It was getting late, and on the winding and rugged winding mountain path, I could hear motorcycles hurriedly coming up the mountain, puffing and puffing. The middle-aged man who hurried home is 57-year-old Song Chengsheng who lives in Huangniliang, Group 10, Zhuobi Village. Stamp

It was getting late, and on the winding and rugged winding mountain road, I could hear motorcycles hurriedly coming up the mountain, puffing and puffing.

The middle-aged man who hurried home is 57-year-old Song Chengsheng who lives in Huangniliang, Group 10, Zhuobi Village.

Stomping the mud on his feet, Lao Song quickly got out of the kitchen.

"I planted 6 bags of pepper seeds this year. I went to see the pepper seedlings in the afternoon and it was fine. But the grass was too thick and I didn't finish pulling them out all afternoon."

Lao Song was sitting in the stove, lighting the fire, and chatting with his wife, who was busy making dinner.

Throughout the afternoon, Lao Song stuck his butt out and knelt in the field, planting his own pepper seedlings. After transplanting, weeding, and fertilizing, we will be busy for a few more months. When the peppers in these several acres of fields have grown a "big stick" in length, they can be picked and sold, and there will be a harvest this year.

Lao Song ran back in a hurry. It was not that he was hungry after working on the farm all afternoon. What worries him is his 66-year-old brother Song Jifu, who has been paralyzed in bed for more than ten years.

This is a warm family, and this is also a helpless family. That year, Song Chengsheng's father, Song Fengqing, was already 80 years old. He was already old and frail, needless to say, inseparable from human care.

The ups and downs of life are sometimes like waves on the sea. The last wave made you stagger before you could stand up, and the next wave knocked you to the ground. Lao Song's father adopted a child in the old society when food and clothing were scarce. When Song Chengsheng was 16 years old, he named him Song Jifu. This child was Song Chengsheng's good playmate during his childhood and adolescence, and he was a good brother who grew up together. What made his life miserable was that his brother Song Jifu suffered from severe internal rheumatism when he was in his 50s. Later, he gradually became paralyzed, unable to hear or speak. He even excreted and urinated on the bed, let alone what to do with food and drink.

Song Chengsheng took care of his brother and basked in the sun outside to breathe the fresh air

Song Chengsheng also dreamed of traveling to the end of the world with a sword and going out to see the prosperous world. There were seniors and juniors, all relying on themselves. Now his brother is paralyzed again... ..

what to do? What to do with

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Song Chengsheng, who was in his 40s at the time, kept asking himself how to continue his life. My brother can't live without someone to take care of him, and my old father can't live without someone to take care of him. The reality is coldly placed in front of him, and it seems that he doesn't have any choice.

There was really no other way. Lao Song had to talk to his wife for months, and then he finally convinced her that she should take care of her brother while taking care of her old father. From that time on, Song Chengsheng placed his bed in the same room as his brother's and father's beds. In addition to taking care of his father and brother during the day, he also had to go to the fields to pick up the slack in farm work.

Everyone laments that time flies by so fast, but we can never imagine how time and years passed for Lao Song, every minute and second of every day.

In 2021, the 96-year-old Song Fengqing passed away. Song Chengsheng can always recall every detail of taking care of his father and brother in the past ten years. He said that although these elderly fathers are old, they never want to drag down his life. My son always "puts himself in danger" and does things he thinks he "can do". Of course, he is a "disservice" every time, but it is precisely these repeated "disasters" that deepen the relationship between himself and his father. The bond of affection with his brother.

A loving father and a filial son, this kind of family atmosphere has also infected Lao Song's daughter-in-law in the day-to-day hard work. She always has endless energy and energy, and can always take care of the housework, clean the inside and outside of the house, bed sheets quilt cover, all changes of clothes are neatly packed away.

These daily touches can always make the ordinary days of the Lao Song family shine.

In the past 10 years, the village, town, and county have considered that Song Chengsheng has to take care of his old father and brother, and the burden is too heavy. He came to Song Chengsheng's house many times to do work, publicize policies, and suggested that the paralyzed Song Jifu be sent to a nursing home for centralized support. However, Lao Song was always reluctant to let his brother leave his home.After asking again and again, Song Chengsheng said: "Although Song Jifu is not my biological brother, we grew up together in the same family after all, and everyone has feelings. Now that the national policy has improved, there are policies for people with disabilities. Centralized support is a good policy, but even with such a good policy, I am still unwilling to let him leave this home. We have been able to take care of him without a policy for so many years, and we will still be able to take good care of him in the future." Every time the superior department visited Song Jifu, they could always see how meticulously Lao Song took care of his paralyzed brother, and they couldn't help but give Lao Song a thumbs up.

At the end of last year, Lao Song and his wife plowed up all the good land in Huangniliang and planted wheat. This year, they will use the pepper industry developed by Murakami to plant several acres of peppers in their own fields. He actively participated in Murakami's organization If you are trained in pepper planting techniques, and if you are able to farm well, your peppers will definitely be able to be sold on the market as soon as possible and at a good price.

Song Chengsheng's family's happy rural life

Lao Song is 57 this year. His son has married, started a family and started a business. All aspects of life are getting better day by day. This is what Lao Song is most gratified about.