Human life is very short, and most people spend this life anonymously and ordinary. My mother is like that, and I will be the same in the future. But in my heart, my mother is a great mother, but also a stupid mother. She is a strong mother, but also a weak mother. People are multi-faceted. In fact, several personalities can be concentrated in one person. Although my mother's experience is ordinary, compared with ordinary people, there are also small legends. I feel it is necessary to record her life, as a gift to these unknown little people, and to give a story to my children. Oh, it turns out they have such a grandma, or grandma.
Last night, while walking on the road with my mother, I asked her what was the earliest thing she remembered when she was a child.
"The earliest thing, the earliest..." Mom murmured to herself, I said yes, it is the earliest in your memory. Mom is seventy-one this year, and her not-so-smart mind is now a little forgetful. If I don’t write now, she will forget even more about the past in the future. After thinking for a while, my mother said that the earliest and clearest thing in her memory was being beaten. That woman named Li Sumei, my grandmother, beat her. It is necessary to introduce briefly here my grandma and grandpa. My grandma was the second wife of my grandpa. It is said that my grandpa was many years older than my grandma. He originally had a wife, but he was attracted to my grandma and later divorced. Then he married his grandma. The reason is so long ago that you can use your imagination to guess.
After my grandma married my grandpa, she gave birth to five children, my aunt, my mother, and three uncles. Actually, there were four. My mother said that one of them died, so there were only three uncles left. My aunt is the eldest, my mother is the second, and there are three younger brothers. My grandma's characteristic is that she favors sons over daughters, so much so that now my mother and my grandma don't have any contact, and we rarely have contact with my uncle.
I only remember my grandma once, because I am also a girl, so of course my grandma doesn’t like to see me. She was a person who loved to enjoy herself. She did not do housework, nor did she care for her children after she gave birth. At that time, my grandfather joined the army and changed his career, so he had a smooth career. He went from being a clerk to the principal of our county's senior high school, and later to the county party committee. He became a minister, and some people called him a director. Normally, in a family like this, my mother could be considered a "child of a senior cadre," but my mother's status was really not comparable to that of a child of a high-ranking cadre. After my mother was born, she was given to a nanny, or a wet nurse. However, because of the new society, this title was changed to godmother. Each of my aunts and uncles had their own godmother, not even one. I counted one, and there were five or six of those kind old people who I later called grandma. They all supported my mother at different ages, and they seemed to cost seven yuan a month.
My first grandma was my mother’s first godmother. In a village in the west of our county, it was said that this godmother’s life was not very good. After her husband died, she married into another family. This family is in ours. In Xiguan County, my mother said, think about it, I took you to her house when you were in junior high school. I thought about it carefully, and it seemed that the old woman gave me six yuan of lucky money. During the Chinese New Year, that money They are all one yuan, brand new. My mother said that she was the first godmother in her memory and she was very affectionate to her.
