The corn stands tall and tall, its long leaves swaying in the wind, and there is a rustling sound, like singing. A pleasant corn cob is pulled out from the waist, and the pink corn whiskers on the ear are shy.
The millet is half as tall as a man, showing off its lush green ears, which are half hanging and undulating from time to time.
The green and yellow soybean field is the most conspicuous, and the cheerful cries of grasshoppers can be heard from it, attracting children to stop. They stand quietly in the bean field, looking for the sound, and quietly walk over, holding a piece of horsetail in their hands, and slowly
Slowly reaching towards the big belly general, gently and cautiously teasing------
The general couldn't resist the temptation of horsetail grass and jumped on it, followed by children's joyful and excited laughter.
In the garden, the baby cabbage has turned into two cabbages, the cucumbers are hanging all over the melon stand, and the pepper seedlings are full of red, green, half-red and half-yellow peppers, which look gratifying.
The tomatoes are beeping, and there are still morning dew hanging on them -----
There is a garden full of food. You can pick whatever you want to eat in the garden. It is pure green and pollution-free. It is your own small yard.
Lao Tan made a pot of tea and sat in front of the steps of the fifth sister's yard. While drinking tea, he watched his son and the fifth sister's children continue to play basketball.
The fifth sister is already seventeen years old and is in high school. The young man is tall, 1.9 meters tall, and loves to play basketball. The fifth sister and the fifth brother-in-law took the basketball stand that had been removed from the elementary school home and propped it up on the edge of the courtyard wall.
Play for a while when you have time.
At this time, the two little brothers were having a great time.
Lao Tan's son Jiaheng is a little chubby, he is just nine years old, and sometimes he can't even touch the basket when shooting, but he still plays happily and is sweating profusely from exhaustion.
Lao Tan's mother came out of the house, holding a cotton mat in her hand. She spread it out in front of the steps and sat on it, smiling and watching her two grandsons playing basketball. After watching for a while, she said, "Okay, stop playing.
, it’s hot, just play for a while and take a rest.”
Jiaheng said: "Grandma, play for a while longer, you won't feel tired."
"I'm not tired yet, my head is sweating." The old lady felt sorry for her eldest grandson.
Jia Xu caught the basketball and didn't shoot any more. He said to Jia Heng, "I'm not going to play anymore. Let's take a break. Grandma will be angry if we play any more."
The two children made a temporary truce and ran to cool off under the jujube tree outside the gate.
The fifth sister picked up an armful of cabbage from the garden and put it on the steps, saying, "Let's eat dumplings stuffed with cabbage at noon. They're so bright."
Lao Tan said: "Yes, I am willing to eat."
At this time, the mother asked: "Do you want to put meat in?"
The fifth sister said: "Put it on, it won't taste good without meat. Do you want to eat it? If you don't want to eat it, I'll give it to you with vegetarian stuffing."
Mother said: "No, just cook it for me alone for a while until it bites."
The fifth sister smiled and said to Lao Tan: "Mom is so chewy when she eats anything now. She has no teeth and can't bite. When eating the ribs, let her eat the smooth ones for a while. She loves to eat ribs. She has no teeth and is good at it.
Tear it apart and eat it.”
"We have to be like that when we get old. My teeth are not good now." Lao Tan said.
"I don't have bad teeth, so let's follow my mother." The fifth sister said: "But my mother is not mentally ill, not confused at all, and has a better physique than us. Even when we are old, we will not be as good as our mother."
Sitting outside the gate, Jia continued: "My grandma is a centenarian!"
Lao Tan and Fifth Sister laughed.
The old lady didn't hear clearly and asked: "What old man?"
Jia Xu loudly said: "Old man who is 100 years old, you can live to be a hundred years old!"
"Live to be a hundred years old? That's no longer a monster. You don't have to live to be a hundred years old, just ninety. You'll be satisfied if you live to be ninety." The old lady mumbled with a smile, then narrowed her eyes and basked in enjoyment.
sun.
A seventy-nine-year-old man, except for some eye problems, everything is fine. He is cheerful and optimistic, and has no worries. It is not easy.
The old lady has suffered a lifetime of hardship. When she was young, she had to support her six children by begging. She never lived a good life until she was sixty years old.
Speaking of the old lady, no one in the three miles and five villages nearby gave a thumbs up. A woman, a widow, was living an unemployed life with six children. Her life was as shabby as the bottom of a sieve, she didn't have enough to eat, and she still owed a lot of debts.
Everyone said that it was impossible to survive that day. There was not even a male labor force in the family, and a group of female children were just cubs to carry on the family line, so they could not do anything.
But in such a family, a thin and withered old lady just protected her six children under her warm wings like an old hen, and raised them up one by one, and all of them got married and started a business.
And he also provided a college student.
The fifth sister is now the principal of a village primary school, a municipal outstanding teacher, and a provincial outstanding teacher.
The hardships involved are unimaginable, so he is respected by the villagers.
When it was almost noon, the fifth sister's father-in-law came back driving the sheep with a woven bag in his hand.
Jiaheng ran over and helped push the sheep into the sheepfold and asked: "Second Grandpa, have you picked mushrooms again?"
The fifth sister's father-in-law said with a smile: "I picked it up, not much today."
Jiaheng happily took the woven bag from the second grandfather's hand and poured the mushrooms on the steps.
They are all pine mushrooms, a small piece of red.
Hearing the cry of the sheep, the fifth sister's mother-in-law came over from the west courtyard, holding a handful of green onions she had just harvested from the garden. She said to her wife: "Wash your hands. Today we will eat dumplings with cabbage stuffing."
The fifth sister's father-in-law said: "Just pluck some green onions and pick some peppers."
The fifth sister's mother-in-law went back to the garden to pick peppers.
Lao Tan handed Fifth Sister's father-in-law a cigarette and lit it with a lighter.
"Second uncle, would you like something to drink at noon?" Lao Tan asked.
"Drink something, take a nap after drinking, and let the sheep roam for a while in the afternoon. It's too hot, so it's not serious to eat the sheep in the mountains." said the fifth sister's father-in-law.
"You just can't sit still." Lao Tan said.
"Hey, you can't live idle when you are old. I have a good physique. If I can move, I can move. If I can't move, it will be over. Sheep herding is a living, and it also exercises. Although you are younger than me, you are not as good as me in terms of physique."
Uncle said.
"Well, I'm not as physically strong as you."
"Your fifth sister and your fifth brother-in-law stopped asking me to raise sheep a long time ago. They said they wanted to buy a house in the city and asked me and your second aunt to enjoy the happiness. I said that was not possible. As long as the old farmers can move, they have to do something. Go
Living in a building in the city is not a blessing, but it means you don't have to work anymore, and your health will be gone after two years.
Did you see that my flock of sheep is not large, about fifty, they look inconspicuous, and I can’t take them away without paying fifty thousand yuan. Besides, I still catch about ten lambs every year, so isn’t that all money?
.If you want to eat mutton, you don’t need to buy it, just go and kill it now.
You didn't come back on May Day, and my family told me that I wanted to eat haggis, so I killed one on the same day. My eldest grandson killed it if he wanted to eat it, and ate all of it. Herding sheep is a bit tiring, but I am happy to see my eldest grandson.
, I don’t know how tired I am. My eldest grandson is great, just like her mother, sensible, good at studying, and ranked first in the exam.
He was preparing to take the college entrance examination. He told me that he would be admitted to Beijing. Haha, I told him that as long as he passed the college entrance examination, my grandfather would do it. The old and young of the Song family had not yet graduated from college. If he passed the college entrance examination, he would be the first.
Give me whatever you want."
The second uncle smiled happily after saying this.
At this time, the fifth sister called the two of them into the house to eat dumplings, and they followed each other into the house.
After lunch, Lao Tan did not have the habit of taking a nap. He sat alone under the jujube tree outside the gate to enjoy the cool air.
It’s been half a month since I returned home, and I’ve lived quite comfortably in the past half month. Except for the first two days when the eldest sister, the second sister, the third sister, and the fourth sister came to have fun, the rest was that Lao Tan and his son stayed quietly at the fifth sister’s house.
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This is the most comfortable and comfortable time he has spent at home in the eighteen years since he went out to work.
I chat with my mother every day.
He remembered that when he was at home, his mother would get annoyed when she talked about family matters, and she wouldn't like to hear it. She would always tell her to stop talking. But now he never tires of hearing it. Sometimes his mother already said something yesterday, and people change with age.
Forget it, I said it again today, and he still listened with interest. While listening, he regretted that he had annoyed his mother in the past, and he blamed himself in his heart.
People, no matter how far away there is, there is a home, no matter how far away there is, there is a mother.
Mom is at home.
Mom is calling me to go home, and my mother is gone and I am calling to go back to my hometown.
The fifth sister's parents-in-law are very nice, and the three old people are very harmonious together. In terms of age, Lao Tan's mother is more than ten years older than her in-laws, and she is their elder sister.
There is nothing wrong with the three old people. Being able to live in peace is a blessing to their children.
His mother is very good, and Lao Tan feels relieved. The only thing in this world that he can care about is his mother. She has been away from him for a long time, and as a son, he cannot fulfill his filial piety by his side, which makes him feel very guilty.
In the past, in order not to hinder him and Lin Yan, his mother did not go to him and asked the young couple to work hard outside. As the old man gets older, he becomes more and more inseparable from the countryside, and with the addition of five
The conditions of my daughter's family are very good, and it is not a problem to support an old man, so I will not go to the city.
Lao Tan has always been worried about being unable to support his mother. When he came back this time, due to the change in his mood after his illness, he felt relieved when he saw his mother enjoying her old age peacefully at the fifth sister's house.
Filial piety does not necessarily mean taking the old man close to you and taking care of him in his old age. It is better to do everything according to the old man's wishes.
Those who obey are filial piety.
Someone asked Confucius what filial piety was, and Confucius said two words: "color is difficult".
This is indeed the case. If nothing else, even if you have money, you can meet all your parents' requirements, and you can live in fine clothes and eat delicacies from the mountains and seas every day, but you always look down on the old man and make him unhappy. That is not called filial piety, it is called filial piety.
road.
What is filial piety?
Dogs and horses can be kept, so what’s the difference if you’re disrespectful?
Be disrespectful and unfilial, be filial and filial --
Seeing that my mother is living a good life and in good health, her heart is much more spacious, and she feels much more relaxed all over.
This is also the reason why he chose to go home instead of traveling. When he returned home, he stayed by his mother's side and felt at peace.
Mother is always the warm swaddling clothes, affectionate attachment and strong pillar for her children.
Away from the hustle and bustle of the city, staying in a peaceful mountain village full of earthy atmosphere, the heart is quiet and pure. The purity of the soul being washed in the morning dew removes the superfluous impurities in the world, and the soul is purified.
Those messy things are completely far away------
A person's whole life is a practice.
Bitterness and joy, love and sorrow, success and failure, possessions and losses, flowers, applause and eclipse, everything is nothing more than the experience of living people. If you value it, you will definitely bear the burden and move forward; if you look away, it will be a new beginning.