On Wednesday afternoon, the weather was hot and stuffy. I was startled when I received a call from my wife suddenly. On the phone, his wife cried heartbreakingly and slurred words. It took a long time to understand that my father-in-law had died.

The old man has been paralyzed in bed for more than a year, which is caused by a severe cerebral infarction. His four sons and daughters took turns serving day and night, and they were extremely filial. The old man walked peacefully, still with kind eyes, as if he was asleep, but he no longer snored earth-shatteringly.

The life of my father-in-law is full of legends. The first time I saw him, I felt that this person was upright, and with a burly figure, he should be from the army. I can't help but beat a little drum in my heart: if I have a conflict with my wife after marriage, will he beat me? I don't think I can beat him, so I'll still be a man with my tail between my legs in the future, and be careful.

The most impressive thing on his father-in-law's face is his thick and slender eyebrows, a bit like the Taishang Laojun or the birthday guy in the cartoon. He has a kind personality and often jokes with us when he gets acquainted. My brother-in-law sells mutton, and he gave him a Japanese nickname: Akikura Wonko (recruiting flies), and I was not spared, and my Japanese name is better understood: lack of heart and eyes.

My father-in-law grew up in a poor family and had many brothers and sisters (in those days, fertility should have been encouraged, right?). The more you give birth, the more heroic mothers you are).

The father-in-law is the eldest in the family, and there are three younger brothers and four younger sisters. Whenever my father-in-law talked about his studies, his eyes always narrowed slightly and he sighed. At that time, he had to walk dozens of miles to school, gnaw on some dry nests, and drink a few sips of cold water to barely fill his shriveled belly. But he was a studious man and was the first to go to school from the village, and was seen as a role model for young people.

Later, because of his family background, his father-in-law joined the army, and at the age of nineteen, he joined the party and became a staff officer of a certain army. Because of his handsome appearance, burly figure, and kindness, he was kind and funny, and he was deeply loved by the leaders of the troops, but it also attracted the envy of many people.

At that time, every time the troops had to lead the team to chant slogans before they had a meal, everyone could only eat after shouting. Once, my father-in-law shouted slogans, but he somehow shouted the opposite. Originally, there was nothing wrong with a slip of the tongue, and many people laughed and passed it at that time, but someone who was interested reported it to their superiors, and overnight, the red man in front of the father-in-law by the leader of the army was beaten into a counter-revolutionary.

The young father-in-law was expelled from the party and the army, and after the intercession of several old leaders, he was not arrested and imprisoned, but was repatriated to the countryside to work as a farmer. The so-called house leak happened to rain overnight, and in the rural area of her hometown, her mother-in-law changed from a glorious military family member to a counterrevolutionary family, and the family conflicts that had accumulated over the years also broke out in an instant.

My father-in-law's mother was a young old lady with a high revolutionary consciousness, and she took the opportunity to direct her sons to beat up my mother-in-law. The father-in-law who returned to his hometown was furious, but he had no choice but to move a bench and put it in front of his house, and sat on it and shouted to his younger siblings: "In the future, whoever dares to touch a finger of your sister-in-law, I will screw off his head, and I will do what I say!" ”。 After sitting all night, no one dared to step forward, because no matter how stupid he was, he knew that his father-in-law was not only burly, but he had also practiced a hard kung fu in the army, not to mention that he was angry, and if he went up, he was looking for death.

The isolated parents-in-law's family must eat, right? Approaching Chinese New Year's Eve, my father-in-law bought a sheep from scratch, and after slaughtering it, my mother-in-law divided the mutton into pieces, and she was reluctant to leave a bite and let my father-in-law carry it on his back to sell it.

Before his father-in-law's death, whenever he talked about walking dozens of miles alone to sell mutton on a snowy night on Chinese New Year's Eve, he always couldn't help but burst into tears. On the vast snowy night, there were still wives and children waiting to be fed at home, and he couldn't see his fingers around him, and he got lost again. I can deeply understand the despair and desolation in his heart at that time.

My father-in-law stumbled and fell into a deep ditch several feet deep, and if it weren't for his excellent physical fitness, if it weren't for the thick snow below, he would have died at that time. The father-in-law lay in the snow and wept bitterly, but no one paid attention to him except the whirring wind in his ears.

He eventually got up and hobbled along with the bag on his back, finally seeing the light. An old man holding a lantern is scared half to death by a snowman that suddenly rushes out of the darkness, and after Xianga interrogates him, the old man takes him back to the village. The old man, who never knew his name, had always been regarded as a noble man in his life, and he gathered the villagers and emptied the lamb in the bag that his father-in-law was carrying. The father-in-law didn't know the scales himself, but before leaving, the mother-in-law told him how much this piece would sell for and how much that piece would sell. However, after a fall, he forgot all about it, and could only say to the old man, "You let them watch it." ”

The kind and compassionate old man helped him sell the mutton, and he actually sold it for more money than usual. Thankfully saying goodbye to the old man, the father-in-law trekked in the dark again, and at dawn, that is, on the first day of the new year, he returned home.

Carrying a sheep's head that he was reluctant to sell to his mother, his mother slapped him in the face and scolded him for being unfilial. The father-in-law said nothing and exited the door with tears in his eyes.

There will always be a darkest day in everyone's life, but no matter how dark it is, with no hope in sight, the days will always pass.

When the whole country was rehabilitating Zhaoxue, the father-in-law picked up a few dry steamed buns, said goodbye to his wife and children, and went to Beijing alone to ask for rehabilitation. He slept on the streets of Beijing with some newspapers, and finally ushered in a turning point, was restored to his military and party membership, and was paid back his salary. The army invited him to go back, but he refused, and left the village that made him sad with his wife and children, and came to Zhengzhou. Assigned to a factory, starting as an ordinary worker.

Thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, my father-in-law relied on his hard-working, hard-working, and studious work, and in just a few years, he went from a worker to a workshop director to a factory director and secretary.

With his own special car, the first thing my father-in-law did was to buy a gift, let the driver drive, and use his memory to thank the old man who had helped him on the snowy night of Chinese New Year's Eve. Unfortunately, it has not been found.

My wife was the youngest in his family, so she was very much favored by my father-in-law. My wife always recalls when she was a child, hanging on her father-in-law's solid arm and giggling.

My father-in-law is one of the few good people among the party members I know, and when he was the factory director, he only needed a set of newly built family buildings in the factory, and it was the top floor, which was unreasonable in the eyes of today's people.

It was in that house that I married my wife, and my father-in-law put his little daughter in his arms and wept bitterly in front of me. I was deeply moved, and I was also moved to tears. After many years, I came back to the taste, and it turned out that he was not worried about me, afraid that his daughter would suffer with me, a poor boy. It seems that I really live up to the Japanese name that my father-in-law gave me...... Lack of heart.

I privately summarized my father-in-law's life and felt that he was too generous and kind, and he never had the heart to defend against others, let alone know how to be an official.

After the factory was prosperous for many years under his painstaking management, the superior leaders appreciated his talent and wanted to transfer him to a leading position in a certain bureau, but he refused. So, after returning to the factory from a meeting in Beijing, he found that his hand-picked subordinates had taken his place, and he was forced to retire early. The father-in-law was very angry, but there was no way to ask for help, because all the formalities were reasonable and legal, and the new director and secretary of the factory was elected by the workers' congress.

The stubborn father-in-law stayed at home all day, sighing, his temper became irritable, and it was rare to joke. Later, someone brought him a message that as long as he was soft, all wages and benefits could be restored, but his father-in-law once again resolutely refused. As a result, after he retired, his salary was much lower than that of the same position, and his father-in-law also suffered from diabetes because he was depressed.

As time passed, the father-in-law regained his cheerfulness. Often, one side would pull out the insulin needle, and the other side would laugh and play poker with us, face to face.

After the age of seventy, my father-in-law often went to the mosque to attend lectures and services. The only time he went abroad in his life was the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. He dragged his weak sick body and marched the desert under the scorching sun, just to complete one of the five pious *** skills, and he did it.

The father-in-law's life is a life of ups and downs; The life of my father-in-law is a life with a profound imprint of the times; My father-in-law's life is a bright and upright life. I firmly believe that whether my father-in-law is lying down or standing, he is a big human character!

May the Merciful Allah bless your father-in-law in Paradise in the Hereafter.