Whenever I see it, I can feel my mother's encouragement to me. The fragrance of books is everywhere, and it contains the mother's ardent expectations for her children to read more, take the right path, and be a good person.
Sun Bingwei
That day I took the time to tidy up the bookcase. A "Selected Famous Sentences of Ancient Poetry" is displayed in front of us. My heart was hot, I stroked the cover of the book, and recalled a past event.
In 1965, my family was living on a shoestring. Brothers and sisters 7 people, I am the boss. The family lived on their father's $59 a month. When I graduated from junior high school, I wanted to work early to help my family, but with good academic results, I resolutely gave up the high school entrance examination to get a secondary school. In 1969, I graduated from the railway secondary school and was assigned to a railway grass-roots unit and began my railway work career. At that time, the monthly salary was 30.5 yuan. My mother gave me 5 yuan a month, which is a month's worth of vegetables. At that time, the workshop canteen lunch for 5 cents was a bowl of large pot dishes, and it was delicious to eat. For 2 cents, you can buy a lunch box of fried fish or pork head to improve it.
I grew up knowing that it was not easy for my parents to pull 7 of our brothers and sisters. Understand the hardships of life. The 5 yuan of vegetable gold given to me by my mother, I am carefully calculated. Eat until the end of the month.
Since I was a child, I have loved literature and often go to bookstores. I walked into a bookstore after work that day. I was attracted by a "Selected Famous Sentences of Ancient Poetry and Songs". A thick volume contains more than 2,000 poems, words and songs from the "Book of Poetry" to Gong Zizhen of the Qing Dynasty, and the influential poems, words and songs of the dynasties in the history of mainland literature, including miscellaneous dramas and legends. What makes people feel even more valuable is that this book has a colloquial and concise commentary. Each famous sentence is indicated as a work by a certain writer of a certain generation. It then provides the version, the number of volumes, and the number of pages so that readers can find the full text. I read greedily, those that were familiar and familiar; those who had read and heard but did not know the details; those which I did not know; those whose eyes were bright, and I looked at them for a long time, and I was reluctant to let go.
At that time, it was not like today to open the shelves and choose random books. After a long time, people will certainly not be happy. The salesman frowned and asked me, "Do you buy or not?" Don't waste time! "At that time, the class struggle was in full swing, and the smoke of war was not over. People are rushing to talk, and they can't be "gentle and frugal." I look at the book price of the lower right end of the back cover: 2.50 yuan. Hesitated. This is my half a month's vegetable gold. "If you can't afford it, take it", the salesman looked disdainful. Young and vigorous, a fire rose in my heart at once, and I turned my heart sideways and threw down the next sentence, "Buy! hum! ”
Out of the bookstore, carefully put the book in the bag. I feel that the package is so heavy, and my heart is also heavy. I didn't dare to say it when I got home. Immediately after eating, go wash the dishes and perform well. But in his heart, he was thinking about how to say it to his mother. It's late, let's talk about it. I plucked up the courage to talk to my mother about buying books. Then I quickly told my mother that I had enough vegetables this month. What immediately came to mind was the penny-for-money chili pepper with knotty pickle shreds in the cafeteria.
Mother didn't speak, she took the book and looked through it. Flipping to the back cover, silently staring at the 2.50 yuan. My heart beat, thinking about my mother working as a tailor for others every day and half the night; looking at the many gray hairs of my mother who was only in her 40s; listening to my younger siblings arguing that they had not eaten enough. I impulsively said to my mother, "Mom, or I'll return the book tomorrow." Mother still didn't speak, she got up and went over to open the drawer. After a while, he came over and handed me 3 yuan. "Child, you are willing to learn, and your mother supports you." This book money mom to you. Read well and be a useful person. I looked sheepishly into my mother's eyes, which were full of love and expectations for me. My tears flowed involuntarily.
The years are long, and how many years have passed in a flash. This book has always been with me. I kept my mother's expectations of me firmly in mind. Use your spare time to study hard. Finally, he obtained a college degree from the Central Party School. He was promoted from a locomotive and furnace and vehicle fitter to a leading cadre, and later specialized in the cultural work of the enterprise, serving as the secretary general of the Railway Literary Association, and made positive contributions to the cultural construction of the railway enterprise.
Today, my mother has been an ancient man for many years, and I am also an ancient old man. The family has moved several times, the bookcase has been changed many times, and the collection has been updated a lot, but this "Selected Famous Sentences of Ancient Poetry and Songs" will always be cherished in my bookcase. Whenever you see it. I can feel my mother's encouragement to me. The fragrance of books is everywhere, and it contains the mother's ardent expectations for her children to read more, take the right path, and be a good person.
Author Sun Bingwei Member of the Communist Party of China Daben Member of the Chinese Prose Literature Association Member member of the Shandong Provincial Prose Literature Association Member member of the Qingdao Contemporary Literary Creation Research Association Member of the Qingdao Qindao Writers Association.
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