Chapter 432 International Friends 8

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Spring ran a few steps and reached out to hold Grandma Yang Jiachao's arm, and shouted "Grandma Yang" with a smile, the old man responded with a smile, and the wrinkles on his face also stretched, like a blooming chrysanthemum.

Yang Jiachao's grandmother is 70 years old this year, the old man is middle-aged and widowed, and she gritted her teeth to pull her son up, but because of the poverty of the family, she has not been able to marry her son a daughter-in-law. It wasn't until he was forty years old that Yang Jiachao's father married a childless woman in a neighboring village, and gave birth to Yang Jiachao after marriage. Originally, the life of the family was quite happy, although it was a little poor, but with the diligence of Yang Jiachao's father, the family could be regarded as having no worries about food and clothing, and life could still be passed.

But there were unforeseen circumstances, and Yang Jiachao's father was paralyzed because he was sick and was given the wrong injection by the barefoot doctor in the village. At that time, almost every village in the Toyama area had a barefoot doctor, and "barefoot doctor" was a term that began to appear in the middle of the "Cultural Revolution" in the 60s and 70s. The medical skills and level of these barefoot doctors are uneven, and some of them are so low that they can distinguish between cold medicine and diarrhea medicine, and it is these people, because of the cheap fees and convenient services, but they have become the main body of medical security for the rural people in the Hushan area, and most of the people in the village have a headache and brain fever without leaving the village, so they let the barefoot doctors in the village give treatment, in fact, the reason is that the people are afraid of spending money; in fact, they are not afraid of spending money, in the final analysis, it is because the people have no money in their pockets. As a result, medical malpractice caused by misdiagnosis and misjudgment by barefoot doctors is not uncommon. But at that time, these mountain people did not have the idea of "defending rights" and "asking for explanations and compensation" in their minds, and they could only consider themselves unlucky when this kind of thing happened, after all, other doctors did not do it intentionally.

After Yang Jiachao's father was paralyzed in bed, the Yang family's life was not easy, Yang Jiachao was still young, unable to do housework and farm work, and Yang Jiachao's grandmother was a "small-footed woman" and couldn't do heavy work, so the burden of the Yang family's life was on Yang Jiachao's mother. At the beginning, Yang Jiachao's mother gritted her teeth and insisted, hoping that Yang Jiachao's father would get better soon, but looking at Yang Jiachao's father, who was lying in bed and drinking decoction every day with severe muscle atrophy, Yang Jiachao's mother started to "retreat" in her heart. So, on a foggy morning, Yang Jiachao's mother quietly went out alone, and never came back, neither back to her parents' house, nor did anyone know her news, just like a stone sinking into the sea. It also responds to the two old sayings, "Halfway husband and wife don't come to the end", "Husband and wife are birds in the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster comes", which is really sighing when you think about it.

Fate is so tormenting, the hardships of life and the burden of family life once again pressed on Grandma Yang, a helpless old man, the old man gritted his teeth and once again provoked the livelihood of the Yang family, relying on the help of the village neighbors, the old man struggled to support to this day. When Yang Jiachao's mother left, Yang Jiachao was only three years old, ten years old, the old man was stunned and pulled Yang Jiachao to the present, in addition to doing farm work and housework, the old man also has to serve Yang Jiachao's father who is paralyzed in bed every day.

Fortunately, Yang Jiachao is a sensible and promising child, the embarrassment of the family did not make this poor child bow to the difficulties of life, Xiao Jiachao has helped her grandmother do housework since she was sensible, helped her father scrub her body, and took feces and urine... Moreover, since the first grade of primary school, Xiao Jiachao's academic performance has been very good, and he has been the first in the class in every exam, winning awards every year, and returning to be a good student. Suffering and misfortune have made Yang Jiachao more sensible than children of the same age since he was a child, and he knows that his learning opportunities are not easy to come by, so Yang Jiachao cherishes and works hard.

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Yang Jiachao's grandmother held Spring's hand and asked for warmth, and liked this kind and honest young man from the bottom of her heart. A few days ago in the spring, because of visiting the poor family, he came to the old man's house several times, and he has been pitiful to this broken family, and when he came a few times later, in addition to buying some snacks for Xiao Jiachao, he also took the initiative to help the old man do some housework within his ability, so he was deeply loved by the Yang family.

As he spoke, the people behind him rushed over, and the spring hurriedly introduced Grandma Yang to the two leaders of the Japanese delegation and several leaders accompanying her, and gave a general introduction to the situation of Grandma Yang's house, and these people warmly shook hands with Grandma Yang in turn. Grandma Yang was full of smiles, while stretching out her thin and rough hands to shake hands with these people, while constantly thanking them in her mouth, but the attitude of the old man was neither humble nor arrogant, people could not see a trace of humility on Grandma Yang's face, and the suffering of life and the experience of the years had made the old man look down on the gains and losses, and learned not to be shocked by honor and disgrace. The old man's gray hair and his shabby but cleanly washed blue shirt were particularly dazzling in the crowd of suits and leather shoes.

After greeting for a while, the group walked to Yang's house under the leadership of Grandma Yang, and Spring carefully supported Grandma Yang on the side. Although the Yang family is simple and shabby, it is very clean inside and out, and the chickens, ducks and geese raised in the yard are also raised in captivity, not free-range like other families, free-range will make the yard full of, so that the guests dare not get down; the three earthen walls and grass houses are low and dilapidated, and the wooden windows are pasted with white window paper, and there are a few red window flowers carefully cut out by Grandma Yang on the window paper, with big red blessing characters and dancing butterflies, revealing a sense of joy everywhere; the dust collected in the house is not clean, and even the walls of the house have been re-pasted with old newspapers, making the house look bright; and the placement of everything looks very orderlyIt can be seen that before these guests came, Grandma Yang had put a lot of effort into tidying up these three rooms.

The room in the east room is Grandma Yang's bedroom, and it is also the living room for receiving guests, the furnishings inside are very simple, a plate of clay kang, there is a kang table on the kang, against the north wall is an old three-drawer table, a set of tea sets are placed on it, and there are neat and tidy bedding stacked on the kang head, and there is nothing else; the middle room is the stove room, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, pots and pans, water tanks, noodle jars, etc. are placed in a neat and orderly manner, with a strong home atmosphere; the west room is the bedroom of Yang Jiachao and his father. The pale, but energetic middle-aged man, half lying on the clay kang and the lower half wrapped in a sheet, greeted the guests who entered the room with a cramped expression. Half of this room is an earthen kang, the other half is full of sundries, and the people who enter the room have invariably found two highlights of this room, one is that the wall facing the door is covered with various awards that Yang Jiachao has won over the years since kindergarten, and the flowers are plastered all over the wall, which is very eye-catching; the other highlight is that next to Yang Jiachao's father's pillow, there is a half-old semiconductor radio, which is the only household appliance found by the guests in Yang's house so far, and it is estimated that Grandma Yang bought it to relieve the boredom of her son who is paralyzed in bed。

It was the first time for the Yang family to receive so many guests, and there was no place at home to entertain and accommodate so many people, so after visiting the three earthen houses and thatched houses of the Yang family, the group came to the courtyard one after another, but the Yang family did not even have enough benches to sit on, so they had to let the two old men who led the Japanese delegation and Grandma Yang sit on the stools and talk, and the others squatted or stood around the three old people, listening to the conversation between them, and occasionally the accompanying officials interjected to explain a few words.

However, the young people of the Japanese delegation couldn't bear the loneliness, and they took pictures at Grandma Yang's house with their cameras, as if they were curious about everything, and occasionally chatted with each other and let out a few laughs of unknown meaning.

Obviously, Grandma Yang's "bound feet" little feet aroused the interest of these young Japanese, and they took advantage of the conversation between Grandma Yang and the Japanese old man to secretly take pictures, and Spring couldn't help frowning again.