Last week, a 77-year-old lady from a neighbor's house moved to a woodroom because she could no longer climb to the sixth floor.
The neighbor is a middle-aged couple in their 40s, who are more introverted and don't like to talk much, the man is the driver of a certain leader, and the woman works in a pharmaceutical factory.
The neighbor has an only son who is in college, and there is an elderly lady in her 70s at home.
The old lady is the woman's mother and the man's mother-in-law, it can be seen that the man should be a very good person, there is nothing to say, otherwise, how can he live in harmony with the old man? After all, the living habits of the two generations are different.
The hostess has four brothers and sisters, two older brothers and one elder sister, and the elder sister is a teacher, so I don't know what the situation of the elder brother is.
The hostess was working in place of her father, I don't know if this is the reason, after her father died, her old mother lived with her.
The old lady used to be a farmer, and according to rural customs, her parents generally lived with their sons, unless they were pure women who did not have sons. People who have sons will not talk to their daughters if they say anything, for fear that the people in the village will gossip.
Rural people will feel that if they have a son, it is not right to go to their daughter, and their words are not good, and in their concept, the son is their own family, and the daughter is the girl who marries out, and spills the water.
There is a saying in the countryside that it is called: ".The cloak was distributed to his son's house, and he dressed up and went to his daughter's house. "It's about going to my son's house, it's going to my own house, whatever you want. To go to my daughter's house is to be a guest, to be a guest, and to dress up.
But her mother has two sons, but she has lived with her, the youngest daughter, I think it's a little weird, but it's not good to ask too much, that would be too gossip, I'm not that kind of person.
We stayed on the staircase, 6th floor, no elevator.
There are benefits of high floors, and our house is very well lit and ventilated. In winters like this, it's not too comfortable to sit in front of the window and bask in the sun every morning.
However, there are also disadvantages of high floors, and it is more difficult to climb stairs, especially for the elderly.
When the neighbor's mother-in-law first moved in, she was in her 60s, and she was in good health at that time, and there was no problem climbing the stairs.
At that time, she went up and down four or five times a day, more often than we did, and we only made two or three trips a day.
She goes upstairs one moment and goes downstairs the next. Every morning I went downstairs to walk, and after walking upstairs I had breakfast and did housework. After finishing the housework, I went downstairs to chat with other old people, and at 11 o'clock I came up to plug in a rice cooker to cook rice, and then went downstairs after plugging in the rice cooker, and went upstairs to wash vegetables and stir-fry vegetables at 11:40, and it was the same in the afternoon, up and down a few times.
At that time, I often saw her on top for a while, and then below, I admired her very much, she was so energetic, a person more than ten years older than me, climbed the sixth floor every day, up and down so many times, and was not scared at all.
And I, on the other hand, often accumulate all the things I have to do, do them by the way, try not to go upstairs more than three times a day, nothing happens, I try not to go downstairs, I don't run downstairs with nothing to do.
When I met her at that time, I would ask her: Aren't you tired after so many trips up and down every day? Can the knees stand it? She replied that she didn't feel tired.
The neighbor's mother-in-law is a very hard-working person, and for a while, she went to pick up paper shells every day, went to the garbage can to rummage through them, and piled them up in the firewood and grass room, and sorted them into bundles every once in a while, and dragged them to the scrap yard with a small trailer to sell.
During that time, she was often seen dragging paper shells to sell.
But in the past two years, the old lady's health has not been as good as before, and since last year, the old lady has gone up and down the stairs less often, and she is rarely seen in the stairwell.
Last year, I also met her daughter who went to the hospital to bring her food, saying that the old lady was hospitalized.
Some time ago, the old lady was hospitalized again, and after returning from the hospital, I didn't see the old lady going up and down the stairs.
Last week, I saw a neighbor install a bunk bed in the woodroom with another man, who was probably the son of an old lady and looked a bit like that.
When a neighbor asked me to borrow a saw, I asked him by the way: "Do you want to rent out your bed in the firewood and grass room?" ”
He said no, he was going to sleep with his mother-in-law, and he said that his mother-in-law was not in good health now and couldn't go upstairs, so she could only live in the firewood and grass room.
I asked, "How do you install a bunk bed?" The neighbor said: The mother-in-law has been in poor health in the past two years, and she often has problems, so she has a bunk bed and is good to accompany when she is sick. "I have to admire the neighbor for being very thoughtful.
The bed was installed, but the neighbor's mother-in-law refused to go down to live in the firewood and straw room, so she refused to go down upstairs, and she couldn't live or die.
It is estimated that the conditions in the firewood and grass room are too poor, and it is also that the firewood and grass room is not big, and there is a bathroom and a bed in it, and the remaining space is very small.
Except for a narrow table and a kettle for boiling water, nothing else can be placed.
There is no CCTV, and the old lady does not play with her smartphone, and there is no entertainment at all.
Moreover, this row of firewood and grass room is at the back of the entrance staircase, and there is no other person living in it, no companion, and basically no one goes to the firewood and grass room in the morning, except for those who go to work to go to the firewood and grass room to ride an electric car.
In the afternoon, when there is sun, a few people will go to the firewood and grass to play and bask in the sun, but it will not work on a rainy day.
This kind of living conditions must be much worse than the upstairs, the living environment is poor, and there are no people in sight, no wonder the old lady is reluctant to go down.
It is estimated that the children have done ideological work for the old lady for a long time, and in the past two days I have seen the old lady living in the firewood and straw.
In the past few days, several children have taken turns to accompany the old lady, and it is estimated that they will withdraw after a while.
Seeing the old lady in my neighborhood like this, I felt a little sad in my heart.
People say that everyone's old age is a bloody storm, which seems to be true. No matter how capable you are when you are young, however, on the way to getting older, you will gradually lose all kinds of abilities.
I remember a classmate once sold the house he lived in and bought an elevator room instead, and I said he was tossing. He said to me: "If you don't buy an elevator room now, you can only live in a firewood and grass room in the future, and choose one of the two."
At that time, I didn't think much of what he said, thinking that I was still young and could not be reduced to living in a woody and grass-like situation.
However, now it seems that it is a bit dangerous. If you go to buy an elevator room again, it will cost more than 1 million, which is really unaffordable.
If you can't afford an elevator room, then when you are too old to go upstairs, won't you have to live in a firewood and grass room? Thinking of this, my heart is cold.
Forget it, no matter so much, don't advance tomorrow's troubles, take care of your body, and live in the moment. Strive to be able to climb the building for a few more years, and strive to be able to climb the building until the age of 80.
Friends, do you live in the elevator room or the step room? Like me, do you want to make money to buy an elevator house? At this age, what about making money?