My father was born on October 5, 1916 and died on September 2, 2014. in those days, my father felt uncomfortable and did not like to eat. He was sent to the Youth Medical Hospital and was unwilling to drink except a bottle of water. After a week of treatment, my father finally died, one month short of 98 years old.
It can be said that our parents suffered a lot in the first half of their lives. When our brother and sister were young, it was needless to say that their days were hard. When the problem of food and clothing is solved, our parents will have to bring pressure on our brothers' marriage and other major events. The two old people have worked hard to raise the six of our sisters, so that we can grow up healthily. When I was a child, I heard my uncle say that they were born in a poor family. My grandfather had three sons. My grandfather was the eldest, and my father was the eldest grandson. The old man said to my grandfather: no matter how hard it is, as long as I have a breath, I will ask my eldest grandson to go to school. So my father went to a private school from an early age, and my father attended a private school for seven years, which was not easy in the countryside in the 1920s and 1930s. In this way, his father, who had been at school for seven years, became a famous scholar in the village. when he met which family wanted to write a letter, and every family wrote a couplet during the Spring Festival, it was time for his father to show his skills. Father also played a good abacus, known as the iron abacus, encountered that family to separate or buy and sell land, without the father to come forward. After my grandfather died, my father dropped out of school, but my father always insisted on self-study. The textbooks my father learned when he was a child are all intact, and now they are all preserved by me.
In the 1930s, my father went to Weixian and Qingdao to make a living. In 1949, New China was just founded, and my father became an honorable teacher of the people. His father, who had experienced many hardships in life, cherished this hard-won job very much, and he was determined to become a qualified people's teacher. This tireless pursuit lasted on him for decades. He is not only conscientious in his work, but also always keeps a good habit of thrift. My father is indifferent to fame and wealth and is kind to others. In the past, the salary of teachers was not high, and it was obviously difficult for the whole family of eight to rely on their father's salary. Later, my mother joined the work, especially after we all took part in the work one after another, the life of the whole family obviously improved.
Since the early 1990s, we all go to restaurants to celebrate our parents' birthdays. On this day, a big family gets together to talk and laugh. A few years ago, because we all went to work, our father's birthdays were all in the evening, and we naturally had to set three tables for our birthdays. This is also the way my father likes. When we are older, our children are also older, especially for more than 30 people in the same house for four generations. It is not easy to get together. When everyone sang birthday songs around the dinner table, it was the happiest time for the father. On the right was the great grandson Hao, who was in high school, accompanied by his great grandpa, and on the left, the great niece Shan, who was in primary school, accompanied his great grandfather with her childish voice. With the father's still powerful voice, the father could not help clapping his hands. When I began to let my father blow out the candles, the whole family applauded, and all the corners were laughter, friendly, lively and warm. I found that my father also liked the feeling of warmth. Everyone ate, drank and chatted, and my father was in high spirits. Then drink one cup after another, my father did not drink and let us drink more, and finally said nothing, just drink like this, blushing, accompanied my father, and the whole family had a happy evening.
After my mother had a stroke in 2002, the whole family was indifferent to her parents' birthday, especially when my father proposed that your mother was lying in bed and I was determined not to go to the restaurant for my birthday. In 2008, the 92-year-old mother died, and the old couple had been married for nearly 70 years. The mother left first and dealt a heavy blow to his father. Fortunately, my father quickly adjusted his mindset. He was already in good health. At the age of 90, he also ran from Xinjiazhuang to Mai Island every morning. After the old newspapers and magazines I read a few years ago, my father had to send them to the junkyard himself. I told him to find someone to pick it up. My father said he didn't care about a few money, but mainly went out for activities. My father was not deaf until a week before his death and was able to take care of himself in daily life. My father didn't drink all his life, but he never got rid of the habit of smoking dry tobacco all his life. Usually, we don't let our father do anything, but take turns to take care of his diet and daily life. three meals a day are very timely. He reads newspapers every day, watches Beijing Opera programs on CCTV Channel 11 in the evening, and can buy vegetables at the farmers' market on his own. but in the next few years, we didn't let him go out alone.
Before his death, my father was very contented with his old age. He often said that there were some 100-year-old people in the street of Zhuhai Road who were older than me in this courtyard. The father is also old when he dies, but the children always want their parents to live a long life. Our father didn't give us any trouble all his life, and before Father's Day, we children miss our father even more.
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