Title: Receiving my brother's WeChat on the return high-speed rail made me cry instantly
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My hometown is located in the Yimeng Mountains, a small village with a population of just over 300
I was born in the 70s, and the people in my village all make a living from farming.
In dry years, our harvest is not good, and we have to rely on nature to live.
It is only when God is in good hands that our lives are slightly better.
I have a younger brother and we have had a deep relationship since childhood.
I've always been very good at my studies, so the front wall of my house is plastered with the certificates I receive every year.
And my brother didn't get a single award.
His mother often reproached him: "Xiaozhi, your sister is a smart student in the class, but you are always at the bottom."
If your sister is admitted to school, we can provide for her to go to school, and you will have to work in the mountains. ”
The younger brother didn't care and said, "Mom, what if I just can't learn?" I always take a nap in class, and I'm refreshed after class, and I can't help it.
In the future, I will work hard to earn money with you for my sister's schooling. ”
At that time, I tried my best to help my younger brother study, gave him lectures, and almost completed his homework for him, but my brother's grades were still not good.
When I was in my third year of junior high school, my mother died suddenly of a heart attack.
My brother and I were like two little saplings, swaying in grief, the leaves falling to the ground.
My father was very strong, and he comforted me and said, "Daughter, don't worry, even if your mother is gone, we will provide for you and your brother to go to school."
We are a family of farmers, there is no other way out, only through learning can we have a profit. ”
I had a dream of going to high school and getting into medical school to spend my youth on a beautiful college campus.
After graduating, he became a life-saving doctor.
Looking at the doctors in white coats, I felt that they were very sacred and dignified.
However, after my mother's death, I had to give up on my dreams.
Faced with the tight financial situation at home, I had to go along with the reality and decided to apply for the secondary school.
During the high school entrance examination, I performed normally, and I did every question very smoothly, and I was full of confidence after the exam.
I was successfully admitted to the technical secondary school and applied for the normal school.
I admired a math teacher in junior high school, she was beautiful and kind, and she was like a big sister with her students.
After his younger brother barely finished junior high school, he returned to work in the village, and he became more robust and went out to work with the village team.
Since his younger brother had little cultural knowledge and no special skills, he had to work on construction sites with his uncles.
At that time, the construction site was very hard, and almost all the work was done by manpower, not as mechanized as it is now.
Whenever my brother got his salary, he would save it well, and at the end of the year, he would quietly stuff me a few hundred dollars for me to use at school.
I really couldn't bear to accept my brother's money, so I said to him, "Don't save money, you need to build a house in the future, and you have to marry a daughter-in-law." ”
The younger brother said, "Sister, I'm still young, so I'm not in a hurry to build a house."
You go to school, and Dad doesn't have extra money for you.
You use the money to buy yourself a piece of clothing and something to eat. ”
Even though my brother is younger than me, he is thoughtful.
When I received the money from my brother, I felt distressed when I saw him working hard on the construction site.
When I graduated, I was assigned to work in an experimental elementary school in the county seat.
Although I started to get a salary, I lived very frugally and rarely shopped or bought cosmetics like other colleagues.
I am reluctant to spend money, I must save money well, because I am a person who has come from a hard life, I know that my father's life is not easy, and I also understand the hard work of my younger brother working outside the home.
After receiving my monthly salary, I only kept a small amount of living expenses, and the rest was given to my father, and I had to help my brother save money to build a house.
Other colleagues often go out to eat together, but I am never willing to buy a cold salad and a steamed bun at a nearby stall, which is already my meal.
As long as I spend a penny less, my family will be able to live a little better.
I am diligent and conscientious in my teaching, I put all my energy on my students, and I don't have time to fall in love.
At a class reunion, a college graduate who worked in a provincial town stayed
After a long period of good contact, the two young hearts are getting closer and closer.
Despite our separation, we came together without hesitation.
In the second year after the marriage, a new school was built on the outskirts of the provincial capital, and a group of teachers needed to be recruited.
After passing the written test and teaching interview, I was able to get into this school.
My husband and I are finally reunited.
Despite working in a provincial town, I still miss my hometown deeply.
With my help, my brother built a two-story house in the village, and soon after he married a girl from a neighboring village and started a family.
Thanks to my brother and sister-in-law, whenever they make dumplings or steamed buns, they will quickly send one to their father.
Every holiday, my husband and I go back to my parents' house.
I bring gifts for my dad and my brother's family.
I will never forget my brother's dedication to the family, and I will never forget the efforts he made for me when I was in school.
Dad has always been in good health, and every time I go back, I always fill the refrigerator with all kinds of meat, duck and fish.
However, Dad was used to a frugal life all his life and was not used to eating too much meat.
When eating, he only eats a small amount of vegetables, and the meat is hardly touched, and there must be a plate of pickles and onions and garlic to match.
After eating, Dad would go to work with a shovel or head down.
In the past, when the family conditions were not good, my father was reluctant to eat meat, but now that the conditions have improved, he still maintains the same old appearance.
Dad is very grateful for his current life, and often says that he could never have dreamed of living so happily before, and in the days when he tasted big white steamed buns and kept fish and meat in the refrigerator, he felt that he was even stronger than the rich people in the past.
Dad usually likes to have a few small drinks, but last fall he suddenly stopped drinking them.
When he was eating, when the food was on the table, he would take the jug and cup under the table, pour a cup of wine, pour hot water into a large bowl, and put the cup in the bowl to warm it.
However, during that time, he stopped drinking and ate less.
The younger brother was puzzled and asked him what was the matter.
"Recently, I've been feeling uncomfortable in my chest, and when I drink alcohol, I feel hot pain, and I feel like something is stuck when I swallow food," my father said distressedly. ”
My brother immediately called me **, it was the eleventh ** week, I came back quickly and took my father to the county hospital.
Frustratingly, after my father had a gastroscopy, the doctor told me that my father had advanced esophageal cancer.
As soon as I heard about my father's condition, I couldn't help but sit on the ground.
Poor father, with so much to enjoy in the future, how could he get this disease? My husband had a classmate who worked in surgery at a city hospital, and we decided to take my father to the city for surgery.
My father's operation lasted more than seven hours and was a major thoracotomy operation.
When my father was pushed out of the operating room, his whole body was full of tubes and his face was pale.
I held my father's cold hand, and tears kept flowing.
During that time, the younger brother had been taking care of his father in the hospital, and he took special care of him.
Because his father could not drink water, the younger brother dipped a cotton swab in water and kept wiping his tongue and moistening his lips for his father.
My father couldn't get out of bed, and after a few days of urinary catheterization, my younger brother helped to handle all the urine and urine.
Seven days later, the results of my father's serious illness examination came out, which was advanced esophageal cancer.
My husband's classmates sighed and told us about my father's condition, that some people die a few months after surgery and rarely live past two years.
We always thought that surgery would prolong my father's life, but we didn't expect it to be so bad! My brother and I stood in the corridor of the hospital, feeling at a loss, and we tried our best to save my father's life, but filial piety could not impress the disease! After his father was discharged from the hospital, the younger brother moved back to his father's house, stayed with his father every day, and no longer went out to work.
Half a year later, my father's condition** was so serious that it was uncontrollable, and esophageal cancer took his life.
When handling my father's funeral, an uncle who had not yet passed five clothes came as the principal, and he called my sister and brother over and said, "In our village, the average girl does not need to pay for it after she gets married, and the funeral expenses are borne by the son.
How does your family plan to cover these costs? I immediately replied, "Uncle, every family has its own rules, we don't compare ourselves with others, and my brother doesn't need to pay."
It is not easy for the younger brother to work as a farmer at home, and since his father fell ill, he has been taking care of his father and has no time to go out to work. ”
We have a stable salary, and I have already negotiated with my husband that we will cover all the expenses of my father's funeral. ”
The uncle said appreciatively: "It's really a struggle to give inadequate, and there is more than enough concessions, and some big families are quarreling because of the sharing of funeral expenses, which is sad!" Your family is really harmonious, and my sister thinks about her younger brother and takes the initiative to bear the expenses. ”
My father's funeral cost a total of 40,000 yuan, all of which I undertook to bear.
The younger brother had no money on hand, and since his illness he took care of him wholeheartedly.
I am usually grateful to my brother for his efforts, and sometimes I transfer him a 3000 or 2000 for him, but my brother doesn't accept it.
He said: "Sister, your father's medical expenses are all paid by you, and I should take care of my father, how can I ask for your money?" The younger daughter-in-law is also a kind person, she said with red eyes: "Sister, the funeral expenses of the elderly in our village are basically paid by the son's family, and few daughters help, but our family is completely different, you have borne all the funeral expenses, thank you very much." ”
I immediately said, "Our family counts, your brother and I have salaries, our lives are relatively comfortable, and it is natural to have a little more money, and I have been away from home all these years, mainly relying on you to take care of my father, and I have not had time to thank you!" "On the afternoon after my father's burial, my husband drove back early because of something.
I took a few days off, swapped classes with other colleagues, and had to return the next day in order to get back to class as soon as possible.
That night, my brother and daughter-in-law made a pot of sweet potato porridge, which is my favorite usually, but I couldn't eat a single bite.
My father's death was a heavy blow to me, and my heart was like a knife.
Picking up the rice bowl, looking at the empty sofa where my father usually sits eating, and looking at my father's wine jug and wine cup, my heart hurt so much that I could barely breathe! When I was a minor, my mother died, and now my father is gone, and I am a fatherless and motherless person, and the pain is like a thousand insects biting me.
I went into the back room and lay on my father's bed and cried.
After crying for a while, my heart was a little more relaxed, and I hurriedly beckoned everyone to dinner.
My father lived at home for three days before he was buried, and during these three days, the family barely ate or drank.
After eating, my brother and daughter-in-law cleaned up the table, my brother made tea, and in the dim light, our family sat at the low dining table, silently immersed in grief.
The younger brother said with tears in his eyes: "Sister, your parents have left, this is still your home, the items in the old house have not been touched, they remain their original appearance, and when you come back, look at these old things, just like your parents are still alive." ”
Sister, you have to come back often in the future, your parents are gone, the two of us have become the closest people, although you are far away, but in my heart you are my most dependent, you have always felt sorry for me like a mother, don't come back in the future! My brother's words made me cry instantly, and I cried and said, "My parents are gone, we are still a family, how can I not come back?" "As long as I miss you and miss home, I will come back when I have time, this is my roots, my mother's home, and the place I am deeply attached to." ”
That night, I slept in my father's bed, and my pillow still had my father's breath on it, but it was no longer there.
I've been dreaming about being with my parents when I was a child, dreaming that they were working in the mountains, and I took my younger brother to bring them food.
I woke up at 3 a.m. and opened my eyes until dawn, with tears on my pillow.
That night, my brother and daughter-in-law were also staying at my father's house, and I heard my brother and daughter-in-law get up early, chop the stuffing, and make dumplings for me.
We have a custom here that when relatives travel far away, they will make a pot of dumplings at home, and the journey will be safe after eating dumplings.
When my brother and daughter-in-law brought it to the table, my tears flowed down my eyes again at those steaming cabbage-filled dumplings.
Although my brother and daughter-in-law are not related to me, she thinks about me everywhere, and she is also my relative! With tears in my eyes, I ate a few dumplings.
After that, my brother stuffed me with a cloth bag, and he said, "Sister, there are a few breads and two cartons of milk in it, you can eat them on the way." ”
Walking out of the gate, I couldn't help but look back at my hometown again, the house was still there, but it was empty inside.
My brother locked the door and gave me a key.
Since my brother didn't have a car, he hired a car from the village and took me to the high-speed rail station a hundred miles away.
When I got on the high-speed train back and looked out the window at the rapidly moving scenery, my eyes were moistened with tears again.
I closed my eyes and my mind was like a movie showing the images of those days, the death of my father left me with endless sadness, but thanks to the affection of my brother and daughter-in-law, it warmed my heart.
I picked up my phone to see if there was a notification in the school group.
I have to get into work as soon as possible, I've been behind class for a few days and I'm in a hurry.
At this time, I suddenly saw a WeChat message from my younger brother, he said: "Sister, my father's funeral cost a total of 40,000 yuan, and you paid it all by yourself, and I was very sorry not to go."
I borrowed 20,000 yuan and put it in your bag.
I am the son of this family, and this money should be paid by me. ”
When I saw my brother's WeChat, I burst into tears.
I quickly took the bag from the luggage rack, and underneath the bread, there was a red plastic bag with a thick wad of bills.
My brother's life is so difficult, but he actually lent me money, how can this work? Sitting on the high-speed train, I kept crying.
My dearest parents are gone, and I must treat my brother well.
When I got home, I immediately told my husband about it, and he said, "Alas, my brother and daughter-in-law are so kind.
Let's stay here for the time being, and we'll find a way to return it to them later. ”
During the May Day holiday, my husband and I returned to our parents' house, and my husband suggested that my younger brother start a small business, because he didn't make much money from planting those few acres of land.
However, the younger brother shook his head and said, "Sister, brother-in-law, I thought about starting a small business, but I don't have the capital."
I found two well-located storefront houses in town and I wanted to open a breakfast stand there.
Although there are a few restaurants in town, there is not a single decent breakfast place. ”
The annual rent of those two houses is 18,000 yuan, and they still need to be renovated and buy some things, and they can't be opened without an investment of 30,000 yuan or 40,000 yuan. ”
As soon as I heard this, I immediately took out a card and said to my brother: "There is 50,000 yuan here, and your brother-in-law and I sponsored you free of charge."
We were going to give you the money when we came back this time, but we didn't expect it to come in handy. ”
My brother and daughter-in-law were very grateful.
Nowadays, my brother's breakfast stall is thriving, they also cook stir-fried dishes for lunch and afternoon, and my brother operates with integrity, providing fresh dishes, and the restaurant has a variety of wild vegetables and local chickens, and more and more people come to eat.
My brother's family's life gradually improved, and I was finally relieved.
Relatives are heart-to-heart, get along with each other, respect and trust each other, work together, care for each other, put each other's interests first, and family affection is more precious than anything precious!