The stepmother's life was exchanged for the mother's life, and she was twenty years younger than her father!The time between my father and my stepmother was full of twists and turns and touching, so it is worth remembering.
I was born in a small, remote village, secluded and beautiful, with towering peaks, fertile terraces, and babbling water, nurturing generations of simple and kind people.
His father was a teacher in the village, and his mother was a hard-working farmer, and the relationship between them was very harmonious. Every day after school, my father would help my mother go to the fields to do farm work and wipe her sweat. The father always told the mother that the heavy work should be left for him to do, and the love between them was always clumsy but overflowing in life.
The stepmother's name is Ah Xia, a neighbor's child and a student of her father.
Ah Xia's parents died when she was a child, and she relied on her elderly and frail grandfather for her life.
When she was a child, her mother loved her very much, and in that era of material poverty, whenever there was delicious food at home, her mother would always think about her. Mother often said: Ah Xia is a hard-working child, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, our family is better than hers, we have to take care of her more.
Ever since I was a child, I liked to follow Ah Xia, who was not much older than me. In my childhood memories, she cared for me like a sister, and whenever I was wronged, she would always appear by my side to comfort me.
Due to various reasons, Ah Xia went out to work before finishing junior high school. She asked her parents to help her take care of her grandfather, and every time she was paid, she would send the money to her parents.
I remember that during the summer vacation when I was in my third year of junior high school, Ah Xia's grandfather passed away. Her parents were busy and helped Ah Xia take care of her grandfather's funeral. At the funeral, Ah Xia cried heartbreakingly, she lost her only loved one in the world.
The old man passed away, and there was a Xi in the village to sacrifice the first seven graves. The mother was not worried that Ah Xia would go alone, so she put down the farm work in her hand, carried the sacrifices with a basket, and accompanied Ah Xia to the grave.
When I set off, the sky was still full of white clouds, and I didn't think that after the sacrifice, the sky was full of dark clouds, like the Jade Emperor overturning the ink bottle. Suddenly, there was a rumbling thunder, followed by a bolt of lightning that pierced the sky. After a while, soybean-sized raindrops poured down from the sky, and the originally gentle river suddenly became turbulent.
The mother led Ah Xia all the way to the direction of home, and when she arrived at the river, Ah Xia accidentally fell into the rough waves.
Seeing Ah Xia struggling in the turbulent river, her mother jumped into the water without hesitation, and tried her best to support Ah Xia to swim to the shore.
When Ah Xia was pushed ashore, her mother had exhausted the last strength of her body, and she was paralyzed in the raging river, letting the waves hit wave after wave, and gradually drowned in the torrent.
Looking at the pouring rain outside, my father and I stood under the eaves anxiously waiting for my mother's return. Finally, my father couldn't take it anymore and said he was going to pick up his mother.
As my father was about to leave, a figure stumbled into the house in the rainstorm, and the rain was so strong that it was impossible to tell who was in the rain. It wasn't until I got closer that I saw clearly that the person who came back was Ah Xia.
My father and I asked about my mother's whereabouts, and Ah Xia sobbed and said that her mother had been swept away by the flood. After saying that, Ah Xia fainted and fell asleep.
Ah Xia's words were like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, which shook us suddenly, and my father had no time to take care of Ah Xia, who fainted on the ground, and rushed out in the heavy rain.
I picked her up and put her on the bed, and I ran out in the rain to get help from the villagers. The news of my mother being swept away by the flood spread, and the villagers began to search along the river.
The rain lasted for half a month, and after nearly a month of search and rescue, the mother was never found. The villagers gradually gave up, and they were all persuading their father to face the reality, since the misfortune had happened, they had to face it calmly, and everything had to be looked at.
Only my father and Ah Xia are very stubborn, and they say that my mother is such a hardworking and kind person, and it is impossible for her to encounter accidents.
That year, I was admitted to a key high school in the county, and my father was busy looking for my mother, so he asked me to go to school by myself, and when I found my mother, he took my mother to the school to see me.
Since I entered the school, my father and Ah Xia have not stopped looking for my mother. My father, who was in the prime of life, began to become haggard and old, and the gray hair on his sideburns crept out silently.
Autumn turns to winter, snowflakes fly in the sky of Layue, and the river begins to freeze. His father reluctantly stopped looking for his mother, and his originally strong body became emaciated. Because he missed his mother so much, his father fell ill.
Since her mother left, Ah Xia blamed herself very much, and her father fell ill, and she felt even more guilty. In addition to taking care of her father, Ah Xia also took care of all the household chores and farm work in the fields. Maybe only in this way can she reduce some of her psychological burden a little.
His father's condition became more and more serious, and when his uncle came to visit his father, Ah Xia took the boiled medicine and brought it over. The uncle was very angry when he saw Ah Xia, he pointed to Ah Xia's nose and said, "My sister was killed by you, do you still have the face to appear here?"”
Ah Xia lowered her head in shame, knelt down in front of her uncle and said: "I'm sorry, I don't want this to happen, my aunt treated me as her own when she was alive, and I can't repay her kindness to me even if I am a cow or a horse, I also blame myself, I dare not ask for your forgiveness." What my aunt has not done in this world, I will do it for her in the future, I will try to be filial to her parents, take care of this family, take care of the children, I will use my life to repay her. ”
The villagers all came to visit my father at home, and I felt extremely sad when I saw my skinny father on the bed, and I said to my father, "I have lost my mother, I can't lose you anymore, you must be strong." ”
Ah Xia squatted in the corner, silently shedding tears, and her relatives sighed. The atmosphere in the house reveals infinite bleakness.
At this time, Brother Erleng in the village happily ran in, he had a high fever when he was a child, and because he did not ** in time, he had some intellectual disabilities.
His words broke the silence in the room, and he jumped happily and said, "I know that Auntie is going to **?."Everyone was shocked by Brother Erleng's words, and asked in unison: "Your aunt is **?"Say it quickly!Brother Erleng blinked and said, "Auntie turned into a phoenix and flew to the sky." I have the same dream every day, and my aunt really flew into the sky. ”
His words brought everyone back to disappointment, only his father kept muttering: "Turned into a phoenix and flew to the sky, no wonder I can't find you......."”
Since then, my father's health has gradually improved slightly, perhaps because he has found psychological sustenance.
In the spring of the following year, Ah Xia planted a few plane trees in my yard, and she thought to herself: Only after planting the plane trees, will my mother come back and have a place to live!
My father quit his job as a teacher because of his health, and all the work in the family fell to Ah Xia.
Whenever she was free, Ah Xia would help her father to the river, and they would sit on the shore and look at the place where her mother fell into the water.
I don't know when a green peacock flew by the river, and when someone saw it, it would open its long feathers and open a colorful screen.
People say that it is the incarnation of the mother, and she really became a phoenix and flew to the sky. In the past few years until I finished college, Ah Xia did not go out to work again, and she has always been by her father's side.
After my job in the city was stable, Ah Xia said something amazing to me. She said she was going to marry her father and take care of him for the rest of her life. And she didn't dare to confess to her father in person, for fear that his father would reject her.
I looked at Ah Xia in disbelief and asked her when she had such thoughtsMy dad is twenty years older than you, not to mention that he is not in good health, why are you bothering?
Ah Xia said firmly: Everyone has a different choice, my life is your mother's life, she loves your father so much, she must hope that your father will live happily in heaven, and I will take care of your father for her whole life. Besides, who is not rare to see a person like your father?
I told my father what Ah Xia thought, and my father was furious when he heard it, and it was the strictest and most irritable father I had ever seen in my life. For a long time, my father and Ah Xia did not say a word, but Ah Xia still took care of the family hard.
When my conditions became better, I took my father to the big hospital in the city**, and Ah Xia guarded my father in the hospital for half a year.
After returning to the village, her father was already able to work in the fields, and she said to Ah Xia: I don't need anyone to take care of me anymore, and you are not too young, so it's time to find your own happiness.
Ah Xia is very stubborn, and she always stays by her father's side. Under Ah Xia's careful care, the plane trees in the yard have become leafy.
After years of guarding, Ah Xia's sincerity and perseverance touched her father. With the help of the villagers and my uncle, Ah Xia and her father entered the palace of marriage and became my young stepmother.
Father and Ah Xia are very affectionate, and during the time they were together, they were almost inseparable, and they were in and out of each other.
Ah Xia lived with her father for more than ten years, and when her father died, Ah Xia was only forty-five years old. After my father left, Ah Xia still guarded my hometown in the countryside and took care of the plane trees in the yard.
Decades have passed, and we are all entering old age. Ah Xia is like my mother and my sister, she has become the most important and dearest person in my life.