The picture shows Lao Yu and Xiaoqian
"Can you help me take a photo? I am in my seventies, and I don't even have a photo." There is no smartphone at home. Lao Yu (pseudonym) asks everyone if he can help take a photo, but the village has been to the city for dozens of miles, but he can't wash it out after taking photos. Lao Yu returns disappointed every time. Lao Yu said, "My daughter-in-law has been gone for many years. My son has never come back when he goes to work. I can no longer see their hope for their return. I just want to take a photo to leave a memory for my grandchildren, so that they can know that there is still a relative in this world who cares about them." Looking at her granddaughter Xiaoqian (pseudonym), who is working in the yard, Lao Yu felt sad and opened up the conversation.
Lao Yu is a native of Yunnan. His wife left early, so Lao Yu farmed alone to do odd jobs to raise his son. On the day his son got married, Lao Yu went to his wife's grave to announce the good news with tears and laughter. The successive births of the grandson and granddaughter made the family even more happy. Looking at the two fat white children, Lao Yu felt that all the hard work he had in the first half of his life was worth it. However, things didn't go as expected. Shortly after the granddaughter was born, Lao Yu's daughter-in-law suffered from postpartum depression , and became disliked and didn't even care about the children.
Although Lao Yu didn't have much education, he knew that his daughter-in-law was sick. He often went to the town to ask around to buy medicine for his daughter-in-law, and sold grain to buy supplements, but his daughter-in-law's illness has not improved. After eight years of age, Lao Yu still blames herself when she thinks of it, "I just want to save money for my children in a variety of ways, run to the mountains every day, my son works outside, and it is not easy for my daughter-in-law to take care of two children alone, I blame me for not taking good care of her and making her suffer." When Xiaoqian was three years old, the mother of the brother and sister quietly ran away from home and never came back.
After the daughter-in-law left home, Lao Yu's son was in a slump and was wandering around alone, and he didn't even go home for the New Year, let alone sending money to home. From then on, the old man who had never enjoyed happiness in his half life gritted his teeth and pulled his two children. During the day, Lao Yu carried a small person and pulled a big person up the mountain to farm. At night, the exhausted Lao Yu fed the chickens and ducks and was busy cooking for the children, then took care of the children to wash their faces and sleep, and then cleaned up the dishes. It often took the rest late at night. The neighbor next door saw that Lao Yu was so pitiful with two children alone. He would always bring some clothes that were fresh and not old for the children and some fruits. The two children grew up stumbled under the protection of their grandmother.
granddaughter Xiaoqian said: "The essay I don't like to write the most is my parents. I don't have the memory of my parents and can't write it out. Grandma raised us and I want to make money to spend it for my grandma in the future." The lack of parents' company since childhood made Xiaoqian and her brother and sister particularly rely on their grandma, and the two children never mention their parents. During the Chinese New Year, Grandma Yu had only three lonely people at home. Seeing other people's family reunion and eating the sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner, the brother and sister remained silent and she burst into tears secretly. Lao Yu was both moved and sad. She only hoped that the brother and sister would grow up quickly and could send their two children out of the mountain by farming. But an accident happened.
Last year, the old house of three, which was a rainy day, Lao Yu built the roof in the middle of the night, but broke two ribs. He was afraid that the two children would worry, Lao Yu was so painful that he sweated coldly and didn't say a word, and resisted until the morning to go to the hospital. "The doctor said that I am really strong, and I said I have children behind me. What can I do if I am not strong? The hospital is a place to burn money. I feel distressed every time I pay the money, so I look forward to being discharged." Lao Yu spent all his money after staying in the hospital for more than a month.
This disaster left Lao Yu in bed for more than a year and could not get into the ground until the previous few months, but he also suffered from the root of foot pain and could not walk more. The sensible Xiaoqian and her sister took over all the housework to help her grandmother share the burden. The brother lives in the school, and the 11-year-old Xiaoqian learned to wash clothes and cook and wipe her grandmother's body. Sometimes when I was tired of working, Xiaoqian fell asleep as she talked to her grandmother. Seeing the blisters that were ground from her granddaughter's little hands, Lao Yu's heart hurt.
"The granddaughter thinks about me everywhere, and takes back everything outside, and gives me back to me. The grandson is also filial and sensible. He called the teacher at school and asked me not to think about him, ask me not to work, and let me take good care of myself. I always think, how good it would be to be if these two children were born in a good family, and how promising they would be." Once, Lao Yu wanted to work, but Xiaoqian cried when she saw it, holding her grandmother and not letting go, for fear that her grandmother would fall and leave them again. Lao Yu coaxed her granddaughter with heartache. Thinking of two children who were not loved by her parents, she didn't know how many years she could live, so Lao Yu cried.
Nowadays, Lao Yu's family is facing more serious problems. The school of the brother and sister has begun to merge. The school is 15 kilometers away from home, and both children have to live on campus. A living expenses of 8 yuan and a bus fare of more than 100 yuan per month made Lao Yu so worried that he coughed all day long. The old man who has been working for his children all his life said helplessly: "Since the last time I broke my ribs, my body has been far behind. emphysema is getting worse and worse. I can't even plant the ground. Now I can only rely on relatives to borrow some money to live. The two children are just when they grow up and need nutrition, but we can't even eat enough, let alone eat fish and meat. Now we will just be there every day. My grandson said he will go to work after junior high school, but he is so young, I really don't know what to do..."
