The story of a cook

Chapter 139

People live three poor and three rich in this life until they grow old.

Every family has its ups and downs.

What the old people said about living a lifetime is just this truth.

So don't lose your virtue when you are rich, and don't lose your ambition when you are in trouble.

When I got home, Lin Yan was already asleep. Seeing Lin Yan's sleeping face, I felt that I shouldn't go out and drink with people, especially with women.Lin Yan doesn't suspect that I have an affair outside, she is very relieved of me, which is also her trust in me.

Even if you trust me, even if you know that I won't have affairs with other women outside, I shouldn't go out to drink.

It seems that I really want to drink less in the future and go home after get off work, which is the best.

People can't have too many desires. Desires have little to do with money, but with character.

I have Lin Yan, so I can't have feelings for other women, that's irresponsible.I'm not married yet, if I'm married and I still go out drinking with other women like this, it's a bit unreasonable.

How many ambiguities between women and men arise at the wine table. Don't say that you are a gentleman, but the temptation is not enough. If the temptation is enough, anyone's rational defense will collapse.Thinking about myself, Sister Jin likes me, so I should keep her at arm's length, but if I still drink with her, I'm not afraid of ten thousand, just in case.

A good person is one who has no time to do bad things.

How to prevent yourself from drinking anymore, then let yourself have no time to drink, or no chance to drink with women.

Everything has to be prevented before it happens, and I am not very relieved of myself.

I want to be a good person and a responsible person.There is no real difference between good people and bad people, and it cannot be seen on the surface.Good people do things worthy of their own conscience, and bad people do things against their conscience.My mother often said: A person may not have much money in his life, but he must not lose his conscience.My mother is uneducated, but what my mother taught me is something that I could not learn from school in my life. At that time, I didn’t really feel it. I just followed what my mother said. Only now did I realize that what my mother said is worth a thousand dollars. .

I have always been reluctant to talk about family affairs, and it is also a tear when I talk about it.

Many people have watched the TV series starring Li Youbin called "China Land". To be honest, my ancestors are similar to the prototype in the TV series, somewhat similar.In our town, including the Beipiao area, there is a saying that is "Sunjiayao, Tanjiakuang".Beipiao is rich in coal. During the Republic of China, there were many small coal mines, including Fuxin and Qinghe. "Sunjiayao" refers to the small coal kiln in Fuxin area, which was managed by the old Sun's family at that time, so it was called "Sunjiayao". "Tan's Mine" refers to a coal mine that is a little larger than a small coal mine. It is under the management of our old Tan family, so it is called "Tan's Mine".

I heard from the elders in the family that in Manchuria, my great-grandfather was the head of the No. [-] Mine, and also the owner of the cross-box cannon on a white horse. He never returned home from the mine on a big horse. On his buttocks is a money purse, which is full of white oceans.Later, when the Japanese arrived in Beipiao, they began to seize the coal mines in Beipiao. My great-grandfather had sex with the Japanese, but he had never fucked a Japanese before, so he was caught and ordered to light the "sky lantern".My mother said about this, maybe people don’t know about lighting the “sky lanterns”. It is to help people, wrap a quilt outside, pour gasoline on the quilt, then hang it up and set it on fire, and burn people alive. "Sky Lantern".

After the death of my grandfather, the "Tan Family Mine" declined. At that time, the new China had not yet been liberated, and the family began to become poor.

My grandfather is Tan Wen, and my second grandfather is Tan Wu.My grandfather's branch is Dadongyuan, and the second grandfather's branch is Daxiyuan. The two branches have been separated since then.

My grandfather has three sons and one daughter.At that time, my family had already declined, and my grandfather was an old farmer all his life.My uncle is also honest, he has been a farmer all his life.My second uncle went to a private school when he was a child, and he was a cultural person cultivated by his grandfather through hard work. He planned to make the second uncle successful and give Lao Tan's parents a good face.The second uncle lived up to his grandfather's expectations, and later entered the Beipiao Academy. After the founding of New China, the second uncle worked in the county, and he was also a public servant.

When it came to my father, the family was already poor at that time. My father was weak and sick since he was a child, unable to do physical work, but he liked to study.I heard from my mother that my father was seventeen or eighteen years old at that time, and he was herding cattle for other people. In order to read quietly, he wrapped the rope leading the cow around his waist. The cow was grazing there, and my father was reading there, etc. If the cow moves forward, it will bring the father down, and in severe cases, it will knock the father down.

At that time, my grandparents were gone, and my uncle's family was also poor.

The second uncle got married in the county town and married a woman, that is, my second aunt. My second aunt is a girl from a rich family in the county, and she is rather mean.I heard from my mother that when the second aunt came home, she said she was going to separate the family, and took away the only big vat in the house that was still good, leaving only a broken vat for the mother.

My father has been ill all year round, and sometimes he needed money for medical treatment, and the family had to borrow money if they had no money.At that time, the second uncle was the director of the education bureau in the county, and he was supposed to be able to help, and his father was his brother.But there is a powerful second aunt, and the second uncle dare not say anything.How powerful my second aunt is, the second uncle didn't come back to her hometown for 15 years after she got married, and the second uncle didn't even come back after his father passed away.You must know that it is only [-] kilometers from Beipiao City to my house, not to mention that the second uncle was still a county leader with a bus at that time.

Only the uncle can take care of his old brother, but the uncle's family can't do it either. There are a lot of people who can take care of a big family.

When I was young, I didn't know anything.The rest is what my sisters told me.

The second sister said that her father was hospitalized in the county hospital when he was seriously ill, and the second uncle helped solve the hospitalization problem.The second sister was taking care of her father in the county hospital, and she had no money to buy food, so she walked three miles to eat at the second uncle's house, but was kicked out by the second aunt, saying that their family had no such poor relatives.At that time, the second sister was squatting at the door of the hospital and crying aggrievedly. It was hard to imagine what it would be like for a girl in her teens to cry at the door of the hospital. She was wronged, helpless, and lonely——
But the second uncle is still good, so he buys food for the second sister.At that time, the second uncle was already the director of the county finance bureau.

My father was seriously ill, and until he passed away, I didn't see the second uncle, the second aunt, and my brothers and sisters in their family.When I was growing up, I only met the second uncle twice. Once he retired and came home to visit relatives. I was still in junior high school at that time, but I remember that the second uncle looked like an official.

I remember that the second uncle came to my house to chat with my mother that day, and my mother just said a few words to him, saying that your brother is gone and you have not come back, and now the house is fine.

The second uncle left money for his mother, but the mother didn't want it, and said: "Now the family is short of money, but not your money. If you have that kind of thought, go up the mountain to see your brother, give him some money, and see if he can do it." Can't have it."

The second uncle left, and my mother didn't even come out the door, so she asked me to see him off, saying: "You are the root of Lao Tan's family, so let me see you off."

The second time I saw the second uncle was to build a house for the grandson of the second grandfather, that is, my uncle’s elder brother’s family, and went to the county to pull cement. Walk very close.Cement met the second uncle and the second aunt in the office compound of the second uncle's house. They were both elderly people in their 70s, and all the previous resentment had disappeared.

I remember that when the second uncle saw me, he burst into tears, and the second aunt also shed tears--I am old and remember everything.

The second uncle's family has three children, the eldest is a daughter, the second is a son with the same name as mine, and the third is a daughter.I have seen the eldest daughter and son of his family. They are the elder sister and elder brother of the same grandfather as me. I have never seen my third sister in his family.At that time, I was still young, and I was a child of a wealthy family, and they looked down on me, but they just met once in a hurry.How many years have passed, they lived their lives, and my family lived my family. Although my family is poor, it is very warm and warm.

When the second uncle passed away, he was going to go back to his hometown for burial and enter the old grave.At that time, the mother was already the surviving elder in the family, and the son and daughter of the second uncle's family knelt in front of the mother, waiting for the mother to nod in agreement.

Mother said calmly: "Come in, your uncle and I won't get in, so I will give that seat to your father and mother."

Yes, my father didn't enter the old grave. I heard from my mother that my father told my mother before he died that he should be alone with my mother if he didn't enter the old grave.

Thinking about it now, my father was heartbroken.

Now, my sisters and I are all grown up, married and established businesses, with sons and daughters, and my mother spends her old age peacefully.

When I was doing internal training for small and medium-sized enterprises, a girl came to me during class and said, "Mr. Tan, you have the same name as my dad, both named Tan Guohua. Are you from Beipiao?"

I looked at her, the little girl was in her twenties, and she looked a bit like the eldest brother of the second uncle's family, so I asked, "How is your father now?"

She said: "My father is not in good health, has high blood pressure, and has also been laid off. He just recuperates at home."

I said, "What about your aunt and your old aunt?"

She said: "My aunt is retired now, she is doing well at home, and my aunt is also doing well, teaching."

I asked, "Do you know who I am?"

She looked at me and said carefully, "You are my uncle."

I nodded and said, "Yes, I am your uncle."

That is my niece, meeting on that occasion, a little sad.

(End of this chapter)