I wish, my daughter is not that good at reading

Old Ma was a friend of my father’s. For many years, we all lived in the family area of the university.

The area of the district is not large, living in more than a hundred families. There, as long as the mention of Lao Ma’s great name, it can be said that no one knows. Even in more than a dozen surrounding neighborhoods, many people are familiar with the story of the old horse family.

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In the early 1970s, Lao Ma graduated from elementary school and joined the university cafeteria as a cook. He worked diligently, and other young people, like, weekdays after work, smoking a cigarette, drinking a little wine, blowing a small cow, often smiling. Later, Lao Ma found a canteen in charge of peeling potatoes helper cook as a wife, the woman is also very cheerful and love to laugh.

In 1978, their daughter was born. The day the daughter was born is the sky is full of goose feather snow, landing with a sound, the old horse will give his daughter named Ma Xue. Later, the child’s great-uncle, who had studied at Peking University, added the word “listen” to his niece’s name, which became Ma Listen Snow. The teachers in the school listened, all praised the name is good, there is a context. Old Ma and his wife are also very proud. Of course, there are a few character misbehavior, said the name is too silent, I’m afraid that in the future the child will marry far away. Old horse couple listened, smiled and said: “Even if married to the Great Northern Wilderness, we take the dog pulling the plow, but also to see her.”

Old Ma and his wife originally wanted to wait for their daughter to grow up and then have a child, but then the family planning came whistling, the school secretary seriously reassured the staff: “Only child is good, light burden, the country will also support your old.”

The old horse listened, and like everyone else, could not help but applaud. After all, they are new parents, old, or a very distant thing.

The old horse family has been living in the school silo, the silo has three floors, the old horse family lives on the top floor, next to the stairs. Across the door surnamed deer, the male master named deer Jianguo, is the school administrative section of the cafeteria manager, graduated from junior college, with a top serious face. Old Ma just joined the work, not less criticized by the old deer, at first old Ma always felt that he was deliberately difficult, until once, see the master cook because they did not wear uniforms, but also by the old deer black face rejected the door, the impression of the old deer has changed.

The old deer also has an only daughter, called deer Fangfang, and Ma listen to the snow at the same age, the two families will therefore become closer and closer.

But when he was a child, Ma heard the snow, and other children are very different.

At that time, at dinner time, each family would light up the coal stove in the corridor one after another. In a short time, a symphony of pots and pans was played. The fragrance of the food overflowed throughout the silo. After school, children would swim like little fish to this house to have a look, and then swim to that house to eat a bite. The whole building more than 30 households, children always chattering and shopping until more than eight o’clock in the evening, to quietly, yawn after yawn to do their homework.

But Ma heard snow never participate in the children’s “parade”, every day after school, back home, concentrating on homework, even if the opposite door of Uncle Deer’s red meat just out of the pot, are not moved.

The old deer often painstakingly educate deer Fangfang: “learn from the opposite door Ma listen to snow, do not run around, so that the homework can not be finished.” Deer Fangfang is also a bit aggrieved: “people Ma Da masters, the same cabbage stew potatoes, they are more delicious than you. If I listen to snow, also stay at home!”

The housewives in the silo, generally get up early to prepare breakfast for the family, and the children basically until 7 o’clock really can not stay in bed, only to reluctantly get up. At this time every morning, the public toilets were full of sleepy-eyed children. Many times, Deer Fangfang bent over, hands covering her stomach, a painful face at the end of the line, Deer Jianguo and his wife can only rush to the second floor and the first floor for his daughter in line, if the first who got to the line, arms raised a shout.

But Ma listen to the snow whether spring, summer, autumn and winter, every morning at 6:30 will be on time to get up, after eating breakfast, but also calmly read for a while.

Everyone says that this is a child who really loves to study.

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Since childhood, in all parent-teacher conferences, Lao Ma would always be placed in the first row, full of pride. Most of the time, he had to keep his head down, curled up in the last row, and was often criticized by the class teacher, with his head in the dirt.

This life continued until the 1997 college entrance examination, this year, Ma listened to snow to the city’s third place in science, was admitted to Peking University.

The neighbors in the silo set off a long firecracker to celebrate, and everyone gathered around Ma, and you said, and I said.

“It’s really something! A golden phoenix has flown out of our silo.”

“Old Ma, look at you, a spoon wielder, and you’ve managed to raise your girl to be the third best in the city. If this were in ancient times, it would have been called a flower scout, and you would have to ride a tall horse!”

Old Ma and his wife listened to this, laughing so much that honey could drip out of the corners of their eyes.

Although Ma heard the snow did not ride a high horse, but still and that year, the top two candidates in the science subjects together, and a deputy director of the municipal education bureau cordially took a photo. The old horse mouth did not say anything, but still the first time the photo expanded, carefully hung in the most prominent place at home. Not long after, a reporter from the evening newspaper came to the old horse home, interviewing them how to train their daughter so well. The camera in front of the old horse face held red, half a long time Fang said: “Our family has a division of labor, the daughter is responsible for learning, we are responsible for food ……”

In fact, two years ago, the school for married teachers and administrative staff built a family building with independent kitchen and bathroom, but the logistics department and just graduated from the unmarried young teachers still live in the silo. Just because Ma listened to the snow to go to Peking University, the school leadership special approval, so that the old horse family also moved into the new family building, and the old deer again as neighbors.

And the dilapidated silo became the “flower building”, which attracted many parents who rented rooms to accompany students.

By 2004, all the way to the master’s degree at Peking University, Ma listened to the snow as expected to get a full scholarship to a university in the United States, ready to go abroad to study for a doctorate.

In the farewell banquet, for some reason, the old horse couple actually tears, or aside of the old deer comfort them said: “Do not cry, listen to the snow just to go to study PhD, and not not to come back. Besides, the full scholarship, that is not who wants to get, you can get ah. If our Fangfang has one percent of the success of listening to snow, we will also be satisfied ……”

Deer Fangfang graduated from high school, did not go to college, tossed with the crowd, went to Beijing to work together, married in 2002 with the same colleagues in the north, the following year gave birth to a big fat son. The child was only a few months old, the couple had to leave the son at the grandfather’s house and continue to drift north.

At that time, the old deer wife got rheumatism, not yet retired old deer not only to take his partner to see the doctor, but also to take care of the young grandson Xiaohu, often distracted. Thanks to the retired old horse old companion often go to help take care of.

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In 2008, Dr. Ma graduated.

People in the hospital began to get excited again, some said listen to the snow back home, if you can take the civil service examination, the future can certainly become a big official: “Old horse you will wait for others to give you a gift!”

Some people said listen to the snow in the hands of research results, after returning to China, if a partnership with a company, the future will certainly be rolling in money: “Old horse you two just wait to wear gold and silver it.”

Old Ma and his wife listened, and did not reply, just laughing straight.

Later, the school personnel department leaders also made a special visit to the old horse couple, seriously told them: “Comrade Ma listen to the snow as the school’s excellent staff children, if you return to the country, willing to work in the school, the organization is very welcome. At the same time, the school also promises to do special things, as soon as possible to her first assess the title of associate professor.”

When he thought that he had been called “Master Ma” all his life, his daughter could become “Professor Ma” when she returned, the old horse was overwhelmed for a while.

In the evening, when talking to his daughter, the old horse was quite excited to talk about this matter. Ma listened to the snow, stunned for a long time, and finally Fang stammered and told his parents that he was in love with a brother, and later ready to stay in the United States to develop. After hearing this, Ma was both happy and disappointed. Happy is the daughter’s lifelong event finally has a focal point. Disappointed is, why does the daughter have to stay in the United States? The development of the country is so good ah.

In the summer of 2009, the retired Ma was so happy that he told everyone that his daughter, who was already working in the United States, was coming home with her boyfriend to visit her family.

The neighbors in the courtyard are happy for the couple, we all grew up watching Ma listen to the snow, and the bright little girl is almost 31 years old, put in the old home, should have married a baby.

During that time, the old Ma couple repainted their home, added new furniture, bought two bright silk carpets, and even replaced a new toilet.

The old deer looked at it and laughed and joked, “This is not a daughter coming home, this is obviously a consort visiting her family!” The old horse also did not reply, just hehe laugh.

Ma listen to snow home day finally arrived. Early that morning, specially from Beijing back to the deer Fangfang drove the car, with the acute Ma aunt went to the airport, the old horse is busy at home cooking. About this future foreign son-in-law in the end is a kind of person, the old horse pondered for a long time. According to his daughter, his name was Tom, he was tall, a learned intellectual, and knew some Chinese. And more importantly, his daughter seemed to like him a lot.

Just thinking, suddenly there was a knock on the door. The old horse rushed over, the door opened, they saw a young blond boy of about seven or eight years old, the wind and fire barged in, mouth rambling about something. Behind him was a blue-faced partner, a slightly embarrassed daughter, and a middle-aged foreigner with a serious face. From the looks of it, the middle-aged man was at least ten years older than his daughter.

Old Ma immediately reacted, the smile on his face was like an outstretched hand, involuntarily retracted.

Once inside, Ma heard snow pushed his parents into the bedroom, closed the door tightly, and said softly: “Mom and Dad, Tom is divorced, but I love him very much. That baby is his son, Little Tom. Originally, he was to be placed at his grandfather’s house this time, but he had a temporary emergency, so he had to come with us.” The daughter said, while holding tightly the hands of the old horse couple: “Mom and Dad, I really love Tom, and I love little Tom, they are very good people. You will love them in the future, too.”

Old Ma listened and bowed his head, but his heart was full of mixed feelings: his daughter was so young to be a stepmother to someone else, but even for an American stepmother, it’s not easy to be a stepmother! But after all, she has grown up, this thing can only respect the daughter’s opinion ah. The first time I thought about it, I smiled slightly at my daughter, but my heart was already deflated anyway.

At dinner time, the adults were sitting somewhat restrainedly at the table, quietly eating. Only little Tom ate a few bites and then ran around the room excitedly. Whenever he stepped on the new silk carpet, the old horse’s heart could not help but ache a little.

Halfway through the meal, Lao Ma served his specialty and also one of his daughter’s favorite dishes – Braised Nine-Quarter Large Intestine – in fact, originally Lao Lu had warned him that foreigners don’t like animal offal very much, but Lao Ma was confident: “That’s because their cooks don’t know how to make it. “That’s because their chefs can’t cook! All the world’s delicacies are the same. When I make braised sausage, foreign teachers and international students rush to buy it, and those who don’t get it are still very sad!”

But this time, no matter how kindly Ma listened to the snow, big and small Tom just looked at the dish with a frightened face, waving his hands repeatedly to refuse, as if what was put there was a plate of arsenic.

The heavy yellow body hair on Big Tom’s arm, at this time in the eyes of the old horse, like a corrupt mushroom on the emergence of mycelium, unpleasant.

After the meal, the old companion deliberately brewed a pot of Biluochun for everyone. During the tea tasting, Big Tom suddenly asked Lao Ma a question in Chinese: “What is your faith?”

“Communism.” Without thinking, Lao Ma blurted out.

“Communism?” Big Tom repeated while surprisingly laughing out loud. That slightly contemptuous expression made the old horse angry, he really wanted to go up and give this middle-aged man a slap. But in order not to embarrass his daughter, only to redden his face, the excuse to go to the bathroom.

That night, Ma heard snow and mother live together, Tom with his son slept in the other bedroom. Old Ma was alone on the sofa bed in the living room, tossing and turning all night.

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The next morning, as planned, the family accompanied Tom to a nearby park, specifically to see the “famous Chinese square dance” abroad.

Ma heard snow led Tom and his son to walk in front, chatting happily about something, while Ma and his partner walked silently behind. After walking a short distance, I ran into the old deer couple walking, the old deer saw the blue face of the old horse, and did not say much, but took out a cigarette and handed it to him. The old horse lit up, just a few puffs, walking in front of the little Tom coughing violently. Ma heard the snow, and ran over to tell his father, the child has severe asthma, can not smell smoke. The old horse and the old deer listened, and then fumbled to extinguish the cigarette.

The third day, Ma heard snow accompanied Tom father and son to Xi’an to see the Terracotta Warriors. And then back not two days, back to the United States.

The old horse quiet down a careful calculation, this time home, daughter and himself a total of less than ten words, the heart can not help but some loss.

In 2010, Ma heard snow in the United States and Tom got married, because the visa did not get done in time, the old horse couple could not go to their daughter’s wedding site.

After that, the old people in the courtyard also know the old Ma and foreign son-in-law, foreign grandson disagreement things, people are comforting him, while the couple worried: “After you two can do ah?”

The old horse does not say anything in front of people, but after people always hold the hand of her partner to persuade her: “As long as the daughter is happy life is good. We are still in good health. In a few days, we will go out to travel, first to Beijing Tiananmen Square, see Chairman Mao. Then we’ll go to Beidaihe and see the sea together. You’ve never seen the sea before. When we get really old and can’t move, we will live with the old deer and the two families to the nursing home.”

But things are unpredictable.

I wish my daughter wasn’t such a good reader.
In 2011, at the turn of autumn and winter, his partner, who had always been physically strong and rarely got a cold, had a sudden emergency and died suddenly within two days of being taken to the hospital.

The old horse immediately felt that life is really fragile, people are like leaves on the tree, a gust of wind, who fell first, half by themselves.

After learning the sad news, Ma heard the snow alone with red eyes from the United States rushed over, after dealing with the aftermath, father and daughter sat down, a long time speechless.

The daughter asked the old horse whether she would like to go to the United States with her, the old horse listened, did not hesitate to shake his head. The daughter could not be persuaded to go back.

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In the months after his partner left, Old Ma often stared at his partner’s portrait alone, or stood in his daughter’s room and pondered, and he was much more haggard. The old deer often visit him, the two old people sit silently together, smoking a cigarette, drinking a glass of wine, and not saying much.

Not long after, the old deer partner’s rheumatism became more and more serious. Finally, he had no choice but to get into a wheelchair. The old deer every day to buy food and cooking, but also to transport the grandson to and from school, the wheelchair partner also needs to be taken care of, anxious mouth light blisters.

The old horse finally came out of the house to take care of the old deer family. Every morning, he would take the bus and go to the market to buy back all the vegetables and fruits that four people would eat all day. The company’s main goal is to provide a solution to the problem of the problem.

After the deer couple picked up Xiaohu from school, Ma would put on his apron and start frying. At 12:00 noon, the meal was served on time, with three dishes and one soup. Watching the little one gobble up the food, and the smiling faces of the old deer couple, the old horse was also doubly pleased.

We rested together at noon, and at 2:30 p.m., Lao Ma got up to send Xiaohu to school. After seeing Xiaohu enter the school, the old horse will return to his home, light a cigarette, drink a pot of tea, and then to his partner lit a joss stick. Sometimes, flipping through his daughter’s awards and old photos of the family, he would also drift off for a while. At 4:15 p.m., he would go to the school and bring Xiaohu to the old deer house on time. Then, Mr. and Mrs. Lao Lu would chat with Lao Ma while they started preparing dinner. After the meal, we would all watch the “News Feed” together, and Xiaohu would tell some interesting stories about what happened at school.

In those years, Ma heard snow once a year back alone. When there is WeChat, it will come back once every two years. The old horse also understand, after all, she has her own home in the United States, work is also busy.

Sometimes, the old horse will politely talk to his daughter, hope to also be like the old deer, can hug their own grandson, enjoy the joy of family life. But every time we talk about this topic, Ma heard snow always some impatience. The first thing you need to do is to hang up the phone on the pretext of not being able to say a few words.

In 2015, the old deer partner also passed away. The old deer was sick, the old horse was also very sad. The next year, deer Fangfang also with her husband, the end of more than ten years of life in the north. Back to buy a house, opened a small store. The family packed up, the old deer and Xiaohu picked up – after all, Xiaohu will also be in junior high school.

The day of parting, the old horse and old deer are dropping tears. Before leaving, the old horse will also be their home a set of spare keys into the hands of the old deer.

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The old deer this away, the old horse back to a person’s life, a moment did not know what to do well. He did not like to play cards, although he would play chess, but often within twenty moves, always by the other side will die, so usually do not play.

Later, the old horse will be a daily garden, rain or shine speed, the city’s large and small more than seventy parks to re-visit; and later, he often randomly on a bus, from the starting point to the end of the station, and then from the end to sit home.

Along the way, there are always a lot of friendly-looking girls and boys will stop him, the mouth is a crisp “grandpa”, and then will give him a variety of free small packages of rice, flour and oil, sometimes a dozen eggs, sometimes a handful of leeks and two heads of garlic. In this way, the old horse involuntarily joined the army of the elderly to buy health care products.

The old horse bought health care products, not only to listen to the other side of the introduction of a variety of powerful functions, not because the other side organized a variety of free travel, but more importantly, he liked the atmosphere.

Every morning, the old horse will be on time to the synagogue not far from home. The girls and boys would settle the 20 to 30 “grandparents” and then start telling jokes, riddles, and thoughtfully bring melons, peanuts, various fruits, and sugar-free snacks.

Once the party is over, the elderly are surrounded by people and sold various health products. When everything was ready, it was time for lunch, and sometimes the organizers would ask the old people who were good at cooking to make a special dish for each of them. Every time Lao Ma cooked a dish, everyone praised it, especially the braised nine curved large intestine. One old man, who claimed to be the deputy director, said the dish was better than the master chef of the small stove of the office. Old Ma listened, but not at all happy, just sighed and said quietly: “Everyone said delicious dishes, my foreign son-in-law how not to taste a bite?”

In the autumn of 2017, Ma heard snow returned to visit her father. As soon as he walked into the house, he was stunned.

The big iron bed on which the family slept when they were small was surprisingly put into the living room by the old horse. In place of the bedroom, there was a new bed. Old Ma smiled and told her that it was a jade bed: “It can cure more than 30 kinds of diseases! The original price is 70,000 to 80,000, then the organizer compassionate to our elderly here, each bed 30,000 was given to us.”

Ma listened to the snow looked at the usual frugal life, often for a few cents on the vegetables and vendors to fight red in the face of the father, but lightly bought 30,000 yuan bed, a moment of shock speechless.

Soon, the old horse and mysteriously fetched a small box of “secret royal jelly”, whispered to his daughter that this is the central leaders to eat to the health products, “this small box, five thousand dollars it”.

Finally, the old horse and from the bedroom box, carefully took out a small bottle, solemnly handed to his daughter, said: “just those good again, but only health care products. But this, but life-saving medicine ah ……”

Ma listened to the snow also did not say much, just carefully read the labels of these health care products, then checked on the phone, the face also gradually gloomy to drip water.

The next morning, Ma heard the snow initiative to accompany the old horse to the venue, the old horse is very happy. That day, the organizers gave each person first issued a bar of soap. After sitting down, the old horse found that his daughter did not come in.

At first, he thought his daughter had something to do temporarily, and did not pay much attention. After a while, outside suddenly sirens loud, two police officers and Ma heard snow came in together, the old horse stunned, the venue of the elderly people are also panicked as a group.

The police told everyone that they had received a report that someone had reported a fraud here, and that they would bring the organizers back to the police station to do an investigation: “Everyone, don’t be nervous, do what you have to do.”

At this time, a few elderly people have recognized Ma Hearing Snow, are pointing to the old horse said: “Old Ma ah, you are too unethical. Just took someone’s soap and let her daughter call the police.”

“That’s right, they didn’t tie you to come to listen to the lesson. It’s you who took the initiative to come, your legs are on your body.”

Old Ma listened, his face was red with shame.

When he returned home, he asked his daughter with some resentment why she did that, Ma heard snow said, “Dad, I checked on the Internet, those people are all scammers. You and my mom have spent their whole lives, not shying away from food, not shying away from clothes. Now you are good, the two of their life savings all to the scammers, I can not care? If my mother were still alive and saw you being cheated like this, she would be furious.” Speaking of this, Ma listened to the snow actually sad tears: “You can not go to the University of the elderly, enrolled in a calligraphy class, or to learn Chinese painting. Or, you can learn with the Grand Master Zhang downstairs, every day to play taijiquan or ah ……”

The old horse listened, head down, like a child who admitted his mistake, did not say a word.

Two days later, Ma heard snow flew back to the United States.

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In the days that followed, the old horse lay at home for several days.

Although during this period, many acquaintances of the big girls and boys selling health products brought gifts and visited him at home, he never went back to the synagogue. Of course, he also did not go to learn calligraphy or what Chinese painting as Ma heard snow wish.

Old Ma eventually went to the poker stall under the gazebo.

Once, two children of five or six years old came to the courtyard and played pick-up football in the small square. The old horse sat on a stool and watched with interest as they played. Not long after, the older child accidentally kicked the ball to the opposite side of the motorway, the two children ran to pick up the ball at the same time, at this time, a small car in the distance came quickly. Old horse saw the situation, recklessly ran over. With a harsh braking sound, the car stopped just a meter away from them.

The old people in the yard were stunned, including the mother of the child who was looking down at her phone. The mother of the child with palpitations gave thanks to the old horse, then took the two children and hurried away.

The old horse stood in place and watched from afar for a long time.

For some time thereafter, the old horse has been watching the two children. But they never came back to the small square to play, the old horse was disappointed.

Day-to-day life is still so, in terms of food, the old horse is more together. Sometimes a large pot of hanging noodles, you can deal with two days.

Once the old man did not have the energy, the face will quickly collapse, the old horse is no exception. But in a few months, his hair was all white, eyes cloudy. Those chef’s occupational diseases, such as frozen shoulder, varicose arteries, bronchitis, etc. all found the body. Gradually, the whole person aged completely. Originally wanted to introduce him to a partner of several elderly people, but also backed off.

During that time, the grandson of old Lin graduated from college in the yard and wanted to study abroad, but the cost was very high. Old Lin’s son returned to his parents’ house on the weekend and wanted to consult the two old people. After hearing this, old Lin firmly disagreed with his grandson to go abroad, he said that it was not about money at all, but if the grandson, like Ma listen to snow, go out and not come back, how do you do when you are old?

“Look at the old horse now, how poor ah!”

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January 24, 2018, the eighth day of the waxing moon.

In the morning, Lu Fangfang prepared to boil eight porridge, and she asked her father to give Uncle Ma a call, wanting to ask the trick of boiling porridge. But after several phone calls, the old horse did not answer. The old deer suddenly got nervous, he first called the few old colleagues left in the family home one by one, wanting them to go to the old horse home to take a look. But they either went to Hainan, or have moved to their children’s homes to live. Call the neighborhood committee, but also has been a busy tone.

At noon, the old horse’s phone is still not answered, the old deer completely anxious, he asked his son-in-law to drive, straight to the old horse home. On the way, the old deer heart thumping straight, hit the throat are some pain.

More than 6 hours later, when the old deer with the old horse gave him the door key, trembling to open the door, found the old horse is difficult to get up from the bed, he looked at the old deer with a bewildered face and said: “is the old deer? Or am I dreaming?”

The old deer saw the situation, then took a long breath and sighed: “Old Ma ah, I called so many times, why do not you answer ah.”

Old Ma also sighed softly: “I have a cold these two days. Today, I was lying in bed all day, drowsy. I think I heard a phone ringing, but I felt like I was dreaming. Want to get up, but also feel the strain, and have been lying down to rest it.”

At this point, the old deer just noticed that the old horse’s face is indeed a bit pale, people are also very haggard, busy to him a glass of warm water, and urged his son-in-law to go to the restaurant to buy some food.

That day, we all stay at the old horse home with him.

The next morning, the old deer is still half-asleep, vaguely heard a scream, and got up in a hurry. When he came to the kitchen, he saw Lao Ma sitting on the floor with a wound on his right foot, with blood flowing out. The old deer and son-in-law were busy helping the old horse to stop the bleeding and bandage it up. The old deer learned that the old horse drank hot porridge last night, ate the medicine, and sweated some, and gradually got better. In the morning, he got up and wanted to make a breakfast for the two of them. Who knows that the hand shivered, the kitchen knife fell, but cut his foot.

The old deer decided to stay and take care of the old horse, and let his son-in-law drive home alone.

In the blink of an eye, it was the New Year. The first day of the New Year, Ma listened to the snow video to pay his father a New Year’s visit. When saw the camera deer uncle, was surprised, but the old horse, as always, did not say anything.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Deer Fangfang brought the family, all came to Lao Ma’s home. Xiaohu gave grandpa and Lao Ma both kneeled down and kowtowed, and everyone also set off firecrackers, hung red lanterns, and wrapped dumplings. Old Ma looked at this lively scene, heart happy, but the corners of the eyes indisputably left a tear.

During the meal, the old horse drank two more glasses, slightly drunk. In the night, he said to the old deer: “I really miss the days in the silo ah. At that time, the New Year, people are in. If I can go back in time, I really hope to listen to the snow is not so smart, not so hard work, did not go to the United States to study doctor ah!”

The old deer listened and just sighed.

The next morning, the old deer very seriously and daughter and son-in-law talked. He said, now Xiaohu boarding high school, only once a week home, the community does not get along with the elderly, he was very lonely. “Your uncle Ma is also living alone, the health condition is not good, I want to stay here, two people can still chat, look after each other. Besides, there are several old colleagues in the family home, and I miss them.”

After hearing this, Lu Fangfang and her husband both agreed.

Epilogue

After the lunar calendar in March, the weather finally gradually warmed up.

One day, Old Ma and Old Deer made a special trip to a newly opened nursing home nearby, where they were warmly received by the sales staff. After listening to the details of the two, the young girl said, the old deer whenever they come, they are welcome with both hands, but the old horse’s case is rather special, because the old horse only has an immediate family daughter, and far away from the United States, “if there is a need for relatives to sign the document later, it will be very troublesome.

On the way back, the old horse did not say a word, a heavy look, the old deer comforted him: “Do not worry, the car to the mountain there will be a way, the method is always more than difficulties.”

Later in the day, the old horse to the old deer oral teaching a lot of cooking skills, but it seems that the old deer in this area is really not enough talent, either cabbage tofu, or tofu cabbage. But Lao Ma ate it and still found it very tasty.

In their spare time, the two gray-haired old men also sat in the warm sun of the old family home, talking about the past years.

But whenever the night is late, the old horse has trouble sleeping. He thought, there will certainly be a day, the old deer will be picked up by his daughter, or be sent to a nursing home, and then he, and where to go?