From 65438 to 0969, it was the period when urban youth helped rural educated youth to go to the countryside after the founding of New China. The educated youth in China actively participate in rural construction, help rural food production and promote rural economic development.
This year,170,000 intellectuals from all over the country went to the countryside to support rural construction, and in this huge team, 16 intellectuals from Shanghai Tangqiao Middle School jumped the queue and came to a small mountain village in Yanbian City, Jilin Province.
In this small team, there happened to be a newly married couple, Yao Zuotang and Lin Xiaolan, who settled down with the help of the village party secretary.
Living next to their hut is a 67-year-old woman named Li. Her wife and son died in a car accident. Mrs. Li has lived alone for more than ten years.
The old man was ecstatic when he saw a new man coming near his residence.
I take good care of the newlyweds in my daily life. Besides, Mrs. Li is very enthusiastic. Seeing that the newlyweds can't make a fire to cook, Mrs. Li often warmly invites them to dinner at home and teaches Lin Xiaolan how to cook. They are also very grateful to Mrs. Li for her care and affectionately call her Li Ama.
The next year, Lin Xiaolan was pregnant. During the day, Yao Zuotang was too busy working in the farmland to take care of his wife. Aunt Li took the initiative to take care of Lin Xiaolan. She is an experienced person and knows all the possible problems in childbirth.
Aunt Li takes care of Lin Xiaolan as a daughter, taking care of every little thing in her life, cooking for Lin Xiaolan, taking care of the vegetable garden and so on. They also hit it off.
On the day when Lin Xiaolan gave birth, Li Ama prepared to deliver the baby for Lin Xiaolan herself, but Lin Xiaolan was difficult to give birth for several hours.
All the people are very anxious. Aunt Li walked more than ten miles with her feet and invited a special midwife to the neighboring village. Lin Xiaolan was able to produce smoothly.
Lin Xiaolan, who just gave birth to a baby, is very weak. Aunt Li brought a lot of food from home to take care of Lin Xiaolan.
Not only that, Aunt Li also killed the only old hen in the family who laid eggs and gave her chicken soup to drink.
Because she is too worried about Lin Xiaolan, who is inconvenient for confinement, Li Ama simply lives in Lin Xiaolan's home and takes care of Lin Xiaolan wholeheartedly.
Later, Lin Xiaolan was born, and she wanted to work with her husband Yao Zuotang.
But there are children less than one year old at home, and Aunt Li took the initiative to take care of them. During the day, she wrapped the child on her back with a cloth and washed and cooked with the child on her back.
At night, I was afraid that the child's embarrassment would affect the sleep of Yao Zuotang and his wife, resulting in no mental work the next day, and I also took the child to my house to sleep at night.
She looked at the sleeping baby lying in its infancy, which made her feel as if she had returned to the days of raising her dead son by herself. She doesn't feel hard at all, but enjoys it.
During the day, because Lin Xiaolan has to go to work, Li Nainai, who has no milk to feed her children, is worried. She heard about the prescription of brown sugar instead of breast milk from others.
But in those days, brown sugar was a very rare commodity. Aunt Li looked for it in many ways, and finally took out her savings and bought a catty of brown sugar at a high price to feed her children.
Under the care of Li Ama, the couple's child was born chubby in vain, and the couple's hearts were full of gratitude to Li Ama.
Li Ama regarded them as her daughter-in-law and the couple regarded Li Ama as their mother, so the two families lived in harmony for ten years.
1979, educated youth began to return to the city. The village party secretary has already explained the situation to Yao Zuotang and his wife, and asked them to pack up and prepare to return to the city immediately. However, as the days passed, Yao Zuotang and his wife were slow to move.
The village party secretary was puzzled and came to ask about the situation. Lin Xiaolan slowly told the truth: "Aunt Li has been taking care of my husband and wife, including our children, and even saved my life for ten years. I can't leave grandma Li here alone. We want to take her back to the city and do our part for her later years. "
The village party secretary was moved by Lin Xiaolan's words and agreed to the couple's request.
In this way, Li Ama followed Yao Zuotang back to Shanghai. Before returning to Shanghai, they specially took Li Ama to Beijing for a visit. Li Ama, who has never set foot in this city, witnessed Tiananmen Square and the majestic Forbidden City.
Later, both of them worked in a factory. Although the salary is not much, they won't suffer even if they eat almost the same.
Later, Aunt Li was old and paralyzed in bed. They take care of Li Ama's excrement and urine, serve her wholeheartedly, and live and die for her. Aunt Li enjoyed all the blessings in her later years and died at the age of 89, smiling at the moment she left.