Grandma is only 20 years older than my father. She was 46 years old when I was born. As long as I can remember, she seems to have been like that. She is a typical rural old lady with short ears and a big shirt, and a hoe in her hand, working anytime and anywhere. I don't know if my grandmother was so powerful when she was young, but people around me say that I look like my young grandmother, and people who have dealt with me say that I am good-natured and reasonable.
Women are weak, but mothers are just! I think this is the best interpretation of grandma's "awesome". Grandma gave birth to seven children, all brought up by one person, which was a miracle in that age when children were easy to die! I'm grandma's eldest grandson, and I haven't seen grandpa. Occasionally, people say that Grandpa is a village cadre, honest and kind, because he helped push a tractor that broke down on a steep slope and was overwhelmed by a tractor that was retreating, and never got up again. He is only 46 years old. In that era when all the people were "Lei Feng", Grandpa died without any subsidy or commendation, leaving only a 43-year-old widow and seven children. The oldest is my father, aged 23, and the youngest is my brother-in-law, aged 5. Only my father and uncle can earn work points, and the others are studying in primary school and junior high school respectively. I don't know what my grandmother was feeling at that time. All I know is that she buried her grandfather in a hurry, dried her tears, returned to a cold home, looked at seven pairs of sad or ignorant eyes and seven open mouths, and thought about her children's tuition. At that moment, her shoulders must be overwhelmed! However, the sky is falling, and we have to oppose it!
Two years later, mom and dad decided to get married. After knowing the news, my mother's relatives and friends advised my mother: their father is dead, there are many children, the family is poor, and my mother is terrible. You'd better not get married However, when I was a child, my father was a rare high school graduate from Shiliba Village. He can write articles, scripts, erhu, harmonica, build houses and weave bamboo baskets. He can be gentle and belligerent, and he should be quiet and active. He firmly grasped his mother's heart, and it was useless to persuade anyone. But her mother-in-law's fierce name was finally heard by her. Later, for a long time, their relationship was not good, and there was always this first impression. People's hearts are unpredictable, and people's words are awesome! A rural cadre who gave his life to help others, his family didn't get any subsidies and help after his death, and a widow who fought tenaciously for the right to live for herself and her children was called awesome! In that era of material scarcity and indifference, grandma was in poor health, how could seven children survive!
Grandma has magical hands. I had asthma when I was born, and I was often short of breath without any warning. My face turns from red to blue. Several times, my grandmother pinched me and saved me. On other occasions, she saved me by artificial respiration. Later, she became seriously ill, and grandma's first-aid measures helped me win treatment time. When we were young, our grandchildren had loose bowels, coughs or sore throats. Grandma took a hoe and picked a few small wild vegetables at the edge of the field, boiled them in water for a few mouthfuls at home, and the medicine was cured. Once, my aunt coughed for several months, saw many doctors and took a lot of medicine, but it didn't get better. Grandma went to the mountains to collect herbs and cooked them with pig lungs before she was cured. Later, when I grow up, I go back every summer, and I can still drink herbal tea picked by my grandmother. I won't get angry after drinking it all summer. Every winter, grandma will catch centipedes in the fields, dry them and soak them in wine. I don't know the efficacy of centipede next spring, but grandma has been drinking this homemade medicinal liquor for many years. Now she is over 80 years old, with flexible legs and ruddy face. Grandma is not a doctor, but she has a pair of wonderful hands to rejuvenate, which is precious in the era of lack of medical care and medicine.
Grandma has a clear moral outlook. Grandma has a hot temper, but she hasn't changed when she is old. All seven children are grandparents. Whoever does something wrong will still call names. Mother often said that grandma had a good life and such a bad temper, but all seven children were extremely filial. My sister-in-law, in particular, is often scolded by my grandmother, but she always takes care of food when she is sick, and her sister-in-law is the most active one. Grandma has developed to the point where she doesn't want anything from her sister-in-law in recent years. My sister-in-law has no choice but to entrust it to my father and not to let grandma know. Once she knows, whatever it is, she will throw it out the door. When I heard it, I thought it was the old lady who lost her temper and didn't take it seriously. Later, I learned that my sister-in-law had done something wrong, which was unforgivable to my grandmother and violated the universal moral concept. Although it has been many years, my grandmother has a clear love and hate, a principle and a bottom line, and refuses to forgive. Grandma's seven children, not to mention remarkable achievements, diligence, kindness, law-abiding and filial piety, are not easy in my hometown. The folk customs in my hometown are bad, and the phenomenon of not supporting and abusing the elderly is very common. Comparatively speaking, grandma is a happy old man.
Grandma has a strong and soft heart. Grandma has seven children, 17 grandchildren. She has raised seven children and six grandchildren, and other grandchildren are more or less involved in raising and taking care of everything. When I was a child, the relationship between my mother and my grandmother was very tense. Although I am ignorant, I vaguely understand that my mother doesn't like me following my grandmother. Every time I see grandma go out to do farm work, I secretly follow her. At first, she wanted me to go home, but in the end, she took me with her. Most of the time, she does farm work, and I pick wild flowers to catch bugs. "What are you from? Why are you so tall? " Grandma was surprised to hear what I said. Looking for fame, she found a cobra looking up at me, spitting snake letters. I raised my hand and touched it on airs. At this critical moment, grandma threw away the hoe and ran away, picked me up high and ran away. This series of actions only takes less than 10 second, and 10 second determines life and death. Something must have made an old lady overcome her fear and completed a rescue at such a speed! A few years ago, grandma, who had been in good health, suddenly urinated blood. After repeated persuasion, she was finally willing to go to the hospital for treatment. After a series of examinations, it was found that the cause of hematuria was kidney calculi, and the doctor suggested minimally invasive conservative treatment first. There was no change in hematuria after minimally invasive surgery, and he was operated again, but continued to urinate and was hospitalized for nearly one month. Found the cause, standardized treatment, but no effect. Everyone in the family is very anxious, except grandma, who eats and drinks well every day, and her mood is not affected at all. The man in the next bed said that the old lady didn't look like being in hospital at all. After living for a long time, grandma insisted on leaving the hospital, found a folk Chinese medicine practitioner, ate two pairs of herbs and peed blood.
Grandma has a hard-working and healthy body. Grandma is 83 years old. She can eat two bowls of rice, a bowl of meat and a glass of wine every meal. Due to years of work, she has no hunchback, deafness and rosy face. When I was in my 70 s, I was still farming, and I could supply my own rice. When I was 80 years old, I also grew vegetables and ate my own organic vegetables every day. Her children advised her not to go out to work. She said that she took the initiative and was uncomfortable not going out to work. Every time I went back to my hometown a few years ago, I still received a big bag full of organic soybeans, peanuts, dried wild bamboo shoots and dried mushrooms prepared by my grandmother. When my grandmother was young, she took her children and grandchildren with her every day, farming, hoeing, raising pigs and chickens, digging wild vegetables and collecting herbs, and doing everything inside and outside. However, grandma has been ridiculed by my mother for raising pigs. My mother says grandma gets up early every day and feeds the pigs on time for three meals a day. She chopped up the pig grass and sometimes added meals. She doesn't start feeding pigs until noon every day. Pig grass is roughly cut, not to mention adding meals. But by the end of the year, the pigs she fed were twice as big as hers. However, this did not affect grandma's enthusiasm for feeding pigs at all. She still keeps pigs every year, but someone else keeps them for 1 year, and she has to keep them for another two years before she can be released.
I went back to my hometown during the Spring Festival this year, and four generations of my family lived under one roof. I counted more than 70 people and more than 20 great-grandchildren. Grandma is very happy and always wants us to have a second child and three children. Their generation still has a strong concept of how happy they are to have more children. When grandpa died, the family didn't get compensation, but God bless us, our family is safe and healthy, getting better and better, and the family is getting bigger and more prosperous!