Year after year, day after day of heavy physical labor will destroy the body little by little. The old people in the countryside are really living under the pressure of hard labor now. The mental stress will make you lose sleep all night. But drudgery coupled with the pressure of life, you have to work hard. The direct result is that people in their 60s will get low and their hair will turn gray.
Now that rural mechanization is widely used, many people have forgotten the hardships of rural life. It is true that nowadays, planting underground land is different from the past. Because our young people don't have that kind of hard work, they don't feel that kind of tiredness, so they will feel that farming is the same. The three grandfathers in the village have been walking since I was in my 50s, and they stumbled as if they were going to fall at any moment. For more than a decade they sat alone at the gate.
When they got tired, they ran around the entrance to the alley. They were the same age as him. My grandfather was strong. He used to help me with my work when he was old. Don't say he took care of himself. I did my own work. The reason is that I'm afraid I can't do it alone. My grandfather said that when their generation was young, they were less than ten years old. At that time, river workers earned money by working. They dug rivers from dozens of meters deep and hauled mud from the river in two-wheeled carts. Whether it was cloudy, rainy or cold, they remained as dry as ever.
Can young people imagine that now? Grandpa San's family had many children, and he was the eldest in the family, so all the burdens weighed on him. His house, or rather the houses of his three younger brothers, plus his own children, were basically not dark or dark at all in his life from the age of 10 to the age of 50. I don't know if you've ever seen a country dirt house, just outside the whole house. The walls are all made of mud. The three grandfathers and four brothers built their houses by the old men themselves, not with bricks, but with mud.