Mother started cooking.

Chu Tianqi sat on the edge of the kang and looked at his father, who was still sleeping. Looking at this person who fell down the mountain in order to heal the wounds of a person he didn't know. looked at the man who gave the hemostatic ointment to his son, and because he lost too much blood, he walked around the ghost gate. Look at this man with more than 30 years of shrapnel hidden in his head and a lot of mystery on his body. Looking at a man who may not be related to him by blood, but he raised himself, taught himself martial arts, and even did not hesitate to exchange his life for his life.

The father lying on the kang has a ruddy complexion, his sword eyebrows are slightly raised, and his short haircut stands on end, looking no different from a healthy person. Looking at his father, Chu Tianqi remembered what happened when he was a child, and remembered the bits and pieces of the past.

For as long as Chu Tianqi can remember, his father has taught him martial arts. In order not to let others find out, the two of them always got up before dawn and went to an open field in the mountains and forests to practice, without wheels, wind and rain, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and persevered until they graduated from primary school. Since Chu Tianqi was in junior high school, the two of them could no longer be together every day as before, but Chu Yuliang still asked Chu Tianqi to insist on taking time out to practice at school every day, and on weekends, Chu Yuliang would also conduct inspections. is when he was in high school, college, and as a teacher, as long as Chu Tianqi came home, his father would definitely see the progress of his kung fu. From feeling hard at the beginning and feeling hated by my father, to slowly liking martial arts, and then to understanding my father's hard work. Kung Fu has become an important part of Chu Tianqi's life.

Chu Tianqi remembered a lot again, including being violently beaten by his father because he was naughty when he was a child, including his father's anger after he was targeted by others, including his father being covered in blood and gauze wrapped around his head, and being pushed into the intensive care unit. It also includes the emergency of blood storage in the hospital and the father's life hanging by a thread, including the father's repeated dangers during the hospitalization, including the father's vegetative state after being discharged from the hospital.

Father was certainly a man of fate, but at the same time a man of luck, a man of tenacious vitality. Although he is disabled on one foot, he is optimistic by nature, does not bow to fate, and has been engaged in life-saving work for many years. Despite the shrapnel in his head, he has survived to the present day, even when he was wounded in the head, the shrapnel did not kill him, and he managed to get the shrapnel out.

The shrapnel has been removed, Chu Lirui's blood has been supplied in time, and he is out of danger and out of the intensive care unit, but he still has not woken up. And that's not even counting the very rare case of 'transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease' that found my father. My father was indeed fated, and at this time, I just caught up with Vice President Gao's mentor, the medical authority Hua Shi'an, and Hua Lao's inspection team pulled my father back from the brink of danger. After that, my father remained in a coma until last year's Chinese New Year's Eve, when my father, who had been in a coma for more than a hundred days, woke up. Counting the days, it has been a whole year until today, and although the recovery has been slow throughout the year, my father has indeed seen better and better day by day.

As the saying goes, "If you don't die in a great disaster, you will have a blessing in the future". People who have done a lot of good things like their father, and who have never died, will definitely have endless blessings. Chu Tianqi once again made up his mind in his heart: he must make his parents happier in the future.

……

The father woke up and found Chu Tianqi sitting on the edge of the kang, he gently touched his son with his hand and said, "I'm back!"

Chu Tianqi came back from his contemplation and said with a smile, "Dad, I'm back." Do you want to get up?" and he put his hand on his father.

Chu Yuliang waved his hand and said, "Tianqi, I'll come by myself." As he spoke, he grabbed the steel pipe on the wall with his right hand, and then, with his left hand, he pressed on the kang and half-sat up. He did the same, three times in a row, and the man was already sitting there against the wall.

"Dad, you have been able to get up on your own?When did it happen?How did this steel pipe come from?" Chu Tianqi happily grabbed his father's shoulder and asked.

Chu Yuliang smiled: "Just last week." Recently, when I get up, it's either your * mother who gets me up, or your sister or your brother who gets it, and they have to work hard. Later, I had to pull them by the arm or pull them on the shoulders to get up. A few days ago, I felt that my arms were much stronger, and my waist could be strengthened, so I tried to get up on my own, but it always fell short, and I sighed that it would be nice to have a catch. Your brother heard this, no, last week he bought a steel pipe and found someone to weld it here. At that time, it took a lot of work and a way to weld it, or our walls couldn't be welded at all. ”

Chu Tianqi suddenly felt a little guilty, he had too little time at home, usually his mother and younger brother took care of his father, and when he was just discharged from the hospital, his sister was directly at home to accompany him for several months. Every time I come back this year, I can see my father gradually recovering, and I am very happy from the bottom of my heart. As everyone knows, every time I leave home for two or three weeks, or even longer, it is other members of the family who accompany my father, and my father only gets better day by day.

Chu Yuliang understood his son's thoughts from Chu Tianqi's expression, he raised his left hand, stroked his hair, and said: "Tianqi, since ancient times, 'loyalty and filial piety cannot be both', there must be a trade-off. Now is a time of peace, and ordinary people often do not need to make this either/or choice, but they also need to be focused. You are a government worker, and your first task is to do state official duties, and the second is to take care of your family.

When it comes to loyalty, we must do things in a down-to-earth manner for the party, the country, and the people. As a public servant, as long as you serve the people wholeheartedly and do things for the people, you are actually sharing worries for the party and doing things for the country. In the past two years since you came to the township, you have found a way to get rich for the people, solved the people's immediate difficulties, solved the practical problems for the township, and shared the worries for the county. Including your courage to fight drug criminals and assist in the capture of drug traffickers, it is also a form of loyalty to the country.

In terms of filial piety, you have done a good job, and you started working and studying while you were in college to reduce the burden on your family as much as possible. As a teacher in the city, you subsidize more than half of your money to supplement your family, but you save money yourself. Since you came to work in the township, in addition to leaving some cigarette money, you have a pitiful amount of pocket money, and the rest is used at home. For the sake of me and your mother's illness, you are looking for doctors everywhere, thinking about the law to change the medicine, even for your sister and brother, and you have no less to worry about.

It can be said that you have fulfilled both loyalty and filial piety, and you should feel calm, not apprehensive. You are only a township cadre now, and you will definitely work in the county in the future, and you may have to go further. At that time, you were less likely to come back here often because of the distance and tight working hours. A lot of people are like that, and you don't have to worry about it. As long as you do practical and good things for the people, it is the greatest filial piety to us.

Do you know? Now in Liulinbao Village, in Qingniuyu Township, everyone who sees me says that I have raised a good son. said that my son is a good official who does practical things for the people and is an excellent public servant. Whenever your mother and I hear this, our hearts are extremely proud, extremely happy, and extremely comfortable. Isn't the purpose of filial piety just to make us feel comfortable? Therefore, as long as you do practical things for the people, you will be loyal, and your mother and I will be spiritually satisfied, and you will also fulfill your filial piety. Isn't this the best way to achieve both loyalty and filial piety? Loyalty is filial piety. ”

Chu Yuliang said as he stroked his son's hair with his left hand, which made Chu Tianqi find the feeling of childhood, and a warm current surged into his heart. Being praised in person, and being his father, made Chu Tianqi very embarrassed, and always felt that there was some suspicion that Lao Wang was selling melons - selling himself and boasting.

"Uncle. With the soft and crisp child's voice, the niece Niuniu ran in, came to the edge of the kang at once, grabbed Chu Tianqi's arm and shook it.

"Niuniu has grown so tall, let my uncle take a look. With that, Chu Tianqi got down to the ground, held Niuniu in his arms, and held it in the air.

Niu Niu "giggled" and shouted: "Higher, higher." ”

As soon as the door curtain was lifted, my sister Chu Lijuan walked in and said, "Niuniu, come down, my uncle is tired." ”

"No, no! Niuniu said, holding Chu Tianqi's arm tightly and refusing to come down.

"Sister, it's okay. Did you just come back?" Chu Tianqi said as he continued to hold Niu Niu.

"Lirui just went to pick it up, and Dad was worried about us and let us come together for the New Year. Chu Lijuan said, tears flashing in her eyes. I had already walked quickly to the edge of the kang and sat down beside my father.

"Oh mom, you two are leaving, but I have to carry a big bag. Chu Lirui said as he entered the room, his two hands full of large and small bags and bags. He put the things in his hand on the kang and kept shaking his arms, looking like he was strangulated.

"Lirui, how do you pick up the eldest sister?" Chu Tianqi asked.

"The second pillar drove a tricycle. Chu Lirui replied.

"Uncle, don't speak, lift me, lift me. Niuniu was urging Chu Tianqi to lift her up high.

"Okay!" Chu Tianqi replied, lifting Niuniu up again.

Niu Niu "giggled" again.

……

The dinner was very lively, and the more people there were, the more popular it was, especially the "performances" of Chu Yuliang and Niuniu, the old and the young, and the whole meal ended in its happy atmosphere.

At night, Chu Yuliang, Chu Tianqi, Chu Lirui, father and son slept in the West House.

Chu Tianqi and Chu Lirui talked a lot about trivial matters at home.

Chu Yuliang didn't speak, just lay there and listened quietly, and soon snored.

Through Chu Lirui's narration, Chu Tianqi knew why he only brought his sister back today. It turned out that a few days ago, my sister Chu Lijuan's husband asked people from the same village to bring back 3,000 yuan to Chu Lijuan, which is too rare. The "Ergou Oil" that my sister married has been out for a few years, and I usually don't want to get money back, but I don't even have a letter, but I brought back the money this time, and the sun really came out of the west. This made Chu Lijuan excited for several days and cried several times, she firmly believed that the negative person remembered the two of them and would come back for the New Year this year. So, she kept waiting, but she didn't wait until today, so she had to go back to her parents' house for the New Year.

The younger brother soon fell asleep as well.

Chu Tianqi thought of what his father said again: loyalty is filial piety. I can't help but think about it, I feel a lot of emotion, and I can't sleep for a long time.