Preface
The 97-year-old Taiwanese veteran needs to use a wheelchair when he goes out, but despite the opposition of his family, he insists on taking his family back to the mainland to visit relatives.
However, at the moment when the group stepped on the land of the motherland, the old man's wife made an astonishing remark: "Let's not go back to Taiwan, let's live here!" ”
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What is it that shocks my wife to such a point? Can veterans visit their relatives successfully?
He has not returned for many years, shocking the transformation of the motherland
Early in the morning, the old man's family came from all over Taiwan, and they gathered at the Taiwan airport for only one purpose, to see what the mainland in the old man's mouth was like, and what made the old man so persistent.
From the conversation with the flight attendant on the plane, we can know that the old man used to be an air force, served in Hualien Airport, and the experience of joining the army made the old man move freely with the help of a wheelchair even if he is 97 years old.
After the staff on duty at the airport saw the old man getting off the plane in a wheelchair, he immediately stepped forward and took the initiative to help his son push the wheelchair. It wasn't until the two started talking that the staff knew that this was actually a compatriot from Taiwan.
When I got out of the airport, the staff and the old man took the ground direct elevator together, looking at such a spacious space, the old man's son exclaimed, what a good!
To the old man's hometown, he needed to reverse another train, and what the old man didn't expect was that he saw Taiwan's pork knuckle rice at the railway station in the mainland.
However, the shock that the fire station brought to the old man was not limited to that.
When boarding the train, the train crew saw an elderly person using a wheelchair on the platform and trotted over to help the elderly. Without the old man's family having to do anything during the whole process, their group was sent into the carriage at a very fast speed.
Seeing the old man's son, he couldn't help but be surprised, this service is too good.
But this exclamation was heard by the passengers in the same car, and they also said words that made their son feel uplifted.
"Taiwan compatriots welcome home!"
Presumably, every wanderer can understand the gold content of this sentence.
After settling down completely on the train, looking at his sleeping father, touching the soft bed, and measuring the spacious cabin, the old man's son finally sighed deeply, how good!
Along the way, in the window of the train, looking at the great rivers and mountains of the motherland in a flash, there seemed to be tears flashing in the son's eyes, and I don't know if the sleeping old man is recalling in a dream at the moment, his hometown that he has not met for a long time.
Finally, after getting off the train and getting into the nanny car, the old man's wife said what everyone was thinking.
"Otherwise, I won't go back to Taiwan, so I'll live here."
Homesick, returning with tears in my eyes
As the nanny car moved, the scene outside the window was gradually covered by mountains, and the attention of the two old men shifted from each other to the outside. The car is driving in front, and the heart of the mind is also driving.
Finally, the vehicle stopped and came to the first stop for the elderly to visit relatives, Huichang Drama Town.
It is also the hometown of the famous Taiwanese director Lai Shengchuan, and the drama town is a characteristic ancient town formed by starting from Lai Shengchuan's ancient house and continuing outward.
Director Lai Shengchuan rose in the mainland, Taiwan developed, and finally went international. However, he did not have the place where he was born and raised, and after becoming famous, he relied on his influence to make the drama town the only stop in Chinese mainland for the world tour of Shakespeare's classic "Macbeth".
According to the old man's introduction, Lai Shengchuan's father, Lai Jiaqiu, is the old man's junior high school English teacher. And the old man went to junior high school at the venue, and after high school, he had the back story.
At the same time, after learning that the drama town was completed in only one year, the old man's son once again lamented the Chinese government's ability to execute.
Early the next morning, with the slow opening of the electric curtains, the old man jumped under the sudden sunlight, such a modern room, central air conditioning, electric curtains, electric toilets, voice control, if it is not outside the window or the familiar old house, the old man is estimated to wonder if he has come to the wrong place.
Then, under the guidance of someone, the old man and his party began to march towards their hometown.
The old man's state is also getting higher and higher, because he will be able to see his long-lost hometown until, before long.
Just as the old man was telling the story of the past in the car, the mountains in front of him suddenly disappeared, replaced by endless fields, and the sound in the car also stopped abruptly.
The son who was sitting in the passenger seat looked back and saw his father looking straight out of the window, his face was dull, and his eyes were gradually blurred.
Maybe it's because the old man is very worried in his heart, whether his family still knows him, and whether he still has a place for himself in this place where he hasn't returned for decades.
After a long time, a home gradually appeared at the end of the field, and this was the destination of the trip.
Before the vehicle approached, the scene that appeared in front of him made the old man's expression change directly from loneliness to the sky.
Family reunion, friendship flowing
As the field shrank, a few black dots in the car window gradually enlarged, and when he got closer, the old man found that his family was standing in front of his house with firecrackers and braziers.
The smiles on their faces and the expectant eyes also revealed their expectations for the elderly.
Before the old man got out of the car, he saw the smoke and dust in the sky being raised by firecrackers, and the lit brazier was already ready to remove the evil spirits.
When they came to the living room, the old man became the backbone of their group. Although there are people who are busy in front of him, there are those who know and some who don't, but the old man knows that they only see invisible forces connected to each other, and they are a family.
The old man's son identified the elders of the family for his daughter, and relatives and friends called their children to their side to get close to the sister who had crossed the mountains and seas.
Maybe at this moment, the children will look at each other's unfamiliar faces, and their eyes will be a little evasive, but after many years, they will only see the blood bond, and they will definitely establish a deep bond in their eyes.
As he spoke, when it was time to eat, as soon as he entered the restaurant, not only the old man and his son, but also his relatives and friends who were traveling with him were shocked.
A table full of twenty dishes, in the words of his son, "This is not a peasant dish at all, at this time the whole Han is full!" ”
Don't look at the old man's 97-year-old age, but he can vaguely depict the state of his hometown many years ago, as if those scenes have been fixed in the old man's mind and will never be erased.
Relatives and friends listened to the old man's story, and also told the old man about the current changes one by one. Between the lines of relatives and friends, it is not difficult to find that whenever modern development is talked about, there will be a sense of pride overflowing.
The old man naturally felt the charm and immediately said, "That's why I want to bring my granddaughter back to see it in my lifetime."
After eating, the old man and his party drove to the clan ancestral hall with their relatives and friends. And this is the purpose of the old man's trip.
The 97-year-old man only hopes that when he is still alive, he can see his children and grandchildren, be able to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, be able to take another look at the scenery of his hometown, and be able to feel the great rivers and mountains of the motherland when he is still able to act.
With the support of his son, the old man and his family paid homage to their ancestors, and invited them to bring out the genealogy, call the children to their knees, and compare them with the family records one by one, telling them about their contributions to the family in the early years.
While the old man was telling the old story in the ancestral hall, the son came to the city wall of his hometown, touching the green bricks and tiles in his hands, and looking at the green water and thousands of mountains in his eyes.
Looking at the scenery of my hometown in the thousand-year-old city, the years pass in the long river, and the nostalgia is sublimated at this moment.
The son couldn't help but sigh again: "Thanks to the blessing of the ancestors and the support of the motherland, everyone can develop upward"
The father recalls the story of 90 years ago in the grass and trees of his hometown, the son feels the charm of history in the story of the countryside, and the children surround themselves with adults and enjoy the happy time under the protection.
The 97-year-old veteran's recognition of his ancestors can be said to be a great success!
epilogue
It took China 70 years to catch up with the development of developed countries for hundreds of years, and the hardships paid in it have been recorded by time on the dilapidated stone walls, carved in the wrinkles of parents, and recorded in the blood of China.
Every wanderer who is away is nostalgic for the scenery of his hometown, and he is sad about not being able to return to his hometown.
If you have the opportunity to go home and have a look again, act immediately, don't wait until things are wrong, and then sit on the bridge and regret it.
[Information sources]
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