had to persevere and study.
Uncle for the family can be said to have dedicated his life, and when I was admitted to college a few years later, my parents wanted to leave me in the countryside on the grounds that the tuition fee was too expensive, and I would get married in two years.
He contracted all the tuition fees for my four years of college, and at the same time said to me: "Yingzi, your whole big family has produced you as a college student, and you must study hard after you go to college, so that you can contribute to the country after graduation." ”
I looked at the uncle who had been aging in the past few years in order to provide for my schooling, and I had a thousand words in my heart to thank him, but the last words became on my lips: "Uncle, when I graduate, I will come back to honor you!" ”
I hardly went home in the years when I was in college, and I went to work for summer jobs to earn my living expenses during the holidays, and I told my uncle many times that I didn't have to pay for my living expenses, and I was already very grateful to him for his tuition fees.
But the uncle doesn't think so, he said that you are a little girl who keeps more money in the field, and you must buy whatever you like when you encounter it, don't feel sorry to spend money.
I got a scholarship for four years in college, and each time I sent the scholarship to my uncle, hoping that he could use the money to improve his life.
But my uncle refused to spend the money, he would rather help me save it than use it, and when I graduated from college, my uncle returned all the scholarships I had received in the past few years.
I bought a bunch of delicious food with my first month's salary after working, rewarded my childhood with little food, and then left enough for a month's food expenses, and saved the rest of the money.
When I came home for the Chinese New Year, I brought a bunch of gifts to my uncle, and the living room of my uncle's house was almost overwhelmed, and my uncle's neighbors were also at the scene, and his eyes were full of envy when he looked at him.
In the years that followed, I seldom went back to the village, but every month I would set aside a part of my salary, save half of it, and divide the remaining half into two parts, one to my parents, who had raised me for so many years, and the other to my uncle, who would still be sitting in the countryside and working day after day.
Time is like flowing water, and before I know it, decades have passed, I am also married and have children, and my son is about to get married, and a lot has happened in these decades, and my younger brother has also got married and has children.
When I got married, my uncle didn't give a gift, but called me to the end of the banquet and handed me a passbook and said to me: "Yingzi, my uncle has loved you since I was a child, and today is your big day, and my uncle doesn't know what to give you, so he just made something vulgar, there are 50,000 yuan in this passbook, you put it away and don't let your in-laws and your parents see it. ”
After the uncle finished speaking, he stuffed the passbook into my hand, turned around and left, leaving me with tears in my eyes.
My parents also passed away a few years ago, and I used to think about taking my parents to support my old age, but perhaps out of guilt for me, they rejected my proposal, and although they rejected my proposal, I also fulfilled my obligation to support the elderly.
And for so many years, I have always wanted my uncle to move to my house to support the elderly, when my husband and I got married, my uncle was a witness, and my husband has known the story of me and my uncle for so many years, so he also respects the uncle.
My husband did not have any objection to my desire to take my uncle to the house to support him, but he was very supportive of me, and he felt that he had set a good example for our children.
But the uncle knew that he didn't agree to move to my house before leaving, so I had no choice but to go home every month to see the uncle, and at the same time ask my younger brother to take care of the uncle more.
Originally, the uncle was very reluctant for his younger brother to go to his house often, but when the uncle knew that I was worried about him and specially arranged for my younger brother to go to his house to take care of him, he never rejected his younger brother again.
In March last year, my brother suddenly called me to say that my uncle had passed away, and I quickly put down my work and returned to my hometown, and I was fully responsible for my uncle's funeral after arriving at my hometown, and I couldn't help crying at the funeral scene.
My brother comforted me and said that my uncle was still calling my name before he died, and he must not want me to be so sad under Jiuquan.
I think what my brother said makes sense, my uncle died at the age of ninety-two, and there was no pain when he left, so I should be happy.
Although my uncle has been away from me for a long time, I will never forget his help to me, and I will pass on this spirit so that my children and grandchildren will remember this story.
(The story comes from life, but it is higher than life, this article is pure fiction, if there is any similarity, it is purely coincidental)