This epidemic has come, but it is hard to leave, which has repeatedly troubled us to return to a peaceful life. I originally planned to go back to Xi 'an to visit my parents after the epidemic passed, but what I didn't want to wait for was that Shenzhen citizens were on guard again.
On June 20th, Father's Day, I thought of my father, the man who used to go door to door to collect goat milk every morning. His thin body is always full of perseverance. In those hard years of lack of money, my father still smiled every day and was busy before and after. Although he didn't do anything earth-shattering, he propped up a sky for us with strong will and hard work.
On the Dragon Boat Festival, I had a video chat with my parents on WeChat. Father said happily that he is in good health and can eat and sleep every day, so that I don't have to worry about their parents. On the contrary, my father cares about the epidemic situation in Shenzhen and urges us to protect ourselves.
Looking at the happy smile on my father's face in the video, I remembered my 70-year-old father. When he was enjoying his old age, he suffered a catastrophe from the sky. During the Spring Festival of 20 19, I went home to visit my parents and met my recovering father. My mother's phrase "you almost didn't see the old man" made me sob and cry several times.
In that disaster, my father stayed in the ICU ward for more than a month, and our brothers and sisters took turns to stay outside the ward, hoping that my father, who has always claimed to be strong, could stand up again every day. But we can only watch my father lying in bed in pain, but there is nothing we can do. The sense of powerlessness makes us cling to only one heart every day.
Fortunately, the hard times have passed, and my 70-year-old father, as strong as when he was young, has just survived the death gate. Nowadays, my father's body is getting healthier and healthier, and the hemiplegia and stupidity we are worried about have not happened to my father, which makes us feel extremely gratified.
Mom said that she and dad drank the protein powder we bought every day, and their bodies became stronger and stronger, and their original hypertension disappeared. I feel the happiness of my parents on the video phone, and my heart is happy. I think it is worthwhile for us to be children and do anything for them as long as our parents are healthy and happy every day.
My father left his hometown with his grandparents in the Sanmenxia Dam migration event planned by the state in the 1950s, and went through hardships to come to the place where we live now. After being introduced, I met my mother, got married and gave birth to several of our brothers and sisters.
Perhaps it is the hard life on the road to immigration that makes my father cherish this family more and more. He put all his thoughts on us. Although the family is poor, the family is very happy.
At that time, my father was a milkman. He gets up at four or five every morning, goes door to door to collect goat milk from several nearby villages, and then sends it to a milk station to earn money to support his family. Father's work is very hard. Rain or shine, the work is the same every day.
Once it rained, my father handed in goat's milk and rode home on a goat's milk cart, struggling in the rain. As a result, because of the heavy rain, my father didn't see the road ahead clearly, and even people and cars plunged into the canal on the side of the road.
In the early morning, the countryside was shrouded in sudden rain and fog. The villagers are still hiding at home, eating breakfast, and there is not even a ghost on the road. My father looked at the car and milk bucket that fell in the canal, and it took him a long time to come to his senses. Fortunately, the goat's milk has been handed in, otherwise, he really doesn't know what to do. My father can't take care of his physical pain. A man moved his car and milk pail back to the track, and the car was thrown so heavily that he couldn't ride it, so he had to push it home. When he got home, we found his father's clothes dripping all the time, and his arms and face were hurt.
When the mother asked her father, "What is this?"
My father just said lightly, "It's okay to fall!"
We tried to rub medicinal liquor for him, but father refused us. Don't worry too much about a minor injury.
No matter how hard life is, my father never complains. He put all the hardships and pressures in his heart and stood up alone.
They all say "speak the truth after drinking", and so does my father. When he is drunk, he will cry and say that he is so bitter and tired. At this time, I can feel the heavy pressure from my father and the burden of my family.
However, after waking up the next day, my father seems to have forgotten all about what happened after being drunk, regained his enthusiasm and continued to work hard to make money.
Dad sends goat milk home every day, which will surprise us from time to time. A new dress, a pair of new shoes and a bag of white rabbit toffee make our brothers and sisters feel very happy.
I remember when I was in primary school, I came home from school at noon one day. When there was still a distance from my home, I saw my second sister running excitedly all the way to my side. The second sister shouted excitedly, "Dad bought you a new pair of shoes, take them off and put them on quickly." She squatted down and let me try them on.
That's a pair of very beautiful lace-up embroidered leather bottom boat shoes, which I've always dreamed of. The second sister's excited expression made her feel happier than buying herself a new pair of shoes, which provoked envious eyes from the classmates who came home from school together.
All this seems to be yesterday, fresh in my memory.
There are five brothers and sisters in our family, and I am the third. People often use this sentence to describe parents' feelings for their children at home:
"The big ones, the small ones, suffer in the middle." But in my father's heart, I have never been ignored or forgotten.
When I was a child, I was very thin and weak, and I was often sick. As long as my father is at home, no matter how busy he is, he will take me to the next village to see a doctor.
I had a high fever once, which was very serious. My temperature is as high as 40 degrees. Mom and dad are very anxious, afraid of burning my brain. My father took me all the way to the doctor's house and anxiously asked the doctor to see me.
Fortunately, timely treatment, my temperature soon returned to normal, and my parents were relieved. Later, when I was well, my father specially took me to see a doctor and had another check-up. My father was completely relieved when I learned that everything was all right.
When I was in middle school, I went to the middle school in the town. One winter, my feet were swollen with cold and I couldn't walk. During that time, my father went to school to take me home to see a doctor in order not to delay my going to school.
High school goes to school in Yanliang, which is far from home. One day, while I was at school, the weather suddenly turned cold. Dad is worried that I'm freezing. He was hungry. He rode a bicycle for dozens of miles and brought me thick cotton-padded clothes. And he himself, because he was in a hurry, didn't have time to change clothes, wearing a thin coat and shivering in the cold wind.
I grew up anemic and afraid of injections. Once in the school physical examination, I fainted because of needles. My parents were very nervous when they heard the news. They immediately put down their farm work at home, bought a lot of nutritional supplements to replenish blood with their little living expenses, and came to see me at school.
When I first went to college, my father went to Xi 'an by himself in order not to let me cook for living expenses. When I was old, he worked hard on the construction site and earned my living expenses. As soon as my salary was paid in the first month, my father ran to our school to bring me living expenses. Looking at my father's thin body, I couldn't help crying. I secretly vowed in my heart that I must work hard to make money and not let my parents worry about themselves.
Later, when I was at school, I worked part-time and hired a tutor to earn living expenses. My sophomore year went home and watched my father worry about the money for the New Year at home. I didn't know that my father had gone to the market to prepare the new year's goods until I asked. He only had 200 yuan on him, who was stolen by thieves. My father deeply blamed himself for his carelessness and worried about how the family would celebrate the New Year.
When I took a few hundred dollars out of my pocket and handed it to my father, my father burst into tears. At that moment, I felt that I really grew up.
Father is a quick-tempered man, but in my impression, he seems to have never hit us or scolded us. On the contrary, my mother, who has always been calm, will teach us some wrong things from time to time.
The only time my father was angry with our brothers and sisters was with my second sister.
At that time, we played at home with several little sisters in the village. Maybe it's because we played too hard. Dad called my second sister several times, but my second sister didn't seem to hear me and just wanted to play. Father was in a hurry to do things, and his hot temper was suddenly angered by the second sister. Father grabbed the small bench at hand and threw it out.
Father was trying to scare us, but this bench hit a little girl passing by the road in front of our house, causing a big bag on her head. My father apologized to his family for this and paid the medical expenses.
Father regretted his reckless behavior. Since then, my father has never thrown anything out of anger.
In our family, my mother is responsible for cooking, and all kinds of other jobs, big and small, are handled by my father quickly.
All the clothes, shoes and socks in our family are bought by my father. Although my father never took us to the market to choose clothes, every time we buy clothes, shoes and socks fit us well, and the styles and colors are also our favorite.
Maybe I'm used to my dad buying me all this. When I went to college, my classmates dragged me to buy clothes for the first time. I blurted out, "No, dad bought it for me." "
Even after I followed my classmates to the mall, I was a little at a loss when I looked at the dazzling array of clothes in the window.
When I graduated from college, got married and had children, I took my parents to Shenzhen to live with us and take care of my children. My husband and I are busy at work and have little time to spend with them. So the old couple usually accompany each other and take care of each other.
Mom is still only responsible for cooking, and dad does everything else at home. In this way, my mother has leisure time, often goes out to dance in the square dance to play softball, and also participates in various competitions for the elderly around the community with a group of uncles and aunts. Father always supports mother silently. As long as mom is happy, dad will be happy.
20 19 The house I bought in Chengdu needs to be decorated. My husband and I both work in Shenzhen, and we need someone to watch the whole renovation process. I'm worried about this. As soon as I discussed it with my parents, they were happy to take their son to Chengdu to help look after it.
The house has been decorated for several months, and my father helps me clean it up after work every day.
It was my father's birthday, so I forgot. Mom and dad didn't bother us. On my birthday, the old couple took my son out for dinner and took a photo in the photo studio as a souvenir.
Many years later, I went back to my brother's house and saw this photo in my parents' room before listening to my mother tell me the story behind this photo. I feel so ashamed after listening to it. I am very annoyed that I forgot my father's birthday and didn't do my duty as a daughter. At the same time, I am happy for the romance and mutual love of my parents.
Years of wind and frost make people old, and in a blink of an eye, my father is seventy years old. In the past two years, my parents have lived in their hometown county to help my brother take care of his grandson.
20 19 and 2020 are extremely extraordinary years for our family. My father went through a great disaster. My mother experienced my father's serious illness in the past two years. She was admitted to the hospital and had two operations because she couldn't see clearly because of retinal detachment. Fortunately, it's not as serious as her father.
My father fell ill for the first time. During his stay in ICU, my mother was so worried that she could hardly sleep every night. She had to visit her father in the hospital several times. Fortunately, we have many brothers and sisters, which persuaded our mother to take care of our father in the hospital. The most important thing is that there are grandchildren to look after at home, otherwise mom will always be with dad.
During my mother's two hospitalizations, my father always stayed with my mother, just like a child, although his old man still needed our care at that time. Fortunately, my mother just couldn't see, and she recovered soon after the operation and was discharged from the hospital.
I am in Shenzhen, I can't accompany two old people every day, and I always care about their health. Since my father was seriously ill and discharged from the hospital last year, I have been buying protein powder for them to drink in order to strengthen their physique.
Now mom and dad are recovering well. My mother said that my father now drinks the protein powder we bought every day, and his body is getting stronger and stronger. Every time my father mentioned physical recovery, he was extremely proud and smiled all over his face.
Father said that he didn't need to bother his mother to bathe and change his clothes, and he could take care of himself completely. His mother must have taken care of his father in the past two years, which made his father feel distressed.
Every time I video chat with my parents, watching their deep feelings and mutual concern in plain makes me feel a little comfort in the head of WeChat video.
Today's Father's Day, I talked to my mother on the phone early in the morning and learned that the epidemic there has eased. They can walk outside without masks. However, I still told my mother and father to be careful.
At noon, Miss Sister sent a photo of a family dinner. It turns out that my little sister and brother invited several old people to get together to celebrate Father's Day, and everyone was very happy. I'm glad to hear my sister say that my father has a good appetite. As long as his old man is in good health and eats well, I will be relieved.
When I was a child, my father propped up a sky for us with his thin body and hard sweat. Now, seventy-year-old father, it's time for us to repay him. I wish him a happy holiday and hope that his old man can live a healthy and safe life all the time.