The father in the corner (a good article that makes thousands of people cry)

/ tr. by Phil Newell)

Help the fellow-townsman move. While sorting out a pile of old books, the general crouched on the ground and began to cry.

The general opened a notebook with daily expenses, a sum of money, a clear breakfast of one yuan and a lunch of three yuan. Later, the general told me a story about him and his father.

The general's home is in a village in rural Xuzhou. In his memory, his father has been working as a short-time worker near the Xuzhou railway station and rarely goes home.

When the general was admitted to a university in Xi'an, his father took out a bag of money from the bank, counted it with saliva, and counted it again and again.

When he was a freshman, the general was infatuated with online games and often spent the whole night in Internet cafes off campus. Although he felt that he was wasting his time, the students around him were all the same, either playing ball, watching movies, or playing games online, and the general was relieved.

When he returned home during the summer vacation, the general stayed in the village for a few days and felt very bored, so he nervously proposed to his father that he wanted to visit him for a few days. At least there are Internet cafes! Father said yes for the first time.

In the distance, the general saw his father waiting at the exit of the railway station. After a year of college life, the general felt for the first time that his father was so conspicuous in the crowd-his clothes were shabby and too generous to fit. He reminded his father that the clothes were too old. The father said, if you work hard, you don't sit in an office. Why are you dressed so new? He added, that's too big. The father also said that the clothes are bigger so that you can stretch out your hands and feet when you work, otherwise, as soon as you reach out your hand, the clothes will be torn.

What the general did not expect is that in 2003, his father, who had a monthly income of more than 4,000 yuan, actually lived in the attic of a private house, which was only six or seven square meters. In addition to an iron bed, there is a wooden shelf for the washbasin, and there is an old towel on the enamel basin that has lost porcelain in many places. The general always thought that his father was living a very comfortable life in the city, but he did not expect to be so miserable.

The father took the general back to his residence and said, "you sit down. I'm going to work." With that, he drummed downstairs and left. The general could not sit down, so he quietly closed the door, went downstairs and followed his father. He wanted to see what his father did.

After seven turns and eight turns, the general followed his father to the Xuzhou cold storage. There gathered more than a dozen people who were similar to their fathers, some pushing carts and some carrying poles, and the general saw his father push his wheelbarrow from the doorman. Just then, a large truck entered the compound, and the father, along with the others, huddled in behind the car.

A few minutes later, the general saw his father. he hunched over the large cardboard box, walked a few steps, paused, wiped the sweat from his forehead with a towel tied to his wrist, took a few steps forward, put the carton on his back on the wheelbarrow, and then ran to the van. A few seconds later, he bowed his waist to carry another carton.

After doing this seven times, my father pushed the car toward the freezer, hunched and his legs kicked so tightly that the general dozens of meters away could even see the veins on his father's leg.

It turns out that my father earns hard-earned money! The general was filled with melancholy. He asked the doorman how much money he could have if he moved the goods at once. The doorman told him that it was fifty cents a case. The general calculated in his mind that his father shipped seven cases at a time and earned 3.50 yuan.

The general went home that afternoon. He no longer wants to surf the Internet, and his eyes are always shaking his father's blue-veined legs. He also calculated how much his father's sweat was wasted in the Internet bar.

When the general returned to school, his father withdrew a thick wad of money from the bank, counted it again and again, and gave it to the general. The general counted it and said, "this semester is short. Two thousand is enough." As he said that, he divided half of it and left it to his father. On this day, the general made up his mind to be a good son and a good student.

But his idea soon became a thing of the past. When those old playmates shouted to go to the Internet bar, when he intentionally or unintentionally saw the World of Warcraft game pattern, he could not help but restless in his heart. Finally, he walked into the Internet bar again.

On National Day, roommates organized to sing, go to the bar and take a sauna. The two thousand yuan I brought at home will be gone by the end of October.

The general called his mother and said that he had been ill some time ago and that the money he had brought had been spent.

On the afternoon of the third day, Xi'an suddenly cooled down, and the general who was playing cards with his classmates in the dormitory received a phone call saying that someone was looking for him at the school gate. The general ran to the school gate and saw his father. The father in his fifties, like an old man in his seventies, was old and tired, with a bed of cotton on his back. The general took his father into the campus and asked him in a low voice, "Why are you here? I left an account number for my mother. Just put the money into that card." It's hard and a waste of money for you to run so far and carry this thing on your back. " .

The father smiled flatteringly at him and said, "listen to your mother. You were ill some time ago. How are you now? are you all right?" To eat well and take good care of yourself, you don't have to worry about the cost of living. As long as you can eat well and learn good grades, your father can afford to pay for more living expenses. It's getting cold. this is the cotton tire your mother made for you out of the cotton she planted. " The general grumbled and said, "already." All right. "

On the way to the teaching building, my father said, "I am relieved to see that you are well. I will give you the cost of living and I will go back." It doesn't affect you. " The general took the money from his father and was about to say that he would take his father to the school hostel when his father said, "there will be winter vacation in two months, right?" I brought you 3,000 yuan this time. You just got sick. You should eat better and make yourself stronger so that you can have the energy to go to school. " The father stopped and said, "go back!"

The general knew his father's temper, so he said nothing more. He walked not far away, and when he looked back, he found his father still standing in the same place, waving to him. He remembered that when he was in high school, every time his father sent him to the school in the county, it was the same scene, and tears filled his eyes.

The withered wallet finally bulged up, and Warcraft, which had not been seen for a week, was calling for the general again. After dinner, the general went to the off-campus Internet bar again. After five hours of fierce fighting, the general is going back to the dormitory. As usual, he came to a big banyan tree outside the school and climbed over the wall to enter the school.

At the moment he climbed over the wall, his heart suddenly hurt! The dim street lamp shines on his father, and he snuggles up in the corner, covered with broken cardboard boxes picked up out of nowhere. At the moment, he was wrapping up his cotton-padded clothes, while the scarf he had worn in high school was tightly wrapped around his father's head.

At this point, the general could not help but burst into tears. After crying for a long time, the general continued, "later, my mother told me that when my father heard that I was ill, he was desperate to come and see me. He could not get a seat ticket, and he was reluctant to buy a sleeper. He stood for more than 20 hours and came to Xi'an." In order to save money on accommodation, I crouched under the corner of our school for a night. I cried at this end of the phone, and I pretended not to know until my mother told me. Because I knew my father's stubbornness, even if I woke him up, he would still be there. I quietly went back to the dormitory, but my heart always hurt. I was distressed to think of his tight clothes. I deleted all the accounts about the game overnight.

Since then, I have never entered an Internet bar and never wasted a penny. From that day on, I prepared this notebook and began to make up for the studies I had left behind little by little. "

"I always thought it was because he had a bad life and didn't enjoy the good fortune of life. Only after that incident did I know that it was not that he was not blessed, but that he was used to giving all his enjoyment to his son. "

"he worked in that freezer from the age of seventeen until last spring." The general can't go on.

I know that the general's father died last spring, leaving a deposit of 370000 yuan to the general.

The general's father is the epitome of many poor fathers, deep and selfless love. Fortunately, his children saw the father in the corner, and I know that there are many children who can't imagine and can't see the love in the corner.

In fear, fatherly love is a stepping stone

In the dark, fatherly love is a lamp of illumination.

When exhausted, fatherly love is a bay of water of life.

When working hard, fatherly love is the spiritual pillar.

When successful, fatherly love is also an encouragement and alarm.

Father is like this, our timely rain, snow charcoal, although not like our mother often accompany us, but can always prop up a blue sky for us at a critical moment!

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