When I looked over, there was an old man staring at me, and there was an old lady next to me. When he noticed that I was looking at them, he quickly lowered his head. I don't know them, but they don't look like beggars. Their clothes are new and you can see the folds on them. Mom said they looked like beggars because they were stooped and the old lady was leaning on a cane.

Mom said Tianchi is an orphan and has no relatives there. If they don’t know her, just send them away. Nowadays, beggars are so bad that they like to wait in front of the hotel and pretend to be relatives to drink black wine whenever a wedding is held.

I said no, can you call Tianchi to ask? Tianchi was so flustered that I dropped the flowers in my hand on the ground, and finally said in a squeaky voice that it was their cousin's uncle and aunt. I glared at my mother: I almost drove away my relatives.

Mom said Tianchi, aren’t you an orphan? Where are the relatives from? Tianchi was afraid of his mother, so he lowered his head and said that he was a distant relative of his family, and he hadn't been in contact with her for a long time. But getting married is a big event, and I felt it was a pity that a relative at home didn't come, so...

I leaned on Tianchi's shoulder and complained that he didn't tell him earlier that he had relatives coming, and they should be transferred to the same table. Since If you are a relative, you cannot sit at the spare table. Tianchi stopped them and said let them sit there, as they would not feel comfortable eating at other tables.

Until the banquet started, only my uncle and aunt were sitting at the table. After passing the table with a toast of thanks, Tianchi hesitated and pulled me past them. Looking back, I saw their heads buried very low. After thinking about it, I pulled Tianchi back: Uncle and aunt, we toast to you two!

The two raised their heads and stared at me in disbelief. The two elders had gray hair and looked very old, probably in their seventies or eighties. My cousin's eyes were hollow, and although her face was facing me, her eyes were flickering. I waved my hand uncertainly in front of her eyes, but there was no response. It turns out that my cousin is blind. Tang, uncle, aunt, this is my daughter-in-law Xiaojie, we are toasting to you now! Tianchi reminded them in local accent.

Oh, oh. The uncle stood up crookedly. He held his aunt's shoulder with his left hand and held up the wine glass with his right hand tremblingly. The backs of his fingers were covered with yellow calluses, and there was black mud between the thick fingers. The days of facing the loess and back to the sky made them prematurely tired and bent over. I was surprised to find that my cousin's right leg was empty. The cousin is blind and the cousin is lame. What kind of couple are they? Stop standing. Sit down. I walked over and helped them. The cousin swayed and sat down again. For no reason, the cousin's eyes suddenly burst into tears. He saw the cousin patting her back wordlessly. I wanted to give them some advice, but Tianchi pulled me away.

I told Tianchi to give them some money when they go home. It’s so pitiful. Both of them are disabled and can't figure out how to live this day. Tianchi nodded without saying anything and hugged me tightly.

On New Year’s Eve of the first year, Tianchi said that she had a stomachache and did not eat dinner and went back to her room to sleep. I asked my mother to cook some rice porridge and followed her into the room. Tianchi was lying on the bed, still holding back tears in his eyes.

I said that Tianchi doesn’t have anything like this. On New Year’s Eve of the first year, they didn’t have dinner with us, and even stayed in the room like this. It seems like our family has treated you badly. You get stomachaches during the holidays. How can there be such a thing? Actually, I know you don’t have a stomachache. Tell me what’s going on?

Tianchi was silent for a long time and said sorry. He just thought of his uncle, aunt and his dead parents. He was afraid that he could hold back at the table and make his parents unhappy, so he excused himself because he had a stomachache.

I hugged him and said: What a silly boy. I just want to see them after the New Year. Besides, I also want to know how they live.

Tianchi said forget it, that mountain road is particularly difficult to walk. You will be tired. When the road is clear in the future, we will take you there to see them after the baby is born.

I want to say in my heart: When we have children, they may not be there yet! But I didn’t dare to say it out loud. I just said that I should send them more money and gifts!

I happened to be on a business trip during the Mid-Autumn Festival the next year, and I couldn’t go home on the Mid-Autumn Festival. I miss Tianchi and my parents very much, so I talk to Tianchi on the phone.

I asked what should I do if Tianchi misses me so much that I can’t sleep? Tianchi said to just surf the Internet or watch TV. If that doesn't work, just sleep with your eyes open and think hard.

That night, we chatted on our cell phones until they became hot and ran out of battery. Lying on the hotel bed, looking at the round moon outside the window, I couldn't fall asleep. With eyes open and tears streaming down my face, I miss Tianchi, my dad, and my mom. Thinking about Tianchi, I probably haven't fallen asleep yet, maybe I'm wandering online. After turning around, I turned on my computer and re-applied for a QQ account named "Reading You" to play a trick on Tianchi. After checking, Tianchi was indeed there. I took the initiative to add him and he accepted.

I asked him: Why are you still hanging out online on such a wonderful day when thousands of families are reunited? He said: Because my wife was on a business trip and I thought she couldn’t sleep, I looked online. I was quite satisfied with this sentence, and then typed: My wife is not at home, you can find a lover instead, for example, online, and have sex. It took him a long time to type out one line: If you want to find a lover, I'm sorry, I'm not the one you're looking for. Goodbye. I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that, don't be angry. Bah bah, I'll send it over quickly. After a while, he asked me: Why are you hanging out online? I said: I work outside, and now I miss my father and mother.

I just finished talking to my boyfriend on the phone and still couldn't sleep, so I went online.

I also miss my father and mother, but my parents are away from home and I want to raise my son but I can’t. The relatives are outside, and the children want to be raised but cannot. How to say it? I typed this sentence again. I'm a little confused, why did Tianchi say such a thing? You call me "read you", so I'll let you read it once today. Some things will make you sick if you keep them in your mind for a long time. It will make you feel better if you expose them to the public. Anyway, you and I don’t know each other, so just treat them like listening to a story! So, I unexpectedly learned what Tianchi had been hiding in my heart.

Thirty years ago, my father, who was almost fifty, had yet to get married because he was lame and his family was poor and no girl was willing to marry him. Later, an old man came to the village begging for food and supported a blind woman. The old man was very ill, so his father felt sorry for them and let them rest at home. Unexpectedly, the old man never got up as soon as he moved in. Later, the old man’s daughter was the blind woman who married my father. I was born the next year. My family's life was very poor, but I never went hungry. My father and mother couldn't farm, so they had no income so they peeled corn kernels for other people. One day, their fingers were covered with blood blisters after peeling off corn kernels. The next day, they wrapped the corn kernels with cloth strips and peeled them off again. In order for me to go to school, my family raised three chickens. Two chickens laid eggs and sold them for money, leaving one to lay eggs for me to eat. My mother said that when she was begging for food in the city, she heard that the children in the city eat eggs when they go to school. Our children also eat eggs and will be smarter than the children in the city in the future. But they never ate it. One time I saw my mother breaking the eggs into the pot and licking the remaining egg white in the eggshell with her mouth. I hugged my mother and cried loudly. She refused to eat eggs no matter what. When her father found out what had happened, he was so angry that he wanted to beat his mother with a stick. In the end, I compromised on the condition that the three of us eat together. Although they agreed, they only touched each other symbolically with their teeth.

The people in the village never call me by my name. They all call me that I am from the lame and blind man's family. When my parents hear someone calling me that, they will definitely fight against that person. When my mother couldn't see her, she would throw bricks at her, and she would curse: You guys who kill a thousand people, we are lame and blind, but my baby is fine, so I won't allow you to scream like this. In the future, none of you will be as good as my children. In the high school entrance examination that year, the good news that the lame and blind man's family ranked first in the county made his parents really prosperous. The town paid for all the tuition and fees for our family. The day I was sent to school, my father went out for the first time. When I got on the bus, I burst into tears. My father used the crutch with one hand to wipe my tears with the other: I must study hard when I enter the city, and then I will find a job and marry a wife in the city. When others ask about your parents, just say that you are an orphan and have no parents, otherwise others will look down on you. Especially if you can't get a wife, people will dislike you. If I miss you to marry a wife, I will have no shame to see my ancestor.

Dad! I asked dad to stop talking. What are these words? It’s useless. Why don’t you recognize your parents? My mother also said that this is the truth and you should listen to it. Don't you remember being in school? As long as you say you are from a lame and blind family, others will look down upon you. Even the teacher didn't like you at first. From now on, when you bring your city wife home, you will say that we are your cousin-in-law and cousin-in-law. After my mother finished speaking, she shed tears. Dad said, don’t bring your wife home. Your mother will reveal her secret if she can’t help it. Then he put ten hard-boiled eggs in my arms and dragged my mother away.

My tears also fell down. The disability is not their fault, it is God’s injustice to them. But they gave me a perfect Tianchi. This silly Tianchi, such a father and mother, could not be more perfect. I was very angry, why did he underestimate me so much?

Then later, you told your wife that they were your cousin's uncle and aunt? I typed this sentence.

I didn’t believe it at first. My daughter-in-law is looking for me and not my parents. Why can’t my parents recognize me? But I have been away from home for ten years, and my parents have never been to my school once. In my first year of work, I wanted to take them to the city to play, but they refused, saying that if people knew that my parents were disabled, it would smear my face and affect my ability to marry a wife. I have been in the mountains my whole life and don’t want to go out. My mother also said that even though she was from the city, it didn’t mean much. Later, I talked to my first girlfriend, and when I thought the time was almost right, I took her back home. Unexpectedly, after arriving home, she left without even staying for dinner. I chased her out and she said that she couldn't survive a day with such a person. He also said that there is something wrong with our family's genes, and our children will definitely not be healthy in the future. I was so angry that I told her to get away as far as she wanted. When I got home, my mother was crying and my father scolded me. They said that if I didn't listen to them, my family would be cut off.

Later, I met my second girlfriend, who is now my wife. I love her very much and I am afraid of losing her even in my dreams. Her family is very rich and her relatives are from upper-class families. Having learned from past mistakes, I am afraid that I will have to be unfilial. But when it comes to holidays, I miss them, and I feel so upset and uncomfortable.

Then you never told your wife? Maybe she doesn't care about this?

I have never said it, and I dare not say it. If she agreed, I don’t think my mother-in-law would agree either. I live with them, and my father-in-law is a respectable person outside the home. If parents come, won't it smear their faces? I can only sneak back and take a look when I am on a business trip to study. Thank you for listening to what I said. Now I feel much better.

After getting off the Internet, I still didn’t realize it. It is said that a child is not too ugly for its mother, and a dog is not too poor for the family. Look what we have done? I understand Tianchi's helplessness, and also understand the difficulties of his parents. But they didn't know it, but they plunged the innocent me into a ruthless and unjust adversity.

When it was about to get light, I knocked on the door of the department manager and told him that he would have full authority to handle the following matters. I had some very important things to do as soon as possible, so I would leave everything to him. Then I simply packed my luggage and went straight to the train station. Fortunately, we can catch the first train.

That mountain road is really difficult to walk. At first I still had some strength in my legs, but then my feet blistered and I couldn't walk anymore. It was noon and the sun was shining so hard that I could only breathe. I have almost finished drinking the water I carried on my back, and I don’t know how much further distance there is to go. I took off my shoes and squeezed out the blisters. The pain was so painful that I cried out. I really wanted to call Tianchi to pick me up and take me home, but in the end I held back. I grabbed a handful of reed flowers from the roadside and put them on the soles of my feet. My feet felt much more comfortable. Thinking that Tianchi's parents were still working at home, his legs suddenly felt energetic, and he stood up and continued walking forward.

When the old village chief led me to the door of Tianchi’s house, the red-hot sunset was shining on the old jujube tree in front of their house. Under the jujube tree sat my cousin, oh no, it was Tianchi’s father. He was much older than when he got married. He was shucking corn in his hands and leaning quietly on his crutches on his incomplete leg. My mother was kneeling on the ground to collect the corn that had been dried, and was pulling it in handfuls with her hands. This is like a painting, and in the painting are the most perfect parents in the world.

I walked toward them step by step. My father saw me, dropped the corn in his hand to the ground, opened his mouth wide, and asked in surprise: You, why are you here?

My mother groped around and asked: Dad, who is here? Tian, ??Tianchi family. ah! Where, where? My mother looked for my direction in panic. I bent down and put down my luggage, then grabbed her hand, faced them, and knelt down heavily with deep pain: Dad! mother! I'm here to take you home! Dad coughed twice, and tears flowed silently from his wrinkled face. Let me just say, my baby is not in vain! My mother rubbed her hands back and forth on her body, and then hugged me. Lines of tears flowed hotly from her empty eyes into my neck.

When I took my parents away, firecrackers were set off in the village. I once again glorified my parents. When I opened the door to Tianchi, I was quite surprised when I saw my father and mother standing next to me. They froze there without saying a word.

I said: Tianchi, I am the one who reads you. I brought our parents back.

How could you be willing to leave such perfect parents in the mountains?

Thank you!

Tianchi burst into tears, hugged me tightly, and shed a line of tears into my neck like a mother...