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A few days ago, I went back to my hometown and just sat down a few minutes later, my mother asked me to go to the hospital with her to see my neighbor Grandma Liu. I was stunned. Grandma Liu's body has always been very strong, why did she collapse in just a few months? My mother said, "Yuzhu (Liu Mi's grandson) died of a cerebral hemorrhage more than ten days ago."
Thinking about it carefully, many people can understand Grandma Liu's actions. Grandma Liu has never enjoyed any blessings in her life, but she has gained a lot of grief. In his seventies, he had no hope of living.
Grandma Liu was born in a very remote countryside. After only entering the third grade of elementary school, I had no books. I went home to help my parents work at about ten years old. Grandma Liu has a younger brother. Grandma Liu's father couldn't marry a wife because his family was poor. It was not until I was thirty that I married a stupid and mute girl in the next village, Grandma Liu's mother.
Grandma Liu was born in a poor family. Although there was nothing delicious, she was still so beautiful. When he was seventeen or eighteen years old, he was already a graceful girl. There are endless people coming to ask for marriage nearby.
At that time, there was no free love, but it was based on introduction. Grandma Liu's father was afraid of being poor and was determined to find someone with good family conditions for Grandma Liu. He said that having food, clothing, and living in a house is happiness. No matter whether he is tall or short, fat or thin, or has a good temper or a bad temper.
The father of the neighbor Wang Uncle Wang is a carpenter. He often goes to Grandma Liu and his family to make door frames, stools, and tables in the mountain nests. I had pocket money on hand and built a big house in our village.
Uncle Wang's father saw that Grandma Liu looked so beautiful that he wanted Grandma Liu to be his wife. Then he gave Grandma Liu's father a lot of bride gifts, and Grandma Liu's father agreed. Grandma Liu and Uncle Wang only lasted one week from engagement to marriage.
Uncle Wang is the only son of the family, and he is single-born for three generations.
Uncle Wang’s father and mother hope that Grandma Liu will give birth to a fat boy for their family. But things went against my wishes. Grandma Liu and Uncle Wang have been married for three years, but their stomachs have been unable to bulge.
Uncle Wang's mother hugged her grandson and sought medical treatment everywhere, and got all kinds of herbs to nourish the body for Grandma Liu to drink. Seeing the bitter and unpleasant black medicine soup, Grandma Liu wanted to die, but every time she pinched her nose and forced herself to drink it, she never got pregnant.
Uncle Wang's mother stomped her feet in disappointment. As long as Grandma Liu has something that makes her unhappy, she will scold Grandma Liu for being a hen who can't lay eggs. Grandma Liu never dared to retaliate and hid in the room and cried, only regretting that her belly was not good.
After all, Uncle Wang married Grandma Liu on the order of his parents, and there was no relationship. Grandma Liu has not been pregnant over the years, and her father and mother talk to her every day. Gradually, Uncle Wang also became disgusted with Grandma Liu.
After the rural area, a piece of land in Mr. Wang’s family junction with the land of Liu Quan’s family, who has several sons in the village. Once, Uncle Wang's father discovered that Liu Quan moved the boundary to his own land about five centimeters. Uncle Wang's father was getting the boundaries back when Liu Quan happened to come over to farm.
His father argued with Liu Quan, and Liu Quan said ruthlessly: Your family has no descendants, why are you still planting so many? "Uncle Wang's father was so angry that he put down his hoe and started fighting with Liu Quan. Fortunately, some neighbors saw it and pulled his father and Liu Quan away.
Later, the village cadres mediated and brought the boundaries back to their original place. But Uncle Wang's father was still depressed and fell ill every day. From then on, Grandma Liu and Uncle Wang, who rarely did heavy work, complained, and they even disliked Grandma Liu. From then on, Grandma Liu became their "punching bag." "
Winter is coming and spring is coming, and Uncle Wang wants to drive the cattle to the pear field to sow rice seeds. For some reason, the ox didn't listen to him that day and dragged the plow rake and ran around the field. The plow rake hit the stone beside the field. With a "bang", the plow rake turned into two halves, cutting and bleeding from Uncle Wang's feet, and screaming in pain. Uncle Wang was so angry that he pulled the cow a few sticks, threw the rotten plow rake at the edge of the field, and limped home.
Uncle Wang went home and saw that Grandma Liu had not prepared the meal yet, so she was so angry that she came to her. He grabbed Grandma Liu's hair and hit the wall hard. Suddenly, blood flowed out from his forehead and corners of his eyes. Fortunately, my grandfather and grandma who lived next door came home to work and yelled at Uncle Wang, and then took Grandma Liu to the township health center together.
Until the fifth year, Grandma Liu became pregnant and gave birth to a fat and fat son for Uncle Wang. According to seniority, I called him Uncle Feng. Uncle Wang’s father’s illness disappeared instantly. Uncle Wang has become even more personal. He has a better temper with his youngest mother and has become more diligent. Grandma Liu showed a rare smile on her face.
In the early 1990s, it became popular to build houses with cement bricks. Uncle Wang was also tempted to build a brick house for Uncle Feng.
Uncle Wang wants to make stones himself as the foundation to save some money.
That day, as usual, Uncle Wang had breakfast, took shovels, stone cannons and gunpowder , and went to the hillside about thirty miles away from the village to get stones. Uncle Wang put the explosive-filled detonator into the small hole he had chiseled and shouted loudly: Be careful with the villagers nearby, prepare to fire the cannon. After shouting for a few consecutive times, he carefully fired the cannon with a match from his clothes bag.
After Uncle Wang ignited it, he ran his legs in the opposite safe direction. After running to a place that felt safe, sit on the ground and wait for the detonator to explode. 10 seconds passed, 20 seconds passed... A minute passed. As usual, it exploded in just one minute at most. Five minutes have passed, but it still has not exploded. Uncle Wang hurried over to see what was going on.
A loud bang, and Uncle Wang fell to the ground with a "ah". After hearing Mr. Wang's voice, the person who was shooting the stone cannon nearby ran towards him and saw a big stone pressing against Mr. Wang. Blood flowed out from his head, face, and corners of his eyes.
When the villagers rushed Uncle Wang to the hospital, due to more bleeding, Uncle Wang was already dying. When the young lady heard the news, she rushed to the hospital. Uncle Wang grabbed her young lady's hand tightly: Gui... Guihua, if you have the right person, you will marry. Also, you must help me raise my son. After seeing Grandma Liu nodding, Uncle Wang closed his eyes forever.
After Uncle Wang’s death, his father and mother could not bear the pain of losing their son and both fell ill. Two years later, the two elderly people died one after another.
From then on, only Uncle Feng and Grandma Liu depend on each other.
In a blink of an eye, it is the season for plowing the fields and sowing rice seeds again.
Two years ago, although Mr. Wang's father was sick and Grandma Liu was busy, he could help Grandma Liu plow the fields, but after he passed away, Grandma Liu had to drive the cows to learn from the pear fields by himself.
Early in the morning, Grandma Liu drove the water into the field early, then pulled the cow and helped the rake down the field. The iron ox at the border with the field had already plowed its own house. Seeing that Grandma Liu was so hard, she took the initiative to go to the field to help Grandma Liu plow the field.
Grandma Liu couldn't resist his kindness and asked him to help plow, so she went home to cook and treat Tie Niu to dinner. As soon as I walked back to the village, I saw someone selling pork. Grandma Liu hurriedly cut two kilograms of meat, bought some fried tofu, and prepared to make tofu dumplings.
was getting up and ready to wash rice into the pot. Tien Niu’s wife rushed into the kitchen angrily and grabbed Grandma Liu’s collar: Osmanthus, you shameless woman, when will you hook up with Tien Niu in my house? Grandma Liu was so angry that her face turned red and she spread her hands: Tienniu’s wife, I am not good to your Tienniu. You can eat rice randomly, and you can't talk nonsense.
Tienniu's wife could not listen to it, and she stretched out her other hand to grab Grandma Liu's face. At this time, Uncle Feng happened to come home from school and saw Tieniu's wife beating his mother. He rushed among them and pushed Tieniu's wife down with both hands.
Then I took the burning firewood stick from the stove, pointed at the Tienniu wife and said: Let me see you bully my mother again, I will definitely not spare you! Tienniu's wife was so scared that she stood up tremblingly from the ground, patted the ashes on her body, and slipped home with anger.
Uncle Feng was sixteen years old. In the autumn of the third year of junior high school, Grandma Liu went up the mountain to pick up firewood and carried a large bundle. On the way home, raindrops as big as beans suddenly started. Because it was a mud road and it was a bit slippery, Grandma Liu was about to cross a ditch when suddenly her front foot slid down the ditch, and her whole body and a heavy bundle of firewood fell into the ditch. Grandma Liu's foot was sprained.
is the season for harvesting rice, and Grandma Liu needs cultivation. Uncle Feng had to drop out of school.
After harvesting the crops, many people in the village went out to the construction site to find work, and Uncle Feng also followed them to Guangdong to find work.
Since Uncle Feng was not over 18 years old, he could only work on the construction site with some uncles and uncles from the village.
When Uncle Feng was eighteen years old, A Lian who was doing statistics came to the construction site (one year younger than Uncle Feng and later became my aunt). After getting along, they became boyfriend and girlfriend.
When Uncle Feng was 20 years old, they got married. There is almost no need for Grandma Liu to have any snacks. The next year, my aunt gave birth to a fat boy for Uncle Feng. Grandma Liu was so happy that she couldn't stop talking. Everyone in the village said that Grandma Liu is really the result of the hardships.
When Uncle Feng was working on the construction site, he noticed that workers in nearby factories were eating breakfast outside the factory. Uncle Feng thinks that the breakfast business should be good and free.
Uncle Feng and his aunt were born in the second year of marriage. After the child grew up a little, Uncle Feng discussed with his aunt to open a breakfast shop. When Yuzhu was three years old, Uncle Feng took his family to rent a shop near an electronics factory in Foshan, Guangdong to sell breakfast. Grandma Liu helped take care of the children in the store, and Uncle Feng and aunt took care of the business.
Uncle Feng specializes in selling breakfast, and they order buns, steamed buns, fried dough sticks, etc. from other people's stores.
The tiny uncle Feng found that at the beginning, many people bought fried dough sticks, and the fried dough sticks he pre-ordered were not enough to sell. Later, slowly, almost no one bought it.
Uncle Feng suddenly understood that the fried dough sticks are not crispy or crispy, and they taste no taste. When others send it, it takes time, and the longer the time, the less delicious it is.
So Uncle Feng spent some money to learn to fry fried dough sticks from others after closing the stall in the breakfast shop. Uncle Feng’s fried dough sticks are thick and crispy, and more and more people are buying them. Some nearby breakfast shops have also come to order dough sticks. Uncle Feng often gets up in the middle of the night to fry fried dough sticks, and sometimes he also gives dough sticks to the shop owners on the street.
It was past ten o'clock in the morning one morning. According to convention, Uncle Feng had already returned from the fried dough sticks. But Grandma Liu and aunt waited without seeing Uncle Feng come back. When my aunt called Uncle Feng, no one answered her.
After a while, my aunt's cell phone rang, and an urgent voice on the other end of the phone told my aunt that something happened to Uncle Feng. His motorcycle carrying fried dough sticks hit the railing next to the road. Uncle Feng died on the spot due to his serious injuries.
When Grandma Liu and her aunt hugged each other and cried bitterly.
After Uncle Feng was buried, Grandma Liu took her grandson and aunt out to work for the family.
Grandma Liu protects her grandson Yuzhu like eye protection.
In a blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed, and Yuzhu has become a teenager.
Grandma Liu finally took a breath.
I heard from my mother that a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Grandma Liu, aunt and Yuzhu were preparing to have a meal. Suddenly, the bowl Yuzhu was holding fell to the ground, put his right hand on his temple and shouted: Grandma, grandma, my head hurts so much! As soon as he finished speaking, he fell to the ground.
Aunt asked the neighbor to help him take Yuzhu to the hospital. When he was still on the way, Yuzhu was no longer able to do it.
It may be that Grandma Liu's tears have dried up. After Yuzhu passed away, she remained silent. Until the next day when Yuzhu was about to be carried up the mountain to be buried. With a "bang", before everyone could react, Grandma Liu hit the coffin.
The villagers and relatives hurriedly arranged for some people to carry Yuzhu's body up the mountain and put it into the soil for peace, and some people took Grandma Liu to the hospital.
Grandma Liu opened her eyes with difficulty, and her parents' younger brother hurriedly turned his face and used his right hand to wrap up Grandma Liu's messy hair.
"Gangzi, let me die, let me die! You said I live in the world, what hope is there?" Grandma Liu's face was covered with tears, and her rough right hand slapped the hospital bed hard.
Grandma Liu's younger brother held Grandma Liu's hand tightly: Sister, aren't there me, and your nephews, nephews and grandchildren? When you are discharged from the hospital, I will take you home.
When I went home on Double Ninth Festival, my mother took me to Liujia Village (Grandma Liu’s house) to see Grandma Liu. She looked much more energetic and called my nickname from afar.
There is a pram next to her, and there is a beautiful baby about one year old sitting inside. He should be the granddaughter of Grandma Liu's younger brother. Grandma Liu smashed her mouth from time to time, making the baby smile, and a smile appeared on her face from time to time.
