Composition: The person I am most grateful for.

The person I am most grateful for in this life

My home is in a remote mountain village, and my parents are farmers who face the loess and back to the sky. I have a brother who is three years younger than me. One time, I secretly took 5 cents from my father's drawer in order to buy flower handkerchiefs that all girls have. My father discovered that the money was missing that day, so he made us kneel by the wall, holding a bamboo pole, and asked us to admit who stole it. I was so frightened by the scene at that time that I lowered my head and dared not speak. When my father saw that we didn't admit it, he said that the two of us were beaten together. After saying that, he raised the bamboo pole in his hand. Suddenly, the younger brother grabbed his father's hand and said loudly, Dad, it was me who stole it, not my sister, please hit me! The bamboo pole in the father's hand fell mercilessly on the younger brother's back and shoulders. The father was so angry that he couldn't breathe. After the beating, he sat on the kang and cursed: "You know now that you stole from home. When you grow up, you will pay back." ?I’ll beat you to death for your failure.”

That night, my mother and I hugged my scarred brother, and he didn’t shed a single tear. In the middle of the night, I suddenly burst into tears. My brother covered my mouth with his little hand and said, "Sister, don't cry. I've been beaten anyway."

I have always hated myself for not having the courage to admit it at that time. Years later, I still remember the way my brother blocked the bamboo pole for me. That year, my brother was 8 years old and I was 11 years old.

The year my younger brother graduated from middle school, he was admitted to a key high school in the county. At the same time, I also received the admission notice from the provincial university. That night, the father squatted in the yard and smoked bags of dry cigarettes, muttering to himself that the two children were so up to date, so really up to date. My mother secretly wiped away her tears and said, "What's the point of trying to be brave? What's the point of offering anything as an offering?" My younger brother walked up to his father and said, "Dad, I don't want to miss you anymore, I've had enough of it anyway." The father slapped his younger brother on the face and said, "How come you are so worthless? I will sell you two sisters even if you want to sell them." After saying that, he turned around and went out to borrow money from house to house. I stroked my brother's red and swollen face and said, "You have to keep reading. If you don't study, you will never be able to get out of this poor ravine." My brother looked at me and nodded. At that time I had decided to give up the opportunity to go to school.

Unexpectedly, before dawn the next day, my brother secretly left with a few tattered clothes and some dry steamed buns, leaving a note on my pillow: Sister, don’t worry, It's not easy to get into college. I'll go out and work to support you. younger brother.

I held the note, lay on the kang, and cried bitterly. That year, my brother was 17 years old and I was 20 years old.

I finally finished my junior year of college with the money my father borrowed from all over the village and the money my brother earned from moving cement at the construction site. One day I was reading in the dormitory, and my classmate ran in and called me, Meizi, a fellow countryman is looking for you. Why would any fellow countryman look for me? I walked out and saw my brother from a distance, wearing work clothes covered in cement and sand, waiting for me. I said, why did you tell my classmates that you were from my hometown?

He smiled and said, look at me dressed like this, and say that I am your brother, but your classmates still don’t laugh at you?

As soon as my nose became sour, tears fell down. I dusted my brother off and said with choked sobs that you are my brother. No matter how you dress in this life, I will not be afraid of others laughing at you.

He carefully took out a butterfly hairpin wrapped in handkerchief from his pocket, measured it on my head, and said, I see all the girls in the city are wearing this, so I will buy you one too. . I couldn't hold it back anymore, so I hugged my brother and started crying on the street. That year, my brother was 20 years old and I was 23 years old.

When I brought my boyfriend home for the first time, I saw that the glass that had been missing for many years was installed and the house was kept spotless. After my boyfriend left, I acted coquettishly to my mother and said, "Mom, why do you keep the house so clean?" My mother is old, and her face looks like a chrysanthemum when she smiles. She said that your brother came back early to clean it up. Did you see the cut on his hand? It was scratched when the glass was installed.

When I entered my brother's hut, I felt very sad when I saw his face getting thinner. He still smiled and said, it's your first time to bring a friend home, and you're still a college student in the city. You can't let others laugh at our family.

I applied medicine to his wound and asked him if it hurt?

He said, no. I was on a construction site, and my feet were so swollen by rocks that I couldn't wear shoes, and I was still working... I shut up in the middle of my sentence.

I turned my face away and cried. That year, my brother was 23 years old and I was 26 years old.

After I got married and lived in the city, my husband and I tried to bring my parents to live with me several times, but they refused, saying that they wouldn’t know what to do if they left the village. My younger brother also disagreed and said, sister, just take care of your brother-in-law's parents. Our parents have me.

When my husband was promoted to the director of the factory, he and I discussed transferring my younger brother to manage the repair department. Unexpectedly, my younger brother refused and insisted on becoming a repairman.

Once my younger brother climbed up a ladder to repair electrical wires and was electrocuted and was hospitalized. My husband and I went to see him. I caressed his plastered leg and complained to him, "I asked you to be a cadre a long time ago and you refused to do it. Now, with your fall like this, if you are not a worker, can you do that job?"

He had a look on his face. Seriously, why don't you think about my brother-in-law? He just came here, and I am uneducated, so I became an official directly. What impact will it have on him?

My husband was moved to tears, and I He also cried and said, brother, your lack of education is all because of your sister's delay. He took my hand and said, it’s over now, why bother mentioning it?

That year, my brother was 26 years old and I was 29 years old.

When my younger brother was 30 years old, he married a dutiful rural girl. At the wedding, the host asked him who is the person you admire most, and he answered without thinking, my sister.

My younger brother told a story that I can’t even remember: When I first entered elementary school, the school was in a neighboring village, and my sister and I had to walk for an hour every day to get home. One day, I lost one of my gloves, so my sister gave me one of hers, and she walked the long way wearing one. After returning home, my sister's hands were so cold that she couldn't hold the chopsticks. From that time on, I vowed that I would be good to my sister in this life.

The audience burst into applause, and the guests all turned their eyes to me.

I said, the person I am most grateful to in my life is my brother. At the moment when I should be most happy, I couldn't help but burst into tears