At the end of the year, there was no work in the factory, so I went back to my hometown.
As soon as I got home, I put down my luggage and took the things I had prepared to visit my parents, who I hadn't seen for almost a year.
My parents are old, but fortunately, they are still healthy, which makes me feel a little relieved.
During the chat, my mother suddenly said that my aunt's brain was a little confused these days, and it seemed that it was no longer very useful.
I was a little stunned, when my aunt celebrated her 80th birthday last year, she could still chat with everyone and laugh, why was she confused all of a sudden?
Seeing my incredible face, my mother said, the old man is like this, he can still run with kinetic energy in the morning, and he will not be able to get off the bed in the afternoon, so he will have time to take a look.
I nodded silently. After leaving my parents' house, I turned around and went to my aunt's house.
As soon as I entered the door of my aunt's house, I heard that the inner room was quite noisy, and if I carefully identified it, it seemed that my aunt was cursing someone.
I stood in the courtyard and shouted "Auntie", and the cursing in the back room was gone, and after a while, a woman came out.
I looked at it fixedly, it was my cousin's youngest daughter, my cousin.
My cousin's eyes were red, and when she saw that it was me, she beckoned me into the house and raised her sleeves to wipe away her tears.
I asked her curiously, it didn't matter, her tears welled up all at once, and she said with an unconcealable cry in her throatIt's okay, it's my mother's illness, and it's not good to think about it.
I followed my cousin into the back room, and my cousin was half-lying on the bed, and when she saw her, she began to curse again, listening to the meaning of her words, as if she was counting the notes that my cousin had stolen from her.
My cousin smiled at me with an embarrassed face, and then sat down next to my cousin, and while she tidied up her aunt's slightly messy hair, she said, "Mother, didn't this deposit slip be placed with my eldest brother, why did you forget ......."”
The cousin stared at her cousin blankly, as if she was trying to remember something, looked at it for a while, turned to joy, clapped her palms and said, "Yes, it is indeed my eldest child who kept it, or I handed it over to him!".”
Looking at Aunt Cousin's appearance, her mind is indeed a little confused. However, it seems that it has temporarily improved.
I quietly approached my aunt, leaned down, and asked in a soft voice, "Auntie, Xiaoliang has come to see me, do you still recognize me?"”
My cousin raised her face and looked at me for a long time, then turned her head to look at my cousin, smiled wryly and shook her head.
My cousin's eyes suddenly turned red again, and she said, "Brother, you name me, maybe my mother remembers."
So, I reported my nickname of "Huzi" again. This time, Aunt Cousin's eyes suddenly lit up, and she obviously remembered the person "Huzi".
She was a little excited and wanted to sit up, but she coughed several times because of the force. I hurriedly grabbed her body and coaxed her to lie down.
She obediently half-lay down, and when the cough subsided, she suddenly asked me:"Huzi, what's going on with your marriage, do you have a home?”
I couldn't help but smile bitterly, I'm already fifty years old, and my daughters are all in graduate school, why can't I have a family?
It seems that my aunt's mind is not clear again.
I held my aunt's hand and said, "I'm married, my aunt can rest assured." I don't know why, when I said this, my throat was uncomfortable.
Aunt Tang smiled and nodded.
I didn't know what to say for a moment, and there was a hint of cold embarrassment in the air.
Suddenly, my cousin raised her hand and beckoned my cousin and said, "Get a pear, I'm cute and eat pears."
My heart skipped a beat, my aunt still remembered that I love pears!
When I was a child, I planted a pear tree in front of my aunt's house, and every year before the pear was ripe, I would secretly go up to the tree to pick it.
My aunt would never stop me, she always liked to stand under the tree with her arms outstretched with a smile, and told me loudly: "Watch your step, don't step on the air!".”
Now, the pear tree is long gone, and my aunt is too old to look good.
The cousin washed the pears and brought them over. I felt very uncomfortable, and I didn't really want to eat, so I asked my cousin for a knife, and said that I should sharpen it for my aunt to eat.
After peeling the pear, I divided the pear into several petals. As soon as she put down the knife, her cousin immediately took it away, and she said that now her cousin likes to take things indiscriminately, and she doesn't dare to put the knife or cut anything in front of her.
When eating pears, my aunt was as happy as a child, with a bright smile on her face.
Because she ate too quickly, a lot of saliva flowed from the corners of her mouth. My cousin was about to wipe it off for her, but she lifted her arm and wiped it on her sleeve, like a child who didn't know anything about the world.
After eating most of the pears, my aunt's eyes began to look anxiously in the back room, and when I asked her what she was looking for, she cried out and said that the old man was gone.
Uncle Cousin has been gone for several years. The family was afraid that the aunt would touch the scene, so they deliberately hid the portrait of the cousin.
For a moment, I didn't know how to answer my cousin. At this time, my cousin patted my cousin's back and gently comforted: "Mother, my father is here to see the field, this year's wheat harvest is bumper, and if you don't look at it, you won't be ......."”
Aunt Tang nodded as if she didn't understand, she was really confused - now it is a cold and freezing day of Layue, which is the solar term when the wheat is ripe.
The cousin glanced out the window and muttered"It's not too early, but don't forget to bring food to the old man, add an extra bun, he eats like a calf!”
As she spoke, she herself was the first to laugh.
The cousin saw that her cousin was coaxed by her, so she followed her aunt's words and talked down, she said, don't worry about my father, but also think about the little girl, know what the little girl likes to eat
The cousin turned her cloudy eyes and thought about it, then suddenly held her cousin's face, and said with a distressed expression: "I love to eat my fried noodle fish, and I love to wear cloth shoes embroidered with lotus flowers......."I still love to freeze my hands in winter, and my hands are swollen like ......”
The cousin was "chattering", and when she looked at her cousin again, she couldn't cry anymore.
Seeing that her cousin was in tears, her aunt was so anxious that she began to cough again, and she was coughing and muttering:"Nier, don't cry, don't cry, my mother will give you fried noodles and fish to eat, and put more oil ......”
Standing and listening, I couldn't help but turn my back and quietly wipe away my tears.
When my cousin stopped crying, my phone rang, and it was my daughter-in-law urging me to go home for dinner.
I said goodbye to my cousin. My cousin sent me to the door, and I gave her three hundred dollars, but she didn't want to take it at first, but I insisted on giving it, so she accepted it.
At this time, the cousin's curse came from the back room again, and the cousin hurriedly turned around and left. Looking at the empty courtyard of my aunt's house, my heart hurts!
When I got home, had dinner, and cleaned up, I went to see my parents again.
At that time, my mother was sitting on the bed soaking her feet, and I squatted down silently. Mom was a little surprised, saying that she could wash it herself, and she didn't need me to do it.
I lowered my head and didn't respond, silently helping her wash her feet. On the way back, thinking about my mother's silver hair, looking at the starry night sky overhead, my heart was sour again.
Time is urging people to grow old, and time is too hurried. I hope that all the old people in the world will no longer suffer from Alzheimer's disease - this disease is too painful and too cruel.