Wu Jianhua and Zhang Xiaoman seemed very happy to have Wu Hao and the others come back.
As a parent, how could you not like your children to come back to you? But due to various reasons, the children can only temporarily put aside their family ties and choose careers.
Children working alone in big cities have a hard time, and parents at home waiting for their children to come home are equally hard.
Most of the children can spend only a handful of times a year with their parents. Some may only have a few days during the Chinese New Year, and some may even go back during the long holidays.
However, this kind of opportunity is still too rare. Most young people have their own lives. After finally taking a long vacation, no one wants to travel thousands of kilometers, rush back to their parents for a few days, and then rush back to work tiredly.
What's more, young people will also start their own families one after another. After having their own families, their attention will be gradually divided into their own families, so there will be even less opportunities and time to go back to their hometowns.
If both husband and wife are only children, it means that two families and four elderly people have to share the limited holiday of such a young couple. Whose house should we go to? The man or the woman, and how to arrange the time?
No matter how they are distributed, parents on both sides will have fewer opportunities to see their children. In China's traditional culture, especially the cultural atmosphere that emphasizes reunion and filial piety, these parents are undoubtedly the most miserable.
They worked hard for half their lives to train their children to be successful. However, after they became successful, these children all flew away, leaving only a pair of empty nesters living alone for the rest of their lives.
Even so, these parents are still working hard for their children. Many parents may have spent their entire life's savings just so that their children can have a house in a big city.
But even so, these old people still miss their children all the time. Their own lives are already very difficult, but they still worry about whether their children far away are well fed and warmly dressed.
He would even use the pitiful savings he had managed to save to supplement his children’s household expenses. As for me, I couldn’t bear to eat, wear, or use. Sometimes my children would post inadvertent sentences in WeChat Moments.
If you say anything, your parents will be worried and sleepless for several days.
These are parents, these are the parents in China. They grow up from children and work hard for their children all their lives. One pair, one generation after another, constitute our country’s understanding of human ethics, morality and culture for thousands of years. Because of this, our splendid
Cultural talents have been tempered and continue to this day. Only in the history of our country have so many outstanding talents been born.
The return of Wu Hao, Lin Wei and Wu Tong made this previously deserted home lively again. Wu Jianhua and Zhang Xiaoman started preparing for their return more than a month in advance.
The bedding in their room was taken out to dry in advance, and the quilt covers and sheets were washed in advance. The entire home was cleaned thoroughly after a general cleaning.
In order to decorate their home, the couple bought a lot from the market. In addition to buying a lot of flowers and plants, they also bought a lot of snacks for Wu Tong and their daughter-in-law Lin Wei.
Afraid that there were additives in the things they bought in the supermarket, the two old people actually traveled dozens of kilometers to a farm to buy and prepare the food themselves.
Knowing that Wu Hao didn't like to eat these snacks, he prepared a lot of delicious food for him. Mutton in autumn is the fattest, so Wu Jianhua went to the countryside and bought two young goats raised by farmers. This kind of half-sized goat meat is the most delicious.
It is plump and tender, very suitable for braised, braised or grilled.
Every day for breakfast, lunch and lunch, I put my best efforts into making all kinds of delicious dishes. Wu Hao’s stepmother Zhang Xiaoman, in order to cater to the tastes of young people, heard from her father Wu Jianhua that she began to learn various kinds of dishes half a year ago.
Gourmet dishes.
As for those who did not do well or failed at the beginning, the old couple ate it themselves. It is said that in order to make squirrel mandarin fish, the two of them ate squirrel mandarin fish for half a month. In the end, his father Wu Jianhua directly asked Wu
Hao and others filed a complaint.
Wu Hao is really grateful for Zhang Xiaoman, his stepmother. Although he still hasn't called her mother, he has already recognized this stepmother in his heart. Maybe he doesn't know when the mother in his heart
This image has slowly turned into Zhang Xiaoman.
When Wu Hao came back this time, he found that his father Wu Jianhua and stepmother Zhang Xiaoman were obviously a little older. Wu Jianhua had more white hair on his head. The wrinkles at the corners of Zhang Xiaoman's eyes were also more obvious.
Logically speaking, by successfully sending Wu Tong, a troublesome girl, to college, the two of them should not have to worry about it now, and their lives will be a little more relaxed.
But the situation seems to be exactly the opposite. Without them playing around, the aging of the two elders is obviously accelerated. Sure enough, parents need to accompany them more. Only when their children are around will they become happy, even if they have daily worries and talk.
I always dislike it, but this kind of worry and this kind of dislike have long become a habit and a hobby. If you suddenly lose it, you will feel that life is meaningless.
Wu Hao has expressed the hope more than once that his parents can come to Anxi to live with them. Their house is big enough, even if both parents live in it, it is very spacious.
If the parents are not used to living with them, they can also live in other places close to their homes. With Wu Hao's current ability, it is easy to do this.
However, for Wu Jianhua and Zhang Xiaoman, this is their hometown where they have lived for most of their lives. They obviously cannot accept it when they have to move away when they are old.
Especially since their relatives and friends are all here, and their ancestral graves are also here, it is hard to leave their traditional homeland.
Wu Hao was also helpless about this, and had no choice but to end up with no results. Sometimes he would also think about it from another perspective, why he selfishly wanted his parents to leave his hometown where he had lived for most of his life, and insisted on living in the city where he lived.
Why, this is a city you are familiar with, but for your parents, it is indeed a completely unfamiliar environment. The elderly have a very poor adaptability to this new environment. Why can't we, as children, be considerate of them?
And why should parents compromise? Why shouldn't you compromise? Why can't children compromise for once and give up their careers and current lives to go home and accompany their parents?
Because of work, because of life, because of a better future, because we still have a long way to go. We always use such excuses to convince ourselves and paralyze ourselves. This is the normal state of life and the helplessness of life.