In August this year, my aunt drove west at the age of 78.
My grandparents had two children in their lives, and in the era of other people's seven and eight tigers, they only had two children, and others said that they had a little few children and were not prosperous.
There is a reason for less.
Because after my grandfather and grandmother got married, I went to serve as a soldier and participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Later, he changed jobs and went to the University of Political Science and Law. After that, he became a judge in a county town in Shaanxi Province.
Grandma still stays in her hometown to farm. Grandma is not in good health, there is no milk, and my father and aunt were both raised by ** mother's milk.
It wasn't until 52 that my grandfather took my grandmother and my 2-year-old aunt to live with me in Shaanxi, while my father stayed at my aunt's house for 12 years.
My aunt lived in the city with her grandparents, and although people's lives were not very good at that time, they were still better than rural life.
It is different from education and living habits alone, my aunt is very good at talking, always gentle when she speaks, careful and rigorous, and methodical.
Later, when we looked at the clothes and photo albums brought back by our grandparents, we could see that my aunt's life was really different from my father's life at that time.
My father's nurse had four girls, two sons, and eight people. There are three caves inhabited. The father's wet nurse is thin and small, less than 1.5 meters tall, weighs less than 90 pounds, does not give her own children**, and supports other people's children to subsidize the family. The main labor force in the family is the grandfather. As you can imagine, with my father, there were a total of 9 people in the family who had to eat, and in the fifties and sixties, it would be a lie to say that they could eat enough.
When my father was 13 years old, he was taken to Shaanxi by his grandparents. At the age of 13, he went directly to junior high school. I haven't been to school for a few days in the village, and when I went to junior high school in Shaanxi, I didn't have to study and couldn't keep up, plus the boy was naughty, and he was always punished by his grandfather.
According to my father, my grandfather always carried the torturers with him. As long as my father made a mistake, my grandfather would handmail him, refuse to eat, and think about it.
Most of my father's crimes were passed on from my aunt to my grandparents. My aunt is not used to having such a rustic brother from the countryside in her family. He can always find his father's crimes and let his grandfather punish him.
This was something that the siblings were teenagers about, and my father never forgot it and talked to us about it.
Later, in 62 years of famine, many people starved to death. Grandpa didn't earn enough money a month to buy a day's food. People even do things that go against their own borders because of hunger.
The grandfather heard that he could plant a small piece of land in the village, so he dragged his family and gave up his position as a judge without hesitation and returned to the village to become a farmer.
At this point, my father and aunt ended their city life and became two mountain babies again.
At that time, my father was 20 years old and my aunt was 18 years old.
Seven years have not changed my father's things, such as living habits such as dealing with others, but 16 years is enough to change everything about my aunt.
Therefore, although my aunt has returned to the countryside, she is a city person in her bones. is in the countryside, and her eating, drinking, and dressing are still the same as in the city.
Walking on the streets of the village, standing with a group of rural girls, it is simply standing out from the crowd. Although he wore old clothes from when he was in the city a few years ago, he was still fashionable and dignified.
Soon, a family surnamed Sun in the village came to propose marriage, and the man worked in the city's grain bureau. In the same village, the adults of the two families are familiar with each other, and the children are also eye-to-eye, so the aunt's family affairs are decided.
A year later, my aunt got married.
The next year, she gave birth to her cousin. I don't know what the reason is, anyway, my cousin is polio. I can't hold things with my left hand, I feel weak and weak, I can't walk normally with my left foot, and I walk with a limp. Disability is unmistakable.
The arrival of the child has brought unprecedented challenges to the aunt who does not know how to do housework and is very demanding. My uncle was not at home, and even with her grandmother's help, she often broke down and cried.
When her uncle came back from the grain station, she had a lot of complaints, and her uncle was not very good-tempered, and he didn't let her aunt go at all. So the two went from a war of words to hand-to-hand combat. My aunt was always beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, and she ran back to her parents' house crying.
After beating a few times, my grandparents were so distressed that I couldn't do it, and my uncle was not convinced. I didn't say a word of apology. The two were at a stalemate, and her first marriage ended in such a tug-of-war. It took three years.
She returned to her parents' home with her son, who was suffering from polio. Even in such a situation, my aunt still looks like an eldest lady, paying attention to food, clothing, housing and transportation. I often don't deal with my grandmother.
Grandpa was worried, and asked people everywhere to talk to the matchmaker. A year later, my aunt took her limping son and married into a Lin family thirty miles away from our village. The man is a full-time worker on the forestry farm, he seems honest and honest, he rarely talks, and his father and my grandfather are friends. The old man was a barefoot doctor who was particularly famous for treating people in nearby villages.
Since my aunt married into the Lin family, she has not had children for three years. The people in the village have everything to say, and most of them say that it is not worth it for the Lin family to raise children for others. Although the cousin also followed the surname of the Lin family.
In the fifth year of marrying the Lin family, my aunt gave birth to a second cousin when she was 27 years old. My second cousin looked very much like my father. People in the village said that it was a copy of their uncle.
The arrival of the second cousin really made my aunt raise her eyebrows. My uncle is a good cook, and he serves my aunt white and fat. The villagers began to pity the eldest cousin again. My uncle has a relative, and his oil bottle can be completely ignored.
The second cousin is cute, with a temper like a girl, very well-behaved, so he is more liked by his family. My aunt and uncle finally got a son, and needless to say, I like it, I must have eaten everything good in the family with my second cousin first.
My uncle is a worker and has a fixed monthly salary, so my aunt can be a family member. You don't have to work in the field, you just watch two children.
At that time, my eldest cousin was already in the first grade. But because I was either bullied by the children at school and cried home, or I accidentally injured the teacher and sent it back, in short, I read three first grades.
The eldest cousin grew up stumbling. My aunt didn't let him do less to earn a living because he was not good at work. When my uncle was away, the housework in the family was done by my eldest cousin, from sweeping the floor to cooking.
The more he couldn't do it, the more his aunt asked him to do it, and his hands often had either scars or burns. When the people in the village saw it, they often said that the aunt had a child and forgot the eldest child.
Our relatives also feel sorry for the eldest cousin. The eldest cousin is especially able to eat, three steamed buns and two bowls of vegetables in one meal are not enough, plus three bags of instant noodles. People who don't know think he's starving at home.
When grandma and grandfather saw the injury on their grandson's hand, they taught their aunt a lesson, but my aunt always said that the old people would spoil the children, saying that the old people didn't understand anything and that there was no principle for the children.
As he spoke, his cousin was already 25 years old, and most of the children his age were married. My cousin never thought that he would be able to get a daughter-in-law to live. The aunt did not show any signs of marrying a daughter-in-law for her cousin.
One day, Su Sanyou of this village led a young woman to his aunt's house. The woman was less than 1.4 meters tall, with a high forehead and deep-set eye sockets, and she was not a local at first glance.
At that time, there were many Sichuan girls who married here, they were all relatives, and there was a ** Sichuan girl in the village.
My aunt looked the girl up and down and asked a few questions, and she felt that her intelligence was okay and she was quite shrewd. took Su Sanyou to the hall and talked for a long time, went into the house to open the cabinet, and took out a wad of money and gave it to Su Sanyou.
That night, the girl stayed. The next day, my aunt called a few relatives for a meal, even if she had married her eldest cousin.
The people in the village were amazed that the aunt quietly married a shrewd daughter-in-law for her disabled son. There are several shrewd young people in their village who do not have daughters-in-law.
Although my cousin has problems with his hands and feet, he is never idle. The family is alone in the field, and he is immersed in hard work. After having a daughter-in-law, the daughter-in-law pointed at ** and rushed to **.
After all, there is something wrong with his hands and feet, and he has to do a week for others to make a living. The daughter-in-law is even more small, and the two of them have time, but they can't do it. As a result, there are few harvests per year. My aunt clearly told them that she would only help them for three years, and after three years, she would find her own way.
My aunt did what she said, and my cousin's life was still able to survive for the first three years, but later my cousin had to ride a bicycle in the village to collect rags and make ends meet.
A pair of children were also born two years after they got married. Their lives are even more stretched. But my aunt went to play mahjong every day after eating, and she pretended not to see her son's tiredness.
My cousin doesn't wear it, and often dresses like a beggar. Walk the streets and alleys to collect the rags. A dilapidated bicycle with all its parts clanging except for the bell, two iron frames fixed on both sides behind the saddle, and two cloth bags in the shelves. This is his collection of tattered belongings. He doesn't shout, but people know what he's doing.
The second cousin also got married, settled in the city, and bought a house. The second cousin is very capable, he contracts the pharmacy by himself, and always gives money to his aunt every once in a while, so that she doesn't feel distressed if she loses playing mahjong.
Life goes by like this, some people are in dire straits, and some people sit back and relax. My two cousins lived like that. My aunt didn't say anything about letting the second cousin help the eldest cousin, and the eldest cousin lived hard. I don't have spare money, and I can't eat and dress well, but I can do it if I am full and warm.
Soon, the eldest cousin's sons and daughters were all older, and the son was also of the age of marrying, and the child got his own partner and brought back his daughter-in-law. The eldest cousin contributed a small part of the money, and the second uncle contributed most of the money and did a happy event. The eldest cousin's daughter-in-law has a lot of complaints about her mother-in-law, her father-in-law has a pension when she retires, and her second son often gives money, and her grandson marries a daughter-in-law, but her grandmother doesn't give a penny.
People in the village said that the aunt was hard-hearted, regardless of the life or death of the eldest son's family, and did not help at critical moments, not like a grandmother. The eldest cousin's daughter-in-law also thought so, and she was angry that she hadn't said a word to her aunt for three months.
My aunt still goes her own way, and mahjong is correct. But apparently the number of times I went out was limited. I often boil medicine at home and take medicine.
Since my uncle retired, he couldn't do without medicine and had several diseases. Less than three months after the grandson got married.
My aunt hasn't slowed down for a while, and after my uncle left, I basically didn't go out to play mahjong. Eight months after my uncle was gone, I went with my uncle.
Before dying, my aunt was also very shrewd and did not look confused. She broke away from all the people around her, asked her eldest cousin's daughter-in-law to serve her to drink water, took her eldest cousin's daughter-in-law's hand, took out a bag from under the quilt with her other hand, and told her that there were 80,000 yuan in it, and asked her to save it for emergencies.
The eldest cousin's daughter-in-law was startled at first, and then began to cry, sobbing and taking the money, apologizing to her aunt, saying that she was wrong to blame her aunt. My aunt smiled and said, It's okay, without you, I don't worry about my disabled son when I leave. Mom should thank you for taking care of him. After I leave, you have to worry more about him and give him ...... to eat on time
After saying that, the aunt left peacefully. When the others were brought in, they were already out of breath.
The eldest cousin's daughter-in-law cried out of breath, beat her chest, and couldn't help herself.