Narrator: Lao Liu
I studied medicine in college, and why I wanted to study medicine had something to do with a homeless man taken in by my dad. I have been away from home for many years, but every year during the Qingming Festival, I will still take my children back to my hometown to sweep the tomb, and when I sweep the tomb this year, my daughter will point to a grave and ask me: "Dad, aren't we surnamed Liu, why do we have to sweep the tomb of this grandfather Wang every year?"I said, "Because this old man Wang has been living in our house, he has no relatives, we are his relatives, so we will also treat him as a relative, and come to his grave every year." ”
My dad was born in 1954, our hometown is in a ravine, our village is also very small, there are mountains everywhere, although the scenery is very beautiful, but it is also very poor, because there is not much land in the mountains that can be cultivated, and it is far from the town, when I was 25 years old, my dad was still a single, no one wants to marry in such a remote and poor place, and there are many singles in our village.
One day, my dad went up the mountain to cut bamboo, and accidentally slipped his foot on the bamboo, he was injured and bled a lot, and there was no one on the road at that time, and my dad had no choice but to sit on the side of the road, hoping to meet someone and help. It was at this time that he saw a person, this person went up the mountain to collect medicine, my dad shouted from afar, the old man heard it, and slowly walked towards my dad, walked into my dad to know that this person was a blind man, he asked my dad what was wrong, my dad said that his leg was scratched, there was a lot of blood, the blind man didn't say a word, he took out a pack of herbs from his bag, ground it with a stone, and put it on my dad's injured foot. After a while, the bleeding finally stopped.
In a blink of an eye, it was about to get dark, and my dad asked the old man: "Uncle, your family lives in **, I see that your eyes are not good, this day is about to get dark, I'll tell you to go home first." Unexpectedly, the old man said: "I don't have a home, I'm alone at home, I'm going to **count**, and I've been wandering outside all these years." As soon as my father heard it, he talked to him in detail, it turned out that the old man's eyesight was not very good since he was a child, and he had been learning to pick herbs with his father since he was a child, and he used to use herbs to treat people. He didn't read, but he was good at medicine, but he didn't expect to be framed, and someone secretly changed the herbs he grasped because he was angry and made money for medical treatment, which caused the patient's condition to worsen. The family thought that it was not a serious illness in the first place, but after taking the blind old man's medicine, it became more serious. They sued the blind old man, and the blind old man went to prison because of this incident, and after he came out, he didn't dare to treat people, and now he only sees a doctor to help people who are destined.
When my father heard that his life experience was so miserable, he couldn't bear to let him continue to wander, so he said to the blind old man: "Uncle, you saved me today, if you don't dislike my family, follow me to my house to live together." Although your family is poor, you have no problem having enough to eat, and you can save up for medical treatment. "When the old man heard that there was such a young man who did not dislike him and was willing to take him in, he wiped his tears, nodded, and followed my father home.
Seeing my dad come back with a homeless man, my grandfather thought he was just coming back for a meal and would leave the next day, but after a few days, the homeless man had no intention of leaving, so my grandfather went to ask my dad what this meant, and did the old man plan to stay here?My dad said, "Yes, I've decided to take him in, he saved me, I see that he can't see, it's a little pitiful, he's old, it's really dangerous to wander outside, in the future, if I have a bite to eat, he will have a mouthful." "My grandfather is angry, his son is 25 years old, and he hasn't even married a daughter-in-law, so he takes a homeless man like this, who else wants to marry into this family in the future, but my father is determined to take this homeless man. My dad's temper is like this, once he decides something, no one can change it, and it is useless for grandpa to oppose it.
My dad found a clean set of clothes, changed them for the blind old man, and took him to get a haircut, and the blind old man looked more energetic. The blind old man's surname is Wang, and my father calls him Uncle Wang. Some people said that my father was really a kind person, and good people would be rewarded in the future, and some people said that my father was so stupid that he couldn't eat enough, and he had to take in a blind man, and who would want to marry him in the future.
Since the blind old man Uncle Wang came to my house, he began to see people again, one to ten, ten to hundred, ten miles and eight towns, when he was sick, all came to him, although his eyes were not good, but he could distinguish different herbs by smelling and touching. Gradually, people don't think that Uncle Wang is a burden, on the contrary, they think that Uncle Wang is a lucky star for our family, because since Uncle Wang came to my house, as long as someone is sick, he can be cured quickly, and many people also come here. Uncle Wang said that he wanted to save the bride price money for my father. How could my dad take his money, besides, he has been on a blind date so many times, and no girl wants to marry him.
So many blind dates have failed, and in a blink of an eye, my dad will be 30 years old, in that era of early marriage, my dad is already an old bachelor at this age, and people who can't get a wife at the age of 30 will basically find a wife in the future. It is said that good people have good rewards, but I didn't expect that it was 30 years old, he met my mother, my mother is 27 years old, and she is also an old girl, my mother did not dislike my father, on the contrary, she felt that my father was a responsible man. When my mom married my dad, she had a request, as long as my dad agreed, she would marry.
My mother is an only child, without any brothers and sisters, because my grandmother died after giving birth to my mother, so since childhood, my mother is a poor person without a mother, since I was a child, I followed my grandfather to rely on each other, since my grandmother died, my grandfather with a child, the family is very poor, and there is no ability to remarry, so I followed my mother for 27 years. My mother doesn't have any brothers and sisters, and my old father is too old, so she doesn't worry about my old father alone if she marries. So she proposed that as long as my father was willing to accept my grandfather to live with her, my mother would be willing to marry. Of course my dad was willing, after all, when he first met my mom, he thought my mom was a kind person and didn't dislike him. Isn't it just one more person to eat, not to mention that this person is still his own father-in-law, without his father-in-law, there would be no mother's today. So my dad decided to provide for my father-in-law's old age. So my grandfather lived in my house until he was 94 years old and passed away.
Although Uncle Wang is blind, he has a lot of healing houses in his head, and when he is happy, he will reveal a few prescriptions to everyone. My cousin only graduated from junior high school, she was particularly interested in this, she would often come to my house to help Uncle Wang pick up herbs, every time she came with a notebook, Uncle Wang's dictated prescriptions, she recorded them one by one, Uncle Wang saw that he was so open-minded, wanted to study medicine, simply taught her a lot of recipes, so that she can also gain a foothold in this society in the future. Besides, Uncle Wang also felt that he was getting older and older, so he couldn't take these recipes into the coffin, and these recipes could stay one by one.
People of our generation have chosen to study medicine because of Uncle Wang, and many people have also given him pennants to see people because of Uncle Wang, and it is a good thing to treat diseases and save people, and he is respected in itself. After I finished the college entrance examination, I did not hesitate to apply for medicine, and now I have become a doctor.
Uncle Wang is a strange old man, he is getting older and older, once, the family went to the roof of the building to harvest rice, accidentally a dustpan fell from the stairs and hit Uncle Wang's head, he said that someone wanted to harm him. From then on, he was reluctant to reveal any more recipes, and one warm afternoon, when Uncle Wang fell asleep, and when I went to call him for dinner, I found that he did not answer. I went in to look at him, and found that Uncle Wang was gone, and he died at the age of 80.
Uncle Wang died, my father held a funeral for him, and many people from ten miles and eight towns spontaneously came to see him off, and everyone felt very reluctant. Uncle Wang used to be a homeless man, he was still blind, he was unlucky, but he met my father, and he was lucky. There was no son in his life, but my dad always treated him like a father. Now my father has passed away for many years, but these things about him and Uncle Wang, we, the younger generations, have always remembered that the recipe left by the blind old man back then is still being used today.