Jinhua, May 5 (Dong Yixin, He Ruozhou) "I don't know what to thank her for so many years of companionship, so I want to write down the story of us from acquaintance, acquaintance, love to whitehead, and now I have written more than 19,5 words, I hope to share it with more people." On the eve of May 20, which was given the meaning of "I love you", Xu Zhonggao, an 82-year-old citizen of Dongyang City, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, expressed the above emotion.
Go back in time to 1966. 25-year-old Xu Zhonggao came to Hangzhou Fuyang to work as a carpenter to make a living, and was favored by many local production teams because of his quick hands and feet, diligence and willingness to work.
"At that time, a captain's wife introduced me to a girl and said that when she was making a fire under the stove, her eyes were watching me chop wood, and she wanted to talk to us." Xu Zhonggao said that he still remembers every detail of his first acquaintance with his wife Yu Xijuan.
At the beginning, the young two wrote down what they wanted to say on a piece of paper and handed it to the captain's wife, who then passed it on to each other. Between the lines, the deep love is obvious.
Like most parents around the world, Yu Xijuan's family opposes her daughter's association with "poor boys" — Xu Zhonggao, of whom 10 children are the sixth-oldest, comes from a poor family and has no real estate.
But Yu Xijuan identified Xu Zhonggao as a "potential stock". "At that time, I felt that he was honest and humble, well-behaved and able to endure hardships, and he would definitely be able to live a good life in the future." She said.
Lang was in love with a concubine, and the two hit it off. Just at the turn of the year, Yu Xijuan returned to Dongyang's hometown with Xu Zhonggao and was married.
Xu Zhonggao wrote in his memoirs that their marriage room was a utility room vacated by the family for farm tools, 4 square meters in size, and could only cram a 1.5-meter-wide double bed, a wooden board on the bed, some straw as a quilt, and a straw mat on top, and a half-new quilt borrowed from a neighbor's house. Other than that, nothing.
Fortunately, Xu Zhonggao's family took good care of Yu Xijuan, and the first year of the new daughter-in-law was also lively. After the New Year, Xu Zhonggao went out to work again. For nearly 20 years, what Yu Xijuan was most looking forward to at home was receiving letters from her husband.
"I'm going to work in another production team next, I'll give you a new address when the time comes, don't send it to the wrong place..." "When I was working in the field, I thought that I should be able to receive your letter today, go to the supply and marketing agency to see if there really is..." "Everything is fine on my side, are you still used to eating at home?" If you want to eat and tell me, I'll buy you some and send it back..."
After receiving a letter, Yu Xijuan replied with a letter. "I'm fine, my parents are good, don't worry... When will you be back? The above content is the thought that she mentioned many times in thousands of replies.
In the 30th year of marriage, Xu Zhonggao and his wife finally have their own house, run a restaurant, and their two children have grown up.
However, Xu Zhonggao was diagnosed with malignant lung cancer in 2013 and was in danger.
"At that time, I was hospitalized with chemotherapy with unbearable pain, weakness, and difficulty getting out of bed, but she didn't complain and took care of me for 10 years until my condition improved little by little, and I wrote all of this." Xu Zhonggao said while flipping through his memoirs.
In the eyes of ordinary people, since childhood, his family has been poor, he has been running for many years, and he is seriously ill... Any one thing can become an "excuse" for him to complain about the injustice of fate. But in Xu Zhonggao's eyes, growing old with his wife has been the greatest blessing in his life, and it is also his "good recipe" for healing his life. (End)