Miss my aunt

It was evening when I received the news, and my cousin said that my aunt had passed away. I'm so sad that I can't even cook dinner, and my tears can't stop flowing. I am far away in a foreign country, and it is very sad that I failed to see my aunt in the last days of her life. Life is so short, what is the meaning of life? A few years ago, my family made a plan to go back to Lanzhou, China this summer vacation. At that time, I must take a day off to visit my aunt, tell her the story of Jesus, let her be saved by the Lord in the last few years of her life, let Jesus be the savior of her life, let her rely on Jesus, with joy and hope ... I didn't expect my aunt to come to the end of her life so soon, and I never had a chance to see her again, let alone talk.

Lying in bed at night, my mind is full of my aunt, and everything in my memory comes into view like a movie. My aunt is my mother's elder sister, thirteen years older than my mother. In my memory, she is very neat, tall and thin, with short ears and a different temperament from rural women. My aunt is very enthusiastic about people. No matter whether adults or children go to her house or how busy she is, she will put down her work and make good food. It's no trouble at all. Her family lives in a village about ten miles away from mine. When I was a child, I often looked forward to going to her house. I always like to run to her house when I have nothing to do. Every time I go to her house, my aunt will try her best to cook good food for me. When she goes back, she will fill her schoolbag and clothes pockets with sweets, peanuts, walnuts, jujubes and so on that she usually hates to eat. My aunt has three children, a son and two daughters. They are all five years older than me. They are all very kind to me and treat me like a sister. When I was a child, the countryside was poor and backward, and there was no place for entertainment. Looking forward to going to menstruation's home has become my greatest wish and left me endless fun in my childhood.

My aunt is very hardworking and capable, and she is the number one inside and outside. She is busy with farm work in the fields and at home. Her home is a big yard. The front and back of the house are clean and tidy, and all kinds of fruit trees and vegetables are planted in front and back of the house. Leek in spring, tomato in summer, pepper, eggplant, pear with big fruit in autumn, apple and corn on the cob. Anyway, when you go to her house, there are always endless good things to eat. I remember that there is a big peach tree in her house, which is full of big and sweet peaches every year. Other people's peach trees ripen in June, while hers ripens in August, so after eating my peaches every year, I look forward to going to menstruation's house to eat her big and sweet peaches again. There is also a big jujube tree in her house, which grows tall and big. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, when the dates are ripe, Cousin menstruation takes a long stick, puts a cotton sheet under it and starts beating dates. When the dates on the tree are finished, my aunt always picks some full dates without cracks, cleans them, dries them, dips them in white wine, puts them in the jar, and puts them in a cool place when the jar is full, sealed and sealed. After the Spring Festival, Kaifeng and jujube will become fragrant and sweet dates. Whenever guests come, my aunt always takes them out to entertain. I really ate that delicious jujube when I was a child, and now I still drool when I think about it.

In my memory, my aunt always has a kind smile on her face and tries to keep the house. When I grew up, I gradually realized that my aunt was actually a woman from a bad industry. At the age of thirteen, her father and my grandfather joined the army and never came back. When my mother was born that year, my aunt helped my grandmother look after my mother and do housework together. At that time, girls got married early, and my aunt got married at the age of seventeen. My uncle is a well-educated man. He worked as a cadre in the city and later served as the director of the county education bureau. My uncle died suddenly, leaving my aunt and three young children. He hasn't had time to take my aunt and children to live in the city. My aunt was less than forty when he left. . . At that time, life in the countryside was still extremely hard, with the old and the young, and there was no pillar at home. Its pressure and hardship are self-evident. With perseverance, my aunt worked hard to bring up the three children, saving money for them to go to college and technical secondary school, and the children all got decent jobs. Now, I have reached middle age, and along the way, I know the hardships and difficulties of life. At this time, I will often think of my aunt. It is not easy for a woman to bring a child to support her family! Only she knows best how much she has suffered and how many tears she has shed. However, she never complains about the injustice of fate and always laughs at the ups and downs in life. My strong and optimistic aunt!

Thirty years ago, when I was in Gaolan No.1 Middle School, every time I passed by the gate of the county party committee compound and looked at the fashionable women who came in and out, I thought of my aunt. I imagined that if my uncle was still alive, at least my aunt would live in this county party committee compound, maybe she would live in the municipal party committee compound in Lanzhou, and maybe she would have a good job.

After I went abroad, I had less chance to see menstruation, but I still miss her often, just like I miss my mother. Every time I call my mother, I always ask about my aunt. Occasionally, I will meet my mother with my aunt. I always have to talk to my aunt for a long time. I feel very close, and I have endless words. I remember that more than ten years ago, I had some troubles and great pressure in giving birth. My aunt has been comforting me on the phone, encouraging me and giving me great confidence and strength. At that time, I knew the secret buried in my aunt's heart. She told me that in my cousin and two cousins, she has two daughters, one is three years old and the other is six years old. Unfortunately, she died of smallpox. Then it took her ten years to give birth to her big cousin now ... She told me all this calmly, just like telling other people's stories. When I heard this story, I was shocked and sad, and my tears kept flowing like broken beads. I know that menstruation is also sad at the moment, but her fate has already made her burst into tears. My poor aunt! It is hard to imagine that so much suffering has fallen on my dear aunt. Encounter such a big disaster, the average person is really hard to accept, has long been defeated, but the aunt survived strongly.

Aunt's life should be said to be full of hardships and tribulations. It is these sufferings and hardships that let me see her indomitable and tenacious character in life, and also let me learn how to stick to my persistent beliefs and face the ups and downs in life calmly.

Aunt's life is also a blessed life! She has three children, five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. She lived to be 90 years old, and both her children and grandchildren went to master's degree and doctor's degree. When she is old, her cousin and sister-in-law have always been by her side, and her two cousins often accompany her.

My aunt, separated by Yin and Yang, can no longer hear the voice of her relatives calling her, and has no chance to hear the story of Jesus in her lifetime, but I believe that God is just and loving. May he be kind to my aunt and may her soul rest in peace in heaven!

(end of the full text? March 2020 19 finalized? Copyright by the author)