Chapter 252, Hidden Pain
When I was a child, the village began to attach importance to education, but the children still went to school late, it was a night in 1987, although I don't remember the day of the month, but Chen Shu remembers very clearly that the wheat had already appeared at that time, but it had not yet bloomed.
When I fell asleep in the middle of the night, I heard someone smashing the door of the house, and someone shouting my mother's name. Neither he nor his brother had any clothes on, so my mother hurriedly got dressed and ran out.
However, it was indeed my mother's cry that I heard, and neither I nor my brother knew what was going on, hiding under the covers and watching the villagers pouring into the house.
Soon I found that my father was carried into the house by several people from the same village and placed on the big kang at home, and my father's legs and body were wrapped in bandages. Although I don't know what happened, it's definitely not a good thing.
Dad's eyes were tightly closed, tears from the corners of his eyes dripped on the clothes pillow under his head, several people who went out to work in the same village left one after another, and the remaining two principals called their mother to grandpa's house price.
After a while, the uncle, the aunt and the eldest brother of the uncle's family all came over, and the father who was guarding the kang sat down, and the eyes of the uncle and the aunt were red. At that time, Chen Shu didn't know what was going on, and later learned that he must have cried outside.
Later, when Chen Shu came back from school, he would see his father lying on the kang, and he had to be taken care of by his mother when he ate and drank Lazar, that is, from that time on, the elder brother began to slowly learn to cook.
Two months later, when my father was finally able to sit up, Chen Shu and his brother pushed the wheelchair that the villagers had helped buy to let my father go to the courtyard to cool off.
Since then, my father has rarely spoken, and my mother has become silent, and when there is work in the field, he and his brother go with him, that is, at that time, Chen Shu also understood how difficult it is for an eight-year-old child to dig the ground with a shovel, but his brother and himself can only insist on it.
"I heard that Chen Baoguo came back for a re-examination, and the doctor said that his waist and legs can be recovered, but he will not be able to do heavy work in the future. What a pity you say, how could such a good person have an accident, and the two children are still so young. ”
"Who said it wasn't? The man in our family said that the construction site boss was quite picky, so he gave 30,000 yuan, which I heard was only enough for medical expenses. If you continue to be treated, even the medical expenses will not be enough!"
"Li Chunfang's life is hard enough, if it doesn't come out of this situation, life is very good, definitely better than us, how can I think it will become like this......" All kinds of discussions and sighs filled Chen Shu's young heart.
It is definitely not big to say that Da Chen Shu is definitely not big, but he definitely understands what it means, and he never thought that it would be such a result, and this is the first time he has heard people talk about his father's situation.
When his mother went to work in the fields, Chen Shu and his brother were on their way to school after eating, and Chen Shu grabbed his brother's clothes.
"What's wrong Chen Shu?" asked Chen Qiang.
"Brother, I heard them say that Dad won't be able to work in the future, what should we do?" said as he spoke, tears flowed down his eyes.
"Who said that, I'll go to him!" Chen Qiang was annoyed when he heard the news, in fact, after his father had an accident, his mother told Chen Qiang that he must be strong as an elder brother and take care of his younger brother.
"Woo woo......" Chen Shu just cried, and didn't say who he listened to.
"Don't cry, we still have to go to class! The day before yesterday, we didn't still help my mother water the ground, in a few years we will grow up, our father can't do the work, we can do it, don't think about it." After speaking, he wiped the tears on Chen Shu's face with his sleeve, and took his younger brother's hand and walked to the primary school in the north of the village.
Fortunately, after half a year, although my father can't take care of himself, his lower body has all regained consciousness, but he still can't move. When she was fine, she slowly pinched her legs and feet with her hands to prevent muscle atrophy caused by long-term inactivity.
When Chen Qiang was in the fifth grade, he left home for the first time to fork the billets in the village brick factory, and he used a small steel fork to fork and stack the wet adobe produced from the brick making machine one by one, and his mother used the family's flatbed truck to pull it, and when Chen Shu reached the fourth grade, he also joined the ranks.
The three of them sweated all day, and they could only earn twenty-five yuan in income and a free lunch. When the family went out, the father was taken care of by the grandfather of the family.
I remember when my father stood up again, the family was so happy that they didn't know what to say, especially when my mother hugged my father and cried for a long time.
Grandpa even bought a pound of meat with his military pension, and the whole family ate a dumpling, which was also the meal that Chen Shu remembered the most, mainly from that day on, Dad stood up again.
Since they were in junior high school, Chen Shu and his brother didn't know what the summer vacation was like, and almost all of them spent it on part-time jobs, and when they both went to high school at the same time, they couldn't afford such high tuition. Both parents were reluctant to let either of them drop out of school, mainly because the two sons had very good academic performance.
In the end, my brother chose to give in, dropped out of school after the high school entrance examination, and did not even take the college entrance examination. Later, after Chen Shu went to college, he asked his brother why he would drop out after not taking the college entrance examination.
"I'm worried that I'll get good grades, I'm worried that I won't be able to apply for volunteering when the time comes, and I'm worried that I'll be able to resist the idea of going to university. Chen Shu cried on the spot, hugging his brother and crying very sadly, why didn't he give up so much for himself before his brother.
In addition to the tuition fee for the first semester, which was earned by his brother and him on the construction site, Chen Shu later worked part-time as a tutor, not only earned enough tuition, but also bought a lot of things for his parents and grandfather during the New Year's holidays.
In the past four years of college, the money earned by my brother from the construction site rebuilt a house at home for marriage, in fact, when Chen Shu went to college, the family had already survived.
Except for the occasional pain in the sudden change in the weather, my father's body did not leave any root cause, which is also the most fortunate thing for the family.
When I thought about it, tears flowed down the corners of my eyes, and Wang Mengfei, who was holding in her arms, saw it clearly, and stretched out her little hand to help Chen Shu wipe away the tears.
"Dad, what's wrong with you? Did Xiaofei make you angry? Or is Xiaofei's windmill bad?" Wang Mengfei had a frightened expression, and tears seemed to be about to gush out.
"No! Xiaofei is the most well-behaved, Dad is not angry with Xiaofei, Dad thought of something!" After speaking, he blew on the wheels of the windmill, and the small drum made of plastic bottle caps clicked.
The windmills in Xiaofei's hands are made of plastic colored paper, which is stronger and more gorgeous than Chen Shu's at that time, and a simple small wooden figure is also added, accompanied by the rotation of the windmill, and has been doing the action of bowing and shaking, which looks more eye-catching.
It seemed that Wang Zilan also heard Xiaofei's words, and came out of the house to look at Chen Shu, "What's wrong?"
"It's okay! I see the windmill and remember what happened when I was a child, what about my parents?" asked Chen Shu.
"I took Menghan downstairs to play. As soon as the two finished speaking, they heard someone knocking on the door, and Chen Shu thought that his parents were back, so they hurriedly went to open the door.
However, I saw that it was not my parents, but the neighbor downstairs, who was about the same age as my parents, and at the same time led a little girl who was about the same age as Wang Mengfei.
"Hello, may I ask your old man, is it your parents? Are they at home?" the other person asked.
"I'm not at home, I'm going downstairs to play, what's the matter, Auntie? I'll tell them when I come back." Chen Shu said, although he may not know what the other party's name is, he is still very familiar with taking an elevator often.
"We are downstairs in your house, and the child saw the windmill that your child was carrying, and kept asking me to buy it. But I went around a lot of places and didn't sell them, so I just wanted to ask where I bought them?"
"Sit in the house! I guess my parents will be back in a while, this is not a purchase, it should be made by my father himself. Chen Shu said.
"It's my dad who did it, let's sit in the house for a while!" Wang Zilan said affirmatively, the other party hesitated for a moment and walked in, for the sake of the child, he could only ask to see if the other party could make one for his own child.
At this time, their granddaughter had been staring at the windmill in Wang Mengfei's hand, Chen Shu smiled secretly in his heart but couldn't say anything, so he could only wait for his father to come back and ask to see if he could make a few more. Just because they can't find the sorghum stalks doesn't mean they can't find them, and it's not a problem for them at all.
What's more, everyone has a car, and it doesn't take much time to retrieve a few sorghum stalks from outside. When my mother carried the sleeping Chen Menghan into the house, she found that a neighbor had come to visit the door.
Because I take the children downstairs every day, I am very familiar with the old people with children in the community, and I didn't expect the other party to come to the door, after all, there are very few people, of course, the main ones are their elderly.
"I also said why didn't I see you downstairs, when did you come over?" The mother handed the child to Chen Shu and sat down on the sofa with the father.
"When I go home, our children want a windmill, and I saw the windmill that your Xiaofei is holding. Her father drove around several places, none of which were like yours, and her granddaughter said she didn't want anything, so she couldn't go to your house and ask where she bought it. Only then did I know that you did it yourself, so I don't wait for you to come back and see if you can make one for our family. ”
"Well, I'm afraid that the children will break it, so I made a lot of semi-finished products, just to wait for the children to break it and repair it." Xiaofei: Would you like to give your windmill to the young lady, and grandpa will make you a new one later. Dad looked at Wang Mengfei and said.
"Okay!" Although he was a little reluctant, he hesitated and decided to send the windmill out, after all, Grandpa said to make a new one. I've been playing this for a day, but I can play a new one.
Seeing that Wang Mengfei agreed so happily, her father also laughed, and Wang Zilan and Chen Shu didn't say anything, knowing that humility is a good thing.
Fortunately, I finished writing it and changed it a few times! I'm sorry everyone!
(End of chapter)