Chapter 32 Water and soil of hometown

When I went abroad for the first time, my mother helped me organize my luggage. When the luggage was almost packed, she suddenly took out a small transparent bottle containing black things. "Take this in your suitcase for a safe trip," Mom said. "What secret document is this?" My mother said: "This is the soil caught by our gate and the water at home. You haven't heard that if you travel, you will get sick because the sailors are not convinced. With a bottle of water and soil, wherever you go, there is your hometown, and you will not be sick." The soil and water are not acclimatizing." My mother also told me that this is a tradition of our southern Hokkien people. When our ancestors passed through Taiwan from Tangshan, everyone brought some soil from their hometown, carried some with them, put some in the ancestral hall, and scattered some in the fields. , because of the blessing of the water and soil in the hometown, the ancestors cultivated a rich and prosperous hometown in the barren land.

Since then, every time I travel, I always take a bottle of water and soil from my hometown with me. Sometimes when I take out the bottle of water and soil in the hotel in Keyu, I feel that the gray-black water and soil is very beautiful and full of strength. The water and soil of our hometown nurture us, making us grow into men who stand upright, even if we drift thousands of miles, in a lonely night in a foreign country, we can still be full of tenderness and grandeur. There is not only the love of my hometown in that bottle of water and soil, but also my mother's blessing. This blessing is long and long, and has always taken care of me.