She fed the cat in the sunny street, and pedestrians hurried past her.
She spent hundreds of thousands of yuan on government relocation subsidies to take care of stray cats. She spent all her savings, lived alone and had no worries about food and clothing, but persisted for twenty years.
When I saw this group of photos, a strange emotion surged from my heart: I want to shoot her story.
Every morning, my mother-in-law will go to the grocery store to buy a big bag of cat food and put it on a small electric tricycle. She will also hire someone to help cook a pot of fish-she wants to feed the cat.
Mother-in-law put down the food, some cats came to eat unscrupulously, while others were quite alert and watched from a distance, waiting for the danger to be lifted; Some are plump, young and beautiful, and some are dragging their disabled legs.
Before filming, I asked my mother-in-law what she liked to eat, and I made it for her. She said that it is not good to talk when she is old, so drink porridge. So that day, we crowded into my mother-in-law's cabin and ate the fish porridge I brought together. I ate this when I was sick as a child. Because she doesn't like rice porridge, my grandmother cooks porridge with fish bone soup. Add thin fish fillets and meat floss to the hot porridge, and then pour a few drops of sesame oil.
As soon as the pot was boiled, the delicious taste of fish filled the whole room, scaring all the cats at home to bark. When my mother-in-law was drinking porridge, we asked her why she had to spend so much effort to help stray cats.
She said that she believes that people have seven lives, and then they will be reincarnated as cats. Because God wants people to suffer like cats in order to cherish the world better. There is no difference between a man and a cat in this world. She thinks it will take twenty years to complete the merits through the cat feeding ceremony.
She also said that she was not saving anything, she was saving herself.
Such an answer far exceeds expectations. My mother-in-law has no culture, but she stands at the end of her life and understands everything in the world in her own way.
On the Weibo of Italian photographer, the last picture of grandma cat is like this: in the middle of the ruins of this steel city, her mother-in-law is sitting on a broken rattan chair, holding a dirty cat in her arms and dozing off. Under the dim street lamp, you will see dozens of stray cats around her feet, quietly accompanying her.
The strong help themselves, and the saints help others. Her bent back is full of Zen.
What you need to face is the road determined in your heart; The judgment of the world has been forgotten.