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204 A life of toil and tragedy

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    After washing, my wife and I went up to the second floor.  The two children were already sound asleep, and we were squeezed on both sides of the bed.  It was past twelve o'clock.  After a day of hard work, in fact, I was exhausted physically and mentally at that time.  But it's strange to say that although I feel extremely sleepy, I just can't fall asleep after tossing and turning.

    The figure of my father kept appearing in my mind.  Although I was already handling the funeral for my father, for some reason, it was always hard to believe that my father had really left me.  My father's life was a life of hard work. When he was young, because his grandfather had no job, his father took on the burden of the family early on.  In fact, the father is not the biggest.  The eldest aunt is the elder sister of the father.  But at that time, due to the influence of deep-rooted feudal ideology, girls might not even be able to go to school, let alone learn a skill to become the pillar of the family.  Although the eldest aunt is older than the father, the marriage of the eldest aunt was arranged by the father alone.  When the eldest aunt got married, the main income of the family came from the father.  That's not to mention the second aunt and the younger aunt who are younger than the father.  The so-called elder brother is like a father. From the day he stepped into the construction industry, his father has replaced his grandfather and shouldered the huge responsibility of taking care of his younger siblings.  It was also because of this that the eldest aunt and the little aunt fell on the ice coffin after they came tonight, crying so sadly.

    Later, the father got married and had children of his own.  At that time, the father can be said to be old and young.  Father's grandmother has always been in good health, but after all, she is an old man in her eighties and nineties, and she definitely needs someone to take care of her.  Grandpa also has several brothers, but they are all bachelors, have no lover, let alone children, so the burden of supporting them naturally falls on the father's shoulders.  Among the same generation, his younger siblings also need the care of their father.  In addition, the burden of raising one's own children is completely unavoidable.  The whole family has to rely on the father alone.  How can father not work hard?  The father not only needs to be busy with income so that he can support the family; at the same time, the father also has to take care of the family. For example, his third uncle suffered from esophageal cancer. After hearing the news, his father rushed back from the construction site immediately and took the third uncle to seek medical treatment.  .  When my father learned that he was suffering from esophageal cancer, he mentioned his third uncle more than once because of his fellowship.  My father said to me: "Your third grandfather died of esophageal cancer. At that time, I didn't want to treat him, but I really didn't have the technology to treat esophageal cancer at that time!" As the pillar of the family, my father had to balance work and work.  family.

    The second aunt got married, and the younger aunt started a family; the father also took care of the affairs of the great grandfather, second grandfather, third grandfather and wife (father's grandmother).  Perhaps, at that time, the father would feel much more relaxed, but the father's work did not stop there.  My father provided for my uncle to go to school, took my uncle into the construction industry, patiently taught him skills, helped my uncle find a partner, built a new house for my uncle, and arranged for my uncle's marriage It can be said that everything that should have been done by my grandfather was taken care of by my father.  .  The father's kindness to his only younger brother is obvious to all, and he is too good to say anything.

    However, since the uncle got married, the relationship between the brothers began to change, from intimacy to estrangement, and finally into a family.  Since then, my father and uncle have had their own lives.  Although the father took the initiative to assume the responsibility that the grandfather should bear, the grandfather blindly protected his young son.  Grandpa's partiality has reached an unbearable level for father.  While holding the maintenance property provided by his father, grandpa is helping his uncle's house with everything wholeheartedly.  All the income of the grandfather was unreservedly contributed to his youngest son.  "Don't worry about poverty, only worry about inequality", it is precisely because of the unfair treatment of my grandfather that the relationship between my father and my grandfather gradually became more and more rigid.  In the end, the father and son were even strangers.

    I know that my father is very aggrieved.  Although you are a father, how many responsibilities have I taken the initiative to help you?  Although you are a younger brother, I am actually more like your father!  For your little brother, I am so selfless and dedicated!  Even when the family was separated, I gave up the newly built tile-roofed house to your younger brother, while I chose the dilapidated thatched hut.  I can still remember that when I was a child, every time it rained, we had to go out of the house to scoop water.  But in the end, how did you treat me?  As a father, treat me like a little mother; as a younger brother, treat me as an object of oppression.  Is this the reward for my selfless dedication?

    It is unrealistic to say that the father has no complaints in his heart.  But even if there was resentment in his heart, when his grandfather was dying and entrusted the funeral to his father, his father agreed without hesitation.  That time was the first cooperation between the two brothers since the separation.  No matter how unfair the grandfather did, in the eyes of the father, he was his "father" after all.  As the son, and the eldest son at that, the father would never shirk his responsibilities.  In the end, grandfather's funeral was also handled by his father.  When we separated, although what we got was an old house, it was the ancestral house after all.The grandpa finally asked for the coffin to be placed in our house.  At that time, I was already in junior high school.  I clearly remember that the coffin where my grandfather was lying was placed where my father's current ice coffin was.  Of course, grandpa entrusted his father with the funeral affairs not only for this reason, but also because he believed in his father's ability to handle affairs.  Although the grandfather tried his best to help his youngest son, he also knew that the youngest son who has not experienced any major incidents may not be able to handle his funeral well.  To put it simply, he is at ease when his father handles affairs.  Although the relationship between father and son has not been very good for a long time.  However, among the many children, only the father can be trusted by the grandfather (to handle his funeral affairs well and properly).  Therefore, when he knew that his life was approaching, grandpa would call his eldest son to his bed.  In fact, at that time, the relationship between grandfather and father had become so bad that they did not speak to each other.

    No matter how outrageously grandpa did, he was father's biological father after all, and he was kind to his father in nurturing him, so his father was most angry and didn't talk to grandpa.  But for the uncle, the father doesn't seem to have such a big measure.  Therefore, after my grandfather passed away, our relationship with my uncle's family has deteriorated day by day.  In the end, because my uncle's house cut off the throat path in front of our house, my father and uncle fought.  Since then, the brothers have officially turned against each other, and the situation between the two sides is in dire straits.

    The father's life was a life of hard work, but his father's hard work did not get the reward he deserved, so his father's life was also a life of tragedy.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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