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Talk about the past, passionate years, talk about dedication, and be selfless from the bottom of your heart

Visiting relatives is the custom of the Spring Festival, a hard and busy year, and leading lovers and children to visit the elders during the New Year is also in line with the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. However, Ling Feng didn't like this etiquette very much, because in the process of visiting relatives, the elders would warmly entertain the younger ones, and if the younger generations brought their children, they would also give the children New Year's money, and the originally good etiquette of respecting the elderly has evolved into a gnawing etiquette.

As a junior, you will not lose at all, and the cost of visiting your elders to buy gifts has long been wiped out by the seniors' New Year's money for your children, and there will even be a surplus. In addition, the family of three eats and drinks, what a happiness! If there are many relatives, it is possible to not fire at home from the first to the fifth day of the new year.

On the other hand, the elders have also been busy and hard for a year, and during the New Year, chickens, ducks, fish, meat, vegetables, and fruits are indispensable. When your own children are treated by relatives, you must not run errands. Grit your teeth and work hard for a few more days, as long as the children are happy, everything will be fine.

Ling Feng's ancestral home is Shandong, there are five sisters on his father's side, and four people come to Mudanjiang City in the east. Later, her mother took her sister over and arranged the marriage for her. There are more than 20 cousins and cousins in Ling Feng's generation, married and have children, and the family is prosperous. In Ling Feng's memory, from childhood to now, he has not eaten a decent Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve, and the New Year goods in the backyard and vegetable cellar are prepared for his cousins who came to pay New Year's greetings. The third uncle and uncle who have quite brains have already set the second and third days of junior high school as the day for their families to entertain the younger generations, the eldest aunt is old, and the younger generations only go to visit and will not stay for dinner, and now only Ling Feng's family is left, and they are still ready to open the banquet.

Ling Feng's eldest sister-in-law was two years younger than her aunt, and she was the first in the family to get out of poverty in her hometown in Shandong and come to Mudanjiang City to join a cousin. A year later, Ling Feng's uncle accompanied his sister to find his brother-in-law, carrying pancakes and pickles along the railway line for three months. found the eldest uncle, and the uncle also stayed, and later the rest of the family came to Mudanjiang City one after another......

"Hurry up and eat, and after eating, go to your aunt to pay New Year's greetings. As soon as Ling Feng arrived home in the morning, his mother took out the prepared gifts and urged.

"Mom, I see. Ling Feng agreed to brush his teeth.

In previous years, during the Spring Festival, Ling Feng could hide from his relatives, anyway, he was not married yet, so he left his relatives to his brothers and sisters. Visiting the elders after getting married is the etiquette of this small family, and visiting the elders without getting married is more on behalf of the parents.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, the eldest uncle came to Ling Feng's house and sent 5,000 yuan. The first is to express condolences to Ling Feng's eldest sister, and the second is that the New Year is approaching, sending some warmth to Ling Feng's parents who have not received their pensions for a long time. ”

"Your aunt will keep you for dinner, don't agree. Ling Feng knew that he couldn't shirk this year, and his mother was still telling him when he went out.

"Aunt, Happy New Year! Uncle, Happy New Year!" Ling Feng arrived at his aunt's house, and hurriedly saluted the New Year as soon as he entered the door.

"Okay, come into the house, our Xiaofeng has grown into a young man. "The old man who is past his prime, loves the younger generation.

"Eat fruit, eat sugar. The eldest uncle hurriedly stuffed oranges and toffee into Ling Feng's hands.

With great affection, Ling Feng picked up a piece of toffee and put it in his mouth.

"Your father, bad luck, hard work for most of his life, old and old, pension arrears, it is better to stay in school. "Nagging is probably a common problem among the elderly.

"Aunt, are you saying that my dad was also a teacher?" Ling Feng had some questions.

"Isn't it, when your father first came to Mudanjiang City, he worked in the logistics of Xinhua Primary School, and he didn't work for long, but he wanted to enter the factory, and if he retired from school, he would be in arrears of wages. The aunt gave a general overview of the situation, and Ling Feng was dumbfounded when she heard it.

"Your dad has no culture and low self-esteem, he feels that he can't give full play to his strengths in school and can't contribute to the country. Brother-in-law's words allowed Ling Feng to solve the mystery of his father's departure from school.

"My younger brother, it's good to do anything, but he is uneducated and suffers. The aunt muttered and walked out of the house.

"Your father was called a glorious, city model worker, and a big photo of wearing saffron was posted on the propaganda board of the Cultural Square. ”

My uncle paused, then looked back on the age of passion. Ling Feng listened quietly, and a fiery picture appeared in his mind.

The workers dressed monotonously and plainly, shouting slogans to catch up with me, sparing no effort to carry out production and construction, and dedicating their youth without complaint. It was an era of advocating labor and respecting model workers, and the propaganda board on the cultural square gathered a group of people every day, and people rushed to read the advanced deeds of the model workers, and everyone's eyes were full of bright light......

"Xiaofeng, you drink this, this is the drink that your eldest cousin brought back from outside. The aunt walked in from outside the house with a bottle of drink.

"Aunt, don't be busy, I just want to talk to the second elder for a while. Ling Feng hurriedly helped his aunt sit down.

"When it comes to your father being a model worker, others see the glory on the surface, but who looks at the bitterness behind it!" As soon as the aunt sat down, she sighed on the topic of her uncle.

"That year, I went to the Cultural Square with your aunt to see your father's glorious photo, and your aunt burst into tears as soon as she saw the photo, and she couldn't stop chattering, how much sweat should this have been paid for!" Uncle's words made Ling Feng's heart move.

"No, how can you get more than others if you don't pay more? Your dad's silicosis is the best proof of this. ”

Hearing his aunt mention his father's silicosis, Ling Feng's heart was sour. My father worked in the ceramic factory all his life, from an ordinary worker to a team leader, to a workshop director, a party branch secretary, and finally to the chairman of the trade union. Whether a ceramic factory produces plates, bowls, or ceramic tiles, there is dust in many processes. As a result, workers suffer from silicosis in large numbers. During a physical examination of all factory workers before his father's retirement, there were more than 260 people with the first phase of silicosis, 21 people with the second stage of silicosis, and seven people with the third stage of silicosis, and Ling Feng's father was among the seven people.

How many times Ling Feng woke up in the middle of the night, he would see his father sitting there panting. Once there was a fever or cold, my father couldn't lie down all night, so he could only sit in the kang and lean against the wall to nap. Ling Feng once asked his father, and he didn't regret working so hard when he was young. My father touched Ling Feng's head and said earnestly: "Do you still remember the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam in '79 and the Daxinganling fire in '87?" The father paused to take a few breaths, and then said: "Compared with the soldiers and firefighters, this is nothing, why do they shed blood and sacrifice? Only when the peasants grow grain well, the workers do a good job in production, the teachers teach well, the doctors cure the sick, and all walks of life do their own work well, can the country become rich and strong, and the individual can embody the value of life." ”

My father did not regret what he had done when he was young, because it was something he thought was worthwhile, and it was his duty. The factory is small, but it is part of the country. How can we regret dedicating ourselves wholeheartedly to the factory, that is, dedicating ourselves wholeheartedly to the country, and going to great lengths for the country? There is a clan character in my father's name, and the more traditional father simply changed the clan in the family tree to loyal loyalty, which shows my father's loyalty to the motherland.

Ling Feng understood his father and the patriotic feelings of his father's generation, but whenever he thought of his father sitting and panting when he couldn't sleep, his heart was always not good.

Ling Feng didn't dare to chat with his aunt and uncle anymore, for fear that tears would flow out of his eyes if he continued to talk.

Saying goodbye to his aunt and uncle, Ling Feng walked aimlessly, still thinking about the words of his aunt and uncle in his mind. As he was walking, Ling Feng felt a slight coolness on his face, and it turned out that at some point, fine snow began to fall in the sky. Gazing at the fine snow, Ling Feng suddenly realized that a snowflake was insignificant, but thousands of snowflakes could make the mountains and rivers pure and flawless.