Chapter 957: Simple and unpretentious, but deeply affectionate
"This is a narrative song, which is what we often call a song that sings a story. The only difference is that this time it is about my father and his life.
It can be seen that the section before this song that begins in 1984 is actually the content of the diary written by my father.
Starting from the first section, the family background in this story is explained, as well as the time node when the story takes place, the summer of 1984!
At this time point, I believe it will resonate more with many people born in the 1970s and 1980s.
Because anyone who has lived through that era knows that in 1984, in the early days of reform and opening up, even for working-class families in the city, the monthly salary for one person was only thirty or fifty yuan.
What's more, a rural family whose crops have not yet been harvested is almost bound to be in financial difficulty.
In other words, in that era, this situation was actually common among rural families. The cultural life at that time was still very poor, there were few movie theaters, and TV sets were even more luxury goods. So open-air movies can be said to be a rare and important entertainment.
project.
I believe that those born in the 1970s and 1980s all had the memory of watching outdoor movies when they were young. It is worth mentioning that to watch outdoor movies, you must reserve a seat early, otherwise, you will have to watch the "mirror" movie on the opposite side of the screen.
However, after a busy day, the father has no time to spare, and there is still work at home!
What kind of job? Repair the pedals of sewing machines. In those days, sewing machines, radios, bicycles, and watches were the four major items of marriage, also known as three turns and one ring. Why did you repair it yourself? First, it was because the service industry was underdeveloped.
It's because I save money by doing it myself. If I don't watch the movie, I just tinker with the sewing machine pedal.
Therefore, this first short paragraph is full of the atmosphere of life. The traditional Chinese rural family where men farm and women weave, trivial matters, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea may have taken up all of life.
There is a vague image in my mind. The father is sitting there holding his sleeping daughter. The mother is doing needlework and chatting with the father. The pedal of the sewing machine is broken and she has time to repair it.
The child mentioned in the lyrics is crying for biscuits. Many people who have not experienced that era will not understand it.
In that era of material poverty, biscuits were a "luxury" for many children. How much did biscuits cost at that time? In my impression, it was 7 cents per tael, and there were twelve or three.
But for rural families who can only work in the soil, it is difficult to earn even one penny, let alone seven cents!
So I lost my temper and decided to borrow some more money. The word "again" showed that borrowing money was not an accident, but a regular behavior.
It is said that girls should be rich, but as a father, he is so helpless and blames himself. He squats by the pond, feels the pain in his heart, and punches himself twice. He hates himself for being incompetent and not even having money to buy some small snacks for his children.
The embarrassment of a father who wants to fulfill his child's little wish but is unable to do so, and the deep fatherly love under the pressure of making a living, are spoken out like this, pulling a soft string in people's hearts, and they can't help but feel sorry for their parents at that time.
My father gradually grew old in his trivial life. Ten years passed in the blink of an eye. In 1994, several years had passed since the reform. However, my father was still harvesting crops on this land and did not go to the city to work. There was no change.
Life.
My father's old mother passed away.
Through the tear-stained page in the lens, those are the tears of a son who has lost his mother.
The old one is gone and the younger one has grown up.
When my daughter goes to school, she wears a ponytail, which was also a popular hairstyle at the time. It is easy to take care of. She can quickly tie it up with a hand and a rubber band. If the family conditions are good, girls who love beauty can also use fancy hairbands.
Or a bow tie or something.
It's hard to guess what a girl wants, and dad is no exception.
I see that my daughter is a little lonely. Did something happen at school? She also lost a lot of weight. Did she lose weight? Is she in a relationship? Will it affect her studies? I can't worry about it anymore!
Well, the daughter is the father's greatest pride. Of course, he doesn't have to worry about getting married because she is so stunningly beautiful that she will definitely find a man who loves her. Even then, the father is already old and is as dull, boring and useless as old paper money.
In fact, which father is willing to let his daughter get married? The caring little cotton-padded jacket he once loved the most, the daughter who once rode on his father’s neck and laughed loudly, from now on she no longer belongs to his father, but has a more important partner in life.
Every parent hopes to be with their children for a lifetime, but time is ruthless. When a daughter gets married, it means that the parents are old.
When the age comes, he not only hopes that his daughter can find a good home, but at the same time, he does not want his daughter to get married too early. This conflicting mentality fills the heart of every father.
When a son gets married or a daughter gets married, they are both great events, the moment that parents long to see. But when that day comes, whether it is a son or a daughter, they are no longer just their son or daughter, but also someone else's husband.
Wife.
They have their own little family, and they have people they care about more. The once majestic figure suddenly becomes rugged the moment you turn around.
No matter how strong the father is, at that moment, it was as if the energy had been drained out of him. It’s just that the father is always the father. No matter how much pain and discomfort there is in his heart, he doesn’t want his daughter to see it. Maybe this is the only thing the father can do.
What you can do is leave your daughter with a majestic figure forever.
My father's life was like this, ordinary and ordinary, just like all living beings, working hard to run the house and working hard all their lives.
In the short film, the father fell ill. Perhaps at that time, the daughter suddenly discovered that the great father, the omnipotent father in the daughter's heart, the superhuman father, was old!
Father, he is old, old, as old as old newspapers, full of yellowing and brittle staleness.
The father who could carry dozens of kilograms of weight on his shoulders and ride a horse can no longer even walk or speak. His hair has changed since I don’t know when.
White, the wrinkles on my face are getting deeper and deeper.
Finally, the father, who had always been unwilling to show his weak side in front of his daughter, showed his most helpless side in front of her.
However, even though it is old, it is still full of ink, silently recording my father's past.
Those simple and unpretentious words are the father's life, and the emotions sealed between the lines are the father's deep love for his daughter.
Father's love is always an afterthought. When that kind of belated love comes, it will overwhelmingly impact our hearts. We will burst into tears, we will burst into tears, we will fall into silence, we will recall the past, we will
Torturing ourselves, we will never be able to say sorry to our old father, but we have said it countless times in our hearts.
While you still have the opportunity, take a good look at your father and spend time with him!"
