Grandpa's Love, Lifelong Protection

In the winter of 1961, Zhu Changgen carried his wife's dowry, a red patent leather suitcase, and walked three miles in the snow in exchange for a thin wooden coffin. When he was twenty-nine years old, his wife died of illness, leaving behind two young sons. Rumors spread in the village that he was determined to defeat his wife. He knelt in front of the grave and said: I promised you to be strong. For the next fifty-five years, he never married and raised his two sons alone. The remaining suitcase was wiped clean by him and placed opposite the bed, where it stayed for fifty-five years. No one is allowed to touch. In 2017, when he was on his deathbed at the age of eighty-five, he stared at the suitcase and said only one sentence: "Take the suitcase for me." This is a true story of the author's family. From 1932 to 2017, from the war of resistance against Japan to the reform and opening up, an ordinary Chinese man spent his whole life fulfilling a promise. There is no golden finger, no counterattack, only one word "keep" - keep your promise, keep your feelings, keep your son, and keep your family. The baby who came back to life on the straw mat, the mother who hid two hundred grains of rice in her trousers, the child who was bleeding from a needle but did not cry when he was four years old, the son who stood in front of his father... These details are not made up, they are real things that happened to this family. Great-grandpa built this family, and grandpa kept it. Without his protection, the roots behind would not exist.