The grandparents have lived in the countryside all their lives, and their range of activities is very small, as small as a few streets in the county town and rows of stone benches next to the pavilion at the entrance of the village.
There are many elderly people like grandparents in rural China.
Grandpa is eighty-nine this year, grandma is eighty-six, and has six children, and it is not easy to support so many children in that era of lack of food and clothing.
About three or four years ago, the two old people would go for a walk to the market to buy clothes and shoes, and in the past few years, their physical condition has plummeted.
Three years ago, my grandfather just had a bad memory, for example, he just finished breakfast in the morning, drank soy milk and ate meat buns, he said that he had not eaten these, only drank a bowl of rice soup. In the summer, he didn't take a shower for three days in a row, and his body smelled bad, but he said that he bathed every day.
But now, even his grandson, who had already started a family, came up to him, and his grandmother said, "Your grandson has come to see you!" Grandpa asked with a confused face, "Who are you?" Grandma reminded him, "This is the eldest grandson!" ”
Grandpa said, "Why are you so old?" And gestured with his hand to the height of his thigh, "Aren't you so small?" And smiled innocently and looked at his grandson. But I don't even know what my name is.
Grandma said that grandpa was stupid and didn't remember anything.
What hasn't changed is that he still walks fast, can eat two or three bowls of food, except for hard objects such as chicken feet, peanuts and melon seeds, he can't bite anymore, from the outside, he has nothing abnormal.
The grandfather with Alzheimer's disease is still the same as when he was not sick, he does not wear socks all year round, and often carries a hoe and a vegetable basket early in the morning, and goes to the vegetable garden barefoot to hoe and pick vegetables. His family also advised him not to work like this, but he was stubborn and did not listen to persuasion like a child.
Grandpa's vegetable seedlings were planted neatly, and he also knew how to pick vegetables and put them in bamboo baskets and sell them at the entrance of the village. The ** of his green vegetables is cheaper than others, and in his situation, I don't know if he will receive fake money from others.
He sat alone at the entrance of the village, watching people come and go with empty eyes. A kind person passing by asked him, "Old man, why are you still selling vegetables here when you are so old?" Grandpa laughed and said amazingly: "Otherwise, eat at home every day and wait for death?" ”
At this moment, he seemed to be awake again.
Later, wherever grandma went, grandpa followed her. Grandma fell when she went to the toilet in the middle of the night, had surgery, and was bedridden for two months.
The bad thing is still coming! One afternoon, my grandmother woke up from a nap to find that her grandfather was not around, and she was also looking around the house, but her grandfather was gone. By dinner time in the evening, Grandpa hadn't returned. The family was anxious, and the group notified everyone to look everywhere, until it was dark, and the grandfather did not come back at nine o'clock in the evening. So I called the police, and everyone wanted to find a grandfather to use as a missing person notice recently, but there was none, only the grandfather's 80th birthday! So I can only use it, and then mobilize all the enthusiastic people I know to send it to the circle of friends and WeChat groups. It's so late, can grandpa go**? It's cold, he hasn't eaten or drunk, will he faint in **, he has no money and no mobile phone, and the locator that his family put in his pocket was also put in a drawer by him, what can I do? Everyone was like ants on a hot pot, restless for a night.It wasn't until about six o'clock the next morning that Grandpa was brought back by an old man in his sixties. Everyone was very surprised and surprised!
Grandpa smiled and said that he just wanted to go out for a walk, but he didn't expect that he didn't know how to go home in his head. Fortunately, an old man who was in a hurry felt that his grandfather was very familiar, so he walked over to talk, remembering that it was the old man of the neighbor's house before, and he took his grandfather home after chatting for a while.
When he was found, his grandfather had already walked near the railway station in the county seat, and he had been circling around the square for most of the night, pitiful like a child who couldn't find a home. Fortunately, it was discovered in time, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable.
In the village, the grandmother said that there are no old people of their age, but fortunately, the grandparents are still happy, one of the two has inconvenient legs and feet, and the other has a bad memory, but fortunately, they can see each other, and the children and daughters-in-law take turns to deliver meals for three meals, even if they urinate in bed, take a bath, cut their hair, etc., they have children around to take care of them.
Compared with other rural elderly people before, they are not so lucky.
The old man next door, more than seventy, has three sons, agreed to live in each son's house for a month every month, during the epidemic last year, the old man was yang for two days, and the fever was in the second child's house, the second and daughter-in-law saw that the time had been full for a month, that is, to transfer the old man to the third family, the third child asked to wait for the fever to improve and then transfer, the second family was not happy, so the two families had a lot of trouble, and the old man heard it.
Hearing about this, the boss who couldn't stand it took the old man to his home, which caused the dissatisfaction of the eldest daughter-in-law, and the two began to quarrel and contradict. The children and daughter-in-law of the old family in the back are also yang.
The old man who blamed himself thought that he was a drag, maybe because he was cold, and the old man finally passed away without any idea of survival after the fever and cough for more than a month.
It is often said that longevity is a blessing. But grandma said: It's better to live like this than to die, your elders and brothers and sisters are gone, and the younger generations have their own lives. The happiest way to leave is to leave in your sleep, without illness or disaster, and without burdening your children. When it's cold, don't buy me any new clothes, you don't need it now, and you won't need it anymore, anyway, we're already people who are about to step into the coffin.
Many elderly people in the countryside sit on the stone pier at the entrance of the village, as if they are waiting for something, but in fact, they are just waiting for a result that they all know.
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