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Recently, a video of an old grandmother eating fruit with a "jagged spoon" on the Internet caused countless netizens to cry. The Modern Express reporter learned through multi-party verification that the old man was from Yancheng Dongtai and the photographer was the granddaughter of the old man, Ms. Ma. It turned out that her grandmother's teeth were not good at biting fruit, and her grandfather had specially made this "serrated spoon" for her grandmother in the hospital bed before she died. What touched Ms. Ma was that although Grandpa had been dead for 9 years, Grandma had been using this "serrated spoon" and was well preserved.
△ The elderly eat fruit with a "serrated spoon"
With more than 2.5 million views, nearly a thousand retweets and comments, this video of "Grandpa made a special sawtooth spoon for Grandma before he died" was completely on fire. The video is more than 10 seconds long, and a gray-haired grandmother is sitting on a bed in a cotton coat, holding half an apple in her left hand and a stainless steel spoon in her right hand. In close-up shots, the old man is digging up an apple with a spoon and sending it to his mouth. Looking closer, this seemingly ordinary spoon is half serrated, so that the old man is easier to dig up fruit.
△ "Serrated Spoon"
"Tears, sight of things, evidence of love!" "When Grandma sees the spoon, she will remember to eat more fruit, and tears will run!" "The love of the older generation, although not gorgeous, is very long- and believes in love again!" "True love, often care about these small details, seemingly ordinary love, more touching!" ...... The video touched countless people, and netizens commented on it.
After seeing the video, many netizens were deeply touched and recalled their grandparents: "Remembering the morning when my grandfather died, he got up early in the morning and boiled a lot of eggs, telling my grandmother to eat one a day. "Because my grandmother's legs are not good, I can't bend over too low, and the long nail clippers that my grandfather specially bought have been 20 years, and every time I cut my nails, my grandmother will say: 'This is what your grandfather bought before he died.'" ”
On the afternoon of November 2, the Modern Express reporter managed to find Grandma Jiang Ruzhen in the video. Grandma Jiang is 88 years old, a member of the sixth group of Qingyi Village, Qindong Town, Dongtai, Yancheng City, and her husband Ma Zhonghe is 1 year older than her, who died of illness 9 years ago. "I have followed him all my life, I have never suffered hardships, and he has always taken care of me." Speaking of her husband, the usually taciturn old man Jiang Ruzhen opened the conversation box.
△ Group photo of the old man and his wife
"Old Ma followed his father from southern Jiangsu to Qindong Town as a child, and worked as a bricklayer and a fence worker, and his family was very ordinary. He joined the army in 1951. Jiang Ruzhen recalled that after Ma Zhonghe retired from the army, he was led by the matchmaker of the village and told his father that "the Jiang family was a big household in Qingyi Village (formerly Qingpu Village) at that time, and I did not look up to him at that time, but my father took a fancy to Ma Zhonghe at a glance, and felt that he was down-to-earth, white and pure, had craftsmanship, and could be entrusted." ”
After marriage, the two had three sons and a daughter. In the early 1960s, Jiang Ruzhen worked with her husband in the State-owned Nanjing Battery Factory, and then was decentralized and returned to her hometown in Qindong Town. Her husband, Ma Zhonghe, works odd jobs in the town to support the family.
"For twenty years after retirement, he cooked for me to eat, I usually liked to go to the village in the morning to play, there was no mobile phone at that time, he always laughed and giggled and told me to go home for dinner, never pulled down his face." Anyway, following him in my life, I have not suffered hardships. Looking back on the past, the old man's eyes were a little moist.
The video was filmed by ma Sumin, the granddaughter of the elderly. She told the Modern Express reporter that 9 years ago, Grandpa Ma Zhong and bronchitis attacks died. Because Jiang Ruzhen has bad teeth and it is very inconvenient to eat some hard fruits and food, Ma Zhonghe is very worried about his wife's life after his death in the hospital bed, so he specially created a "serrated spoon" for her, which is used to specially scrape hard fruits such as apples and pears.
"At first, the family didn't know there was this 'serrated spoon', but once when my grandmother was sick, I found out that she used to scrape apples to eat." Later, Ma Sumin learned that after the death of her grandfather, the children worried about their grandmother's sightings and thoughts, and made great changes to the layout of the home, and many old objects were disposed of, but this "serrated spoon" has been following her.
Ma Sumin said that once she used a juicer to squeeze water juice for her grandmother, but her grandmother insisted on not drinking it, saying that it tasted bad, insisting on using the "jagged spoon" that her grandfather made for her, "an ordinary handmade spoon, carrying a lifetime of emotions and concerns." In that era of material scarcity, grandparents did not have much romance, but presented that ordinary and true love, which made us deeply moved. (Courtesy of the correspondent)
Correspondent Zhang Rongrong Xiao Fei Shan Haolun Modern Express +/zaker Nanjing reporter Jiang Zhenjun