Since I was a child, my mother said that from the face of the face, my second cousin is the life of an official wife, and after she grew up and married, she didn't expect to be really said by my mother. When I was young, our family was rural, but every summer vacation, several daughters of my aunt's family who lived in the county town liked to come to our house to play.
At that time, my eldest uncle, because he was a rightist, was sent from the big city to our small place, my uncle-in-law worked in a township, and my aunt worked as a teacher in a school.
My aunt had five daughters, and because the third daughter was born and gave it to my aunt and uncle who had no children, only my two cousins and two cousins came to our house every year for the summer vacation.
Others don't say just my second cousin, when I remember, she was about ten years old, white and fat, with a round and big face, compared with these yellow-skinned children in our countryside, it was really a blessing on her face.
My mother has liked to read books since she was a child, and she prefers to read those literary works, and according to the description in the book, my mother thinks that looking at the face of my second cousin, she will definitely be able to become a wife of Shangguan when she grows up.
Later, after the second aunt's work resumed, the family returned to the big city, hundreds of miles away from our family, and because of the lack of transportation, we did not see our cousins and cousins much in the decades since.
Although we said that we could not meet, my mother and my aunt kept writing to each other, and we still knew the news of the two families.
I only know that my second cousin later graduated from high school and was not admitted to college, so she went to work as a female worker in a textile factory.
She found a partner who was a soldier in the army, and she was an ordinary soldier at the beginning, and after she got married, her husband upgraded step by step and brought her second cousin to join the army.
Gradually, the second cousin-in-law's official position rose higher and higher, and he became the ** of the army, and the second cousin also became the real official wife in my mother's mouth.
In my imagination, the second cousin must be proud, and this life is smooth and happy, until ten years ago, when I saw the second cousin again, it subverted the conjecture in my heart.
Ten years ago, my father had surgery in the provincial hospital because of a herniated disc in his waist, because my mother and my aunt often communicated with each other, and my aunt told my mother that my aunt was also hospitalized in the hospital in the provincial city because of cancer, and told us the inpatient ward number.
Isn't this upstairs where my father was hospitalized? My father lives on the 21st floor, and my aunt lives on the 22nd floor, and when I heard the news, my sister and I immediately bought gifts and went upstairs to visit my aunt.
There I only saw the eldest cousin and the sick uncle, who I hadn't seen for many years, and the eldest cousin said that the second cousin was on a plane and would come back tomorrow to visit my uncle.
I was very excited to hear my eldest cousin's words, because I had the best relationship with my second cousin since I was a child, mainly because she has a good personality and can get along with anyone, and our brothers and sisters like her very much.
After meeting my second cousin, I was shocked, how did the little girl who was white and fat, with a round face and a blessed face since she was a child, not yet 50 years old, become like this?
My second cousin is only three years older than me, and I remember very clearly that she and my brother had the same birthday, because when we were children, in our family, the two of them argued every day because of this matter, and they were willing to be older brothers and sisters, and they didn't want to be younger brothers and sisters, and they made us laugh.
In my imagination, my second cousin should be like those broad ladies on TV, plump and dressed in gold and silver, with a rich and noble face, but after seeing her, I was really disappointed.
I saw that she looked very haggard, there was no blood on her face, and her hair was dry, although she looked like she didn't have much hair left, which was worse than the face of a peasant woman like me.
When she came to visit my father, she cried bitterly when she saw my father, and took out 3,000 yuan and put it under my father's pillow, saying that she regretted that she should not have followed my parents back to the big city, and that if she had followed my father to study in our local area, maybe she would have been admitted to university.
Because at that time, my father taught in our local high school, and his academic performance was good, but after the family returned to the city, my second cousin stayed alone and followed my father to study in high school, and then her parents insisted on getting her back to the big city, afraid that she would suffer from us, and I heard her say that after returning to the big city, she could only go to a third-rate high school, and the learning atmosphere of the school was very bad, which had a great impact on her academic performance, so she was not admitted to the university later.
I don't know what the second cousin has encountered over the years, I have been struggling with the fact that I was not admitted to college for decades, seeing that she was crying so sadly, and I was not embarrassed to ask, or when the eldest cousin chatted with us privately, we only found out when we talked about it.
She said: Speaking of which, my second sister is in the best condition now, and she is much richer than our sisters, but now compared with our sisters, she is the most offended.
It turned out that the second cousin had rheumatoid arthritis when she was a child, and she had not been **, and it was not too serious at first, after following her cousin-in-law to join the army, because the local climate was very cold, the second cousin's rheumatoid arthritis became more and more serious, and she had to suffer from diseases every day.
Later, she suffered from severe endocrine disorders, 365 days a year, taking a lot of medicine every day, and never fell a day, no wonder he looked so old compared to his peers.
In fact, the conditions of the second cousin at that time were very good, her husband was the first in the army, and her daughter was also admitted to a prestigious university, she later studied accounting, and did accounting in the army, and she was about to retire that year.
Since meeting my second cousin, I have deeply realized that the money, wealth, and social status that many people pursue are really insignificant compared to health.
I really didn't expect that the second cousin I have been envious of all these years has been living such an unhappy life!