Myself is a rural child, grew up in the countryside, so I have seen a lot of rural elderly people since childhood, "the road to old age", compared to the city old man's pension, really a world of difference, the following to share with you what I have seen and heard and thought.
One, planting vegetables, raising poultry
The rural elderly if they can still work, generally do not let themselves idle, may be a lifetime of labor used to, always looking for something to do, and planting has been their most familiar work, even if they do not have the energy to plant rice, but also in the yard or the home Even if they don't have the energy to plant rice, they will plant some vegetables in the yard or their own land, or raise chickens and ducks, self-sufficiency, but also enjoy it.
Previously, my grandmother was particularly fond of planting vegetables in the yard, no matter whether it was oatmeal or cilantro, green onions, as long as it was their own or their family wanted to eat, they would let Mom buy seeds back, she sowed her own, and would also raise a dozen or so three-yellow chickens, the typical atmosphere of rural life ah ~
Two, to do casual labor
They seem to always find some casual labor to do, but they are not the only ones. It seems to always be able to find some casual labor to do ...... always have their own channels, such as helping to plant sugar cane, or almost New Year's time to help pick sugar oranges, picking chili peppers, etc., the wages are also very low, eight hours a day to earn eighty or ninety dollars.
Last year near the New Year's time many of the elderly in my hometown went to help pick sugar oranges, every year, because there is a boss in the mountains to contract a piece of land to plant sugar oranges, until the ripe season began to hire these old people to go to work, a day of 90 yuan, cut sugar oranges, picking the fruit, loading baskets, and finally other people to drive a truck to the trucks to directly loaded to be sent to the big city, did half a month or so earned a "out, it began to become lively, south of the world began to talk, think of what to say, more common is the grandfather will go to the kiosk to chat, and the old lady it, focused on the mouth of the village gossip, or else it is sunbathing, to see who walks by from the front, especially the young people, that the topic of the degree of a moment to open up, don't ask me why I know, because my hometown is to open the kiosk, I also tried to find out what the old man is doing. I also tried to brag with those grannies, listening to them gossip, nothing to echo a few sentences!
The above is what I learned, but also in our local most common phenomenon, in the countryside in general there is very little pension this said, they live to the old to do the old, and the city's old people all right to the park to sneak around, or dancing, or else is to go to dinner with their friends, traveling, the gap between the contrast is really quite large, and the countryside will go to a nursing home for the elderly is really The fact is that there are very few people who would go to a nursing home in the countryside, unless they have no choice but to do so, and there are very few of them who are not willing to bother their children to go to a nursing home.
In addition to the above, there are some old people who buy a little bit of food every month with their children's living expenses, three simple meals a day, always want to save the money to save, to solve the problem of food and drink is to go out and walk around, from the village to the end of the village, and then go home to rest ~ week after week.