In a quiet small village, there lives a middle-aged man named Mr. Chen. His childhood was full of hardships, and he lost his mother when he was a child because of his family's poverty. And when he grew up, he had to send his father to a nursing home because of his busy work.
During the Spring Festival of that year, Mr. Chen decided to take his father home for the Chinese New Year. On Chinese New Year's Eve, after eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together, they sat in the living room to watch the Spring Festival Gala, chatting while watching, laughing constantly. However, at about ten o'clock in the evening, he saw that his father was exhausted and proposed that he be allowed to go back to the house to rest. But his father insisted on waiting for Mr. Li Guyi to finish singing the song before going back.
Mr. Chan didn't understand why his father insisted on doing this until the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, when his father was going back to the nursing home, he got up early to help him pack his things and prepare to send him back. The moment he pushed the door open, he choked up instantly.
My name is Chen Zhiqiang, and I was born in a remote rural area. Since the beginning of my case, my mother's health has been poor, and it is said that it was because she had a fever when she was a child, and she was unable to work in the fields. Therefore, most of the family's farming is undertaken by the father. In order to support my mother and me, my father not only had to work in his own fields, but also went out to pick up some odd jobs to earn some extra income. As long as he has a little free time every day, he rests, thinking that he can earn a little more. So, for most of my childhood, it was just me and my mother.
My mother would always tell me stories about her and my father. She said that before my father met her, he had been working in other places. One day, the matchmaker came to the house and wanted to introduce her to her father, and so they met. Despite her mother's physical defects, her father never disliked her. After they got married, their father also decided to quit his job in the field and go home to accompany his mother, because he was worried that his mother was home alone.
When the autumn harvest came, my father went to work in the fields alone. Of course, now that there are automated machines, even the autumn harvest season is not particularly difficult. However, at that time, there was a large yellow cow in the family, which was mainly used for farm work. Sometimes, if the conditions are too poor, several families will join together to raise a cow. But, even then, my family doesn't. So, no matter what time it was, my father was busy in the fields. In order to finish his work as soon as possible, he would put heavy food on the cart every time.
At that time, as long as someone passed by, whether it was a joke or something, they would smile and say to their father: "Lao Chen, what are you doing so hard, my old cow will feel distressed if he pulls me like this." "My father just smiled every time, and when I was a child, I didn't understand the meaning of this sentence. However, when I grew up, I realized how harsh these words were, and how strong willpower my father had to be to smile at the person who said it.
What I admire most about my father is that he never complained and devoted himself wholeheartedly to this family. When I reached school age, my father said to me earnestly, "Study hard, so that you will not be like me in the future, and I will not be able to do many things." "At the time, I didn't understand what powerlessness was. When they entered the school, everyone had a new small school bag, which was about 20 yuan. For other people's families, they will buy a new one for their children to go to school. However, I didn't. This more than 20 yuan may be a month's living expenses for our family. However, my father didn't want me to fall behind others because I went to school. That night, he didn't know that he got a green canvas from **, and said that he would make my own schoolbag.
That was the first time I saw a man doing needlework, and generally in our countryside, if there was something that needed to be sewn, it was a woman who did it. My father's rough hands were holding a tiny needle and thread, which was so out of place. He cut and cut the canvas according to the way he remembered the messenger's bag, and finally spliced a crossbody bag for me.
After I went to school, my father worked harder to earn money, saying that he wanted to save my junior high school tuition. However, my mother had another serious illness, and in order to treat her, we spent almost all the family's savings. In the end, although his life was saved, his mother was completely invisible. In addition, the mother also needs to take medicine for a long time, which is a lot of expenses. The family owed a lot of foreign debts, and in order to pay off the debts, my father had to pack his bags again and go to work in other places. And I took on the responsibility of taking care of my mother.
I learned to do laundry and cook when I was in the fifth grade of elementary school. Every morning, I would wake up early, prepare some food, and then wait for my mother to get up and watch her finish her meals before giving her medicine, and then I would go to school. After school at noon, I hurried home again, prepared a meal and rushed to school. Despite this, my academic performance has not fallen behind, and I have always been in the top few grades in my school.
Time flies, two years have passed, and during this period, even during the Chinese New Year, my father has not returned. The first is because the round-trip fare is really not cheap, and the other point is that the New Year's salary is a little more. Later, I was admitted to the key junior high school in our county with the top grades in my grade, and I was very happy with the report card.
I specially called my father an a** to tell him the good news. My father was very happy when he heard this, and he said that he would come back in a few days and take me to school in person.
Our family is looking forward to a reunion that we haven't seen in a long time. On the day my father returned, we were faced with a new problem before we had time to celebrate. Because I have to go to school in the county seat, it is far away from home, and if I go to school, I can't take care of my mother. And if the father comes back to take care of the mother, it will be difficult to maintain the family's livelihood. That night, my father sat alone in the courtyard and fell into deep thought. I knew what he was thinking, and I looked at my mother in the quiet house, and then at the yard where my mother once lived, and suddenly made up my mind to give up school and stay near home to find a job and help my father support the family.
I walked up to my father and told him frankly what I thought. The father's reaction was very big, and he said angrily: "I once offered you to this point, do you know how much I have paid for it?" You easily say give up now, have you ever thought about the blow to the family? I cried and said to my father: "I don't want to go to school anymore, it's too tiring to go to school, you are tired of earning money, I am tired of going to school, I don't want to go to school for a long time." "I just want to use this as a trick to cut off my father's thoughts.
However, I didn't expect my father to suddenly pat me on the shoulder and say, "Wangzhe, don't worry, Dad won't let you make a sacrifice." I have a way, you have to continue to study and study hard. Your mother and I are still waiting for our family to have a college student. "That night, none of us noticed the mother in the house. It wasn't until noon the next day that we realized our mother was gone. We were very scared and searched everywhere, but by the afternoon, we still hadn't found our mother. I had a foreboding feeling in my heart that although we eventually got the news of my mother's death, she would never come back, and she had left us.
At that moment, I truly understood what my father said about powerlessness. In fact, my mother never went to school, and she did not leave a suicide note, a word, at the last moment of her life. She left us in silence.
After my mother left, my father and I left the house and never talked about my mother again, not because we had forgotten, but because we were afraid to touch the yard where my mother once lived.
Time is still passing, and I not only successfully entered the 985 school, but also entered a state-owned enterprise after graduation, and the salary is very good. The only problem is that I often need to travel. Every month, I would send money to my father and tell him not to go to work in other places anymore and to go home and rest. However, he refused, and I knew that he might be like me, afraid to go home and face the yard where my mother once lived.
Although I couldn't take care of my father regularly, I arranged for a good nursing home and made sure someone was there for him. During this period, I often took time to visit him, and I was relieved to see that he was in good spirits.
At the end of the year, I decided to take my father home for the New Year. When we got home, we had Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together and watched TV together. At night, my father was reluctant to go back to the house to sleep, and insisted on waiting until Mr. Li Guyi finished singing the song before going back. I had never seen my father smile so happily that night.
However, happy times are always short-lived, and after the year is over, I need to go back to work and my father needs to go back to the nursing home. That morning, I packed my father's belongings and was ready to send him off after breakfast.
However, when I called my father out for dinner, he never responded. I pushed open my father's door in a panic, only to see him sitting in a wheelchair, holding the only ** in our family of three, crying silently.
My father was not a person who shed tears easily, but at that moment, I looked at his rickety body, and the tears that flowed out, and the images of our family's happiness kept coming to my mind. I immediately decided to keep my father with me and not send him back to the nursing home. If I can't travel because of this, then I'm willing to transfer and give up that extra income. It's important that I can't wait until I'm lost again to understand what powerlessness is.
This story teaches us that the importance of family is immeasurable. Even if life is difficult, you must cherish your family and love and accompany you with your heart. No matter what hardships we encounter, we should strive to create a better life for our families and give them the support and love they need. Because the real powerlessness is not that we can't change the reality, but that we don't pay with our hearts, and we don't cherish and love the people around us. Therefore, let us cherish the family members around us, love and accompany them with our hearts, and give them warmth and strength.