The night before I returned, my mother stopped trying to persuade me to stay a few more days and started sewing clothes for me!
It has been said that there is no New Year's flavor at all, but in the days when I am about to return, the atmosphere of the New Year came up all of a sudden, and I realized that we have not only passed the New Year, but this year has been finished by us, and we have to return to continue working. Everyone said that the wanderer who was out spent 360 days weaving a 5-day dream, and it was already dawn before he had time to feel it. When all the relatives are gone, when the phone calls and things keep pouring inWhen I saw that the village began to return to the silent appearance of the previous year, the charger was pulled, the luggage was full of New Year's goods, and the army returning seemed to be more memorable than the scene when I went home.
I was the 23rd back home of the lunar month, at that time it was a heavy snowfall, it was an 8-hour drive in previous years, I drove out for 17 hours, I was very careful along the way, the road was very slippery, it was more than two o'clock in the night when I got home, but when I opened the door, my mother was still awakened by me, she opened her eyes and asked me if I was hungry, whether I was hungry, whether I was eating, whether the child was cold and so on. I know that she has been waiting for me, waiting for me to come back for the New Year, just like every year. It's just that the holiday is very short, so short that I thought I was going to start the return trip before the Chinese New Year, and on the night of the return, my mother and I didn't speak, just sat and sat until late at night.
This year's village is not lively, and it can even be said to be a little deserted. I thought it was the reason for the snow, and I thought that everyone did not go out, but then I went to my previous small home one by one, and I learned that everyone either did not come back, or they were blocked on the road, and even some of them may not go home until the Chinese New Year's Eve.
In the village, there are only a few more foreign license plates, and the others don't seem to have anything more.
When I was a child, I liked to go to the market to buy small cannons, and when I came back from the market town, I kept firing them, but now children don't let go of cannons, they just hold a mobile phone, and they can wake up from sleep until they go to sleep, and they don't leave their mobile phones and play games all the time.
You don't understand why he is holding his phone, he doesn't understand you, why such a big person still plays with such a childish thing as a cannon.
During the Chinese New Year, my eldest brother and I both went home, and my mother was obviously much happier.
A few years ago, my father passed away, and I was the eldest brother who wanted to take my mother to my side, but she was not happy, saying that it was better to live in the countryside, live comfortably by herself, grow some vegetables casually, and go to the fields after eating, which is better than anything else.
We know our mother's stubborn temper, so we don't persuade much, but since my father left, my mother's health is not as good as before, sometimes two meals a day, sometimes one meal, one day. We were far away, and there was no way to come back often, so this year I just finished work on the construction site and hurried home.
My mother was sick before, and now she can't speak clearly, and her ears are not very good, so I originally wanted not to tell her the specific day of going home, so as not to worry her, but when she entered the wax moon, she called us every once in a while, asking when she could go home, and that time I happened to walk in the service area, so I told her about going home.
My mother was obviously very happy, but she was also very worried, saying that it was snowing in my hometown, so I should pay attention to it, don't worry, just go home slowly.
Who knows, this is the longest I have ever experienced driving, I drove until the second half of the night, and I couldn't stand the back pain, but what I didn't expect was that my mother had been waiting for us at home, but then I couldn't bear it, so I went to sleep, but when I opened the door, she still woke up, asked me if I had eaten, whether I was hungry or not, and wanted to cook for us.
I hurriedly persuaded her to sleep, I am not a child anymore, I can cook or anything, so why bother her.
Early the next morning, I started cooking, and my mother got up.
Eggs were fried, porridge was boiled, and the mother ate a lot. It seems that it is not that the amount of food is small, but that I have finally eaten a delicious meal.
After eating, I started to go out to do New Year's goods, and the neighbors in the village also came out, and when they saw me, they would ask when they would come back, and I told them that I just came back yesterday.
I like to do New Year's goods, especially I like to take my mother to do New Year's goods, squeezing around in the kind of market towns in the countryside, buying this and that, this is the feeling of the New Year.
But now it is much simpler, in the past, you could buy New Year goods from the 20th of the month to the 30th of the Chinese New Year's Eve, but now it is different, if you want to buy, you can buy it in one day, and it is not crowded.
But it's not interesting to do this, for the New Year, there must always be a New Year's Style.
There are more and more people in the village, and on the first day of the Lunar New Year, they begin to pay New Year's greetings. My mother's age is okay, and many young people come to pay New Year's greetings to my mother, so I stand next to me, take some peanuts, melon seeds, sugar oranges, etc., give them food, and talk to them.
My mother smiled from ear to ear, and I was thinking that this should be the time of the year when there were the most people in the family.
New Year's greetings, go to relatives, the New Year is really lively, and it is also very busy, but after the New Year, the content of chatting with the people in the village becomes "when to go." ”
My eldest brother and I didn't dare to talk about such a topic, for fear that my mother would feel uncomfortable if she found out.
This year's mother, has been thinking about letting us stay at home for a longer period of time, after fifteen years before leaving, in fact, I know that my mother should be afraid of loneliness, especially when she is older, after a year, the kind of coldness after the excitement makes people even more uncomfortable.
The eldest brother persuaded his mother, saying that he would not leave so early, and he would have to leave after the tenth day of the new year.
Mother didn't speak, just thought, let's stay at home for a while longer.
The sun was very good after the New Year, and we liked to sit in the yard to warm up after dinner, and the eldest brother brought a basin of water to my mother and washed her feet. I don't know if it's because I'm older, or what's going on, my mother's feet are much bigger than before, and they seem to be swollen, but the shoes and socks I bought for her, and they were all bought in plus-size, so there shouldn't be such a problem.
The eldest brother washed his mother's feet and told her to relax. The mother smiled and said nothing.
The sun is so good, our family is basking in the yard, and my mother's smile is still so kind.
After I got home, I was always cooking and chopping wood, and I don't know when the jacket I wore was torn, but my mother kept pointing to my clothes and saying that she would sew them for me.
She is over 80 years old, her eyes are not good, although she said that she wanted to sew it for me, but I didn't let her use the needle, just said that when I was free, I would sew it myself.
Gradually, the people in the village began to return, and the license plate number of the other place was no longer available, and even the children could not see a few people.
Looking at the streets, looking at the garbage after the firecrackers were set off at the gate, red, black, mixed with the soil, as if to tell everyone that this year, everything that should be done, everything that should be done has been done, and this year has indeed passed.
When you leave the house again, no one asks when you will come back, and no one asks when you will leave, so they say "why haven't you left yet?" ”
I don't know why, everyone is in a hurry this year.
It's not very early to go home for the New Year, but it's very early, my neighbor on the opposite side, his parents have gone, but he will come back every New Year, but after the first day of the New Year, their family is closed, saying that there are no relatives to go, and their parents are not at home, and they are only going back to worship their ancestors, and after going to the grave, they should also go.
The rest of the people, some on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, and some left on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.
Everyone is very busy, and the busy New Year is like a transit station, moving from an old year to a new year, from a foreign country, to a hometown, and then to leave.
My mother always said, how many tens of thousands of dollars do you earn a year when you are in such a hurry to go out to work? It's like big business.
I said that the income is not much, it is enough for the family to eat.
My mother said that since I can't get rich, I should stay at home for a few more days, and I won't lose anything anyway.
In fact, after the Chinese New Year, my mother kept persuading me and my eldest brother to stay at home for a few more days, and we also knew that my mother let us stay at home for one more daySometimes it's not the difference between the eighth and ninth days of the first month, or the difference between that day, but the difference between the year.
Eventually, the phone kept ringing, and I started walking.
That afternoon, the atmosphere in the house was not right, my mother began to say a word, my eldest brother was busy, and I went to the kitchen to cook.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, dinner was ready.
Everyone came to eat, but the mother said she was not hungry and did not want to eat.
The eldest brother gave her a bun and gave her eggs, and her mother ate it reluctantly, and the food was not so happy, at least not as happy as she ate a year ago.
It was getting dark very quickly.
I can't hear firecrackers anymore, and I can't hear the neighbors talking at my doorstep.
The eldest brother said that he would leave two days later, and if he left at the same time, his mother probably couldn't stand it. But the person who left behind was actually the most difficult, in previous years, my mother would say that my eldest brother would not tell her if he left, and he would have to hold a grudge for more than half a year.
Every year, the eldest brother is the last to leave, and he stays at home and accompanies his mother to end the excitement and desertion of this Spring Festival.
At eight o'clock in the evening, the lights in the courtyard were still shining on the earth, but it was already very cold, and the light was also very cold.
I closed the door and turned on the TV.
There's something on the TV, and no one has anyone to watch it.
Mother sat on the west side, I sat on the east side, in the middle is the square table we eat, on the table, there are some peanuts, melon seeds and candy, my mother likes to eat candy the most, but this time, she didn't eat a bite.
I looked at her, she looked at me, but no one spoke.
My mother put her hands in her sleeves, lowered her head, and said nothing, I kept sending ** text messages, and the construction site was urgent, and I was about to sweat.
Only occasionally I looked up and saw that my mother was still looking down, and I was busy typing, and I looked at her for a while.
At this time, my mother said that she would sew and mend my clothes, and after sewing and mending my clothes for so long, I would leave tomorrow, and it was time to mend them.
I wanted to refuse, but I couldn't bear it, thinking that I might as well satisfy her.
I took off the clothes I had been wearing, found my mother a needle and thread, helped her thread it, and watched her sew and mend her clothes.
My mother is over 80 years old, her eyes are not good, and now it is dark again, although there are lights, it is really difficult to sew clothes.
She moves slowly, but sews well, like when she was younger.
However, my mother used to say that I was naughty, ignorant, and didn't care about my clothes, so she had to stay up late to sew for me, but now, she didn't say a word, just stitches and threads, and slowly sewed that place for me.
I poured my mother a glass of boiling water, but she didn't drink it, she just said that she was sleepy and wanted to go to bed.
My mother was lying down, and I was going to turn off the lights, and then she asked me when I was going to leave tomorrow and if I would have breakfast.
I said I wouldn't eat, let's leave at four o'clock, so that the road would not be blocked, and told her that I didn't have to get up to see me off, I didn't take anything, and it was convenient to go.
At four o'clock in the morning, I got up.
At this time, I found out that my mother had already gotten up and had already packed a lot of New Year's goods for meI gave me fried meatballs, hemp leaves, fish pieces, boiled meat, dumplings, green onions and spinach in the yard, cabbage and potatoes in the kitchen, etc.
By the way, there is also sesame oil.
I told my mother before that when I cooked cold dishes in the summer, the sesame oil I bought was always not fragrant, and it didn't have the same taste as in my hometown. I don't know when my mother bought me sesame oil, or 2 bottles, which is enough for me to eat for a year. I put everything in the car and advised my mother to go back to bed and wait for the long holiday on October 1, and if there was nothing on the construction site, I would definitely go home again.
My mother didn't go back, she kept watching me go. She was cloaked, leaning against the door, watching me reverse, watching me turn on my headlights, and then looking at me, and walking farther and farther.
It was more than four o'clock in the morning, which was very early in the countryside, but when I got on the highway, I realized that everyone had already gotten up and started running on the highway.
In the dark night, the headlights of the return trip were very bright and bright, and the hometown became very dark and dark.
There are many cars on the road, it is more congested, sometimes the service area can not enter, the toilet is overcrowded, suffocating to uncomfortable, can only wait, it seems that everyone is the same.
When I go home, I go back together, and when I return, the same is true.
It's just that this time, many people, just go for a year, and when they come back next time, it's time to say "Happy New Year" again.
We were able to get to the place without too much congestion.
Opening the rental house and opening the window, my daughter-in-law and I began to pack up the New Year's goods that my mother brought us.
Perhaps, the car is small, if the car is big, my mother will probably be able to load the whole house for me.
Eating the steamed buns, meat and vegetables brought by the family, I was in a trance for a while, obviously a few hours ago, I was still talking and laughing with my mother at home, obviously a few hours ago, I was still standing in the yard, Mingming, I have just celebrated the New Year, why did I return to this rental house?
Sometimes I think that in this city, I live in someone else's house, but this home, with my quilt, my clothes and shoes, so I have been living like this, but I have lived for a year, and my hometown has only lived for a few days.
In my hometown, I don't have my own clothes.
I called my mother ** and reported that I was safe, and my mother said that my eldest brother had cooked for her today, so I didn't have to worry about it.
Don't worry, that's fake.
I suddenly understood that the people who don't leave their hometowns are the real cattle people!
You and I are ordinary, traveling the world, working hard for three meals a day.
The excitement is temporary, and the bland desertion is the norm, but this is a bit cruel for some elderly people.
Come on, I hope to return to my hometown and my mother as soon as possible!