"And Staff Officer Wei of your bureau, he should be participating in an opera study class, right?" Zheng Lina asked Yang Chuanfu. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yang Chuanfu said: "Yes, I mobilized him to report his name, he said cross talk in the amateur literary and artistic propaganda team of the army when he was a soldier. ”

"I heard others say that Staff Officer Wei's voice is not very good, his singing is particularly ugly, and a mouth can scare children into crying, so he participated in an opera study class in the military rest house, mainly to learn Lajinghu, he often practiced alone in the house at home, and others were very envious when they heard it."

"No, I don't think he's pulling well."

"Later, a neighbor of his family said to Staff Officer Wei's wife: Your family's life is so good, you kill chickens every day."

Yang Chuanfu said to Zheng Lina seriously: "You said that this matter is not very credible, someone must be showing his appearance." People should encourage and support things that are interesting to the elderly and beneficial to their physical and mental health, and should not be ridiculed and ridiculed. They don't care how much they have accomplished, they mainly feel that their lives are fulfilled and that they have a sense of accomplishment when they have accomplished something. The elderly are very happy and happy to be recognized by others, and a happy mood is a good medicine for aging and disease, not only without side effects, but also without paying for medicine. The good health of the elderly can play a role in reducing the burden on their children and society. ”

Zheng Lina said embarrassedly: "What you just said is very reasonable, but the tone of your speech is like a speech at a symposium." ”

It was late at night, the city was asleep in the dry and cold winter, Yang Chuanfu was also a little cold in the past few days, and the homework assigned by the writing class in the military retirement center was not well completed.

Yang Chuanfu's eldest brother has two sons, and five years ago the brothers went to Guangdong to work together, and they began to work as workers for the boss, and later as the boss of the workers, and now they run a clothing store in partnership, earning hundreds of thousands of yuan a year. The brothers now have a house and a car in Guangdong, and they are both married and started a family there, and their daughters-in-law are both outsiders, so it seems that they are not ready to go back to their hometown to live. The eldest son's child is more than two years old, and has been led by the daughter-in-law herself, and now the daughter-in-law has to participate in the operation of a larger and larger clothing store, and the eldest son called his parents to rent the family's land to others to cultivate, and go to Guangdong to take care of their housework, mainly to pick up and drop off the children in kindergarten every day.

Yang Chuanfu's second brother is also two children, the eldest is a son, and now he has a motorcycle repair shop in Wuhan, and his daughter-in-law is a native of Wuhan and will have a baby next year. The second brother's second child is a daughter, and after graduating from junior college, she is working everywhere.

Rural people get married early, and children must also get early, Yang Chuanfu's four children of two younger brothers, except for the daughter of the second brother who is one year younger than Qiu Ping, the other three are older than Qiu Ping.

Yang Chuanfu's two younger brothers called him separately a few days ago, the eldest brother said that he would soon go to Guangdong to take his grandson, and the second brother said that he would also go to Wuhan next year to take care of the children. The common meaning of the two callers is to ask the eldest brother what the old mother will arrange next.

In fact, Yang Chuanfu also knew in his heart that the eldest brother and his family were forced to go to Guangdong to take care of the children, and the second brother just didn't want to take care of the old mother at home alone, so he asked the eldest brother for an explanation. The second brother's daughter-in-law's home is in Wuhan, her parents are newly retired workers, in their sixties, in good health, and she can't take care of her parents-in-law when she gives birth.

According to the habits of rural people, if the elderly are unable to support themselves, they generally go to the homes of several children to take turns living.

Let the old man live in the three brothers' homes in turns, Yang Chuanfu did not think about it, but felt that it was not a good way, mainly because the old mother was unwilling to leave her hometown, she used to live intermittently with herself in Beijing for more than a year, every time she came to Beijing, she was not used to some things, and some things were not used to. For example, she said that rural people use big bowls for dinner, and people in the city love to use small bowls, she ate a bowl of rice at her eldest son's house and didn't eat enough, so she was embarrassed to serve it again, Zheng Lina knew her mother-in-law's thoughts, blamed herself for a long time, and quickly changed the bowl, and now the family still uses a big bowl that can hold more than half a catty of rice at a time. Zheng Lina knew her mother-in-law's dissatisfaction, and in the future, a few days before she came to Beijing, she put away the slippers at home early, and quietly mopped the floor every night after the old man rested. The old mother also said that rural people like to go to the door to chat, and people in the city do not interact with each other, which makes people feel aggrieved and panicked, knowing that the old lady wants to go to the neighbor's house to chat, Zheng Lina did not dare to agree to her request, so she can only try to find time to accompany the old man to talk more in her own home. But the old lady doesn't seem to have much to say with her daughter-in-law, and her mother-in-law doesn't understand what her daughter-in-law says about dancing and strengthening her body, and her daughter-in-law doesn't understand what her mother-in-law says about spring planting and autumn harvest.

"I listened to the meaning of the call from the third child of our family, I wanted a few brothers to take turns to take care of the elderly, but it was really not possible, I asked the military rest house for a long leave, and went back to my hometown to take care of the old lady for four months every year."

Zheng Lina did not agree with Yang Chuanfu's idea, nor did she agree to him do that: "You have not lived in the countryside for more than 40 years, it is okay to go back and live for a few days, it is difficult to adapt to it after a long time, although I have never left the city life in my life, but I also know that the living conditions in the countryside are better than before, but compared with the city, there is still a lot of difference, one has no heating, two has no air conditioning, the winter is cold to death, the summer is so hot, there are mice running on the ground, and there are flies flying in the air, Not to mention things like taking hot baths several times a week, if your health can't be guaranteed, how can you take care of the elderly? ”

"I haven't thought about these problems, life is not used to can be slowly adapted, mainly because several childhood playmates are ancient, not many are alive, go home to see, eyes are full of unfamiliar faces, it is inevitable to have the feeling of mistaking your hometown as a foreign country. Now that I have just gotten used to the life of the military rest house, there are a lot of activities here, and when I return to my hometown, it is much more monotonous and I will feel a little lonely. In addition, I can't rest assured that you have been living alone in Beijing for a long time. ”

"If you can do the ideological work of the old man and let her come to Beijing to live for a few months every year, I am very welcome, Qiu Ping will come back from abroad next year, and the old lady likes her granddaughter, which is also a reason to mobilize her to live in Beijing for a long time. However, when she was in our house, the two of us could adapt to the rural people in the city and depend on her for everything; When she goes outside, she also wants the rural people to adapt to the city people, and talk and do things according to the habits of the city people, so as not to be laughed at by others. ”

Yang Chuanfu listened to Zheng Lina's words, smiled bitterly and said: "Forget it, if that's the case, you feel awkward, she feels aggrieved, and she is not happy, why bother!" ”

"The old man can't do it in his hometown, and he can't come to Beijing, so what do you say he should do?"

"When I go back to my hometown to visit the elderly during the Spring Festival, I discuss it with the second and third children, and I think it is more appropriate to let the elderly live in their hometown. In the future, the second child and I can contribute more money outside, so that the third child can contribute more efforts at home, and we can afford it reasonably and support it together. (To be continued.) )