Desperately working for the welfare of his six children, no one knew about it during his lifetime, and he was obscure after his death
Uncle Gao is our next-door neighbor, and his wide, smooth head always impresses. He is a person who has always maintained a refreshing and neat image, and he is dressed appropriately at all times, giving people the demeanor of an old cadre, so everyone in the village affectionately calls him Gao Old Man.
Old man Gao is a very capable person in our village, he went to Jiangnan when he was young, and suffered a lot during the Cultural Revolution. After being rehabilitated above, he unrelentingly applied for a job with the organization, and was finally arranged to work in the town's supply and marketing cooperative. However, he was not satisfied and continued to fight for opportunities for his children. Through his unremitting efforts, the organization actually found suitable jobs for his two sons and four daughters.
The eldest daughter entered the textile factory in the county, and although the eldest son was not very literate, he also found an errand as a janitor at the supply and marketing cooperatives in our town. The second daughter worked at the agricultural machinery station in the township where her mother-in-law's family was located, the younger son went to the tractor factory in the county, and the third daughter also found a job at the grain station in the town. Old man Gao's youngest daughter was once faced with the dilemma of not being able to find a job because of her low education. In order to let her have a junior high school diploma, Old Man Gao did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to find a relationship, and insisted on sending her to the middle school in our town for the third year of junior high school. After graduating, through her father's efforts, she became a monthly salesperson in the supply and marketing cooperative.
After the old man Gao retired, he often visited our house after dinner. In the 80s, my parents were immersed in farm work every day, covered in dirt and dirt, which contrasted sharply with the neat and elegant life of the old man. Sometimes, my parents are tired from a day and want to rest early, but the old man is always willing to chat with them, and they are too embarrassed to let him go, so they have to chat with him.
Old man Gao's six children are scattered in various parts of the county, some work in the city, and some work in nearby towns. When Old Man Gao was sixty years old, his wife died of illness. He considered remarrying, but was scolded by his younger son's husband and wife, who thought that his father wanted to talk about these things when he was old, and did not consider the feelings of his children at all. Several other children did not support him, fearing that his pension would be usurped by his new partner. Faced with this situation, Old Man Gao had no choice but to give up the idea of remarrying.
Lao Gao, a kind-eyed and gray-haired old man, has always been dependent on his little daughter. The youngest daughter's husband is a teacher in a rural middle school, and when she was just starting out, she led the youngest daughter of the old man among the first class of students. Although her youngest daughter is older than her classmates, she is not here for her studies, but just wants to get a diploma. Later, she fell in love with her teacher, and the two eventually achieved positive results and happily married each other.
The youngest daughter is the most temperamental and tolerant of Old Man Gao's children, so Old Man Gao naturally chose to spend his old age with his youngest daughter's family. The youngest daughter's husband is a people's teacher, and after the reform of the supply and marketing cooperative, the youngest daughter took over the counter of the supply and marketing cooperative, operated daily necessities, and the business was prosperous. Every month, the old man Gao receives a pension, and he will symbolically give his youngest daughter's family a few hundred yuan for living expenses. The family had a good time.
The good life doesn't last forever. In the summer of 1995, the youngest daughter died in an accident when the driver braked sharply on a private minibus to buy goods in the city. This unfortunate car accident plunged the otherwise happy family into a deep grief. The youngest daughter's husband moved back to the school dormitory and lived with Old Man Gao for a while. However, soon after, he remarried, and the old man had to leave for various reasons, and returned to his old mansion alone.
Old man Gao once tried to live with other children, first going to the eldest daughter's house, but the eldest daughter's family was busy and the children were playing, so the old man Gao could not adapt. After that, he took turns going to the homes of his second and third daughters, but was equally unable to adapt to their lifestyles. The eldest son's family was not considered because the eldest daughter-in-law did not have a formal job, and the second son's family did not dare to go because of the daughter-in-law's greed.
As he grew older, it became difficult for the tall old man to take care of himself on his own. He needed regular medical attention for coronary heart disease, but due to the opposition of his children, he chose to be conservative** and relied on drugs for a long time. The children are busy with their own lives, and the old man Gao is alone most of the time. He tried to hire a neighbor to take care of him, but due to complicated family relationships, he was unable to do so.
In the eyes of his children, Old Man Gao's 80th birthday was not celebrated. Even at the time of his death, the children had conflicts and quarrels over the distribution of the inheritance. Old man Gao's youngest son and eldest brother's son had a quarrel at the funeral because of money issues. However, even after his death, his youngest son and eldest daughter-in-law had a conflict over the money they shared, which was deeply regrettable.
The death of Old Man Gao is embarrassing, but his rich life and kind personality during his lifetime have caused a series of unpleasant disputes in his later affairs. His story reflects the delicate relationship between family and money, as well as the complex problems that arise from material interests in the world.
The scene before me is a barren land, where the wind blows and the rain blows, and the people who once lived there are gone forever!During the Chinese New Year this year, when our family returned to their hometown again, we found that Old Man Gao's house had been razed to the ground. The original courtyard of Old Man Gao's house has now been converted into a vegetable garden by his nephew in his village, although it no longer looks desolate, but it has completely erased the traces of Old Man Gao's life. His story can only be preserved in memory, and for the younger generation, it seems that the old man has never set foot in this world.