Text | Wu Shu

Three years after my father passed away, you came to my house. Compared with your father, you are so ordinary that you are really lackluster.

However, a 50-year-old mother needs a wife, and a 50-year-old man has very pragmatic and genuine requirements for his partner? As long as the person is nice.

And you have this most basic condition. You are a well-known good person. Specifically, you are an honest person.

The day you met my mother for the first time, you were very embarrassed.

Because you know very well that you have no advantages in all aspects? The house is small, the salary is low, you are just an ordinary retired worker, and your newly married son and his family still need your help.

To be honest, my mother decided to meet you just to give the introducer some face. And what finally made your mother like you was your good cooking skills. After meeting, you said:

? Lao Li, I know that you are in good condition and don’t need anything, so I have nothing to give you. Anyway, let's get to know each other, and you can have a potluck at my house at noon. ?

Your sincerity made my mother unable to bear to refuse, so she stayed.

You didn’t let her stretch her hands, and then you made four dishes and one soup, which made your mother unable to bear to put down her chopsticks. Before leaving, you said to my mother:

If you want to eat in the future, just come. Although my family is not well-off, it is not difficult at all to entertain a pumpkin. ?

Later, my mother looked at several old men one after another. However, although all of them seemed to have better conditions than you, my mother still chose you in the end.

The reason is actually selfish? She has obeyed and taken care of her father for most of her life, and she wants to be taken care of again.

In this way, you and my mother live together.

That day, you, your mother, me and your son had a meal together.

I specially arranged this meal in a magnificent five-star hotel. On the surface, it was to express my importance to you, but in fact, it was because of a condescending feeling of superiority.

But you didn’t let me show off for long. When you walked out of the hotel, you quietly said to me: From now on, we will be father and son. If you want to treat me to dinner, go to a small shop on the street. I ate well there and didn't feel any pain. ?

It was your too honest expression that burned my hypocrisy. It made me feel that playing tricks with an honest person is like an adult coaxing a child's candy ball, which is close to a kind of shamelessness. .

You took good care of my mother. Every time she saw me, she yelled about losing weight, and her tone was happy.

I still remember that in the past, when my father was still alive, every time I came home, she would complain to me about my father’s bad habits that he had stuck to for almost his whole life.

The food you cook is indeed delicious. After eating it a few times, I was quite dissatisfied with the food my wife cooked.

Once, when I was having dinner with you, I couldn't help but said to my wife: "Next time Uncle Tu cooks, you can learn from it." ?There is no open-mindedness and studiousness in the wife's expression, but rather a bit of sullenness.

You quickly come out to rescue, you say:

?I can’t do anything well in my life, but I have some ability to eat. You are all people who do big things, don’t learn from me.

If you are hungry, come back, come back anytime. As a cook, I'm most afraid that no one will eat what I cook. ?

When we left that day, you packed a lot of things you made for us to take with us. You also pulled me aside and said:

?Stop praising the delicious food I cooked. Well, to be honest, I blush whenever anyone mentions this advantage of mine. How can a grown man be regarded as an advantage if he cooks well but is a fool in other aspects? ?

On the way home, I repeated your words to my wife. She said: "He is a person who is born to serve people's lives and is willing to be low in the dirt." Our mother is lucky to be the empress dowager when she grows old. ?

While driving, I felt my wife’s contempt for you with the corner of my eye, and I didn’t want to defend you.

After all, you are always an outsider.

On the day I moved to my new home, you and your mother came to burn the bottom of the pot for us. You strictly follow the folk custom of burning the bottom of the pot and are busy in an orderly manner.

However, when it was time to eat, you did not appear at the main table, and you were nowhere to be found. When you call your cell phone, it is also turned off.

It’s like you’ve calculated the time, and when the guests have dispersed, you’ll be back.

Carefully clean up those messy cups and plates, put the leftovers in the lunch box you prepared in advance, and keep them for home.

Your mother doesn’t want you to do this, and she feels you have been wronged. You whisper to her in a low voice: “I’ll make new ones for you tonight, and I’ll eat them.”

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My mother said: Why do you eat leftovers every day? Do you know that I feel very sad when I see you like this? ?

?Don’t feel bad, it makes me feel uncomfortable to see such a waste. Shuzan (my name)’s money was earned through hard work. If we can’t help the child, then we should try our best to help him save some. ?

Your words made my mother feel distressed for a long time, and then she decided to tell me.

Listening to my mother saying good things for you on the phone, I feel very complicated inside, and at the same time I feel ashamed for my complexity.

Gradually, my affection for you becomes stronger and stronger. Sometimes, there is even some dependence, you always do a lot of things for us silently? Change the bad faucet at home;

Take the children to kindergarten every day; take care of your mother sleeplessly when she is in hospital, until You won't tell us until you are discharged from the hospital.

I just didn’t expect that one day, you would also fall ill, and the illness would be so serious. You collapsed on the way to send my son to kindergarten? He had a cerebral thrombosis and was left in bed with hemiplegia.

I, and your son, were very positive about your treatment at first. We hope that you can get better and still serve us as you did before, working hard and without complaint.

However, you never stood up again. You who used to only smile have become extremely fragile and always shed tears.

My mother takes care of you, and you cry;

Your son peels fruit for you, and you cry;

We push you in a wheelchair and take you on outings, and you cry ;

Being hospitalized many times and watching money being spent like water makes you cry.

Finally one day, you used a razor blade to cut your wrist hard.

After 5 hours of resuscitation, you struggled back from the brink of death. You were very tired and desperate.

What I didn’t expect was that the first person I abandoned you was your son. He rarely came to see you at first, and later he even refused to show his face. Every time he called, he said he was on a business trip and would come over to see you when he got back.

What I didn’t expect was that my mother asked me to break up with you at this time.

You guys didn’t register in the first place, it was just a matter of falling out.

My mother told me: I am old and can no longer take care of him. Mom can't do much to help you, but she can't pick up a crippled father and come back to be a burden to you. ?

This is the cold reality. I didn't want my mother to be such a bad person, so I was cruel and decided that I would be the one to say the breakup. I said to you lying in the hospital: Uncle Tu, my mother is sick. ?

Your tears burst out of your eyes again. Once upon a time, your eyes were like faucets that could be turned on and off freely. I try not to be moved by it. ?You know, my mother is also very old. You have also seen how she treats you these days. ?You continued to nod with tears in your eyes.

Uncle Tu, we all have to go to work, and my mother is not in good health.

See if you can do this. After you are discharged from the hospital, you can go back to your own home and I will help you find a nanny. Of course, I will pay for it, and I will visit you often. ?

When you said this, you stopped crying. You nodded frequently and said vaguely: "This is best... This is best." No need to hire a nanny, no need

After I walked out of the ward, I still shed tears in the hospital yard. I couldn’t tell whether it was the relief after relief or the pain of guilt. I went to a housekeeping company, hired a nanny for you, and paid the fee for a year in advance.

Then, I went to your home and hired workers to renovate your home. I'm trying my best to be kind and righteous. Not for you, just to appease your inner uneasiness.

On the day you came home from the hospital, I didn’t go. Instead, I asked the driver from the unit to pick you up. After the driver came back, he said to me: "Uncle Tu asked me to say thank you. Even my own son can't do this." ?

These words comforted me to some extent, and I felt a little relaxed. But this relaxation did not last long.

The Spring Festival when you were away was a bit lonely. No one is willing to stay in the kitchen and cook food for us in various ways. We sat in a five-star hotel to have New Year’s Eve dinner, but we could no longer taste the strong New Year flavor.

On the way home, my son said: "I want to eat the food cooked by grandpa." ?The wife used her eyes to signal her son to stop talking, but the son made the fuss even more fierce:

?Why don’t you let grandpa go home for the New Year? You are all bastards. ?The wife gave her son a hard slap in the face.

However, that slap felt like a slap on my face, and my face hurt.

My son’s words shattered all the peace of mind we once thought we had. I looked in the rearview mirror and saw my mother's eyes were also red.

As you can imagine, it was such an unpleasant New Year’s Eve.

I miss you so much last year when you were still in our family. The happiness and warmth of a family are always based on one person who contributes in obscurity and is willing to play a supporting role.

This year, with the supporting cast gone, I realized that the show was ugly and extremely boring.

I wonder who you are spending this night with, Uncle Tu? Will you also think of us? Will you feel sad for our ruthlessness!

New Year’s Eve After the bell rang, I drove to your place.

You opened the door for me with unsteady steps. When you saw me, you were smiling but with tears in your eyes. When I walked into your cold pot and cold stove home, my tears never stopped.

I picked up the phone, called your son, cursed him a lot, and started making dumplings for you. The nanny went home to celebrate the New Year, and prepared enough snacks for your bedside to last until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. I cursed my mother hard in my heart again.

The steaming dumplings finally bring a touch of warmth to your home. You ate the dumplings one bite at a time, tears falling down your cheeks.

I opened the bottle of Wuliangye I gave you before and poured a cup each for you and me. After drinking, I said a lot of things: "Uncle Tu, you can't blame me, I'm not easy either. Some are old and some are young."

?You keep nodding, but you still say the same thing:?You are closer than my own son. ?

I staggered away from your house in the early morning of the first grade of junior high school. After drinking, I had to park my car downstairs and walked alone on the deserted street, my eyes full of desolation. The phone rang, it was my wife calling: "Where are you?"

I got angry again: "I'm at the home of a lonely old man." Who are we? When people can walk and move, we take advantage of them;

Now that they can’t move, we send them back. Our conscience has been eaten by dogs, but we still behave like dogs with benevolence, righteousness and morality, bah!?

Standing on the street, I scolded myself until I was furious.

I've scolded you enough, I'm tired of scolding, I ran back without hesitation, picked you up and walked out. You struggled and asked me: "What are you doing?" I said to you in an unquestionable tone: "Go home." ?

You are back.

The person who expresses happiness most directly is my son. He hugs and kisses you, clamoring for fried mahua and noodle dishes.

My wife pulled me to the hut and asked me: Are you crazy? His son doesn’t care about him, so why did you take him back? I stopped getting angry and said to her calmly:

? His son did something wrong. That is his business and should not be the reason for us to give up on Uncle Tu.

I can’t ask you to treat him as a father-in-law, but if you love me and care about me, treat him as a family member. Because in my heart, he is family and relative.

It’s easy to give up on him, but I can’t get over the hurdle in my heart. I want to live a more peaceful life, it's that simple. ?

When I told my mother the same thing, she burst into tears, held my hand tightly and said, "Son, Mom didn't expect you to be so affectionate and righteous." ?

I said: Mom, don’t worry. To put it bluntly, even if one day you walk in front of Uncle Tu, I will take care of him until he dies.

To put it more bluntly, with my current income, is it still difficult to raise an uncle butcher? What’s wrong with having multiple relatives?

After a while, my son came in When he came in, he begged me: Dad, don’t send grandpa away again. From now on, I will take care of him, and when you get old, I will take care of you too. ?

I held my son in my arms, feeling panic in my heart. Fortunately, I didn’t understand it too late. Fortunately, I didn’t leave the impression of an unfilial son in the child’s mind.

? Grandpa, it’s just for pain, how can it be for sending him away!? I made a joke with my son in tears and gave him reassurance.

You gradually calmed down, stopped crying, and did what you could in your wheelchair every day.

And I am very picky about you: "Uncle Tu, the clothes you are wearing today are a bit unsightly and not worthy of my mother." ?Uncle Tu, I haven't mopped the floor in a few days. I'm not telling you, you're getting lazy. ?

I joked with you in a big way, and you were so happy that you couldn’t open your mouth from ear to ear.

One day, you called me to your room and took out a bankbook from under the quilt.

You said: This money is for you. I know that you spent a lot of money on my treatment, and this money is simply not enough. And when I gave you the money, I didn’t mean to ask you to care about me. I just wanted Uncle Tu to give me the money.

I said, “Uncle Tu, you don’t have to say anything, I’ll accept it.” ?You breathed a sigh of relief.

Taking this passbook, I found your son and told him the passbook and password. I said to him: "Uncle Tu gave this to you. He knows that your life is not easy."

I have no other intention, I just hope that you will visit him every once in a while, and don’t wait until the day he is gone before you want to see him again. By then, you can only torture yourself in your dreams. Also, I am looking for you this time to tell you, don’t worry, I will take care of Uncle Tu’s old age. ?

I didn’t tell you where the money went. I know that accepting it may make you feel better.

That day, your son came to see you with his wife and children. Although you did not show any intention of complaining, I still saw traces of unfamiliarity in your words.

To be honest, my heart is actually filled with a little bit of pride.

So what if we are biological? People can only get close if they care.

Just like you and me, now we can make all kinds of jokes and share all kinds of worries. How can these be measured by gains and losses!

Mother and you are officially registered as married.

After that, every weekend, no matter how big the matter is, our family of three will go home to your and my mother’s home, rain or shine. What awaits us is always a table of home-cooked and delicious meals.

You can actually cook, even though you are in a wheelchair. This is really a miracle in the eyes of others, but we are accustomed to it and think you should be like this? Life is endless, Work hard for your children.

You enjoy it, and we enjoy it too.

It’s just that your grandson loves you very much and always serves you secretly when I cruelly ask you to pick up your own food or find a way to go to the toilet.

Seeing you two carefully maintaining the tacit understanding and secret between you, my heart is filled with happiness? Having an elder in the family is like having a treasure.

Gradually, you start to play a supporting role in this family like before, putting yourself in a position where you try not to be noticed.

If you feel safe there, that is the best position for you.

I am no longer polite to you, and sometimes I will even order you to do some housework, such as when you are lazy.

I know that I must use this method to delay your aging as much as possible and delay your complete loss of mobility.

This is an article that makes people cry. I still feel fondly after reading it again and again.

So what if the world is cold and cold? People’s hearts are warm!