Reading | Father's brother

For so many years, for me, the identity of the uncle is not so much that he is the elder brother of his father.

For the first time, I had a clear impression on my uncle, when I was six or seven years old. That autumn, his father returned to work from the northwest with his family with his family. Soon after settlement, Uncle came to my house for the first time.

He came from his hometown 100 kilometers away, brought his own soybeans, peanuts and other souvenirs, and also brought a few pairs of new insoles embroidered by cousins.

I looked at him carefully, surprised by his facial features, they were similar, and their figures were thin.

Bob is 4 years older than his father, and at that time he was in his forties, but his face was obviously vicissitudes.

Uncle and his father will eat a meal very long, and slowly drink, while talking about his hometown, or the work of his father. Later, Uncle also followed his father to stay at the place where he worked for a day. Uncle gently tell his father to work well and do a good relationship with colleagues. It is a kind of parent's tone of the child. He also reminded his father that he was stubborn in Su Ri, and he couldn't take him too much.

It is also strange that the father, who is really a bad temperament, rarely listens to others to preach, but he is very respectful in front of the uncle. What he said, his father responded obediently and reassured him.

That uncle came to my house and returned after staying for seven or eight days.

Later, every Spring Festival, we will follow our father back to our hometown, and we will see uncle. And before returning to his hometown, even if his father did nothing, he would definitely go to the door of the county winery to buy 10 pounds of liquor and put it back in a large plastic barrel.

At that time, liquor was brewed in pure grains, and the price was not high. It's just a long distance, and there are still a car in the middle, which is actually very hard. But his father had never dropped once. He went home, as if he only gave my uncle and his elder brother who gave that bucket of liquor, which seemed to be a ritual.

Uncle was also very rare that the barrel of white wine, saying that he was willing to drink only when he festival and visitors.

In their hometown, they are still right, and they still eat a meal very long, and they still chat with each other. It was also the uncle that his father told his father to have various things, and his father responded obediently. That kind of home and slow, as if they meet every day.

In the few days in his hometown, uncle will also take his father everywhere, mostly go to relatives and neighbors' houses. Both uncle gone the first two steps, and his father followed behind.

That respectful, very little brothers.

When I was in middle school, my uncle had a strange "puppet" back. It was not cured for a long time and had been painful. After his father knew, he asked his cousin to send the uncle over and took him to the county hospital for treatment. Later, an old doctor in the clinics of the Father Factory scored a knife and healed.

I have returned to my hometown many times in the future, and I heard that my uncle had talked to people. Fortunately, there was my father, otherwise the disease may not be cured. That kiss is a bit proud.

Uncle has always been proud of a younger brother who "rely on himself". But after many years, I learned that the uncle could be a soldier with my father that year, but someone had to take care of his grandma at home. The uncle chose to stay and let his father go to the troops.

For many years, my father and uncle have always maintained a particularly natural relationship but a particularly natural relationship. Big Uncle, also always his father's respect and close brother.

That year, his father had a major surgery, and he had no appetite after surgery and did not want to eat. No matter how we persuade, the effect is not very good. Until the uncle came, he fed his father with the rice bowl, and ordered him: "You don't want to eat it. You can eat it." Uncle said, "We are older, and your body is supported by food. Eat quickly! "

My father ate obediently.

That was the first time I heard the uncle's tone as a command, not persuasion. At that time, they were indeed older, and they were a lady who was over the years.

But his father failed to accompany his elder brother to finish his life, and he was ill at the age of 76. That year, Uncle was 80 years old.

On the day my father left, the uncle was sitting next to his father without tears, and there seemed to be no obvious sadness in his eyes. He just sat there quietly with him, occasionally grabbed his father's hand, and then, it was very slow, very slow, very slow, very slow, very slow, very slow, very slow. The ground is loose.

The juniors advised the uncle to rest. He didn't speak or leave, and he sat there silently, accompanied his brother who had left. I stayed next to me and heard the uncle say, "Shouldn't you send me?"

I carried my back and tears lost control again.

Today, my father has left us for 10 years, and every year, I will go back every year when all my father once returned to his hometown to visit his uncle. As his father was alive, he bought two bottles of wine for the uncle, stuffed some money, cared about his health, and also cared about his life. I often contact the cousin and ask them to take care of the uncle.

I am not an uncle who is a niece as an elder. I am just taking care of his closest brother for a younger brother who left the scene in advance.

I know my father wants me to do this.

, Economic and commercial events, interpret social development, taste life, your political and economic consultants, learn good teachers, and live friends. " /> Text: Haining

Source: "Reading", No. 8, 2022

Editor -in -chief: Zhang Chu

School pair: Guo Yanhui Meng Yahe (intern)

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