Chapter 62 Dedicated to Beijing - My Mother

Mom, where are you standing here alone!Are you too tired, or too excited? The seats in front have just finished, and the eldest brother and the others are talking with the guests. It is very lively outside. Look at the lights, and listen to the sound of singing and dancing music!The whole family has been busy and excited for a year, tidying up the birthday hall. Tonight, they should be happy to the fullest! Mom, what are you thinking about?You look back at me!In the past ten years, you have lived younger and younger. Your smiling eyes are so beautiful and bright. People say that you were very good-looking when you were young. I think you are very, very good-looking now.

But, Mom, before this, since I was born, I haven’t seen you smile. Wasn’t I born in the year of Gengzi?Our family was the most unlucky that year!I often hear elder brothers and others say that our family is declining day by day, and you have worked hard enough for the life of this family. That year, another group of robbers came, people from any country, and took us The garden was burned down, everything was robbed, and people were ruined.Since then, the robber has become the master in our house!Our children were collecting coal cores, pulling rickshaws, paving roads, and the devils and robbers ran rampant everywhere with our unscrupulous children. At that time, how many tears did you shed, and how many times did you tell the big brothers that we should fight for revenge? If so!

When I can remember things, our family will be even poorer and more miserable.The walls of the house also collapsed, and weeds grew in the yard.The robbers have become more fierce to us, and the house thieves have become more rampant.Mom, I will never forget the day when the Japanese bandits sat in our hall, you put your arm around us, pointed at the bandits with the other and scolded: "Don't think that our people are all dead, our hearts are rotten Yes, my sons and daughters will come back! My sons and daughters will call back to our home, and will come back to me, you wait for your last day!" Your arm around us , your anger is cold, your voice is trembling with anger, your gray hair hangs on your wrinkled face covered with toil, but your eyes are so brave and resolute, and your voice is so resounding!We stick close to you, facing the group of robbers who are terrified, our hearts are about to explode!

Afterwards, the Japanese robbers left, and the house thieves brought the American robbers again... Mom, there are dark shadows in your eyes again.Mom, does this memory make you angry, sad? But, Mom, ten years ago, how happy were you on the day when the eldest brother and the others came back from the Northwest with a red flag in their hands!You held your eldest brother's strong hand and looked at his tanned face that had been weathered and strengthened, how many tears of joy filled your eyes!The robbers all ran away like a windstorm, and the house thieves also slipped away.We have all jumped out of the dark hut, our house is still in dilapidation, but how bright the sun is in the yard, and how fresh the air is!

Now, Mom, look up, there are two new high-rise buildings on the left and right in front of you, and the lights on the east and west rows that can't be seen from the side. Blossoming bright peonies. Look, don't the newly built high-rise buildings on both sides look like the outlines of fairy mountain pavilions drawn with gold lines?Coupled with the hall we have refurbished, how majestic and grand it is! Mom, in the past ten years, your eldest son has not been idle. He has led the whole family to work hard day and night.Among the guests who came today, who doesn't praise our beautiful homeland, who doesn't praise our hard-working children!

Mom, did you also expect that we would have such a happy and proud day?From now on, our life will only get better every day. In another ten, twenty, or one hundred years, how good will it be?We are really going to enjoy it greatly! Your eyes are serious again!Don't look at me with such a smile and annoyance. I know, I will not relax, I must listen to my elder brother’s words carefully, follow him to work hard, and work hard until everyone in the world can live the best and best life...Mom, look quickly, the fireworks are set off , How beautiful and bright, just like the five-color light rain all over the sky, illuminating our splendid pavilions and our happy hearts!

Mom, look back at me, look into my eyes, see how bright, how beautiful, how happy, and how young your face is in my eyes! Mom, lower your head and let me kiss you gently. I wish you happiness and youth forever! August 27, 1959, Beijing.