1634 He often told us
Help the fellow general move. While sorting through a pile of old books, the general squatted on the ground and began to cry.
The fatherly general in the corner opened a notebook on which he recorded his daily expenses, one by one, clear as one dollar for breakfast and three dollars for lunch. Later, the general told me about his past with his father.
The general's home is in a village in the countryside of Xuzhou, and in his memory, his father has been working short-term near the Xuzhou railway station, and it is rare to go home once.
When the general was admitted to a university in Xi'an, his father took out a bag of money from the bank, counted them one by one with saliva, and counted them again and again.
When he was a freshman, he was hooked on online games and often spent the night in an Internet café outside the school. Although he felt that his time was a little wasted, the classmates around him were almost the same, either playing ball, watching movies, or playing games on the Internet, and the general was relieved.
When he returned home during the summer vacation, the general stayed in the village for a few days, and felt very bored, so he anxiously proposed to his father that he wanted to go to his place for a few days. At least there are internet cafes there! My father agreed unprecedentedly.
In the distance, the general saw his father waiting at the exit of the train station. After a year of college life, for the first time, the general felt that his father was so dazzling in the crowd - his clothes were shabby, and he was so wide that it didn't fit. He reminded his father that the clothes were too old. My father said, isn't the one who works hard sitting in the office and wearing such a new job? And he said, that's too big. The father also said that if the clothes are bigger, you can only stretch your hands and feet when you work, otherwise your clothes will be torn as soon as you stretch out your hands.
What the general didn't expect was that in 2003, his father, who had a monthly income of more than 4,000 yuan, actually lived in the attic of a private house, only six or seven square meters. In addition to an iron-framed bed, there was also a wooden shelf for the washbasin, and on the enamel basin with many fallen porcelain, there was an old towel that could not be seen in its true color...... The general always thought that his father lived a very comfortable life in the city, but he didn't expect it to be so hard.
When my father took the general back to his lodgings, he said, "Sit down, I'm going to work." With that, he went downstairs and left. The general couldn't sit still, so he quietly closed the door, went downstairs, and followed his father, who wanted to see what he did.
After seven twists and turns, the general followed his father to Xuzhou cold storage. There were more than a dozen people like my father, some pushing carts, some carrying poles, and the general saw my father push his cart out of the doorman. At this moment, a large truck entered the compound, and my father and everyone followed the car and hugged in. A few minutes later, the general saw his father, who was hunched over the large cardboard box, walked a few steps, stopped, wiped the sweat from his forehead with a towel tied to his wrist, took a few more steps, put the carton on his back on his back, and then ran to the big truck, and a few seconds later, hunched over and carrying a cardboard box. After repeating this seven times, my father pushed the car towards the freezer, hunched over, and his legs were kicked tightly, and the general dozens of meters away could even see the green tendons on his father's legs.
It turns out that my father earns hard-earned money! The general was melancholy. He asked the doorman how much money he could have if he moved the goods once? The doorman told him that it was five cents a box. The general calculated in his heart that his father transported seven boxes at a time and earned three dollars and five cents.
The general returned home that afternoon. He doesn't think about surfing the Internet anymore, his eyes are always shaking his father's bruised legs. He also calculated how much of his father's sweat he wasted in the Internet café.
When the general returned to school, his father took out a thick wad of money from the bank, counted and counted, and handed it to the general. The general counted it and said, "This semester is short, two thousand is enough." So saying, he divided half of it and left it for his father. On this day, the general made up his mind to be a good son and a good student.
But this idea of his mind soon became a thing of the past. When those old playmates shouted to go to the Internet café again, when he saw the Warcraft game pattern intentionally or unintentionally, he couldn't help but be restless in his heart. Finally, he walked into the Internet café again.
On National Day, the roommates organized to go to karaoke, go to bars, and go to the sauna. The two thousand dollars brought from home were gone by the end of October.
The general called his mother and said that he had an illness some time ago and that the money he brought was gone.
On the afternoon of the third day, Xi'an suddenly cooled down, and the general, who was playing cards with his classmates in the dormitory, received a call saying that someone was looking for him at the school gate. The general ran to the school gate and saw his father. The father in his fifties, like a seventy-year-old man, was old, tired, and carried a bed of cotton wool on his back. The general brought his father into the campus, and then asked him in a low voice: "Why are you here, I left an account number for my mother, you just put the money into that card." It's hard work and a waste of money for you to run so far and carry this thing on your back. ”。
His father smiled at him flatteringly and said, "Listen to your mother, you were sick some time ago, how are you doing now, okay?" If you want to eat well and take care of yourself, you don't have to worry about living expenses, as long as you can eat well and get good grades, no matter how much living expenses you have, your dad can afford it. It's cold, and this is a cotton tire that your mother made for you out of the cotton she grown. The general snorted and said, "It's already ...... Okay......"
On the way to the teaching building, my father said, "I will be relieved to see that you are doing well, and I will give you my living expenses and I will go back." It doesn't affect you. The general took the money from his father and was about to take him to the school's guest house, when his father said, "Winter vacation in two months, right?" I brought you 3,000 yuan this time, you just got sick, you need to eat better, and your body should be stronger, so that you can have the energy to study well. The father stopped, "Go back!" ”
The admiral knew his father's temper and said no more. He walked a short distance, and when he turned back, he found his father still standing there, waving at him. He remembered that when he was in high school, every time his father sent him to the school in the county seat, it was this scene, and tears overflowed his eyes.
The shriveled wallet finally bulged, and the monster that had not been seen for a week was calling for the general again. After dinner, the general went to the Internet café outside the school. After five hours of ferocious fighting, the general was going back to his dormitory. As usual, he came to a large banyan tree outside the school, and climbed over the wall from there to enter the school.
The moment he climbed over the wall, his heart ached! The dim lamp shone on his father, who was snuggled in the corner, with a torn cardboard box under him that he had picked up from nowhere. At this moment, he was wrapping and wrapping the cotton clothes on his body, and the scarf he had wrapped around in high school was tightly wrapped around his father's head.
When the general said this, he couldn't help crying loudly. After crying for a while, the general continued: "Later, my mother told me that my father heard that I was sick, so he was desperate to come to see me, but he couldn't buy a seat ticket, and he was reluctant to buy a sleeper, so he stood for more than 20 hours and came to Xi'an. In order to save money for accommodation, I squatted in the corner of our school for the night...... I cried on the other end of the phone, pretending I didn't know until my mom told me. Because I knew my father's stubbornness, I just woke him up at that time, and he would stick to it. I quietly went back to the dormitory, but my heart kept hurting, and I felt distressed when I thought of him wrapping his clothes tightly. I deleted all my accounts about the game overnight.
Since then, I haven't been to an internet café and haven't wasted a penny. From that day on, I prepared this ledger and began to make up for the missing studies little by little. ”
"I used to think that he was not having a bad life and was not enjoying the blessings of life. After that incident, I realized that it was not that he was not blessed, but that he was accustomed to giving all his pleasures to his son...... He had been working in that freezer since he was seventeen and had been working until last spring. "The general can't go on.
I know that the general's father died last spring, leaving the general with a deposit of 370,000 yuan. The general's father is the epitome of many poor fathers, deep and selfless love. Fortunately, his children saw their father in the corner, and I know that there are many children who can't think of it and can't see the love in the corner.