Hibiscus blossoms

By chance, I learned that hibiscus is the national flower of South Korea and Malaysia. At first, I was a little surprised: hibiscus, it is really a very ordinary flower. Then there is the joy: Hibiscus, who deserves this honor!

Remember that in the countryside, hibiscus was used as a fence in large numbers. It is easy to survive, resistant to pruning, evergreen, beautiful flowers, and a long flowering period. There are not many beautiful flowers in the countryside, and hibiscus is definitely a pleasing scenery in the countryside.

Hibiscus root leaves can be used in medicine, and flowers can be used as vegetables. The egg batter is fried, crispy and delicious, and the porridge is boiled in soup, smooth and sweet.

When I was a child, I was hungry and saw hibiscus blossoming, and I remembered to eat it. My mother picked flowers and occasionally said: Hibiscus flowers are also a day flower. Open in the morning, wither in the evening! I answered: No, it can't be driven for long, it's a pity not to eat!

When I grow up, I think about it: my mother is lamenting that time is fleeting, and my face is easy to grow old. But this faint worry, what a child can understand?!

Mother said: The hibiscus flowers planted by Grandma Mei in your grandmother's village are really beautiful. The pink flowers, very large, are all heavy petals. The flowers bloomed a lot, and the branches were bent....

Aunt Mei hurt my mother very much, and she ate a little bit, often saving it for her to eat. My mother was about six or seven years old at the time, and she dug up bamboo shoots in the mountains, caught small fish in the river, and liked to send them to Grandma Mei's house.

Grandma was not in good health, and if she moved more, she would be out of breath.

The mother asked, "Grandma, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Grandma is old."

"Why are you old?" When you get old, your hair turns white, you get a lot of wrinkles, and you're always sick. ”

"People want to be old!" You have to cross this doorway too. ”

"No, I'm going around the door!" The mother shouted loudly and ran home in a panic, as if she would never be able to catch up with her in this way.

When I mentioned this incident, Grandma Mei had already passed away, and I was already ten years old. "Mom," I said seriously to my mother, "can't be old, we all have to go around the door, far away!" ”

For decades, my father and mother are over seventy years old and dying of old age! I also had a lot of gray hair sporadically on my head. alas! The old man is coming, this door, after all, no one can bypass it.

My father was an optimistic and strong man. In the 1990s, he had the misfortune of suffering from rectal cancer, and it was already in the middle and advanced stages when he was diagnosed. The father himself contacted the doctors in Wuhan to perform the operation and arranged everything in an orderly manner. Surgery and chemotherapy are very expensive. The people in the same ward groaned incessantly, but my father never cried out in pain, said that it was uncomfortable, became a rare cured patient in the county hospital that year, and was also rated as the anti-cancer star in the hospital.

Father did not serve the old man at first. But aging is accelerated, after the age of seventy-five, the body function is not as good as January, today is not as good as yesterday. Last May, my father was able to ride around the streets in an electric car. In June, he was often dizzy, his eyes were black, and he almost fell, and he did not dare to ride anymore. In July, my father suddenly fell ill in the middle of the night, with a headache and vomiting, and could not stand. The mother woke up the eldest brother in a panic and asked someone to rush to the hospital....

After this serious illness, my father's spirit was much calmer, and his body has not recovered. Dizziness and palpitations, lack of food and weakness, most of the daily can only sit, lie down. Sometimes he would be very anxious to urge the second brother to apply for a real estate deed (the original real estate deed was his father's name, only the second floor), and the second brother bumped into him: "What is the hurry?" It's a long time! make it! At this point, everyone seems to be relieved: yes, time is still long!

Father, when the four generations are in the same house, you are still like the old parent who is a little domineering!

My mother was a capable and strong person, raising pigs, growing vegetables, doing housework, and being a master of everything. At that time, the family owed tens of thousands of yuan in debts for the house, and my mother returned from the union to open a restaurant, got up at four or five in the morning to make dumplings and steamed buns, and was still busy cleaning and washing at eight or nine o'clock in the evening. In five years, not only did the foreign debt be paid off, but a one-story building was built at home.

When I was young, I did a lot, I had a hard time, my body couldn't bear it when I was old, my back was sore, my hands and feet were numb, my dizziness was nauseous, and I kept on this and that problem, and I didn't have a good day for a few days. My mother was determined not to go to the hospital for examination, but just nagged and looked at me like a child, trying to find a way out of me.

There are many old people and many diseases, what can I do? I can't hold the wheel of time and make it stop spinning. You can't turn the clock back and let the years go back! I can only say in general: eat some American ginseng, soak some honey, remember to take medicine...

My mother was sometimes anxious: "Why live so long?" This hurts and that hurts, it's better to die early! ”

I stretched my face: "The machine has been spinning for a long time, and there is wear and tear." Body parts have been used for decades, can there be no problem?! Good days, what a dead, what a living thing! People are old, aren't they all like this! ”

The mother lowered her head and whispered, "Yes, I'm old, isn't that all the case?" After a while, he busied himself with some food from the room: "You haven't come for a few days, thinking about what you like to eat, and has been keeping it for you." ”

I remembered an old saying: The mother leaves it for the child to eat, and leaves it until it stinks; the child leaves it for the mother to eat, and cannot stay for a day. Our eyes are a little damp and hot: the people who hurt us the most in the world are our parents, and the people we care about the most are our children! The affection of parents, how many people in the world dare to say that they have never lived up to it?!

It was the middle of May, and the hibiscus planted on the roof of my father's building was in full bloom: every day a large number of flowers withered, and every day a large number of flowers bloomed delicately on the branches. Live to death, alternate between life and death, cycle after cycle, life goes on and on!

Hibiscus blossoms, hibiscus flowers thank you. Any life must go from birth, growth, to decay. Youth is fleeting, life is like a mail, so let's live in the present: laugh out loud, as if there has never been sorrow, as if there will be no sorrow in the future. Proudly raise your head, like a warrior, after seeing the truth of life, still passionately love this troubled world, just like the hibiscus flower!

Hibiscus flower language: gentle persistence! In this world, there are always some people and some things that deserve your gentle persistence and gentle treatment!

Hibiscus blossoms.