Recommended reading ｜ Big brother is a soldier

—— "村.” "Series of twenty -ninth series

□ Li Donghong

In the afternoon, I haven't got off work yet. The eldest brother who lives all the way to the community called and asked me to go to his house for dinner at night.

Putting down the phone, a warm current suddenly rushed to my heart.

We have five sisters, and now he is also a brother and father. Since the death of my mother, I often feel like an orphan, and my soul has not rely on it. I rarely get concern. Fortunately, my elder brother still cares about me and treats me like my mother. The water pipe at home was blocked and the circuit was broken. As long as I called, my elder brother would immediately come home to help me repair it. By the way, help me repair the kitchen and the hygiene at home.

Brother has been a soldier. For 15 years, he will do what you work, and he is still diligent, like many people who have been soldiers.

When my elder brother was a soldier, I was still very young, and I only knew Chongqing, where the elder brother went at the beginning. At that time, I didn't know where Chongqing was, I just knew that the elder brother went to a far place as a soldier.

In the days when the elder brother had just left, the mother cried twice. The father said, "It is a good thing for children to be a soldier, what are you crying?"

"It is a good thing to know that children are soldiers, but they can't help but be a mother.

The elder brother knows the mother's mind. In order to prevent the mother from worrying, he often wrote back after arriving in the army to report the life of the army and comfort the mother's heart. Every time I received a letter from my elder brother, my mother quickly asked me to read her.

Once, I wrote back to my elder brother, and my mother specifically said to me, "Tell Brother, don't fuck the heart of the family, you must do well in the army, don't embarrass your mother."

Suddenly, for a while, my elder brother did not have a letter for a few months, and the mother made the letter I wrote. There was no echo. The mother was worried that she couldn't eat well, and she couldn't sleep well. Is there something wrong? "

It didn't take long for the elder brother to letter. It turned out that the troops were doing military training.

The mother's heart finally let go.

Being a soldier is the country. In memory, my elder brother has not returned home to visit relatives.

When I first visited relatives, my elder brother was on a blind date, which is my grandmother now. On the day of the blind date, the elder brother and the grandmother spoke in the hall. I lay in the door seam to peek. The big sister asked, "Who is this child?" The big brother said, "Brother." This scene was for me later. Speaking of this, when talking about this, Dasao couldn't help laughing.

About two years later, it was winter. The elder brother came back from the army to get married. In those days, the mother was busy, and a seat was paved on the ground in the yard every day. Come and help, according to the customs of the countryside, still put a few jujube and peanuts inside the quilt, which means "born early noble children".

At that time, there were no cars when the rural people got married, let alone luxury cars. On the day of the elder brother got married, the sky was just bright, and the carriage of the grandmother set off from the village. I wore a new blue cotton jacket that my mother deliberately made for me and sat on the carriage. The rural dialect was called "pressing the car". Dasao's home is in the town, which is very close to the village.

After receiving the grandma, the Li family courtyard held a simple wedding. Until dinner, the relatives dispersed, and the yard recovered calmness. She sat on the bench tiredly and said to the elder brother: "I have given you a family, and my mother has done a big deal. In the future, you have to work well. Live well. "

It didn't take long for the elder brother to leave and returned to the army.

Perhaps because of discipline, the elder brother never told us about the troops. When the mother asked occasionally, he only said that the troops had a good food and lived well.

Later, the elder brother went to Shenyang from Chongqing. Later, I went to the Inner Mongolia troops.

This is 15 years.

In the 15 -year troops, I have trained the excellent quality of the elder brother's tenacity, loyalty, hard work, and dedication. After returning to the local area, the elder brother went to work in the power industry bureau of his hometown. No matter which position he was, he was dedicated and practical.

Today, the elder brother has retired. The elder sister lives in Zhengzhou with his son, and picks up his granddaughter to school every day. The family lives an ordinary and happy life and enjoys the joy of heaven.

During the period when the mother was hospitalized, the elder brother in his 60s was with me and took care of the mother every day in the hospital.

After the mother left, the elder brother knew the pain in my heart and had a care to me. I often wrapped some dumplings and buns with the big sister in my refrigerator. What I usually did to do, I would call me as soon as possible. Every time I come to my house, I will clean the house clean, including the kitchen and bathroom.

Some time ago, because of the epidemic in Zhengzhou, our community was closed. After the dinner was made every day, the elder brother went to the door of the community to give me a meal. Looking at the sweat beads on the elder brother's forehead. As a brother, I was warm and distressed. After all, the elder brother is almost 70 years old.

My elder brother often said to me: "My mother hurts you the most when I am. Now that my mother is gone, I still have me." Every time I hear this, I hold back my tears ...

Brother, thank you!

[About the author: Li Donghong, a native of Fugou County, Henan, graduated from the Department of Journalism of Zhengzhou University. He has successively served as editor and reporter of the Henan Daily, deputy director of the news special release department, and deputy director of the new media department. The editor -in -chief of the Henan Legal System. He has published 5 minister novels and prose collection of "Want to Watch Rain", "Anti -Corruption", "I'm a Police", "Question of Life", "52 Letters Written to Mother". Among them, "Question of Life" won the "Five One Engineering Awards" in Henan Province. .

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