In a square dance team, I saw my eldest cousin Zhao Jiaxiu.
If it wasn't for the younger brothers and sisters on the same road who told me, I wouldn't recognize her, and of course, she wouldn't recognize me!
Because we haven't seen each other in over thirty years!
At first glance, I was taken aback, where is the big cousin in my memory who is convex and upturned, tall, ruddy,with two thick, black and long hair braids?
Now she is an old woman who can still dance square dance, and she is an ugly old woman!
Look! Her face is dry, her two deep eye sockets are black, and the real giant panda eye circles. The entire face is left with protruding cheekbones except wrinkles. And the wrinkles do not appear in a single line, but are crisscrossed and engraved all over the face in a tic-tac-toe shape. Look closely, the face is densely packed with countless small tic-tac-toe characters! If you don't laugh, the tic-tac-toe on your face collides with each other, as if the tic-tac-toe is fighting in a group. The hair was tied behind the head, tied with a rubber band, and the charred yellow was sandwiched in the gray, like a handful of grass on the head. The figure is completely unrelated to the fullness of the past, just like a moss-smoked tianma after being dried, deflated, thin, empty, wrinkled, full of a "sow shell".
Years are like a pig-killing knife!
My aunt, the mother-in-law of Zhao Jiaxiu's cousin, is ninety-four years old and has been suffering from Alzheimer's disease for eight years. Now, I have completely lost my self-care.
She didn't know anyone, and when she saw anyone, she either called her dad or mom. Eating does not know full, give more to eat, give less to eat less. When the stool is irregular, the daughter-in-law puts on her diapers, and when she feels uncomfortable, she will put her hand into the diaper and grab her own stool and throw it around. Anywhere in the room, there was her mushy stool, often because it could not be cleaned up, and the room was filled with a disgusting smell of stool. The huge green-headed flies always like to fly toward the house, and when they are beaten, they blindly try to escape from the glass window, but they are stunned and fall by the window. The daughter-in-law or daughter who takes care of her every day will wear a mask and carry her to the toilet to rinse her several times. The mouth will complain: Ancestors! Did you do something abominable or did we do something abominable? Cause you to live pitifully, and we are tortured enough by you!
Through consultation, the three cousins and two cousins reached a consensus: the five families took turns to take care of the elderly's diet and living, and the family was two and a half months.
The agreement was completed, and the eldest cousin Zhao Jiaxiu had an indescribable shallow smile on her face, and in an irrefutable tone, a murmur appeared: "Your agreement is very good, but my family's two and a half months can only be completed by your eldest brother, and I will definitely not take a hand!" ”
The two sisters-in-law stared at their sister-in-law in disbelief, surprised. It was as if he saw his own golden retriever actually bite himself, and it was hard to believe that this was the truth!
But from the tone and eyes of the sister-in-law, they really read that the sister-in-law, who has always been docile, is strong and fearless today!
The two sisters-in-law said half a sentence almost in unison: "The eldest brother is like the father, and the eldest sister-in-law is like the mother..."
The eldest sister-in-law immediately interrupted the two sisters with a poignant sneer, and said in a pathetic tone like a wolf's howl: "The eldest sister-in-law is like a mother? Since I was seventeen years old and did not know how to marry into your Li family, for more than forty years now, you, your mother, your eldest brother, let alone my eldest sister-in-law, the eldest daughter-in-law, as a wife, even if one day I am treated as a family, I will be grateful and will fulfill the obligations of my daughter-in-law. Today, I actually heard you call me the eldest sister-in-law, is there something wrong with my ears, or are you having a slip of the tongue? Hahaha"!
(To be continued)