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Of my dozens of cousins, the eldest cousin is the eldest. Due to the age gap, I didn't have many opportunities to come into contact with him. In my mind, the image of my cousin has always been very tall.
One thing that impressed my cousin very much was that after graduating from college and working in Changchun, he took a part of the money from his meager salary every month and sent it to his parents and grandfather to repay the grace of parenting. In fact, his maternal grandfather (that is, my grandfather) was originally a high-level cadre, the salary was much higher than that of the general working class, his own money could not be spent, and he often received children and friends, and did not need his cousin's money. But the cousin insisted on sending it, and the grandfather was often proud of the sensible nephew. Later, the cousin got engaged and explicitly asked the other party to support him to send money to the family every month, which was a necessary condition for marriage. My cousin was also an intellectual, virtuous and well-versed, so she agreed without hesitation.
That year, my cousin and cousin returned home to visit their relatives, and I was really happy and close to them for a while. My cousin warmly encouraged me to set high ambitions and study hard. Before leaving, he asked me if I needed his help. I really had a wish that hadn't been fulfilled for a long time: buy some pencils with different soft and hard colors. I had a classmate who loved art, studied art with a local and authoritative painter, and spent almost all of his spare time painting. I was influenced by this classmate and also learned to draw. Whenever I see that the pencils with different hardness in his bag are very complete, I feel very envious. In my hand, I only have an HB type pencil. At that time, unless it was a big city, it was difficult for ordinary places to buy all those models of pencils, and who could use a dime of Shanghai-made Chinese pencils was already a luxury.
I held the psychology of having no ride, tentatively mentioned to my cousin that I needed a pencil, but unexpectedly, my cousin immediately said: "This is very simple, I will buy you a good mail, how much do you want?" "Where dare I ask for quantity myself!" So he said to his cousin, "Look at it, just have one for everything."
After my cousin left, I immediately put the matter aside and did not put any hope on it. Unexpectedly, one day, the postman really sent his cousin's postage slip with the words "a box of pencils", and I was overjoyed and happily asked for a post slip from my parents and went straight to the post office to get it.
When I returned, I carefully unwrapped the paper wrapped around it and soon saw the box containing the pencil. The box was slightly longer than a pencil, wooden, stubble, but smooth enough to be seen to have been made specifically by a carpenter. I hurriedly found a nailed hammer, opened the lid of the box that was nailed by the nail, and my eyes suddenly lit up: Wow, the box is full of Shanghai-made Chinese pencils, there are more than sixty of them! Looking at the golden words on the green pen shaft, I was very happy. Look at the pencil models one by one, from 6H to 6B, each model has many. "Hey, I can draw the same sketch as that classmate!"
Since then, I have used these pencils to carefully learn to draw, and some sketches have been taken to appreciate. My passion for painting at that time, not to mention how high. Pencils will always be used, but every one, I leave the tip of the pen, and I am reluctant to lose it at all. When I had the last pencil left, I couldn't use it. So dozens of pencil heads and a complete 2B pencil were put into my treasure box, along with the ordinary and precious wooden box. Later, I joined the work, and then, after marrying a wife, having children, and traveled to many places, my cousin's wooden box for mailing pencils was always reluctant to throw away.
The years are long, and the trance is decades. Today, my cousin is retired and his grandson is older than I was then. That time, my cousin returned home with his family to visit his relatives again, and although I was in a hurry to leave, I still took the time to meet my cousin and send him to the car on the way back. At the moment of separation, I looked at some old cousins, thinking that people were thousands of miles away, and I didn't know when I would see the next side again, and many emotions surged in my heart.
I specifically mentioned to my cousin about mailing pencils in those days. I couldn't imagine such a thing that I would never forget, but my cousin forgot everything. He asked me, "Is there such a thing?" How come I don't remember? I said, "Yes, I've always wanted to say thank you!" The eldest brother said, "This matter, even if there is, is a trivial matter, and it is not worth mentioning!" ”
Seeing my cousin's unconcerned demeanor, an irrepressible wave of emotion immediately surged in my heart: some people always remember to repay the kindness of others, but they regard the favor they give to others as a very natural small thing, and when others are still thinking about it, they have long forgotten it.
People who want people to remember, people don't necessarily remember. People who don't want to be remembered are often remembered!
Author: Lu Ming, male, born in 1960, pen name Yellow River into the sea. Retired cadre of Yuncheng County CPC Committee, Chairman of Yuncheng County Writers Association, President of County Poetry Society. He is a member of the Shandong Writers Association, the vice president of the Heze Poetry Society, a special researcher of the Shuihu Culture Research Base of Heze University, and a scholar of historical and cultural research in Yuncheng County. He has published more than 100 essays, more than 20 novels, and more than 1,000 poems and poems in various newspapers and online platforms such as Guangming Daily, Shandong Literature, and Times Literature, of which Heze Fu was published in Guangming Daily. He is the author of six cultural books, including "Zhengyu Water Margin", "Impression of Water Margin", "Exploration of Good Han Culture", "Yuncheng Literature and History Examination Strategy" (three volumes), and the chief editor of "Selected Literary Works of Yuncheng", "Yuncheng Wenyun", "Water Margin Biography", and "Water Margin Wine Story" four works. In Heze TV Station, he lectured on the thirteenth issue of Water Margin Culture.
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