Chapter 42: Family Reunion
May Day is coming, Xia Wei received a call from Qinqin: "Mom, I may not come back during the May Day holiday, Xiaorui is going to bring her son over to play, I want to have a good time with her." ”
"Okay, it's rare for Xiaorui to come, you have to have fun."
"Okay."
Xia Wei put down the phone, and her mind was full of the scenes of Qinqin and Xiaorui when they were children.
That year, Xia Wei was excited with the admission letter of the health school, but when she remembered that her daughter Qinqin was still so young, she had just been weaned, and she was going to go to school in other places far away from home, what should she do with Qinqin? Who will take it? Xia Wei suddenly remembered her grandmother, she returned to her parents' house, and told her about being admitted to the health school and the fact that no one was taking Qinqin, and her grandmother said excitedly: "This is great, from now on you will be the one who eats the country's food, and you will no longer have a rural hukou, Qinqin will let me here, and I will bring it." ”
Xia Wei said with some confusion: "Obviously they don't have Xiaorui, how can you bring it?" ”
"What's this, your brother and sister-in-law are not in a hurry to go to work, you can bring it yourself, and I will change hands for them when the farm is busy."
"I sent Qinqin over, are they okay? Don't embarrass yourself for good. ”
"What do you say, they have no right to interfere with me, you can rest assured that you can send Qinqin here, besides, with Qinqin and Xiaorui together, they will all have a companion, and it is more convenient to bring it up."
Since then, Qinqin has been put in his mother's house and taken care of by his grandmother, and Qinqin has always gotten along well with Xiaorui.
That summer, Xia Wei returned to her parents' house, Qinqin and Yingzi were playing outside, and heard the old lady shouting: "Qinqin, your mother is back, come back quickly." ”
When Qinqin and Xiaorui heard the old lady say that their mother was back, they were so happy that they jumped in front of Xia Wei, and Qinqin threw herself into her mother's arms: "Mom, I miss you so much!" ”
"Mom misses you too!" Xia Wei picked up Qinqin and patted her back gently, kissing her red little face.
"Auntie, I miss you too!" Xia Wei found that Xiaorui was also standing in front of her, she quickly put down her diligence, bent down and hugged one with one hand, kissing her left and kissing her right, "Xiaorui, my aunt misses you too." Then he put down the two sisters and took out some candy from his bag: "Come, take it and eat it, you must be united and fraternal, and you can't bully your sister diligently." ”
Qinqin took the candy handed over by his mother and said, "Yes, my wife has told me." ”
When Xiaorui heard this, she hurriedly complained: "Auntie, my wife is eccentric, she likes diligence and doesn't like me." ”
Xia Wei was shocked: "How can it be, you must have misunderstood the old lady." ”
"You little girl, always eat my sister's vinegar, although she is a few months younger than Qinqin, she always makes Qinqin cry, Qinqin is very honest, I don't dare to beat her, so I came over and told me, I asked Xiaorui not to always bully Qinqin, I said, Qinqin's parents are not around, Mrs. should care more about her, you have the love of your parents, don't fight with her. This little girl still remembers it in her heart. ”
"Oh, that's the case, don't always go to your wife to complain in the future, you have to deal with your own affairs, do you reason with your sister, my sister will definitely listen." As he spoke, he turned his eyes to Xiaorui and continued: "Xiaorui, did you say it?" ”
Xiaorui happily ate the candy, muttered and said, "That's it, if my sister doesn't sue, I will be obedient and not beat you." ”
"If you don't beat me, I won't sue." Qinqin looked a little aggrieved.
"Alright, alright, that's it. Well, let's have fun. ”
The two little ones ran away with a smoke.
Xia Wei thought that the two sisters would not come back on May Day, and they were trying to arrange some activities. On May 2, Qinqin and Xiaorui ended their trip to the city and returned home.
At noon and evening, they had a reunion dinner at her mother's house, and Xia Wei was really happy to see that the two former little sisters had grown up now.
Qinqin and her husband love each other, although they don't have much money, but they live a very nourishing life, romantic and chic, perhaps the biggest flaw is that they don't have children.
Xiaorui is different, in everyone's words, her husband is the fifth diamond king, with money, a car, a house, and a son, but he just feels unhappy, and the two often talk about divorce. She said that when she looked at her husband now, she felt that she was living with strangers, without the vigor of young people, let alone the language of mutual communication, and she felt very confused about marriage.
Xia Wei knew that all this came from Xiaorui's mentality, so she found an opportunity to say to her: "Xiaorui, since you have chosen such a marriage, don't regret it, regret is a very painful thing, you must face up to your marriage, cherish everything in front of you, the two must communicate well, you must say something you have to say, don't always keep it in your heart, this is not good for health, and it is not conducive to the harmony between husband and wife." ”
"Well, okay, I remembered, thank you, aunt!" Xiaorui said to Xia Wei very politely.
Xia Wei knew that Xiaorui said so, but this hurdle in her heart had not passed, and she wanted to remind her if she seized the opportunity in the future.
The May Day holiday passed quickly, and Qinqin and Xiaorui both returned to their respective jobs one after another, and the short reunion left people with good memories. Separation is always inevitable, children are older, like birds leaving the nest, they want to spread their wings and fly, fly to the vast sky, to find their own blue sky.
After the two sisters left, Xia Wei had another day off, she slept until she woke up naturally, and after finishing her housework, she received a call from her mother, telling her that she had something to do when she went out, and her father twisted her waist and couldn't move, so she asked her to help her father make lunch early, Xia Wei didn't dare to delay and went straight to her father.
When Xia Wei knocked on her father's door, she saw her father bending over to open the door with one hand and supporting her waist with the other, Xia Wei hurriedly asked, "Big, what's wrong?" ”
Dad said bitterly: "I sprained my back yesterday, and it hurts to turn over when I sleep at night." ”
Seeing this, Xia Wei hurriedly said, "I'll help you do a massage." After saying that, she helped her father to sit on the chair, only to see her father look at her suspiciously, and she said, "Sit down, let me try." ”
Dad sat on the chair obediently, Xia Wei helped Dad do a reincarnation of waist massage, judging from the feel should be better, she asked Dad to get up and move to see the effect, only to see Dad stand up straight, and can bend over to move, Dad smiled and looked at Xia Wei and asked suspiciously: "Where did you learn the massage technique, it's amazing, it doesn't hurt anymore, it doesn't hurt at all!" Xia Wei didn't dare to be careless, and helped him do a second round of massage, and his father said that the symptoms of discomfort were gone. Xia Wei said, "Dad, you rest and I'll make lunch." ”
Dad promised, "Okay, I'll be happy." "I just sat down on the couch and watched TV.
When Xia Wei was busy with lunch, her father, who couldn't be idle, carried a bucket of water to the flower bed downstairs to water the flowers. When my mother came back, I was also blindsided when I saw that my father was doing housework so flexibly again. Xia Wei told her mother about the treatment process for her father, and after listening to Xia Wei's words, her mother also clamored for Xia Wei to help her with a leg massage, and she said that she had leg pain. Xia Wei happily agreed, saying, "Hehe, there is something to do in the future." ”
Mom and Dad laughed, and Xia Wei laughed too.
Xia Wei looked at her father's rickety back and remembered a past.
One day in the mid-seventies, Xia Wei was digging earthworms in the grove in her yard to feed the ducks, when she suddenly heard the postman shouting: "Dr. Yao's family has a letter, come and get it." ”
Xia Wei immediately stopped and ran to the postman: "Give it to me, Dr. Yao is my father." The postman looked at her: "Oh, it looks pretty alike, give." ”
Xia Wei took the letter and handed it to her father, who was taking the patient's temperature, and the father took the letter and read it in front of the patient and the whole family: "Dear fourth brother, hello! First of all, I wish you and your whole family good health and all the best! Your second brother passed away due to illness......" Reading this, Dad's tone was no longer so peaceful, and suddenly, he cried and couldn't read anymore.
Grandparents, grandmothers and mothers were stunned by this sudden bad news, everyone was immersed in grief, after a long time, grandpa said to parents: "You two hurry up and prepare, go to northern Jiangsu tomorrow to see, they still have two underage children, if they agree, find a way to take care of your second sister-in-law and children." After a pause, my grandfather continued: "Northern Jiangsu is so bitter, and no one else can take care of them, so it can only be like this." ”
Mom and Dad took their luggage from southern Jiangsu to their father's hometown in northern Jiangsu the next day.
Actually, my father was the most anxious, he was assigned to Jiangnan after graduating from school, and then he was photographed by Xia Wei's grandparents and became the son-in-law of his only daughter. gave birth to Xia Wei and several of their children, because their father was a rich peasant component, and several children took their mother's surname. Since having this group of children, coupled with the busyness of work, my father has not had the opportunity to return to his hometown in northern Jiangsu.
When my parents returned to southern Jiangsu, they were already a group, and my parents really took my second mother and two younger siblings over. Then, their parents began to help them move their household registration, find a house, and finally settle in the production team where their grandparents worked.
There are exactly two empty thatched houses in the team, this house was originally lived by the old man who Xia Wei's family has been taking care of, and the house has been empty since the old man died.
My parents gave some of the furniture at home to the second mother for their use, such as the table, bench and bed, which were given to them by my parents. At that time, there were four people in Xia Wei's family going to school, and the economic conditions were not good, so they could only temporarily distribute some food and oil to them to solve the problem of food and clothing first. Later, within a few years, the second mother also died of illness, and the two younger siblings also became adults one after another, and they could live by labor.
Dad kept saying to Xia Wei: "Your second father is kind to me, in order to let me and your uncle study, my grandfather asked my second father to give up going to school and work with my grandfather to support the family. Your grandfather said that I was frail and sickly since I was a child, and I had no choice but to go to school. Now that your second father is gone, we must raise his children to adulthood, and we must repay our kindness. Every time she said this, her father would have tears in her eyes, Xia Wei knew her father's intentions, and she understood his heart even more.
Later, Xia Wei worked and got married, in addition to work, there is farmland at home, and it is also catching up with the reform and opening up, due to the high price of ramie in the countryside, there is also an income of nearly 10,000 yuan from selling hemp every year. Xia Wei took out some money to help her younger brothers buy agricultural vehicles, so that her younger brother and her second father's younger brother could run agricultural transportation together.
Now, the younger brothers are better, and the two younger siblings of the second father's family have their own happy families. Looking at their happy life, Dad was also relieved.
Xia Wei massaged her father for several days, and her father's back pain was completely cured. At this moment, she wanted to write a poem for her father, and then she wrote in her notebook:
I thought my dad was forever upright
When I see you hunched over
Suddenly it feels like you're getting old, and you're no longer so upright
When I knew your old back pain was happening again
The heart is as uncomfortable as a knife
I want to heal your back pain with the most sincere love
I went online to check the relevant massage videos
Memorize each acupuncture point
Insist on getting a massage every day
Is it my insistence or your cooperation
Your back pain is finally getting better
Watching you and your mom go for a walk and chat with you, go to the vegetable market and do housework
I laughed
Dad, you know what
With your health, there will be joy for your children
With your company, mom won't be alone
So, you want to be healthy, happy, and safe