(Narrator: Wang Hai Chengwen: Sage Cultivation The illustrations in this article are all from the Internet)
My hometown is in the beautiful Loess Plateau, my ancestors are farmers, to my grandfather's generation, began to do business, grandfather has a flexible mind, after a few years of operation has accumulated a rich family property, became a famous rich family in the village, grandfather only has a son of my father, so since he was a child, he was pampered by his father, which led to his father not learning and no skills, and mixed with some small descendants in the village all day long.
When his father was 18 years old, his grandfather had already accepted the fact that his father was unproductive, and he had to pin his hopes on his grandson, but his grandfather knew that it was also key to choose a good daughter-in-law, when his father fell in love with a beautiful girl in the village and told his grandfather that he wanted to marry her, his grandfather directly refused, because his grandfather knew that although this girl was beautiful, she was not virtuous, and if she married into the family and was a person like her own son, if this was the case, our family would really be hopeless.
Later, grandpa fell in love with Uncle Zhang's daughter Xiaohui in the village, she not only looked dignified and kept her home in order, grandpa felt that such a girl was the one who lived, so he went to Uncle Zhang's house to propose, although Uncle Zhang knew that his grandfather's family was rich, but he also knew that my father was a hanger, and his daughter must not have a good life when he married, and Uncle Zhang's daughter already had a love object at that time, so Uncle Zhang refused this family business.
But what I didn't expect was that Uncle Zhang's wife, Aunt Zhang, found out that she was seriously ill and needed a sum of money for treatment, and Uncle Zhang borrowed it from relatives and friends, but it was still not enough, and Grandpa saw that this was an opportunity, so he went to Uncle Zhang's house and said: "If you marry Xiaohui to my son, I will pay for this money." At that time, Xiaohui was by his side, Uncle Zhang did not agree, but Xiaohui said in tears that he was willing, Uncle Zhang saw that his daughter agreed to save her mother, and knew that the child had sacrificed a lot, in order to save his wife, Uncle Zhang finally agreed.
After Uncle Zhang's wife had surgery, Xiaohui married into my family, and she was my mother.
Less than three years after my mother got married, she gave birth to me and my brother, because we are both boys, my grandfather is very happy, but my grandfather is no longer spoiled by our education, but very strict, he doesn't want us to grow up like my father, and my grandfather knows that my mother is virtuous, so he handed over the financial power of the family to my mother. In the first few years of marriage, my father was not bad to us and my mother because of my grandfather's presence, but when we were 5 years old, my grandfather fell ill and died, and the family changed drastically.
Father has no one who can stop him, began to ask his mother for money, at first my mother chose to refuse, but I didn't expect that as long as my mother didn't give money, he would do it to me and my brother, every time I saw the two of us crying, my mother had to compromise, a few years of hard work, my father squandered the family property accumulated by my grandfather, seeing that the life at home was getting more and more difficult, my mother filed for divorce with my father, when my mother said that I took away the child, my father was very happy, and he also knew that there was no money in the family, so he divorced his mother decisively.
Mother took me and my brother back to my parents' house, and soon the news of my mother's divorce came out, but what I didn't expect was that my mother's first love had been waiting for my mother all these years, and I didn't get married, and my mother knew that she had two sons, and if she reunited with her first love, it would be unfair to him, so she didn't take the initiative to find her first love, but her first love knew that her mother was divorced, so she began to look for her mother constantly. This first love later became our stepfather.
My stepfather understood my mother's intentions, but he knew that as long as he continued to pay, he would definitely influence his mother, so he would come to my mother's house every day to help my mother finish the farm work in the field, and then he would come to see me and my brother, every time he came, he would bring some candy, at first my brother and I didn't dare to ask for it, but as we became more and more familiar, we all especially expected my stepfather to come to my house.
Once, my stepfather saw that my brother and I were still wearing our clothes, so he immediately went to the city to buy several new clothes for us to pick from, since my grandfather died, no one has been like this to us for a long time, when my stepfather came with the clothes, we were very happy, looking at the handsome clothes on the body, we hugged the stepfather together.
Not long after, my stepfather said that he was going to take me and my brother to the city to play, and said that there was a special gift, my brother and I were looking forward to it, and that day my stepfather took me and my brother to the movie theater in the city, and then we knew that the gift he was talking about was to take us to watch a movie, it was the first time my brother and I watched a movie, we were very happy, and my stepfather put us on his own and bought us a lot of delicious food.
When we got home, my stepfather said to us, "Would you like me to be your father?" My brother and I both nodded at once and called out to our stepdad, "Daddy, Daddy." The stepfather shed tears of excitement, he knew that his efforts were not in vain, at this time we turned our heads and found that the mother had been standing at the door for a long time, and the tears had quietly fallen on the ground, and since then, the mother and stepfather have officially been together, and we have finally ushered in a happy life.
One day, my stepfather steamed a few big white steamed buns for us, this was the first time my stepfather steamed steamed buns for us, I didn't expect that when we ate them, we found that they were so delicious, but my brother and I and my mother quickly finished eating, my mother said that this was the best steamed bun she had ever eaten, and my mother suddenly said to my stepfather: "Dad, you have such a good craft, why don't we open our own steamed bun shop?" The stepfather was very reasonable, so he started his first business with his mother.
When the stepfather and mother put the steamed buns in the county to sell, at the beginning of today there were only one after another people, but these people felt delicious after buying, and began to give the stepfather free publicity, and soon the stepfather's steamed buns were in short supply, and later in order to save time, the stepfather and mother rented a store in the county to sell steamed buns.
In those years, their business was very prosperous, and soon the stepfather built a new house in the village, he said that it was for me and my brother to get married, and every time I thought of a child, my mother wanted to have a child for my stepfather, but my stepfather refused, he said that we were his own sons.
My brother and I grew up quickly, my brother didn't like to study since he was a child, and after graduating from high school, he followed his stepfather to learn to make steamed buns, and my academic performance has been very good, but I was not admitted to college because of nervousness in the college entrance examination, and my stepfather suggested that I go to repeat, but I told my stepfather that my dream was to go to that year, so that year, when the county came to the village to recruit soldiers, I registered, and after a physical test and audit, I received a notice of enlistment, and my stepfather finally agreed with my idea.
Later, my brother married a girl in the village, and both of them came to help in the store, and my stepfather taught them all the tricks and gradually became teachers, and they were able to run their own business.
I was in the army because of my very good performance, got a place in the military academy, and then got admitted as I wished, in the year I graduated and was promoted, my mother suddenly became seriously ill because of overwork, when I got home, my mother looked at me for the last time and closed her eyes, at that time my brother and I cried into tears, my mother should have reached the age of happiness, but now she has left us, I feel that God is very unfair to my mother, and then we handled the funeral for my mother, and my stepfather lived in my brother's house, and began to take care of my brother's children.
In those years, the stepfather was still very strong, not only cleaned up the house, but also picked up the children to and from school every day, because of the help of the stepfather, the brother and sister-in-law could do their careers with peace of mind, but as the children grew up, coupled with the stepfather's body began to appear sick and painful, the sister-in-law began to dislike the stepfather, and under the influence of the sister-in-law, the brother also began to feel that the stepfather was a burden.
That year, my brother's eldest son suddenly had a strange illness, and his stepfather knew a home remedy from the village doctor, so he ignored his old body and went to the mountains to collect medicine for the child, but he fell into a ditch, and after receiving treatment at the hospital, the doctor said that the stepfather could only use a wheelchair in the future, and the sister-in-law and brother were very worried.
After taking care of his stepfather for a while, his brother and sister-in-law still couldn't accept it, once his stepfather wet his clothes, and his father directly counted his stepfather down, and his stepfather was in tears at that time, but his brother also taught his stepfather: "Why are you crying?" Then he kicked his stepfather out of the house.
My stepfather walked on the street for a while, and finally had to call me, I have been good in the army all these years, I am already a major general, when I heard that such a big thing happened at home, and my stepfather was kicked out by my brother, I was very angry, and immediately rushed back overnight.
When I came back, my stepfather had already spent the night outside, but fortunately, it was still summer, and after I found my stepfather, I took him to my brother and sister-in-law immediately, and I pointed to my brother's nose and asked him: "If it weren't for my father, would we have such a good life now?" My brother was about to confront me, but my sister-in-law immediately stopped him, and then said to me: "What you said is easy, you don't care about the house at all outside, and your father did all the cleaning work during this time, do you know how hard we work?" ”
Seeing that my sister-in-law's face did not change, I became even more angry, so I pushed back: "When my father was healthy, did you say that?" It's okay to be able to use people for a while, but now that my stepfather is sick, I'm so disgusted? My sister-in-law gave me a blank look, and then said, "You have to feel sorry for you to take it away." ”
I was really angry at the time, so I said, "Okay, I'll take it, but brother, that's the end of our relationship." After hearing this, my brother and sister-in-law didn't care at all and said, "That's it." ”
Later, I took my stepfather away, and it was my wife who took care of him all these years, and he was able to enjoy his old age in peace, and then my brother came to me a few times, but I didn't see him, and my stepfather asked me to forgive my brother, but how could I forgive such a person?