Although I am not very professional on this issue, I stayed at home for more than half a year last year to review for the postgraduate entrance examination, but I noticed this fact.
My family is in a small county and I live in a village. It is inevitable to think of poverty and backwardness, but it is not like that.
There are basically no mud houses in the village, and there are more people living on the second floor. I heard from the elders that our small county town was not invaded by the Japanese during the Anti-Japanese War period, so some property was preserved to a certain extent; judging from a certain period of time, the people in the village were relatively wealthy. For a long time, everyone stayed on a piece of land and were not keen on going out to work.
Just like many years ago, when the first batch of people went into the sea and made a lot of money, it became a craze.
Are the people there still closed their eyes and ears? Not to mention seizing the opportunity...
A life like this will sooner or later be pushed away by the outside world, right?
I remember that during the National Day of the National Day in college, probably 2017, it was the season for apple paper bags. I remember very clearly that I went to help my aunt’s house with work. At that time, my aunt was smiling, even with a bit of farmer pride, and said to me, what better place than here? Just the crisp apples growing in the crop fields are money we can’t spend all of our money.
At this time, I have to say that she is still blindly confident and cannot believe that this place can no longer accommodate people.
But the current situation is actually that most people of my age do not want to pick up a hoe. The more important reason is actually that in 2008, fallen fruits could be sold for 90 cents or one yuan per catty in one afternoon. In the fields, the fruit you pick up can be sold for at least two hundred yuan. Now, until the apples are about to mature, they can only be sold for two or three cents per catty. I spent the whole afternoon in the fields, and I didn't seem to count ants , but I seemed exhausted and didn't make any profit.
The older people slowly accepted it with curses. The young people did not go to school early and went south to work in factories. Those whose families had some money planned to let their children learn a trade... The biggest dream of children who go to school is to pass the exam. But unsurprisingly, everything that people could leave left.
Even my aunt who praised the place as a good place did not leave, but she also had the desire to leave and live with her daughter.
Leave behind the yellow land that once obsessed them.
What about the rest?
All the people in the village are elderly people and left-behind children.
I remember when I was doing physical examinations for the elderly, basically everyone in the village would come to my house. The family is basically an old couple who support each other. The younger ones are all out. Some old men were still cursing at their old wives from behind: "Go get a bench and let me talk to him properly." Little did they know that one was at this end of the village and the other was at the other end of the village. They hadn't seen each other for a long time. .
In fact, whether you believe it or not, when there are children at home, any parent will cook a pot of hot meals. When the children are no longer at home, it can only be called survival, or living.
I have seen people raising chickens. They were afraid that the eggs would go bad before their children came back and they were given to my father.
I have seen people whose pepper harvest was not good. They took a big bag of dried peppers weighing more than ten kilograms and begged my father to buy them. They only asked for five yuan to sell them.
I have seen a pot of white rice porridge that two elderly people can eat for a day.
I have seen a neighbor's grandma who has been very strong all her life. She tried to prove her innocence, but was angry to death.
I have seen an eighty-year-old neighbor’s grandpa take a twenty-minute bus ride, withdraw his pension, and pay for his hospitalization expenses.
I have also seen an old lady who could not walk normally. Because her husband was constipated, she took one step and rested two steps just to come to my house to buy a bottle of Kaiselu .
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And these people, the grandma next door who I am most familiar with, the grandma who calls me to his house to give me a meal every time I see her, I saw her just last Sunday and will stay until next week when she comes back She has been laid to rest.
The grandma who called my father to get medicine with a loud voice suddenly told my father to give a gift after returning home...
I don't want to describe so much, it is too heavy.
I can't stand it...
...
During the half year of the postgraduate entrance examination, I saw more than a dozen old people gone, but their children were still working outside. After knowing it, he hurried home again.
But in that corresponding year, only two children were born in the village.
But their children also have children. If they can’t live well themselves, how can they have time to care about others?
Being alone has no one to rely on, and children and grandchildren also have their own difficulties.
No one in this world has it easy. People of our generation who grew up in an era of abundant material resources have seen how difficult it is for parents. Most of them probably don’t plan to be parents anymore.
As for the birth rate, I can tentatively guess that it will not increase.
Before family planning, a large part of the reason for the high birth rate was because of the turbulent life and uneasy days after the war, which made them want to leave traces of their past in the world. When I gave birth to children, I thought about the blessings of having many children and grandchildren, but when I retired, all I saw was pushing balls. I have even seen that after my elderly father left, my brother never stepped into the house again.
has seen the life of his father's generation, and he is afraid that he will also live like that.
no longer wants to choose that kind of life.
And that small village that was not disturbed by the Anti-Japanese War will be pushed forward by this great era.
