I was born in 1975, it was still a time when I was not wealthy, and the living conditions at that time were relatively difficult, especially in my village, which was large, with a large population and little arable land, and I clearly remember that our family of five only had more than six acres of land.
At that time, it was not popular to go out to work, and my family relied on farming for a living, and my parents were both practical and capable farmers, but there were few people on the land, and no matter how diligent the harvest was, it was not enough to eat, and our family had a famine every year.
My father is not in good health, can not do very heavy work, the family depends on the mother, the mother is a woman, difficult to support a family, she goes out early and returns late every day, in my memory, my mother seems to be busy in the field every day, especially when the farm is busy with the harvest, my mother is even more busy, almost can't care about going home to eat, I sent her to the field, she hurriedly dealt with the two, and began to be busy again.
There are three of us siblings, I am the eldest in the family, ** has a younger sister and a younger brother.
The children of poor families are in charge of the family at an early ageIn addition, in order to reduce the burden on my mother, I go to school while I have to take care of my younger siblings, help my parents work in the fields, mow the grass and feed the livestock, etc. In short, I try my best to help my parents do what I can and can't.
Parents use their thin bodies, hard work, but no matter how hard we work, our family is still the poorest in the village, my father takes medicine all the year round, our three children still have to study, the income in the field is not enough, so at the end of each year, the family food is always not enough to eat, many times, when the Chinese New Year is approaching, we have a little sweet potato and dried sweet potato.
I ate sweet potatoes all year round in those years, and I still eat them again, and I often have stomach acid.
My father is the eldest in the family, and I have a second aunt and an uncle.
But what makes me wonder is that my father and grandfather are not the same surname, my father's surname is Zhao, and my grandfather's surname is Sun.
Later, I learned that my father and my second aunt and uncle were half-siblings.
When my father was very young, my own grandfather died of illness, and my grandmother took my 8-year-old father to marry my current grandfather.
When my grandmother first got married, my grandfather was still very good to my father, but a year later, my grandfather and my grandmother had their own children, and my father was left out in the cold.
With the birth of the second aunt and the uncle, the father became the unpopular child in the family, in addition to helping the family work, but also to take the younger brothers and sisters, according to the mother, the second aunt and the uncle both grew up on the father's back.
My father recalled that at that time, the family was too poor and often not enough to eat, so he always took advantage of the fact that the sky was not too bright to secretly go to the field to pick up a little sweet potato tail, or to dig some alfalfa grass, and go home to boil vegetable soup to drink.
And the food and sweet potatoes distributed by the family are all eaten first by the grandfather, because the grandfather is the heavy labor of the family, and the whole family depends on him.
Father said that he remembered that every time the sweet potatoes were steamed at home, his grandfather would hold the entire fence and sit on a No. 2 stool at the stove to burn the fire, staring at both sides of the fire door of the stove, first pick a good meal to eat enough, and then it was his and grandma's turn.
Grandma is not at home, and grandpa is not good to his father, so his father has not eaten enough all year round, and he is 1.75 meters tall, only more than 90 pounds, and he is not thin.
Even so, the father was very good to the second aunt and uncle, the father said that one winter, the grandparents took the uncle to visit relatives, and left the second aunt at home for him to take, the second aunt had a high fever, and the fever did not go away for a day and a night, and the barefoot doctor in the village could not cure it, so he said that he should go to the town to see it quickly, and it would be delayed if it was too late.
Our village is 10 miles away from the town, the 17-year-old father carried the 8-year-old second aunt on his back, trotted all the way to the town, the father's clothes were soaked with sweat in the winter, and when he arrived in the town, the doctor said that fortunately he came in time, and then he would burn otitis media, and he might be deaf.
The second aunt's illness was cured, but my father got sick because of sweating, and when he came home, he fell seriously ill and fell ill, and his immunity became very poor since then.
But his father said that he did not regret it, and if he was allowed to choose again, he would be desperate to treat his second aunt first.
I guess that's the brotherhood.
The father is not the grandfather's child, and the grandfather naturally did not pay attention to the father's marriage, so that the father married his daughter-in-law at the age of 27.
Back then, when my father and mother got married, my grandfather didn't help my father with anything except a broken grass house.
Then, when my uncle got married, my grandfather behaved completely differently, he built a new house for my uncle, and it was properly purchased.
With the help of my grandparents, my uncle's family is the richest family in our village, although our two families are only separated by a wall, but the conditions are heaven and earth, when I was a teenager, our family was still a thatched house, while my uncle's house was four large tiled houses, and their family never lacked food, and our family had a famine every year.
My grandparents were partial to my uncle and turned a blind eye to our family's difficulties, my mother was often sad and secretly shed tears, while my father often comforted my mother and said that everything would be fine when the children were older.
When we were young, my grandfather didn't help our family work, and never let my grandmother take us, but my second aunt often helped my parents work before getting married, and often took care of our three children.
We also have different feelings for my second aunt, and when I was a child, I liked to go to my second aunt's house the most.
The second aunt is good, and she is married, their house is very close to their market, and the little aunt's family does a cloth business, and every time there is a market, they pull the car to sell cloth at the market, and the business is very good, so the second aunt's family is very rich, and when we are not enough to eat, the sister-in-law's family often has meat to eat, and new clothes to wear.
The reason why I like to go to my sister-in-law's house is because every time I go, my sister-in-law will improve my life, sometimes it is a meal of dumplings with pork filling, sometimes it is a big bowl of fragrant wontons, I can think about half a year after eating a meal, and my second aunt will always add me a new set of clothes.
But the second aunt's house is far away from our house, more than 40 miles, at that time the transportation was inconvenient, it was not easy to go, but no matter how difficult it was, every year before the year, my father would let me go.
Our land there is suitable for planting sweet potatoes, sweet and soft glutinous, the second aunt especially likes to eat our sweet potatoes here, so no matter how difficult we are, in order to thank the second aunt for her help all the year round, my father always has to pick some of the best sweet potatoes separately and put them in the cellar after harvesting sweet potatoes every year.
I was 15 years old that year, the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, and it was time to steam steamed buns again, and my father fished up the sweet potatoes left in the cellar, went to the neighbor's house to borrow a bicycle, tied up the sweet potatoes, and asked me to send them over the next day while my second aunt was not in the market.
In fact, the harvest that year was not good at all, and our family was not enough to eat for a long time, so my mother began to borrow food everywhere, but my father still insisted that I send half a bag of sweet potatoes to my second aunt.
On the morning of the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month of that year, the weather was very cold, in order to be able to go early and return early, I set off at dawn, and when I arrived at the second aunt's house, it was not yet ten o'clock when the second aunt saw me coming, and she was so happy that she quickly welcomed me into the house and brought me food.
We sat in the hall and chatted, my second aunt and uncle asked me about the situation at home, and my studies, I was in the third grade of junior high school at that time, and my academic performance was very good, but I was not ready to continue studying, the conditions at home were too poor, and there were younger brothers and sisters below, I was going to work in the brick kiln factory in the village after graduating from junior high school, and I told them my thoughts.
My second aunt and uncle criticized me, saying that I should not give up studying easily, and finally they encouraged me to say that I must go to school hard, difficulties are temporary, for rural children, only by studying hard can we change their fate, and I am the eldest in the family, I must take the lead for my younger brothers and sisters, let me tell them if I have difficulties, I listened to tears.
At noon that day, my second aunt made beef noodles for me, and I put large pieces of beef, I can't remember how long I haven't eaten meat, in short, the rice that day was so delicious, I ate two big bowls full of it, and the taste still makes me have an endless aftertaste.
After lunch, I was in a hurry to rush home, and my brother-in-law said to my second aunt: The child is coming from afar, you quickly measure the size of him, take a piece of cloth, call my sister-in-law, and help the child make new clothes together.
My second aunt measured my size and called her sister-in-law, and they made me a new dress in a panic.
When the clothes were finished and I was about to go back, my second aunt took out a bag and tied it to the car, and she told me that in addition to my new clothes, there were also some leftover cloth for me to take home and give to my mother, so that my mother could make new clothes for the family.
Before leaving, my second aunt kept telling me not to give up studying, study hard, and strive to be admitted to high school.
When I got home, I took off the burden and handed it to my mother, and my mother took out the fabric one by one, some for my younger siblings, and some for my parents, and the second aunt always thought about it so thoughtfully, just when my mother shook off the last piece of cloth, a paper bag fell out of it, and my mother was surprised and said, "Oh, why is there a small paper bag in here." ”
We all leaned over to look, and when my mother opened it, we were all stunned, it was a paper bag wrapped in the homework paper of the old watch, and a wad of money was put in it, and my mother counted it, and it was 200 yuan.
We immediately understood that this was the money that the second aunt secretly put in for us when she knew about our family's difficulties.
The second aunt is really kind and hardworking, she always tries her best to help us, and with the help of the second aunt again and again, our family has survived one difficulty after another.
My father cried instantly when he saw the money, he was a dignified seven-foot man, tears flowed down, and he said in tears: "Although your second aunt is not the same father as me, she is really good to my eldest brother, our family is poor, and others look down on it, only your second aunt not only does not dislike it, but always tries to help us You must study hard, and you will have the ability to honor your second aunt in the future." ”
At that time, 200 yuan was not a small amount, it solved a big problem for our family, not only let us live a good life, but also solved the tuition fee for our school.
Later, my parents began to learn to breed, our family's life is getting better and better, I did not live up to my second aunt's expectations, I graduated from junior high school and was successfully admitted to the high school in the county, and later was admitted to a medical school, and returned to our county as a doctor after graduation. My younger siblings were later admitted to university, especially my younger brother, who also went to graduate school, and after graduating from graduate school, he became a university teacher and stayed in the provincial capital to live.
Nowadays, every once in a while, the three of us will visit the second aunt, and I often pick up my parents and the second aunt to live in the county, and take them to the hospital for physical examination every year. My second aunt often praised me for being a filial child, and she was so lucky to have a nephew like me.
In fact, there is no second aunt, how can I have my today, I have a second aunt is the greatest luck.
The second aunt and father often talked about the past. Once, the second aunt asked his father if he hated his grandfather's partiality, and he said that he asked his father to forgive his grandfather for his selfishness back then.
In fact, my father never complained about my grandfather, and my father often said that my grandfather could tolerate him, and give him food, and raise him to grow up, which was not easy in that poor and backward era.
During the period before my grandfather died, my father was always by my side to take care of him, and my father often saidThe grace of a drop of water is reciprocated by a springHow much more is it the grace of nurturing? My father always remembered that grandpa was good, and never said a word about grandpa's no.
As for the second aunt, my father has always been very grateful, and every time the second aunt visits him, he will say: "Sister, thanks to your help over the years, otherwise there would be no brother today." ”
The second aunt always smiled and said to her father: "If it weren't for the eldest brother, maybe the sister would have died back then, at least not the good life she has now, right?" And what I gave to my eldest brother was only insignificant. ”
Besides, we are compatriots, isn't it normal for a good one to pull a weak handful, who hasn't had a difficult time? ”
We were touched by the brother-sister relationship between my second aunt and my father.
Now my father still likes to plant sweet potatoes, still leave sweet potatoes for the second aunt's family, whenever the Chinese New Year, my father still asks me to send, and now when I go to send sweet potatoes to the second aunt, I will prepare New Year's goods for the second aunt to take with me, and when I leave, I will leave some money for the second aunt.
Of course, every time I go, my second aunt will prepare for me the meals I like to eat early, and just like when I was a child, I sit on the side to eat, and my second aunt sits beside me and looks at me lovingly.
I will always remember the help that my second aunt helped us, and if it wasn't for my second aunt, we wouldn't have the happy life we have today.
Thanks to my second aunt, in those difficult and difficult years, I felt the warmth of family affection and gave me the motivation to move forward.
Now we are all living happily, I cherish the happy life now, and cherish every loved one around me even more.
It's the New Year, let's go home often, look at our parents, look at our second aunt, and our relatives!