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In 98, at the age of 30, I had been working in Guangdong for many years, and in August of that year, I returned to my hometown with my wife, mainly because our husband and wife had a great news that my wife was pregnant.
My wife and I got married in '93 and got pregnant in the first year of marriage. But because the early pregnancy reaction was so serious, in the end it reached the point where I couldn't even drink water, and I chose to terminate the pregnancy after seeing my wife working so hard, and we were indeed young.
Originally, I thought that my husband and wife were very young and in good health, and we would soon be able to conceive again, but there was no movement under this delay.
In the years that followed, I also took my wife to see many doctors and take a lot of medicines, but I didn't see any results. Seeing that the people who got married in the same year as us, or even married two years later, the children could run all over the place, and our husband and wife were quite unhappy, so they went south to Guangdong to work together.
Leaving our hometown, nominally to make more money, my husband and wife entered the same electronics factory, although they are ordinary production line employees, but with frugality, we can indeed earn some money every month.
But we still have a hard reason in our hearts, the reason why we want to leave our hometown is to avoid the strange eyes of relatives and acquaintances, and how much money we make is secondary.
I don't know what the reason is, after coming to Guangdong for two or three years, I didn't take any medicine, and my wife suddenly became pregnant again, which was naturally great news for our husband and wife, and I immediately resigned and returned to my hometown in Hunan.
When I got home, I cleaned up a little and settled down, and my parents and relatives were even more overjoyed, after all, what old man in the world didn't want to be a grandfather and hold his grandson earlier?
In the past, I was afraid that my wife would not get pregnant for a long time, and my parents tried to avoid talking about their children in front of her, but now that they are really pregnant, there are no taboos when they talk, and the family is suddenly jubilant.
Because we have been away from home for several years, we have lost our lives in the farm work at home, and our father is also cultivating a few acres of land.
In the words of his father, although he is in his sixties, he has not yet become a grandfather, and he can still be regarded as a middle-aged man, he can do more if he can, and he will "retire" to take care of his children when he has grandchildren in the future.
The words of our parents made us feel ashamed, but in any case, my wife immediately became the "giant panda" of the family, and it was almost to the point of stretching out her hand when she opened her mouth and clothes for food.
She was embarrassed to say that she could eat or drink and not feel anything at all, so why did you serve me like this?
In that way, after staying at home for a few days, the wife made an excuse that she was going back to her parents' house for a while.
In the beginning, I would go to my mother-in-law's house once a day, but it was not good to stay with my wife every day. Anyway, I didn't worry that she had no one to take care of her at her parents' house, so I just sent her some clothes and asked her to be a delicate girl next to her parents for another while.
In this way, I don't have much to do at home, even if I want to help my parents do some farm work, because I have just finished the double robbery, which is a rare free time, so I go to the villagers to chat after dinner every day.
It's been half a month since I went home in a blink of an eye, and the time came to mid-August, and after dinner that morning, I walked out of the house as usual, ready to go to a few old guys to chat and fart. As soon as he walked out two or three feet, he heard a quarrel from his neighbor Brother Feng's house.
In rural people, it is not strange for husband and wife to quarrel, under normal circumstances, as long as it is not really a big fight, most of the neighbors will not ask, anyway, the husband and wife fight at the end of the bed and, others are really not good to intervene.
The problem was that I was so bored that I slowed down my pace, and although I was still moving forward, I was actually pricking up my ears to listen to gossip.
Brother Feng is my neighbor, although they are brothers, they are actually more than ten years older than me, and the key is that the relationship between our two families has never been very harmonious.
Neighbors in the countryside get along well is called "distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors", but there are many examples of poor harmony. After all, if you are close, your chickens will run to peck at my millet, and my cat will knock over your oil bottles, and if you don't handle it well, the relationship between neighbors will be tense.
Brother Feng and I didn't have any direct conflict, mainly because my father and Brother Feng's father's generation, when they used to be collective, the two families quarreled a few times because of chickens and ducks.
So, until Brother Feng and I grew up, although we would say hello when we met on the road, we wouldn't go to each other's homes.
Today, I suddenly heard someone arguing in Brother Feng's family, and he was fine anyway, although he didn't talk about any schadenfreude, to be honest, it was more of a gossip.
But this is terrible, Brother Feng's family is really a mixed blessing.
Although I don't have much contact with Brother Feng, I also have a basic understanding of the details of his family, Brother Feng and his wife are people who have not finished elementary school, and they have been farming at home in their forties, and their lives are tight.
But Brother Feng has a very competitive daughter named Xiaofen, who has always had very good grades since she started school, and she is also a child who has been praised by the village for a long time. Even I, a cheap "uncle" who didn't deal much with her father, couldn't help but praise her when I met her on the road.
Xiaofen graduated from high school this year, and listening to the quarrel, it should be that she was admitted to college, but I don't know which school it is.
But listening to the voice of Brother Feng's husband and wife's dispute, the main issue is the tuition fee. Brother Feng's family couldn't come up with so much money, and Brother Feng's wife said that even if she sold the family's house, she would send her daughter to school.
Hearing Brother Feng's wife's words of "arguing with reason", I couldn't help laughing: In a poor country like ours, not to mention your dilapidated house, even if it is a red brick building, who will pay for it?
While listening, I was also shaking my head, envying Xiaofen's competitiveness to be admitted to college, and also lamenting that she gave birth to the wrong family, and her parents' conditions were too poor, and I was afraid that it would be a good thing to be admitted to college.
Thinking so, I walked slower and slower, and I saw that I was about to come to that bend. Suddenly, a sharp voice came from Brother Feng's house: Don't quarrel, okay, I'm not going to study, I'll go to work tomorrow.
This voice was of course Xiaofen's voice, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, even though she was speaking in her own home, I could hear it at once.
Xiaofen's roar immediately "fixed" me - I was finally admitted to the university, but your little girl didn't go to study, and said that she was going to work?
It's really that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, you think it's so easy to work, even if I'm an uncle who sees the wind and waves, I can only go with the flow.
Thinking of this, my heart was like something was blocked, and the mood that I originally wanted to chat with others was gone, and I walked a few steps aimlessly, and finally turned around and went back to the back door of Brother Feng's house, and jumped off the ridge less than one meter high to reach his door.
Even at this time, I still had some opinions about Brother Feng in my heart, and shouted loudly: Is Xiaofen at home?
Hearing my shout, the quarrel in the house immediately stopped, Brother Feng's wife came out of the kitchen, and Xiaofen also followed, with a few tears on her face.
Although the relationship between our two families is not very good, after all, there is no direct conflict between our generation, Brother Feng's wife and I said hello, Xiaofen also shouted timidly on the side, and then asked me what was the matter.
I pretended not to know anything, and said to Xiaofen with a smile on my face: Xiaofen, congratulations on your admission to university, you are the first college student in our bay, as a neighbor, I also feel that there is light on my face, and I came to congratulate you.
Seeing what I said so boldly, Brother Feng and his wife hurriedly invited me in the house to sit, I entered the house without excuse, and Xiaofen obediently brought me a bowl of tea.
Although I stated that I was here to congratulate, after all, it was the first time I had entered their door, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.
I asked Xiaofen some questions at random, mainly about which school, how much tuition fees, how well prepared and so on.
Xiaofen told me that she was admitted to the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the tuition fee was about more than 2,000 yuan a year, as for the preparation, anyway, you know the situation at home, and there is really no preparation, and I don't know how to prepare.
In the end, Xiaofen even whispered, "I don't want to go to study anymore, I'd better go to work."
I wasn't too good to interject, but as soon as Xiaofen said this, I just found an excuse. Pointing at her is a scolding, saying that other people's families can't get into praying to God and worshiping Buddha, and you have to give up after you are admitted to university? Isn't it just two or three thousand yuan, I'll give you this tuition, and I'll pay me back when you have money in the future.
As I spoke, I took out my wallet and counted the entire three thousand yuan and stuffed it into Xiaofen's hand. During the whole process, the three of them looked at me dumbfounded, unable to speak.
I didn't forget to tell Xiaofen: Don't say anything to work, your uncle and I have been working in the south for more than three years, and that hardship is not something that you can bear as a little girl. Besides, you were born to read material, so it's better for you to go to work.
After I finished speaking, I got up, Brother Feng and his wife woke up like a dream, and pulled me to say something of thanks, I quickly stopped him and said:
The money I lent to Xiaofen is not to lend you, and you should not shout about it everywhere, especially not let my father know. After saying that, he left regardless of it, and his heart was indeed very happy.
But when I got home and touched my empty wallet, I remembered in my heart that I was still hiding this from my pregnant wife, and although the 3,000 yuan was not all our savings, it was not a small amount of money, so we had to comfort her first.
So I went to Yue's house again, and changed my way to make my wife happy for a while, and finally talked about Xiaofen's lack of money for college, and seeing that my wife was also happy and sorry for Xiaofen, I told her about lending her money.
Although the wife was a little unhappy at first, she was also relieved: Is it possible for you to ask for the money back? Xiaofen is indeed rare, so take it as a good thing.
Just like that, Xiaofen started school smoothly, and Brother Feng really didn't talk to my father about borrowing money.
But since then, Brother Feng has changed his way to "please" my father, and the two were not originally a blood feud, one was willing to "serve the small", and slowly, the relationship between the two families has improved a lot.
At the end of that year, my own son was born, which was a great event for our family. After the child was born, the family basically revolved around him, and my husband and wife did not come out to work anymore.
Xiaofen successfully went to college, and the relationship with our family became closer and closer, and every time she went home, she would come to play with my children for a while. Later, when my child grew up, Xiaofen became his personal tutor every time she came home.
Although there is a difference of seventeen or eighteen years, the relationship between the two children is really like that of an uncle and nephew. After graduating from university, Xiaofen went on to graduate school and then returned to our city hospital to work as a doctor. And my son may have been influenced by her, and his academic performance has been very good since he was a child.
Later, my child also grew up and took the college entrance examination, and was successfully admitted to the university, and Xiaofen at this time was already the chief physician of our city hospital.
Over the years, as long as there is time, Xiaofen will go back to the countryside for a walk, even if it is half a day and a day, we have to come to my house to see and ask, so that we can call her at any time if we need anything, and she will help us arrange everything.
Although our husband and wife only had one son, Xiao Fen and we have gotten along like a family over the years. We are also deeply gratified by this, we didn't expect that we would have an extra daughter. #长文创作激励计划#