The city's lights and greenery can not cover up the footprints of the years in a hurry, generations of the inheritance of life in the rapid flow of time Chinese hair gradually born. When people with beautiful hat tongue and colorful dye cover a full head of gray hair, no one noticed in the corner of the city, there is a group of old people forget and years of struggle.
They are growing old alone.
My hometown is in a remote county in Inner Mongolia, which has just taken off the hat of the national poverty-stricken county not even a few years ago. The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night. Finally, in my generation, my brothers and sisters scrambled to break out of this cage, headlong into the ocean of the big city, and my father's generation they became left behind in that piece of yellow land in the resident.
Every morning, the great aunt will get up before six o'clock on time, because the vegetables in his field need to drink the first water of the day before the sun hangs high, so as to ensure that they can grow vigorously. After watering the vegetables, he would simply drink some porridge and eat a mouthful of pickled mustard greens on a steamed bun, and then he would begin his busy day. Cousins and cousins have dozens of sheep and more than ten cows in the big aunt's house, he has to add some grass to the cattle and sheep, so that the sheep and cows eat a small half full, because after the ban on grazing in many places can not eat grass, only relying on the grass in the mountains they can not eat enough. After adding grass, the great aunt will pick up the cow dung a little bit and push it to the yard with a cart to slap it on the wall, after drying it will be the fuel for the stove of the family for a year. The sheep dung would be piled up in the backyard and buried in the vegetable garden in winter to be used as fertilizer the following year. After doing this he will hurry to drive the cattle and sheep on the mountain, and then late, if the good water and grass will be occupied by other families of cattle and sheep, if the cattle and sheep in the fall without fat, it is estimated that the children will nagging again and again.
At lunchtime, you can't go home without a bottle of water, two steamed buns, and a few dried salted vegetables, and occasionally a relative or neighbor will send you some dried meat to take with you, and that's too much. Grazing can not be fixed in one place, along the flow of the underground river all the way to a bubble that, cattle and sheep eat half a day of grass will have to drink enough water. About six or seven o'clock in the evening to drive the cattle and sheep back, and then late in the day on the invisible, if there is a cow or sheep lost, it is estimated that the first half of the night will not sleep.
To the home to first give the cattle and sheep water, put a good water will be the first cattle and sheep grass ready to drink water to let them eat a meal, so basically a day cattle and sheep can eat enough. About eight o'clock more aunt finally can make some meals to eat a good bite, usually every day will drink one or two wine, warm body to relieve fatigue. Good thing it is not winter and spring, if these two seasons is the sheep and cattle calving time, every day in the middle of the night to get up to see if there are cattle and sheep calving. If there are cattle and sheep production basically in the middle of the night will not be able to sleep, but the next day to do the work or can not be less.
This year, the great aunt was already seventy years old.
This is a daily routine for my parents, other cousins, and my aunts and uncles. The children are not around, even if they are old they still can't stop living. Perhaps for most city people, people over the ears, monthly pension, playing cards, walking the birds, dancing, and occasionally and friends and relatives to get together, thoroughly enjoy the days of retirement at ease. But for my parents they have no pension and no source of livelihood, if they do not work, what to live with?
So they are just like their grandparents, unless the body no longer allows it, maybe they can really retire. But the so-called nourishing life for them is the probability does not exist. And in the place we can not see, our country is having a very many of these old people in the age of retirement people did not retire the day, my fathers and mothers are just one of the epitome.
As of 2019, the ratio of our rural and urban population is 41.48:58.52, nearly half of the people are still rural. And China's population over the age of sixty is about to break through 300 million, and according to this ratio, that's about 100 million rural elderly population in China. Among these elderly people, there are those who are still healthy and able to work normally like my parents, those who are widowed and live alone like my great aunt, and those who are old and disabled or nearly disabled. Most of them are not covered by the state's low income insurance, and their only source of income is the state's land subsidy, income from farming and breeding, but all of this is based on their heavy physical labor. Though they have children, only a few of them are successful and successful in the outside world, and some of them even need their subsidies, which adds a heavy burden to their old age. Now, the state is establishing a long-term sound pension mechanism to protect this part of the population in their old age, but our country itself is a large country with a large population, in addition, due to the aging of the serious aggravation of the pension fund to consume faster than to replenish, which has brought a great challenge to the establishment of the mechanism of the rural old-age pension. And as a social problem, I believe in the popularization of national policies, one day, such as my father and generation of their elderly people, can be truly old, old people have something to rely on.