text: Dawn Yunxiu Picture: Hongyan
1: Picking locust flowers in the rain
Today I cleaned up my room and saw a diary written in April 2018: "The annual locust flowers are about to bloom. I am thousands of miles away, and the big locust tree in front of my hometown once again emerged in my mind. Some miss my hometown..."
Thoughts instantly returned to that year locust fragrance season.
The sky in the south is like a child's face changes as soon as it is said. The clear sky in the morning began, and it started to rain slightly in a short while.
Looking at the drizzle outside the window, I inadvertently muttered in front of my son: "The big locust tree in my home is also blooming now, right? If you are in my hometown, your father, your aunt, your third aunt, your old swallow... you may have to tie a scythe and stroking the locust flowers in the past few days!"
While saying, thinking about the fragrant locust flowers in the yard of my hometown, and the hot locust flower steamed buns that have just been out of the pot. If you dip it in some garlic paste mixed with chili oil, and if you add a few drops of sesame sesame oil in the garlic paste, it tastes delicious, it is so fresh and fragrant, it is so greedy!
I was talking nonsense, but my son, who was about to go out to work, heard it in his heart. The next day, it was still drizzling. At 6 o'clock in the afternoon, my son came back from get off work. He saw that his head was wet, covering his two bulging pockets with both hands. As soon as he entered the door, he smiled at me, "Mom, what did I bring to you?"
said, and took out handfuls of wet locust flowers from his trouser pockets. The two small pockets actually took out a small pot of locust flowers full of! When I saw the locust flowers, I was so happy that I couldn't help but praise my son for being so good! I wondered where can I find locust flowers in such a big city?
My son wiped the handle and said that he drove to a faraway place and saw a locust tree , but he could not see the owner of the locust tree and could not find a suitable tool.
It rains all the time and is not easy to pick. I am afraid that the locust branches will be hurt, so my son had to climb up the tree and pick them carefully, and he is preparing to explain to others next time he sees the owner of the locust tree. I felt very distressed when I watched my son's hand being pierced several parts by a locust flower needle.
There were 24 filial piety stories in ancient times, such as "loving oranges and leaving relatives", "fan pillows and warming quilts", and " Hundred Miles and ". In my opinion, my son "picking locust flowers in the rain" should be 25 filial piety. The next day, I steamed steamed buns with locust flowers. With my longing for my hometown, everyone had a long-lost meal in my hometown. Especially my two little grandsons kept calling it delicious, it was so delicious!
It is my son who satisfyed my blessings, diluted my homesickness, and once again made me realize the filial piety and affection of my son who is busy on weekdays to his parents!
2: Treat father-in-law as biological father
My father-in-law, Mr. Zhang Hengchun, has been away from us for more than 20 years old. He was 97 years old when he left.
My father-in-law is a kind-hearted and beautiful old man. I still remember one day in late autumn, I packed up my housework as usual and went to the cornfield behind the village. My father-in-law, who was in his eighties at the time, also went out as usual to find his friends.
When I was walking home after I delivered two flatbed trucks of corn stalks, I suddenly heard someone calling my name behind me. When I looked back, my neighbor Changyou's cousin sister-in-law was calling me anxiously. I immediately came forward, and my sister-in-law ran away and said in anger, "I, my uncle (my father-in-law)... I pulled my pants! You, go back quickly..."
I was stunned for a moment. Oh my God! The morning is fine! My father-in-law has been a teacher for life, and he is a person who cares about face. He is not helpless, so how could he pull it into his pants? A man in his 80s is not sick, right? It's getting colder, and the child's father hasn't come home from get off work yet. What should I do?
Although my mind was playing around, I had already turned around and ran home. While hearing my sister-in-law shouting from behind, my father-in-law was playing cards with my old friends at my aunt's house (my third sister's mother-in-law's house).
I went home first and got the clothes and towels to replace... and rushed to my aunt's house. It was getting dark and the temperature was getting colder. My father-in-law stayed at someone’s house with dirty clothes and helplessness. When he saw me, he seemed to have seen a reinforcement. What I am worried about is that the elderly can no longer catch a cold. If you have another severe cold, wouldn’t it be worse?
What makes me helpless is that I have never faced a situation like my father-in-law! In a hurry, I hurriedly asked the aunt if there is hot water at home? I want to wash and change my father-in-law. She hurriedly said that Ermin's house has a stove and hot water. Ermin's house was in front of my aunt's house, and I hurried to Ermin's house again...
Running around alone, and I was in a hurry and worried and nervous. When I arrived at Ermin's house, I was already full of tears! What is touching is that when Ermin's wife heard about this, she immediately brought me a pot of hot water for her to make dinner...
Has any daughter-in-law wiped her father-in-law's body? I don't know. But at that time, I had no idea of shy away. If it is my biological father, can I ignore it?
For more than ten years, we have been dependent on our children's father, father-in-law and children for life. We have long been a family with blood thicker than water! I scrubbed my father-in-law back and forth. I don’t care about the stench of a basin of sewage! After scrubbing, I immediately put on my father-in-law's clothes and asked the old man to go to Aunt Yu's house to warm up first. I took the dirty clothes I changed home and washed them.
Clearly remember that since he wiped his father-in-law and washed his father-in-law, Aunt Yu said to everyone: Mr. Zhang’s youngest daughter-in-law is filial to her father-in-law! After living at such an old age, I have never seen such a good daughter-in-law!
Whenever I hear such praise, as my daughter-in-law, I am naturally very happy. Filial piety to parents is the duty of children as their children, and it is an insignificant thing to wipe the elderly. However, filial piety is the first priority, and everyone will have the day when they are old!
We eat, drink, defecate, urinate and sleep for hours, and need the care of our parents. When our parents are old, we need our children to accompany and care carefully! It is gratifying that filial piety and respect for the elders is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, and it is also a good family tradition passed down from generation to generation. Nowadays, our children are filial to their parents and grandchildren respect their elders, and are a family that loves each other.
May all children in the world be kind to their parents and be filial to us and raise our parents for their lives! May the younger generations in the world, “respect our elders and the elderly”, be kind to the elderly and inherit the Chinese virtues of filial piety and respect for the elders!
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