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Sixty years of brotherhood

Sixty years of brotherhood

By Joseph ParkerPublished 3 years ago 3 min read

He lost his mother when he was 5 years old, and his younger brother was born to his stepmother and is mentally handicapped.

When he was young, the family spent almost all the money for his brother's medical treatment, and he had to interrupt his studies. That year, the stepmother forcibly pulled him out of the classroom, let him cry and have no chance to step into the school. The comfortable life is just that, but the stepmother does not give him a good face all day, let him do the most bitter and tiring work in the family, eat the leftovers of his brother, and his father can only watch him suffer because he has no "real power".

A little older, he took on the task of caring for his younger brother. Beautiful childhood, it is the age of fun, but he is trapped at home. One day, his brother fell asleep, he burned a pot of bath water, ran downstairs, looking for friends to play, suddenly heard the upstairs came crying, he returned to God, ran to the home, the scene scared him silly, his brother turned the kettle on the stove, boiling water poured a body, everywhere is blisters. The stepmother picked up a stick and lashed it at him.

The younger brother was not only born mentally stunted, but also incontinent, and he had to be responsible for cleaning. His brother is very fat, and every time he helps his brother make his bed, he has to move his brother to a clean bed quilt. Sometimes, his brother had to pull several times a morning, he had to keep checking, and if he was negligent, he would be severely beaten by his stepmother. In the twinkling of an eye, he was 18 years old and should have been as tall as his father, but he only grew to 1.55 meters. He was not unhappy, because his stepmother no longer beat him, he was satisfied, he took care of his brother, while teaching himself carpentry. He helped his fat brother make a big wheelbarrow, and his brother sat in it happily, learning the sound of the car until he fell asleep from exhaustion.

At the age of 25, someone finally introduced him to the object, his father was overjoyed, entertain the matchmaker, but was the head of the stepmother rebuffed. The whole thing of finding someone is on hold again and again.

When he was 29, his elderly stepmother panicked. She found that her body was worse than day by day, and there was no woman at home to run before and after the dot, it was not always a way, and finally a matchmaker was willing to introduce him to objects. The girl was satisfied with him at first, but when she learned that he had a retarded brother, she immediately changed her mind.

He ran home and shouted at his stepmother and brother, "It is you who have delayed me, you are too cruel." I am leaving this house, and none of you will try to stop me."

He thought that his stepmother would pick up the stick, but the stepmother "plop" and knelt in front of him: "My child, it is my fault that I delayed your future and missed your life." Whatever you do to me, I hope you won't be hard on your brother, for I am not your mother, but he is your brother."

His heart softened when he saw his stepmother kneeling in front of him in tears.

The next day, he pushed his brother out, after that, he had a choice of a mate standard, as long as it is to abandon his brother, no matter how good the conditions are, will not be considered.

Until he was 32. A girl offered to marry him and take care of his brother with him.

Second year of marriage. After the death of his parents, many people urged him to send his younger brother to a psychiatric hospital, but he refused to do anything.

He took care of his mentally handicapped brother for 60 years. He and his wife could have had children, but he was afraid of having children and snubbed his brother.

What is the concept of 60 years for a person? As an older brother, he has taken care of his mentally disabled brother for 60 years without any regrets.

This is a true story that happened in Hefei, Anhui Province. My brother is Li Shichang, 74 years old this year. His younger brother is Li Shirong, 71 years old. Because there is love, they depend on each other, are the happiest brothers in the world.

(Many of us have been "blind" at one time or another in our young lives. Where we can't see, there are our parents, who are there to guide us!)

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