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192 Self-sacrifice for others

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    Of course, the adoption I am emphasizing here is not the act of adopting a child in the clan in the traditional sense to maintain the sacrificial incense, but the act of changing the custody authority of a child between relatives for some special reason.  Therefore, the nature of "adoption" here is completely different from the act of cruelly discarding one's own daughter in order to bear a son under the patriarchal thought.

    The parents made such a decision at the time, not because they did not want their daughter.  What's more, I was already born at that time, and my father already had a son.  Even if the parents have patriarchal thoughts, there is absolutely no need to abandon Yaomei.  If I were a girl, then maybe there is still such a possibility.  At that time, parents also did not have the financial problem of not being able to support their daughter.  As I have emphasized before, Yaomei was born at the time when her father's career was on the rise.  At the time of the reform and opening up, the income in the construction industry was still considerable.  The income of ordinary workers is more than 1,000 yuan a year. Perhaps now, this is nothing.  However, please don't forget that households with ten thousand yuan at that time were already considered rich.  What's more, my father at that time was not just an ordinary worker, but an important person in charge of the entire construction team.

    ? From the beginning of my own memory, what I feel is the glory of my father's career.  The unprecedented and unprecedented grand funeral in the whole village that my father held for his wife (father's grandmother) mentioned earlier, if there is no strong economic strength as a backing, it is absolutely impossible to realize.  Of course, in addition to this, there are many things that impress me deeply.

    For example, our family was almost the first in the village to buy a black and white TV.  Up to now, I can still remember the brand of that TV - Panda.  The rarity of television at that time is probably unimaginable today.  Every midsummer, we move the TV outside, and then the men, women and children of the village, after dinner, come rushing in like a tide.  That grand occasion is not weaker than that of open-air movies.  At first, there were quite a few TV channels, and the antenna had to be adjusted to boost the signal, otherwise there would be a lot of snowflakes on the TV screen.  Although there were very few choices (there were not many channels received), people at that time were not as picky as they are now. As long as there is image and sound, it is already quite strange, and it doesn¡¯t matter what is on the TV.  what?  Even if it was an advertisement, people at that time would watch it with relish.  Of course, if there are wonderful programs, then it will be more perfect.  It was "Journey to the West" starring Liu Xiaolingtong that pushed "open-air TV" to the top.  Good guy, whenever it airs, the drying yard in front of my house will definitely be overcrowded.  In the mid-1980s, although rural areas began to receive electricity, for a long time, electricity was not available around the clock.  Therefore, whenever there is a power outage, there will always be scolding on the drying yard.  From this, it is not difficult to see that the crowd's enthusiasm for watching is high.

    Another example is bicycles.  When our family bought bicycles, bicycles were definitely rarer than BMWs are now.  I remember that the brand of our first bicycle was called "Phoenix".  At that time, the bicycles were all heavy-duty, big and tall.  When I first bought it, I certainly couldn't ride it.  Even though I was young, I was always sneaking out brand new bikes to show off.  For this reason, I don't know how many times I was scolded by my mother.  "You don't know how to ride. Why do you push the bike out?" It was because I was so angry that my mother kept saying that, so I made up my mind to learn to ride a bike.  At that time, I was not much taller than that Phoenix bicycle, so one can imagine how difficult it was to learn to ride a bicycle.  But in order to be able to push the bike out, I was determined to learn how to ride a bike.  Because I'm short, I can't reach the seat cushion at all, so I can only turn my body sideways and put one foot through the triangular hole (the front wheel and rear wheel of the old bicycle are connected in one place by a triangular bracket, we  That's called the "triangle hole" over there) for pedaling.  It is precisely because of the tilt of the body that it becomes more difficult to maintain balance.  I don't know how many times I fell, but I almost didn't get disabled.  But the hard work paid off, and I finally learned to ride a bicycle while constantly taking advantage of the downhill momentum.  Perhaps it was because I inherited the "hardness" in my father's character. During the whole process, no matter how painful the fall was, I didn't shed a single tear from the beginning to the end.  When I lean over, step over the triangular hole with one foot, use half-foot (that is, only pedal half a circle and then return, and then continue to pedal half a circle, this cycle is called half-leg cycling, which is short-legged.  It¡¯s a helpless act of a child riding an old-fashioned ¡°big¡± bicycle) when pedaling a heavy bicycle ¡°fast¡± (I feel fast, but it¡¯s not that fast), let alone the pride and joy in my heart.  At that time, I felt that no matter how painful it was to learn to drive before, it was worth it.  Because, "flying" all the way, not only children of the same age are envious of me, but also countless adults.  At that time, the vast majority of adults could not ride a bicycle.

    Another example is a building.  Now, if you look far away, all you can see are tall buildings.  But in the late 1980s and 1990sIn the beginning, in the countryside, all you saw were bungalows.  However, it was at that time that our family built a two-story building.  Our house was the first in the whole village, so the master bricklayers who came to build the house didn't know how to do it.  Fortunately, my father was in the construction industry himself, so he designed and directed it himself.  In the end, our new building was successfully completed.  Since then, for a long time, my sister and I no longer have to worry about getting lost when we go out.  Because, the two-story building of our house has become a very eye-catching signpost.  It stands out from the crowd and can be seen from a long distance.  At that time, when people gave directions, they usually said: "Did you see that tall building? How far from the so-and-so road at the so-and-so location of that building in the direction of so-and-so, you will arrive." There is no doubt.  , the two-story building of our house became the local landmark building at that time as the tallest building in the village

    The first black-and-white TV, the first old-fashioned bicycle, the first two-story buildingall show the strong economic strength that my father had at that time.  If someone said that my father adopted Yaomei because of poverty at that time, then I can accuse him of "bullshit" without hesitation.

    Part of the reason why the parents agreed to the cousin's adoption request was because of the inseparable family relationship with their cousin, and of course the main reason was because of their own noble spirit of self-sacrifice.  The parents at that time would rather suffer themselves than create hope for the cousin's family that was about to collapse.  For this reason, parents will "abandon" their children with blood in their hearts.  In order to fulfill the cousin, the parents really paid too much (Remember the website URL: www.hlnovel.com
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