Appreciation of Li Zhifu's Unfortunate Mother-in-law Prose

Mother-in-law said: "Other people's days have passed, but their own days are not easy." A * * * mother, in the 1950s and 1960s when the national economy was in recession, she gave birth to five men and one woman and six children.

When my daughter was more than 11 months old, because of her high fever, her family was poor and had no money to treat her. After procrastination, she was eventually disabled for life and became a deaf-mute who cut off her voice forever.

My mother-in-law was widowed at forty and childless at sixty. After being hit hard again and again, she stood up and walked hard on the road of life full of hardships and life and death with several underage children. And she firmly believes that life has its own happiness, and the days of suffering always have their day. She accepted and suffered all the unexpected misfortunes in her tragic fate with a broad mind.

Although my mother-in-law has never been to school, she is progressive in thinking, smart in mind and not conservative. Embroidery, paper-cutting, making futons, carrying baskets and so on are all her strengths. She can speak fast and work fast, whether at home or outside, ploughing and sowing, carrying water and chopping wood, and never giving up. Life is hard, but everything is in order.

Every year after autumn, a pile of corn husks will be piled up in front of and behind every house, which is usually used as firewood or compost. In the eyes of her mother-in-law, corn husks, which are ignored by people, have become treasures and are excellent raw materials for making futons. After the busy farming, my mother-in-law wanted to find the white clean and soft corn husks buried in piles of corn stalks, dry them, pile them up and put them away. As soon as she is free, she sits down and makes up her Putton. After a while, the round, white and orderly Puton was compiled. The formed futon is soft and hard to sit on, warm in winter and cool in summer, and ventilated. It is a common cushion for chatting in the cool of rural people's homes. The country people spent the wheat and autumn season, and the rest were idle. People like to have a futon under their arms. Wherever they go, as long as there are suitable and temperament people, they sit together and talk for more than half a day. Mother-in-law often gives her Putton to her neighbors. She sat on the futon, knitting futon in her hand, and everyone around her spat and squeezed her eyes. I am very happy to talk! The daughter-in-law of the longevity family is virtuous and docile, and she knows books and is considerate; The daughter of Ergouzi's family is unreasonable, and she can't tell her husband's family in her twenties. There is another guy who has fallen in love with that guy ... from the east end of the village to the west end of the village, there is no need to remember words or prepare manuscripts until there is nothing to say, never give up and scratch your head.

In addition to knitting futon, she also has many skills: weaving hand basket, embroidery, paper-cutting, cutting clothes, making shoe samples and so on. There will always be people coming to ask for skills or pay. My mother-in-law said, "I'm very happy that you came to learn from me. They are all villagers in the village. Ask me for advice and explain that it is appropriate for you. How can I collect your money? " Take it if you like. "Then she sat down and taught everyone how to knit. Once when I came home, my mother-in-law moved out a pile of futons of different sizes from the storage room and said to me, "Choose one. Many people are scarce. Why not choose one first? " !" Many years later, my mother-in-law gave me this exquisite Puton, because it was so exquisite that I really couldn't bear to sit on it. It is still as good as new, with clear lines and unique patterns, and looks like a beautiful artistic ornament. Every time I see it, I will think of my mother-in-law, who works hard in the countryside, sitting under the beam and carefully compiling the Putun style.

In the early years, my mother-in-law also had one of the most boastful handicraft activities, that is, weaving hand baskets with various hard plastic strips as outer packaging. The basket body is decorated with diamond-shaped red or blue stripes. The whole basket is about a foot and a half high, and the top is hooked inside and outside. The handle of the basket is covered with soft plastic pipes of different colors, which is not only labor-saving, but also beautiful and generous. Shopping in the street and visiting relatives and friends are the best things to take. Neighborhood is full of envy. Every time I see my mother-in-law, I always boast, "Big sister is really a good craft! The basket is so good that you can't buy it in the store! " Praise your mother-in-law with joy.

She proudly said, "Take it if you like, and I'll make up another one later."

It is said that when her mother-in-law was young, she was not only handy, but also beautiful. The villagers praised her for looking like Rainbow Guang Mei. She married her father-in-law, who was several years older than her, under the stigma of breaking old ideas and concepts. She was only 19 when she got married. My father-in-law's ex-wife is big and thick, and my mother-in-law is definitely the top two in terms of appearance and ability. My mother-in-law is smart and sensible. She knows that she is wrong in this matter. She took away the man who once belonged to others, knowing that she was indefensible, so she never took those gossips to heart and let everyone comment. She just silently loved the big man in front of her and gave birth to six children.

My father-in-law also suffered a mental shock at that special time. The trumped-up charges have been detained on his head, and the idea of suicide hangs over this stubborn man day and night. When the mother-in-law realized it, she stayed with him day and night, followed her father-in-law, and secretly told herself that she could not relax and make mistakes. But my father-in-law finally failed to overcome the despair in his heart and hanged himself.

An elderly paralytic was sitting beside her helpless relatives, crying into a ball. Her mother-in-law knelt down, looked up at the sky and cried loudly, "Why are you doing this? Why did you leave without us? How can I live in this future? "

Step by step, six underage children pulled their mother's sleeves and cried into a ball. The crying of the children made her mother-in-law stand up and dry her tears, shouting, "Everybody stand up, and no one is allowed to cry. Your father is gone, and your mother! " Since then, my mother-in-law has assumed all the responsibilities of this family.

Carry your shoulders, plow and sow, and carry a lamp to make up for it. As long as the bones don't fall, no matter how hard it is, we must move forward. She endured humiliation in order to make her children become successful people. Those gossipy women in the neighborhood often get together and blame each other. It's okay, it's okay, it's difficult to have something, pointing fingers at mulberry trees. Mother-in-law can bear it, and now she bears the burden of humiliation in order to raise her head better in the future. She silently told herself that no matter how hard life is, no matter what difficulties she encounters, she must be strong. In order to raise her children and let them go to school, she will live up to her dead man.

That winter, the news of conscription came from the county. The second son is eighteen years old. He eats little and has no clothes at home. If he is sent to the army, the burden on one person in the family will be reduced. After her mother-in-law made up her mind, she found a village cadre and said her request. The village cadre wrote a name. At the moment of receiving the notice of enlistment, the whole family was overjoyed, and the mother-in-law called her second son to her side, urging her to do so. On the day of the expedition, the whole village was full of gongs and drums. Several young conscripts, wearing big red flowers on their chests, walked out of the village under the guidance of the cadres who took over the soldiers. Mother-in-law stood under the old elm tree at the entrance of the village, with tears in her eyes, looking at her son's fading back, unable to tell what it was like.

A year later, I received a notice from the county armed forces department to recruit again. My mother-in-law decided to send her third son to the army and found a village cadre. It won't be so easy this time. The village cadre said to her mother-in-law: "Your family just left one last year, and there will be no quota this year." After listening, the mother-in-law left the brigade. It was getting dark, and my mother-in-law wrapped a dozen eggs in a handkerchief and went along the path to the county seat to find a friend who had a working relationship with her father-in-law. It's settled.

Mother-in-law stood in the middle of the yard and sighed deeply. She looked at the remaining children in the yard, dressed in rags, sallow and emaciated with hunger, and thought, Great, if we send two away, we won't continue to be hungry and cold when we get to the army.

One day, two strangers, a man and a woman, suddenly came to the village. They were seen to go to the brigade first and then to their mother-in-law's house. These two men look solemn. After they sat down, they said they belonged to the second construction company of the city. The leader arranged it, and he has something to say. The two men looked at each other, and the woman said, "Your eldest son, Guo Feng, accidentally fell off a six-meter scaffold during a project acceptance, and now he has been taken to the hospital for emergency treatment. The current situation is unknown. I hope you control your emotions and take care of yourself. "

When my mother-in-law heard this, she realized the seriousness of the situation. Her eyes suddenly turned black and she fainted to the ground. She didn't cry when she woke up. She clutched her skirt with her hand and whispered her son's name in her heart. "Guo Feng, my son, won't you?" Guo Feng, the eldest son of her mother-in-law, works in a construction company in the city. In fact, this is because the unit leader arranged for people to send letters home in advance, and people have no chance to survive. Shovels and shovels of loess were scattered on the coffin containing Guo Feng. ...

The ill-fated mother-in-law, widowed in middle age and childless in old age, experienced and endured repeated blows that ordinary people could not bear.

After decades of life, my mother-in-law's fate has suffered many misfortunes. How strong does her heart have to be to survive? What kind of attitude and unyielding mind should we use to persist? The mother-in-law resolutely took her children out of the abyss of pain step by step.

Today, she is over ninety years old. Besides being deaf, she is still healthy and energetic. She often proudly says to everyone, "I am not an ordinary woman. No matter how hard it is, I take a few children to eat bran and swallow vegetables, carry them on my back and shoulders, and gnash my teeth. " Others will die several times. "

After suffering for most of my life, I have tempered a good body. Mother-in-law often shows a smug look. She said, "I have never taken medicine in my life, and I have never been sick. I feel sick. Just drink a bowl of boiling water, cover the quilt and sleep! "

Mother-in-law's children and grandchildren are full in her later years, and her children have become towering trees. Some are private bosses, some are officers in the army ... She has more than a dozen younger generations. Every Spring Festival, when the whole family get together, they have to pack twenty or thirty red envelopes, and the younger generation line up to bless the old lady and kowtow.

Every time she goes back to her hometown, she will happily say to herself, "Hey, they are all back." In a hurry to cook, I went back to the house, took out several layers of coins wrapped in handkerchiefs from under the bedding, held them in my hand, and went to the village shop to buy some snacks for the children. During the dinner, she couldn't help talking about her past, how the Japanese swept into the village and how her father-in-law escaped with his family. ...

She said: "Now the days are really going to heaven! Don't worry about eating, don't worry about wearing, and have food, which I didn't even dare to think about! "

She will often say to us, "Look, I'm almost 100, and I can't die? what can I do? I won't be bored. I suffered a crime when I was young. God's heart is like a mirror. Give me the length of life and let me live for a few more years. "

My mother-in-law planted green onions, Chinese cabbage, peanuts, radishes, pumpkins and other crops in front of and behind her house, which grew luxuriantly.

Mother-in-law has reached the old age, and the hardships of life have tempered her will and made her more hopeful about the happy life now.

May my mother-in-law continue the extraordinary and wonderful life in high live in her later years.