Since my mother died, I rarely go home, and there is nothing else at home except the old house, but I will go home every Qingming to pay respects. Last week, my wife said she wanted to go back to her hometown, so I took her home.
The hometown has changed a lot now, the asphalt roads have been built directly to the door of each house, and the village has become a red tourist area and the economy is getting better day by day. My family's old house was also renovated last year, this summer vacation when my wife also took her grandson back to live for a while, my wife said that the temperature in the village is 5-6 degrees higher than that of Wuhan, and the child likes to swim in the small river in his hometown, and the children in the village are fishing and catching shrimp together. When I went home this time, my cousin also came back to live together for two days.
When we sat down and chatted together, my cousin talked about my mother, which always made my heart sour, but also warm. At that time, the life of each family was not rich, my family had many sisters, and my ancestors had no inheritance to pass on, so life was often stretched. At that time, in order to let us go to school, my mother cut firewood day and night to sell it in the county seat, but she still owed a lot of tuition fees to the village. Several sisters themselves have very good grades in school, but they have only finished junior high school and have not gone back to school. And I am the only boy in the family, so naturally I will do my best to ensure that I can study. When I was in junior high school, I felt that my family was really difficult, and the money from selling pigs every year was mainly to ensure my school expenses, and my family was very tight. One day, I said, "Mom, if my family can't pay the tuition, I won't go to school?""I'm nervous. "An old man, I don't study well, I want to be weird all day long!The mother looked angry, "Even if you smash the pot and sell iron, tear down the house and sell the beam, you have to finish the book!.""In the face of my mother's resoluteness, I suddenly felt warm and happy, and I studied harder. Later, when I became the first university student in the village, my mother was so happy that she often woke up laughing in her dreams.
In order to commend me for my talent, the village exempted my family from 275 yuan in tuition and miscellaneous fees, and then I learned that my mother raised so many chickens and ducks every year, and it turned out that they had been paying off their debts. The money I used to go to college was all from selling pigs. I feel very sad in my heart, and I am infinitely sorry for my mother, and I am infinitely grateful to my mother.
After graduating and working, my wife and I both worked in Wuhan, and we often encouraged my mother to come to the city for a long time, but my mother always stayed and returned, and she was always worried about the crops, vegetable garden, chickens, ducks, pigs, etc. Every Spring Festival, my wife and I often go home, with our sons, daughters-in-law, and grandchildren gathered around our mothers, and the grandchildren also like to stick to grandma, especially like to follow behind my mother's ass to feed chickens and ducks, chirping around my mother and frolicking, "have you won a certificate" Mother will always "torture" one by one, how did you do in the test?Each of us also followed the "hall" and patiently listened to the mother's "nagging". My wife and I especially enjoyed the time we spent with our mother, and there were always endless things to talk about and chatter. Every time she returned, her mother's eyes were filled with tears, but her face was full of happiness.