At noon on December 13, the sun was just right in Lujiaxian Village, Gongjing Town, Yuzhong, Lanzhou, and Yang Cuilan and her family helped their father-in-law to the door of the cave to bask in the sun. Gongjing Town is located in the north mountain of Yuzhong, which belongs to the loess gully area, the natural conditions are difficult, and many families still have the Xi of living in kilns.
At noon, Yang Cuilan prepared noodles for her father-in-law and family. Letting her father-in-law eat on time is the most important thing for Yang Cuilan, a 60-year-old daughter-in-law, every day.
Yang Cuilan's father-in-law Wei Zhengming was born in 1923 and is a centenarian, and now his life is basically taken care of by his daughter-in-law Yang Cuilan. Recently, the old man is in good physical condition, and he can go to the yard with the support of his family, but a few months ago, the old man had an illness and was bedridden.
The first few months, it scared the hell out of me!As long as my husband is at home, I am still a child. Yang Cuilan said, and the past also came to her heart.
inseparable parents and sisters-in-law are like mothers.
We can't get involved with the two of you anymore, we've split up!In 1988, his father-in-law Wei Zhengming proposed to split the family.
That year was an eventful year for Yang Cuilan's family, her mother-in-law died of cancer, and her brother-in-law and sister-in-law were still minors.
My father-in-law was afraid that it would affect us, so he proposed to split the family, and my mother-in-law suffered from cancer and spent all the family's poor savings and borrowed foreign debts. Yang Cuilan recalled the scene at that time, if they were separated, they would not have to bear foreign debts and take care of a large family.
Separated, I can't sleep at night, my brother-in-law and sister-in-law are not adults, and my father-in-law can't cookYang Cuilan said that the more she thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong, her father-in-law was for their good, but who wanted her father-in-law's difficulties.
My sister-in-law and my brother both rode bicycles to deliver flour to our school, and the mountain roads were rugged, and many times they actually pushed the carts, and every time I went to school, my sister-in-law was tired and sweaty. "My brother-in-law, Wei Juncang, still clearly remembers the situation when my sister-in-law went to their school to deliver flour.
Wei Juncang studied in junior high school and high school in the summer official camp, and the food he needed was sent by his family to flour and then exchanged for school meal tickets. In 1983, after Yang Cuilan married into the family, she took on the task of delivering flour to her brother-in-law Wei Juncang, and Yang Cuilan pushed the car rain or shine on dozens of kilometers of mountain roads from Gongjing to Xiaguanying.
I thought that my sister-in-law would not ignore us, and the day after the family was separated, my sister-in-law came to cook for us again, and the family was not divided. Wei Juncang was happy that his sister-in-law was back, but he also knew that in the difficult years of life, the white noodles he ate were saved by the whole family. With my sister-in-law's hard work and ability, it will definitely be better to live a single life.
Eating the white noodles saved at home, Wei Juncang's road to the college entrance examination was not smooth, and he failed the exam in the first year. Thinking about his sister-in-law's hard work every time he delivers noodles, Wei Juncang is annoyed and sad, so many things have happened at home, and he is still eating idle meals at school.
I told my sister-in-law that I didn't want to go to school anymore and wanted to help with the family. Wei Juncang said that he didn't want to go to school, but he didn't expect his sister-in-law, who had always been kind, to suddenly become serious and tell him that he had the truth of giving up halfway.
But after repeating for a year, Wei Juncang fell off the list again.
I feel so sorry for my sister-in-law, thinking about the back of my sister-in-law pushing the cart to deliver noodles, I feel ashamed. Wei Juncang said that he was overwhelmed by academic failures and self-blame, but his sister-in-law firmly supported him, saying that he had a good foundation in Xi studies, and if he couldn't pass the exam in one year, he would take two years, and if he couldn't do it in two years, he would be admitted in three years.
In 1990, Wei Juncang was admitted to Shihezi Medical College, and after graduation, he enlisted in the army and started a different life.
The eldest sister-in-law is like a mother. Wei Juncang, who has now settled in Xinjiang, said that his sister-in-law Yang Cuilan has too much gratitude, if it were not for his sister-in-law's persistence, he would not be where he is today.
We will never give up on the hurdles of the past.
Something happened to your mother's family, hurry up and take a look!One day in 2005, in the noisy and panicked crowd, Yang Cuilan got a thunderbolt on a sunny day, her younger brother and sister-in-law had an accident while working and unfortunately passed away.
Since the brother-in-law was admitted to university, the life of Yang Cuilan's family has been getting better day by day. Right now, Yang Cuilan's son has reached the critical year of the university entrance examination, and there is such a big thing in the family.
I hurriedly ran back to my parents' house, and my 3-year-old nephew, who was only 7 years old, was crying on the kang. Looking at the two nephews, Yang Cuilan was brought back to reality at once.
The child is too pitiful, there are no parents at a young age, although according to the policy, you can send it to an orphanage, but Yang Cuilan can't bear it, she is the child's aunt, and she can't let the children lose their love at a young age.
Let's take the two children over, even if it's difficult, let's get through it for a few more years, didn't we all come over like this before?Yang Cuilan's husband Wei Junman was the first to speak.
I am especially grateful to my husband, I wanted to take my nephew and niece over, but I am also a big family, and I always have to ask my family for advice. After many years, Yang Cuilan is very grateful to her husband when she talks about it.
Because of the sudden change, Yang Cuilan's mother couldn't withstand the blow, and her spirit was stimulated and she couldn't live normally. She originally thought that if she couldn't do it, she would also take care of her nephews and nieces when she took care of her mother, but she didn't want her husband to guess her mind and take the children over to live together. As a result, Yang Cuilan became the "mother" of five children.
I am very strict with my children, and I am reluctant to say anything about my nephews and nieces, but I only talk about them on matters of principle. Yang Cuilan said frankly that she loves her two children too much, and always feels that they lack something in their lives, and they can only try their best to make up for it.
Now, the five children of Yang Cuilan's family have all been admitted to college and found jobs after graduation, and Yang Cuilan feels that she has finally lived up to her deceased brother and sister-in-law.
I originally planned to take my mother-in-law over to take care of her, but my mother-in-law had too many thoughts in the old house, but fortunately in a village, Cuilan was busy running up and down all these years, taking care of the two old people in an orderly manner. Especially my mother-in-law's spirit is not good, it is Cuilan who takes her to see the sick and waits wholeheartedly to comfort the old man's suffering in her old age. Wei Junman said.
In 2016, Yang Cuilan's mother passed away, and although the old man experienced too much suffering, he did not leave any regrets when he left under the care of his daughter and son-in-law.
Parents still have a place to come in life, and parents have only a way back in life.
Today, the hundred-year-old father-in-law is Yang Cuilan's closest elder, Yang Cuilan serves wholeheartedly, makes up for the regrets and helplessness in life, and ushers in an era full of children and grandchildren.
The indomitable lilies of life bloom.
At home, Yang Cuilan takes care of the elderlyOutside, she worked hard, and with her hard work, she successively provided for 6 college students, and it has always been her dream to live a good life with her fellow villagers.
Yuzhong Beishan, one of the main producing areas of Lanzhou lily. When this seed of wealth first took root in Beishan, Yang Cuilan keenly discovered the value.
In 2001, Yang Cuilan was the first to try to plant lilies in the village. In order to plant lilies well, Yang Cuilan went to the village to transfer land to plant lilies in the west orchard farmers to work and learn experience.
In order to get good seedlings, Yang Cuilan worked during the day and helped clean up the lily seeds at night. The other party saw that Yang Cuilan was enthusiastic and studious, so he sent many seedlings to solve the financial problem.
Lanzhou lily, the flower blooms for nine years, the essence of heaven and earth, once unearthed, the natural body is like jade. Although the ending is good, the wait is long and requires more patience and dedication.
Yang Cuilan said that through several years of hard work, her lily seedlings are guaranteed, and the lilies can also be dug every year, which is higher than the income of wheat and corn.
My father-in-law is a veteran party member who has been glorious in the party for 50 years, and under his education and guidance, I have also become a glorious Communist Party member, and as a party member, it is a glorious mission to lead the masses to get rich together. Yang Cuilan said that over the years, her father-in-law's optimistic and responsible life has been her role model, and when I have the ability, I will definitely help others.
Driven by Yang Cuilan, many families such as Wei Yonghong, Wei Juxiao, and Chang Mei in Lujiaxian Village began to plant lilies, and now lilies and medicinal herbs have become the most important income for the villagers.
Because Yang Cuilan was enthusiastic and capable, she was recommended by the villagers to be elected as the director of the Village Women's Federation, and took the "half of the sky" of the whole village to work together.
Lily ** has a high and a bottom, but no matter when, Yang Cuilan advises the villagers to stick to what they recognize, not to "fish for three days and dry nets for two days". In order to make the lily have a better and more stable income, Yang Cuilan took the lead in opening a cooperative in the village, and also invested 300,000 yuan to build a lily fresh-keeping warehouse, which not only stores its own lilies, but also helps the villagers save the lilies, so that everyone has more say in the first lily.
At present, Yang Cuilan's family has maintained about 80 acres of land to plant lilies, and this year's lilies are good and the income is very good.
I think that next year's lily ** should continue to be maintained**, because lily planting has a cycle, and the reduction in production caused by the decrease in lily in previous years will not be made up for soon. Yang Cuilan inadvertently analyzed the trend of lily ** to reporters.
Yang Cuilan's son Wei Wei said with a smile: "My mother loves to learn and research everything she does, and she has become an 'expert' in lilies in the past few years." ”
Yang Cuilan predicts that there will be more people planting lilies next year, and the price of lily seedlings will also rise.
It is Yang Cuilan's tenacity that makes the days on the barren land bloom like fiery lilies.
Yang Cuilan has also won the 2012 Lanzhou City "100 Filial Piety Star Year, Lanzhou City Rural Women" Double Study Double Comparison Advanced Female Expert of the Year Top 100 "Lanzhou Good People Year" China Good People List Year Lanzhou City Moral Model, 2019 Lanzhou City Good Neighbor, 2020 Gansu Province 7th Moral Model and other honors.
Yang Cuilan said that the older generation often said that respecting the field and getting the valley, respecting the old and getting blessed, she is a peasant woman, she doesn't go much to the place, and she doesn't see much of the world, but she strives to live a good life, filial piety and love for relatives are the basic principles of being a person, so all this is what she should do.
Northwest Corner, China Gansu Net reporter Di Dongyang, Song Fangke, Gao Zhengwu.