Grandma's dream of flying.
My aunt said to her grandmother, "Mom, that's what it feels like to fly."
when Grandma said that she had never been on a plane in her life, my uncle was holding a bottle of 82-year-old Maotai and poured wine into her second aunt's cup. The second uncle reached out to cover the mouth of the cup and looked at his second aunt's eyes. Seeing that his second aunt was having a hot chat with her, he relieved his uncle to fill his glass of wine and drank it greedily. The eldest aunt could not get in on the other two women's topics about the education of their children, so she could only occasionally hum coldly and say to herself, "I didn't teach my son much at that time. I still took the exam abroad myself."
during the Mid-Autumn Festival, with the full moon hanging high, a large family sat in the hotel jointly owned by my uncle and others, and the largest box was resplendent. The eldest uncle was flushed, and the second uncle was a little tipsy, and while his wife was not paying attention, he secretly glanced at the looming thighs under the waiter's cheongsam. Then grandma suddenly raised her tone and said to her four children, who were full of shit and urine, "I want to take a plane."
my uncle giggled, "Mom, what kind of joke are you kidding?" You are 90 years old and have a heart attack. What if something goes wrong on the plane? "
"if there is any problem, Xiao Zhang in the next building is the plane that his daughter accompanied." Grandma retorted confidently.
"Mom." The aunt smiled and said, "Uncle Zhang next door is only 65 years old. You are 90 years old." When people over the age of 70 flies, they have to issue a health certificate from the hospital. "
Uncle Auntie finally found an answer and immediately said in a loud voice, "Yes, last time Fangfang (my aunt), her man who was a doctor also said, your heart is not very good, eat less oil and salt, do not put a burden on the heart." I said, Mom, you'd better stop thinking about things you can't touch, and just think about how to live a long life and how to enjoy yourself! "
I was a little afraid of being yelled at by my aunt. After all, when my eldest son was down, it was the wife who went out in the morning and dark to set up a stall to subsidize her family. She survived the most difficult time in the whole family, and then she was able to live a carefree life. She is almost half a parent in this big family. But grandma still said with some grievance, "Hey, the greatest wish in my life is to take a plane before I die."
A plate of abalone roast meat with bright red was brought to the table, and Grandma's words were drowned in the symphony played by chopsticks. With time, everyone hopes that the old man in the family will live a hundred years old, but the old man has become a tree in his years. I only wish it has luxuriant branches and leaves, but no one will listen carefully to the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves.
but this time, everyone underestimated Grandma's determination.
on a weekday afternoon, while taking a nap with the babysitter, grandma, wearing a pair of old Beijing cloth shoes and carrying her gray and greasy cloth purse, walked out of the house step by step. Uncle Zhang, who was walking his dog, met his grandmother and said happily, "Yo, where are you going? why didn't you let the babysitter accompany you?"
Grandma curled her mouth and said, "take a plane."
Uncle Zhang waited for his grandmother in surprise and almost threw the dog rope on the ground. Grandma walked out of the neighborhood, went to the side of the road, and waved to stop a taxi, trembling into the back of the car. The taxi driver had never seen such an old man take a taxi alone and hurriedly asked, "Old man, where are you going?"
Grandma said, "people's Hospital."
the taxi driver was surprised: "go to the hospital alone?" What's wrong with you? Why didn't the children go with you? "
Grandma curled her lips again: "they won't let me go, I'll go by myself."
along the way, the driver angrily condemned how unfilial grandma's children were until the taxi stopped slowly at the gate of the people's Hospital, and the driver personally helped grandma out of the car and said loudly to grandma, "Old man, please walk slowly." It was not until passers-by looked at him admiringly that the driver returned to the driver's seat with satisfaction. At this time, his cell phone suddenly rang the legendary Phoenix ring, and he pressed the answer button impatiently.
"what's the matter? What, our mom asked us to take Tingting to his house for dinner tonight? Didn't you just go to the Mid-Autumn Festival? No, I have an appointment with my friend to play cards tonight. You tell her I'm going to have an evening shift and Tingting is going to a cram school. Yes, let's say that. "
Grandma curled her mouth and walked into the hospital hall step by step. The hall was crowded with people, and all kinds of people walked around with bitter faces, not the same illness, but also the tired body tortured by illness. Grandma rubbed presbyopia, took out her glasses and put them on, took a few steps and grabbed the arm of a girl in white, and said, "Nurse, I'm looking for Dr. Jiang."
the girl threw off her grandmother's hand, patted the sleeves of her expensive white coat with her medical record, looked at her grandmother in disgust, and said, "who is a nurse and has no eyes?"
A head nurse happened to be nearby. She came over to take a look at the girl and asked Grandma kindly, "who are you looking for, Grandma?"
Grandma looked at the head nurse and said, "I'm looking for Dr. Jiang. He's my son-in-law."
the head nurse smiled, "do you know his name? we have several doctors surnamed Jiang."
"Jiang. Jiang. " Grandma tried to search her memory for the name of her sister-in-law: "it seems to be Jiang. I don't know."
"I don't know?" The head nurse was stupefied, then smiled and said, "you mean Dr. Jiang Buqing Jiang, he is in the male department on the third floor."
"South Science? Which way is south? "
the head nurse patiently explained: "it's not north-south, it's a man's man. You take the elevator to the third floor, turn right and walk a few steps."
Ten minutes later, a group of men outside the urology department watched a ninety-year-old woman walk slowly to the door, then reached out to open the door and walked slowly in. My little uncle is giving a man in his twenties when the young man examined his testicles, he suddenly saw an old lady come in and screamed and covered her lower body with her hands.
my sister-in-law turned around and suddenly saw my grandmother, so surprised that her eyes almost jumped to the ground: "Mom, what are you doing here?" Are you alone? Where's the babysitter? "
Grandma took two steps forward and grabbed her sister-in-law's hand, and the young man behind her sister-in-law drew back with fear. Grandma said: "I want to take a plane, you quickly give me a certificate."
my sister-in-law hurriedly asked the young man to put on his trousers first, and it took a few minutes to figure it out. It turned out that grandma heard the aunt say that the old man needed a health certificate by plane, so he came to find himself. The sister-in-law was unable to laugh or cry, so he quickly made a phone call to his aunt and aunt, and the two women rushed to the hospital and drove their grandmother home.
Auntie sighed to her grandmother, "Mom, you can't be so foolish in the future, in case no one dares to help you all over the street."
my aunt yelled at the babysitter: "does our family spend money for you to sleep?" A ninety-year-old man can't see clearly, his ears are not bright and his legs are not convenient. How can she go out alone? From now on, you keep an eye on the old man and don't let her take another step out of this neighborhood, or I'll fire you right away! "
Grandma looked at the submissive babysitter and said to her aunt angrily, "I want to take a plane once in my life before I die, but nothing else."
"Bah!" The aunt rushed to her grandmother and grasped her hand tightly: "Mom, you listen to me and stay at home. Don't think about those unreliable things." You just want to live to be a hundred years old, enjoy yourself, and don't let your family worry about it. "
Grandma mumbled a few words, but no one could hear what she said. In the next few days, the babysitter followed Grandma almost every inch, fearing that in the blink of an eye, Grandma would slip away like last time. My aunt called the family one by one, reminding us that we should avoid those things related to airplanes in front of grandma, and grandma rose to think that the troubled family could not live in peace.
my second aunt, a teacher, was soft-hearted, so she said to her, "Why don't we take Grandma to the hospital for an examination, and if the doctor says there's no problem, we'll take a plane, but mom's wish."
Auntie's voice immediately raised several tones: "our mother is so old, will you be responsible if something happens?" So the second uncle and aunt gave up, and no one in the family mentioned it again.
but less than half a month later, Grandma slipped away again. It was noon on a Sunday, and a large family got together again to celebrate the promotion of my second uncle to the director. The families went to the hotel in batches, and my sister-in-law drove outside the community to pick up her grandmother for dinner. Grandma suddenly said when the babysitter locked the door and helped herself to the first floor in the elevator, "Xiao Cui, I don't have my dentures with me."
the babysitter was also in a hurry. She went back to the house alone to look for dentures, while her grandmother walked to the door of the neighborhood and brushed past her sister-in-law, who was leaning against the car. She took a taxi and walked away. The taxi motor roared through the central square, passed the viaduct of the third Ring Road, passed the airport highway, and finally stopped at the airport. Grandma took out a crumpled RMB 50 yuan into the master's hand, waved her hand, and said, "Don't look for it." Then he got out of the car trembling.
the driver could not laugh or cry: "Old man, it's 75 on the meter. You don't have enough money."
Grandma didn't hear what the driver was saying at all, and now her ears reverberated with the roar of the plane taking off. It seems to be back to the war era when she was young, grandma was like a broken chariot, walking slowly but firmly, passing through a heavy flow of people, and receiving the baptism of countless eyes, she finally reached the security check.
there was a long line in front of the security checkpoint. Grandma walked slowly around the long queue to the ticket counter. On the way, someone reminded her, "Old man, you have to wait in line."
standing at the head of the line, an uncle in his forties kindly offered his seat: "come on, please line up in front of me."
the girl who checked in looked at her grandmother, but she reacted quickly and said to her grandmother, "Old man, please show me your ID card and boarding pass."
Grandma said, "I want to take a plane."
the girl was stupefied, and then said again: "you must have your ID card and boarding pass to fly."
Grandma raised her voice and said, "I want to fly!"
the security guards finally persuaded Grandma to the lounge and found a business card with the phone numbers of everyone in our family on it in her coat pocket.
when the family was in a hurry to report the case, my aunt received a call from the airport staff, so the whole family drove five cars in a long line through the central square, the viaduct of the third Ring Road, and the airport highway. The last group of people rushed into the airport and found their grandmother accompanied by the staff in the lounge.
my aunt turned pale with anger and went forward to say something, but due to the presence of the machine crew, she did not open her mouth after all. Tearfully, the aunt came forward and took Grandma's hand, and said, "Mom, why are you running out again? in case something happens, what can you do to let us have a big family?"
No one expected that Grandma suddenly burst into tears. Grandma cried and said, "I have no other wish in my life. I just want to take a plane, and you won't let me take it." If I don't take a plane again, I won't get a chance if I die. "
A large family stood there looking at each other, and the aunt's face changed with blush and redness. My aunt's six-year-old son, my little cousin, went up and pulled Grandma's sleeve and said, "Grandma, why are you crying?"
then mom told me that she had never seen Grandma cry like this in years. Even when Grandpa died, Grandma just hid in her room and secretly wiped away her tears.
my mother also said that my grandpa's greatest wish before he died was to take a plane with grandma. I heard that when Grandpa and Grandma were young, Japanese bombers flew over their heads, and Grandma hid in a bomb shelter and said to Grandpa, "what do you think it's like to fly?"
Grandpa said, "when the Japs are beaten away, I'll take you on a plane."
after Grandpa died, Grandma was the spiritual pillar of the big family. Because the mother is still there, no matter how contradictory the brothers and sisters are, no matter how beautiful they are, they are still a family, so everyone hopes that grandma can live a long time.
everyone hopes that the old man in the family will live a hundred years old, but the old man has become a tree in the increasingly distant years, everyone has watered it carefully and fertilized it, and everyone hopes that the tree will not grow old and green, but when everyone relies on enjoying the shade in the shade, they will not listen to whether the breeze blowing through the leaves will make a different sound.
what happens next?
two days later, my aunt and uncle took my grandmother to the hospital for a full-body check-up, and the final result was that because my grandmother had problems such as otitis media and heart, she was not suitable for flying.
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looking at Grandma's sad appearance when she came home, her aunt hurriedly went up to comfort her: "Mom, it doesn't matter, the hospital won't let you fly, we'll take you."
Uncle and aunt came to Shanghai with their grandmother in a Mercedes-Benz, and the three climbed the sightseeing corridor of the Oriental Pearl Tower together. The aunt finally managed to persuade her grandmother to stand in the fully transparent sightseeing corridor. Grandma looked at the scenery around her in surprise, and her aunt said to her, "Mom, that's what it feels like to fly."
son of my aunt, when my eldest cousin flew back from abroad, he secretly recorded a video on his mobile phone and played it back to his grandmother again and again. Grandma held the blue sky and white clouds in her mobile phone and couldn't put it down, so much so that she was reluctant to put down her meal.
my sister-in-law downloaded a game of simulated fighter from the Internet and happily installed it in his notebook and showed it to Grandma. Grandma saw her sister-in-law control the fighter plane to circle and fight with the enemy in the air, she asked earnestly: "are you fighting the Japs?"
my little cousin gave one of his favorite model airplanes to his grandmother. He said he would put it in the most conspicuous part of his grandmother's house so that her grandmother could see it every day.
Grandma said, "well, I still want to take a plane."
Grandma said, "well if you haven't sat on it, you haven't. Anyway, my old man who left has never been on a plane."