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Text/Osmanthus Material/Liu Yang
(This article is created based on the life experience of the people around you, in order to complete the structure of the article, some plots are slightly fictionalized, please read rationally)
In the morning, my stepfather and I walked along the village paths, and the fresh air was blowing in our faces, and the country air was just good. The two of us walked forward one after the other, and not far away, in the field, the farmer began to pull peanuts.
"Morning, why don't you two go out for a walk?" Uncle Guo, a neighbor, was carrying a pair of small bamboo baskets, apparently to pluck peanuts.
"Take advantage of the cool morning to go out for a walk, the air in the countryside is so good, I haven't breathed such fresh air for a long time, and all I smell in the city is the smell of gasoline." I replied to Uncle Guo's words.
"I really envy your father and daughter, we are about to be busy at this time, but you two are so leisurely." Uncle Guo walked past us with a basket.
When I came out for a walk, acquaintances kept greeting us, and they all cast envious glances at us. The two of us are walking one after the other so closely, and people who are not familiar with us still think that we are father and daughter.
Looking at my stepfather's somewhat hunched back, the scene of him coming to my house came to my mind again, and time passed so quickly, decades passed.
I was born in a large village of about 800 people. My father was a high school graduate, and after graduating from high school, he returned to the village to become a private teacher.
My mother only had a primary school education, but she was hardworking and kind, and she loved my father. During the day, my mother went to the production team to earn a share of the work, and the housework was only done when my father came back from work.
In my memory, every night when my mother came back from the production team, she would lie down on the long wooden chair at home, and my father always said to my mother: "You have worked for a day, and you don't need to do the housework when you are tired. ”
My father's baritone voice was very good, and he spoke so slowly and softly that even I, a child, sounded pleasant.
My father was busy in the kitchen, and from time to time he would hum a song, and the song would float out of the kitchen, and the eldest brother next door would listen to it, and he would hum a few words with his father, and his singing voice was like a duck's cry, without the slightest sense of beauty. A person's musical cells should be innate, right?
When I was 6 years old, my mother gave birth to a younger brother, two daughters and a son, and the children were complete.
However, before the younger brother was confined, because of congenital biliary occlusion, the medical treatment at that time was not as developed as it is now, and the doctors who went to the hospital for treatment could not save his life in the end. Later, he passed away with regret.
The death of his younger brother made his mother heartbroken, but fortunately, his father could think about it, and he often comforted his mother and said: "Our Liu Yang has already gone to the world, and I think he doesn't want us to be overly sad because of him." ”
Half a year later, the mother came out of the pain of losing her son. The father watched as the smile gradually appeared on his mother's face, and the father knew that the mother had slowly come out of that shadow. After another half a year, my mother said to my father, "We don't have a boy in our family, so let's have another boy, right?" ”
When the father heard this, he immediately said to his mother: "He Mei, we already have two daughters, and your health is not good, let's not give birth, let's train our daughters to become talents, let them go to high school and college, who will dare to underestimate us in the future." ”
The mother couldn't resist the father, so she had to stop talking, the mother knew that the father was sorry for her, and every time she gave birth, the mother was like a ghost door, and the father didn't want the mother to suffer anymore.
I have to say that my father was far-sighted, and after he decided not to give birth to his mother, he began to carry out special training for our two sisters, and every day when we came back from work or didn't have to go to work, he would let our two sisters read Tang poems and Song Ci or the Three Character Classic.
By the time my sister and I were in elementary school, we were able to recite two or three hundred Tang and Song poems, and what my father said to us the most was: If you don't suffer from studying, you have to suffer from life.
When I was in elementary school, when other children came back from school, they could leave their schoolbags and go outside to play, while my sister and I had to complete the day's homework and keep a diary to record our learning experiences and experiences. Father checked and thought it was qualified, so we didn't have to rewrite. My father was very strict with our studies.
I thought my sister and I would grow up under my father's protection, but when I was in the fourth grade, one day in class, my homeroom teacher called me out and told me that your dad had fainted during class. I have sent the other teachers to the town's health center.
When I came back from school in the evening, my mother told me that my father had been transferred to a higher-level hospital because of his serious condition.
After examination by a higher-level hospital, my father's condition was very serious, he had a huge tumor in his liver, and the doctor said that the operation was not optimistic, and my mother was frightened and weak when she heard about it.
In order to treat his father's illness, his mother borrowed everything she could from relatives and friends, and the money was spent, but in the end, it could not prolong his father's life, and he left four months later. Leave us with our mothers gone forever.
After the father left, the mother almost cried blind, and the people in the village even said that the mother was hard, and killed her son and her husband, and said that the mother was an inauspicious person. How can an individual control the lives of others?
Before my father died, we had been dividing the fields into households for three years, and after the fields were divided, most of the people in the village were mainly farming, and the crops they planted were peanuts and rice. Plant peanuts early, plant seedlings late, June is the hardest, to pull peanuts, but also to rush to plant late. Every household has a few acres of land. During the busy farming season, it starts to be busy around the time of the summer every year, and it will not be busy until around the beginning of autumn.
In the past, when my father was alive, during the summer vacation, he and my mother did the farm work at home, and my sister and I followed it if we liked it, and studied at home if we didn't like it.
Seeing my mother go to the field to pull peanuts at dawn every morning, I didn't want my mother to work so hard alone, so I followed her to the field to pull peanuts. After pulling out, let the peanuts and seedlings dry together in the field, and then pick peanuts in the field when they are half dry, and it will take about 12 or 13 days to finish these tasks.
Sometimes, in order to save time back and forth, we would not go home at noon, bring lunch to the field to eat, and then continue to work. After harvesting peanuts, I was busy ploughing the land.
Sometimes the eldest and second uncles see that we are not finished yet, and they will come over to help after they finish their work. But not always they come to help, because they also have their own fields to plant.
My mother and I used to get as black as Africans from the sun after a busy double rush season. During the summer vacation of the first year of junior high school, my mother and sister and I were working in the fields as usual, and at noon, my mother was pulling peanuts in the field, her eyes suddenly blackened, and she fell to the ground with a thud.
When I was only 12 or 3 years old, my legs were frightened and weak, and I hurriedly called out to the villagers who had not yet gone back to lunch to help my mother up, and someone handed her water to drink. The aunt also rushed over to see the news.
Several people surrounded her mother and asked with concern: "Mother Liu Yang, are you better?" Or we'll send you home and lie down, hey! It's embarrassing for a woman with two children, Liu Yang's father has been gone for a few years, so let's find someone to make do with. If you have three long and two short, what will these two children do? ”
Several women persuaded their mothers, and some people had said these words to their mothers, and their mothers and fathers had a deep affection, and if they asked her to look for them again, their mothers would still not be able to let go for a while. My mother is worried that if she looks for her again, it will also have an impact on us, after all, it is not biological and may not be good for our sisters. Mother didn't want us sisters to suffer because of her.
That day, my mother recovered after resting for a few hours, and when I was eating in the evening, my mother suddenly stopped her chopsticks, and she asked me thoughtfully: "Liu Yang, or you won't study in the future, and work with your mother." ”
When I was just over 10 years old, I suddenly realized that my mother must be too tired to say such things, and she used to teach my sister and me that we should study hard to make a success in the future.
The mental and physical tiredness crushed my mother, otherwise she wouldn't have let me drop out of school and go home. Thinking of this, I nodded and decided not to read it anymore and work at home with my mother on the farm.
When he learned about the actual situation of my family, he said to my mother very regretfully: "Your Liu Yang has quick thinking and good academic performance, but it is a pity to drop out of school." ”
I was determined not to read, and it was useless for the head teacher to say anything, so I dropped out of school and worked at home with my mother on the farm. In the blink of an eye, in the tenth month of the lunar calendar, the winter harvest season is approaching again, one day, I was learning to knit sweaters in the yard, my aunt led a middle-aged man into the yard, the man was of medium stature, slightly darker, and looked charitable, and my mother saw the arrival of the aunt, and hurriedly beckoned them to sit down.
My aunt is my mother's cousin, I grew up with her when I was a child, they read and slept together, they have a good relationship, and they are like sisters.
"Liu Yang, go, make a cup of black tea for your aunt." Black tea is the highest form of hospitality we have here. Following my mother's instructions, I went into the hall to find brown sugar, and then found tea leaves and burned a large cup of black tea for each of them.
They chatted while drinking tea, and from the chat, I knew that this middle-aged man was the object that my aunt had found for my mother. The aunt said to her mother that this person was her neighbor, kind and hardworking, her parents had passed away, and an older brother had also married, and now he was left to live alone. My aunt has been neighbors with him for more than ten years, and they all know each other.
If my mother doesn't dislike it, let's live with him. My mother heard that it was okay to live together, but she had to come here to live and not discriminate against my two daughters. If you have a child in the future, you will have to do it, and if you don't have a child, you will let it be, and you can't force her to have a child.
Unexpectedly, the conditions proposed by his mother were agreed to by the man one by one. In this way, under the mediation of my aunt, the middle-aged man came to our house the next day with his simple luggage.
As soon as he arrived, he helped our family harvest rice, not to mention, my stepfather was a good hand at farm work, and the threshing machine at home could be carried on my stepfather's shoulders by himself, without my mother's help, without resting halfway, and carrying it to the field.
Since his stepfather came to help with the work, the stepfather has taken care of all the tiring and heavy work of carrying rice and removing rice at home, and he doesn't have to do it with his mother. With his help, my mother was a lot more relaxed. Gradually, I noticed that my mother had a smile on her face that I hadn't seen for a long time.
My stepfather fulfills his role in our family, but no matter how good he is, he can't take my father's place in my place. In front of him, I barely speak, and I don't call him. At dinner, I usually go back to my room after eating in silence.
Even if I had to call him sometimes, I didn't call him uncle (he was three months younger than my father), I usually greeted him with a "hey", and he didn't mind me calling him like that, and answered me directly.
And my sister is different, my sister is 3 years younger than me, her personality is more cheerful than me, a few days after my stepfather came, my sister called his uncle very kindly, but I couldn't call it.
With my stepfather's help, our family's winter harvest was finished 10 days earlier than usual, and my stepfather and mother went to the market for the first time. The night we came back from the market, my stepfather came back with a buy of the braised vegetables we liked.
At the dinner table, my sister, who had not eaten such a good dish for a long time, ate with relish, and the stepfather looked at it and smiled and said to his sister: "Liu Ping eat slowly, eat slowly, I bought so much, enough for you to eat." ”
After a pause, my stepfather suddenly looked at me, who had been eating silently: "Liu Yang, do you want to continue studying." ”
Studying is my dream since I was a child, but my family is so poor that I don't want to drag down the family, and my mother has not paid off some of the money that my father borrowed when he was sick. Every year, most of the money we get from growing peanuts and selling them is used to pay off our debts.
After thinking about it, I said to my stepfather, "Don't read it, I'm going to help the family and pay back all the money I borrowed from my relatives." ”
"When I was in the market today, I met my classmate, my classmate is your homeroom teacher, he knows your situation, he has been sighing and saying, you are a smart child, it is a pity to drop out of school and work at home. My classmate said that as long as you are willing to study, he will help dredge up the relationship next year, and you will be in the second year of junior high school next year. The stepfather continued.
"When your Uncle Xiao was in the market today, he also told me to let you continue to study, he said that he would find a way to repay the money owed for the work at home." Mother also persuaded her.
Later, in order to increase his income, my stepfather learned to breed sows, not to mention, under the leadership of my stepfather, our family slowly got better. The stepfather is the kind of person who spares no effort, and when someone in the village needs help, the stepfather rushes to help without saying a word.
Gradually, the relationship between the stepfather and the neighborhood is also very harmonious, and his kindness and diligence have also been recognized by the people around him. With my stepfather's help, I went back to school the following year.
I cherish this hard-won opportunity to study, usually I go to school on Sunday afternoon, come back on Saturday afternoon, and only come home once a week.
Two years later, I was admitted to a key high school with excellent grades, and of course my score was also admitted to the secondary school, but my stepfather said that he had talked to my homeroom teacher and that I would be more promising after high school.
When I was in my first year of high school, my sister was also in junior high school, and both of us sisters were studying, and my stepfather's burden suddenly became heavier, but my stepfather said that he was at home, so let's not worry, and study at school with peace of mind, he would earn money for us to study, and he would take care of my mother.
However, not everyone wants you to be good, and some people say to him behind his back for his stepfather's selfless dedication to our family: "What's the picture, raising someone else's daughter, if you have a future, you may not be good to you in the future." ”
Whenever he heard these people chewing their tongues behind their backs, his stepfather always smiled and said: "If I don't pay, where will I get in return, I believe that as long as I really pay, these two daughters will not let me down." And then it did.
In my freshman year of high school, I came back from a monthly vacation, and I learned that my mother was pregnant, and my mother was 38 years old, and she was very worried about her.
I discussed this matter with my mother and stepfather, and my stepfather persuaded my mother to kill it, but my mother said to me, "Liu Yang, are you too selfish? Your Uncle Xiao has helped us so much, I should give him a child. In the past few years, your Uncle Xiao has helped our family a lot, and my health is much better than before, I must give birth to this child, whether it is a younger brother or a younger sister, you will have another companion in the future, isn't it better? Your Uncle Xiao's personality, after several years of getting along and inspecting, I have seen it clearly. ”
Mother has already said this, and Uncle Xiao and I can't say anything more. A few months later, my mother gave birth to a younger brother to my sister and me, fulfilling my dream of not having a younger brother.
Entering the third year of high school, I was very nervous about studying, and when I was nervous, I didn't rest well, and if I didn't rest well, it would directly lead to a drop in grades. My stepfather found out about it, and he went to the key middle school in the county every three or five days to see me, and brought me delicious food every time.
When my classmates saw that my stepfather often brought me food, they all thought that my stepfather was my biological father. After all, some biological fathers may not do better than him.
For a while, my stepfather frequently came to school to bring me food, and I told him that there was no need to go to such trouble to bring me food. My stepfather said that it is not okay to use my brain in reading, and if I can't keep up with nutrition, as long as I can be admitted to college in the future, he will not be too troublesome to come.
At this moment, I suddenly found that my stepfather's love is like a mountain, whether I am his biological or not, he hopes that I can be admitted to university and have a good future, and he has a fatherly heart like my father in the world.
After graduating from high school, I was successfully admitted to the university, and the moment I received the admission letter, my stepfather was happier than me, he held the admission letter in his hand, and excitedly shouted to his mother: "He Mei, you see, our eldest daughter is amazing, she was admitted to a key university in another province." In the future, let Xiaojie (my younger brother) be as productive as his sister."
I was admitted to college, my sister was also admitted to high school, the burden on my stepfather's shoulders was not easy, my college tuition, my sister's high school tuition, were saved by my stepfather, in order to provide for our two sisters to study, he was reluctant to change new clothes for several years, the clothes he wore were washed white, and he was reluctant to throw them away when he wore holes.
My stepfather was critical of himself, but for me and my mother, my sister and my brother, he was willing to spend money on a few of us whenever we needed it.
In my sophomore year, in order to reduce the burden on my family, because my family also began to build a new house, I started to work at school, and since my sophomore year, I rarely ask my family for living expenses.
After graduating from university, I stayed in other provinces to work, and my sister was admitted to a junior college in the year before I graduated, and after graduation, my sister returned to work in the traditional Chinese medicine hospital in our county.
After the two of us worked, my younger brother, who was more than a decade younger than us, also went to elementary school, and I often called back my stepfather's tuition to my stepfather, who always collected some symbolically, and gave the rest to his mother, who said that the money would be saved first, and then given to us when we needed it later.
In those years, my stepfather raised sows and sold piglets and made some money, and my stepfather often told me and my sister that he could still work and have his own income, and he didn't need us to give him money, and when he was no longer able to work, it would not be too late for us to give it to him.
Later, my sister and I got married separately, and my stepfather didn't ask for a penny of the bride price, and he paid 50,000 yuan upside down, so that the two of us could buy the furniture we liked. The stepfather said that he gave the same love to each of his children and would not favor one over the other.
Later, the younger brother was also admitted to college, and after graduating from college, he chose to return to the town's junior high school to teach, which he said was closer to his parents. The younger brother graduated three years ago and talked about a girlfriend from this school. A year later, the two entered the palace of marriage.
After the younger brother had a child, the stepfather closed his farm, and the mother helped the younger brother to watch the children, while the stepfather continued to stay in his hometown to grow some seasonal vegetables, raise some chickens and ducks, and every three or five days, he went to the younger brother's house to send vegetables, eggs and ducks to the younger brother's family, and the younger brother's family could often eat the vegetables grown by the stepfather.
We all advised him not to plant, but my stepfather said that it is better for a person to work properly, exercise properly, and have a healthy body. Our sisters can help him when they think about it.
Now that we are free, we often take our mother back to our hometown to accompany my stepfather, who is willing to live in his hometown, he is used to getting along with the neighbors around him, and he prefers to live in his hometown.