[Story] My elder brother's text/Shi Zhixin returned to his hometown to visit his parents on National Day. My sister had already arrived in the village from the county town a day in advance. As soon as she entered the house, she heard from her father that my brother, who was in hi

[Story]

Ben’s brother

text/Shi Zhixin

Ben’s parents on National Day. My sister went back to her hometown to visit her parents from the county town a day in advance. As soon as she entered the house, she heard from her father that her brother, who was in her 80s, was very ill and had been lying in bed for more than a year. My sister immediately proposed to go and see him with me.

The brother of my father mentioned in my family, in terms of his blood relationship, his grandfather and my grandfather are brothers recently with our family. But I know clearly that when I was a child, their family lived next door to our house.

Because the apple tree in my yard is against the wall, the apple branches after the fruit are placed on the other side of the wall, and their children are often snatching apples and eating them, but they don’t admit it. Especially the shrew sister-in-law of his family often quarrels with my mother and can scold her. She and my mother are both in the village. Many times, she always calls her mother’s nickname and scolding her. Not only does this brother not stop him, but also cheers on her side. My sister is also very clear about all this.

Later, my brother moved to the river beach at the west end of the village to live. Over the years, during the Chinese New Year, other juniors from my family came to wish my father a happy new year, but this brother, who is closest in blood, has not come to wish his uncle a happy new year for a year, let alone in normal times.

The reason why my sister asked me to go was because she was afraid that the big wolf dog , the scenes of the shrew's sister-in-law quarreling with her mother when she was a child have been engraved in my heart. I have always remembered it in my heart for so many years.

So when my sister asked me to go with him, I immediately expressed my opposition. My father complained to me a few years ago that his nephew was ignorant, but now he has suddenly changed and supports my sister's approach.

Mother said on the side, we can't be as ignorant as he is. My sister even said that every time that brother saw me back, he would call me sister one by one, and don't turn over old accounts when you are old.

Seeing that I was firm in my attitude, my father and sister took some cakes I bought for my mother from Weihai and went to see his house.

When my father and sister came back, my brother was very grateful in bed. Unexpectedly, my elders recently went to see him, and the shrew's sister-in-law became much more kind. The couple scolded his two sons for being unfilial to his father and sister. My brother, who was originally a heart-hearted, kept crying. I think he must have been moved. Thinking about his ruthlessness in the past, he might have woken up.

This is exactly the same as the old saying, the bird is about to die and the song is sad, and the person is about to die and the words are good.

It will not be easy for a person in his entire life. It is better to be kind to others and do more good deeds and accumulate virtue.

(This article is the original first published by Shuiyuan Literature (ID: sywxwk), author: Shi Zhixin )

Name: Shi Zhixin, hometown: Qingzhou, Shandong, pseudonym: Yihong Qingshui, Bailang, military-to-military cadre, currently working in an administrative and public institution in Weihai, a member of Weihai Writers Association, Weihai City, Member of the Music Association, in May 2021, participated in the Shandong Provincial Agriculture, Forestry, Water and Animal Husbandry Meteorological System to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party, and his poem "A Hundred Years of Vicissitudes" won the second prize; he participated in the "Road to Integrity·You and I Walk with You" literary works "Like Poems and Songs" hosted by the Weihai Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Municipal Organization Working Committee, and co-organized by the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and Weihai Daily. His prose "The Second and Three Affairs of the Female Branch Secretary Song Zhanhua" won the first prize. More than 800 remarks, essays, communications, novels, and essays have been published in the People's Daily, Economic Daily, " China Ocean Post ", "Manager's Daily", "Qilu Evening News" and WeChat platforms. The song's debut work "Traveling China with a Car" has been released in Tencent and Youku.