Chapter 42: The Jacket
Duan Xiaoyu never did housework before she had children, and after having children, she had no milk, and she always felt indebted to her children, so when the children came to eat complementary food, they began to cook badly. In the words of Duan's mother: the dog bites herself, and the woman is clever.
Duan Xiaoyu never worries about family affairs before she gets married, and there is nothing to worry about at home. She didn't even mix noodles since she was a child, and when the family ate noodles together, Duan Xiaoyu always waited for her brother Ying Xiaoyang to mix the noodles, and then pulled them out of her brother's bowl. After eating, either his mother washed the dishes or his brother washed the dishes, and Duan Xiaoyu rarely washed the dishes. In Duan Xiaoyu's words, if her hand reached into the oily dishwashing water, her heart seemed to be covered by the oiliness.
But when this state has changed, Duan Xiaoyu can't say. It should be the changes that occurred after Duan Xiaoyu returned to Ji'an City from other places to work in a public institution. Duan Xiaoyu is relatively easy to work, and his brother Ying Xiaoyang is very strict at work because of the nature of the unit, and sometimes he can't even answer the phone casually during work hours, unless it is very urgent, he can call the landline. It is more convenient for parents to find Duan Xiaoyu if they have something, and because of the nature of Duan Xiaoyu's unit, there are more people who know each other, and there are more things that can be solved.
When he was four years old, Duan Xiaoyu suddenly felt old, and his mother was numb on the left side of her body that year, and after hospitalization, it was a stroke, but fortunately, it was not very serious, and the symptoms disappeared after taking Datang Aotong for half a year. At that time, Duan Xiaoyu didn't know much about this disease, and he didn't pay enough attention to Duan Xiaoyu, when he was happy to be five years old, his mother's illness happened again, and after being admitted to the hospital, the doctor warned that if she did it again next time, the old lady should make a wheelchair. Duan's mother was only 57 years old that year, Duan Xiaoyu was frightened, and she systematically studied stroke and cerebral infarction, and knew how to pay attention to her daily life.
When Duan Xiaoyu moved to the south of the city, his brother Ying Xiaoyang said to his sister: "You are gone, who will take care of your parents." Duan Xiaoyu felt that this sentence was inappropriate at that time, and he didn't think about it, and said with a smile: "It's still in a city, what are you afraid of!"
In the second year of Duan Xiaoyu's trip to the south of the city, his father also retired. Mom and Dad bought a two-bedroom house in the west of the city, Mom and Dad enjoyed a five-point discount because they were teachers, Duan Xiaoyu found a real estate developer and gave Mom and Dad three points cheaper. The house is located less than ten minutes away from the hospital. Duan Xiaoyu sold his house in the west of the city, mainly because the house was on the fifth floor, there was no elevator, and his parents were getting older, and it was inconvenient to climb the stairs. The ancestral house has been empty ever since.
Duan Xiaoyu will arrange for her mother to be admitted to the hospital twice a year, at the time of the transition between autumn and winter and the transition between spring and summer, with the aim of comprehensively monitoring the development of the disease and targeted treatment. Duan Xiaoyu has a colleague's friend Xiaowen in this hospital, and after being introduced by a colleague, Duan Xiaoyu and her became good friends after they met. Duan Xiaoyu and her mother's attending doctor have also become friends, and Duan Xiaoyu's telephone consultation has solved the problem if her mother is uncomfortable at home every day. Every time my mother is hospitalized, Duan Xiaoyu is taken care of by her father, Duan Xiaoyu is at night, and my father is during the day. Duan Xiaoyu didn't think there was anything wrong with this, until Duan Xiaoyu arranged for her mother to be hospitalized again, sitting in front of the hospital bed to pack her things, and her mother said to her: "Don't tell your brother that I'm hospitalized, he's busy." Duan Xiaoyu realized that something was wrong with the situation, and turned back to her mother and joked, "I'm also very busy." The mother is a mother of two, and it is not good not to tell her son in the hospital. "Every time my mother was hospitalized, my brother and sister-in-law would take the time to come and see, and my mother would always drive my brother away, as if my brother was a relative.
Every year on Duan Xiaoyu's birthday, she will go home to stay with her parents for a day, send a handful of carnations to her parents, take her parents out to rub them, thank her parents for giving her life, and be with her parents, Duan Xiaoyu feels very calm and down-to-earth, and her father often enlightens Duan Xiaoyu to look down on it, the greater the power at work, the greater the responsibility, and it is best to do your job safely. Duan Xiaoyu also joked with his father, saying that he missed the position of district chief back then, and his father smiled and said: "I have been poor since I was a child, I can't stand the temptation of sugar-coated shells, I will make mistakes, if I become the district chief, maybe I will be in prison now." Duan Xiaoyu also laughed.
Every year, Duan Xiaoyu will take his parents out to travel, Duan Xiaoyu feels that his mother can't walk in the end, and now she can still walk, hurry up and see the outside world. The people around him said that Duan Xiaoyu was filial, and his parents were also very proud, and he had a little padded jacket.
Mom and Dad are getting older, and they will occasionally quarrel, at this time Mom will complain to Duan Xiaoyu, and Duan Xiaoyu will come home to do ideological work for them, and will not leave until Mom and Dad are completely discouraged. Every time, Duan Xiaoyu called his parents separately and told them to cherish their partners and regret them if they put the order away. often privately persuaded my father to let my mother go, because my mother's illness could not be angry. Duan Xiaoyu knows in her heart that her mother has a tendency to be depressed because she takes medicine all year round, so her mother, who is already short-tempered, has become more open-mouthed, sometimes she has a big temper with Duan Xiaoyu, Duan Xiaoyu feels aggrieved, sometimes she leaves her parents' house, and on the way home, she plays music and cries in the car, because she knows that her mother is not feeling well, and her temper is inevitable, and she also needs to vent, and her mood will calm down when she cries.
Duan Xiaoyu has never worried about his father, because his father has arranged his retirement life very full, he said that he has to fill in all the more than 2,000 Chinese brand names, in the words of Duan's mother, he works so hard every day to take the Tsinghua exam. Dad also loves to raise flowers, and has almost no leisure time in a day. Duan Xiaoyu knows that his father is doing well even if he doesn't call his father for a month, because his father and his self-care, when to drink water, when to eat, and how much to eat, he has strict rules for himself. But Duan Xiaoyu always has to call her mother at least twice a day, her mother has no hobbies, and she is not feeling well. Mother will call Duan Xiaoyu at any time, lose her temper when she is unhappy, and say a few more words when she is happy, Duan Xiaoyu knows that her mother is very dependent on herself.
Once Duan Xiaoyu was rubbing her mother's back, her mother suddenly cried, Duan Xiaoyu thought that her mother was uncomfortable, but her mother said: "I have you to rub my back, you don't have a daughter, who will rub your back when you are old in the future?" Duan Xiaoyu smiled and said: "Daughter-in-law." "Mom listened to my Duan Xiaoyu's ridicule and sighed.