Chapter 12 Family and love

I am basically a relatively traditional person, emphasizing affection and filial piety. I am basically a relatively traditional person, emphasizing affection and filial piety. Although the time in Shanhe Farm was not long, only a few short years, during which I was treated unfairly, but as a generation of educated youth, I still miss my life in the Great Northern Wilderness very much.Over the years, I have been in contact with some educated youth friends in the Great Northern Wilderness, such as Jiang Kun, who is my "friend in the wilderness". In October 1998, as an old educated youth, I participated in the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Beidahuang educated youth, made a special trip to Heilongjiang to visit, and donated money for it.

Around 1992, I once received a letter, and I felt very sudden at that time.The person who wrote the letter was Jiang Meihua, an educated youth who went to the Great Northern Wilderness in Shanghai. He was severely burned in a fire fighting operation.In her letters, she described her life in recent years.After returning to Shanghai, although she has been taken care of by the government in many ways, her life has been difficult because she lost the ability to work.This time when the housing reform happened, she couldn’t afford to buy a house, and this was the only chance to buy a house at a discount. She tried her best, but she was still short of 20,000 yuan, so she thought of me and asked me for help.

Although I didn't know her, I admired her heroic deeds back then and sympathized with her situation today.So I wrote a letter to a vice-governor of Heilongjiang Province, saying that she was injured while saving state property, and the province had the responsibility to take care of her.At the same time, I also told Deng Pufang about this, and forwarded my letter to the Farm Bureau through the Disabled Persons' Federation.My running has paid off, and this matter has attracted the attention of the Farm Bureau, who specially sent someone to find me, and went to Shanghai with me when I went to Shanghai to compete, and subsidized Jiang Meihua with 20,000 yuan.In Shanghai, I personally treated Jiang Meihua to a meal.Jiang Meihua was very moved when she received the subsidy. She thanked the country for not forgetting her with tears in her eyes, and also thanked me, an old educated youth back then.

In my company back then, there was a female educated youth from Jixi City named Zhang Gong. Since leaving Shanhe Farm, she hadn’t contacted her for more than 20 years.Suddenly one day, she brought her daughter to Beijing to find me and begged me to help her find a job.It turned out that her husband was a miner and died in a mine landslide accident, and her life was also very difficult.Seeing their situation as orphans and widows, I really couldn't bear to push them away, but I personally couldn't introduce any jobs to her.Thinking back to the educated youth back then, it is not easy now. I managed to raise tens of thousands of dollars, and "borrowed" her to open a small shop selling groceries.In order to express her gratitude, she repeatedly asked me to sit at her house and have a meal.The hospitality is hard to come by, I went once.

Her home is far away and relatively remote. Although the living room is still relatively small and the conditions are not good, she finally has a source of life. I also try my best to help my sister's babysitter.Her story touched many people at the Spring Festival Gala that year, and Wei Wei's "Dedication of Love" was sung all over the country. This is true for outsiders, and I love my family even more.As the eldest son, I always felt a sense of responsibility towards the family. As I mentioned earlier, during the "Cultural Revolution", both my parents were persecuted and shocked, especially my mother. In addition to being persecuted physically, she was also severely devastated mentally.After my father passed away, my mother aged rapidly. Looking at the white-haired mother, I couldn't help feeling a kind of sadness in my heart.

In 1997, I went to Jiujiang to participate in a competition. Across the river is Huangmei County, Hubei, which is my mother's hometown.During the game break, I asked a local friend to drive and quietly went to Huangmei to have a look.After I came back, I told my mother what I saw and heard in Huangmei, which aroused my mother's homesickness.She said that since she ran out to participate in the revolution when she was a teenager, she has not been back for 60 years, and she really wants to go back and have a look. Sixty years, this number greatly shocked me.Looking at my elderly mother, I made up my mind to go back to my hometown with my mother to fulfill her last wish in life.So I gave up the opportunity of a world competition and made a special trip to accompany my mother back to my hometown to visit in the spring of 1998.

Huangmei County is located at the junction of Hubei, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces.My mother and I flew to Nanchang first, and then changed to Huangmei by car.Mom finally returned after sixty years away.I accompanied my mother around the front and back of the mountains in her hometown, and went to the graves of her grandparents on the mountains.Looking at the scene of the white-haired old mother bowing her head and standing silently in front of the grandfather's grave, my heart trembled. Since we have been away from home for many years, we have no close relatives in the village, and our mother is getting old, so we decided to live in the county town at night.This trip is a return of mothers, purely private activities, so I did not say hello to any local department.But after all, the county is not big, and I am a very "public person", so I was recognized as soon as I showed up.Soon, the leaders of the county came to meet.I am ashamed of the hospitality I have shown my hometown folks, and I am deeply disturbed by the interruption I have caused them.

October 4, 1998, was my mother's 80th birthday. As the eldest son, I feel duty-bound to wish my mother her birthday.Through my friend, I rented a single room in a high-end club in Beijing, and booked a birthday banquet to celebrate my mother's birthday.On this day, more than a dozen people from the three generations of our Nie family gathered together happily. It is my wish to let the mother who has had a rough life enjoy family happiness in her later years.