It's about to be the New Year, and I received another voice from my old mother at night. This time, she was unusual, she didn't ask for warmth, but directly made a request. "Just now your cousin-in-law said that this year's cherries are very cheap, they are sold online, and they can be delivered to your door Chinese New Year's Eve, you can take a look at them, send a few catties back"........ This is the only time they have asked me for something after I told them that I would not go back to my hometown for Chinese New Year.
When I heard this, I immediately put down what I was doing and checked the sales information of the online store. It turned out that this year's cherries didn't seem to be cheap, and they were still roughly 50 pounds. I sent a voice message to confirm how many pounds I was going to buy. The first sentence of the old mother's feedback is still her "shrewd philistine" character, and the first question is the price. I told the truth. I don't want to, after she heard it, a string of voices came over, and they all refused: Ah, in this way, your cousin-in-law said that it is 20 a catty, so it is so expensive, then don't want it...... Don't buy, don't buy....... I need to go to the supermarket with your dad to buy the same .......
In this way, a family trivial matter of preparing New Year's goods was started by her, and she resolutely ended it. And the reason for the tail comes from her consistent concept: she is afraid that I will spend more money, especially if she doesn't want me to spend money for them, even if the five or six catties of cherries are actually less than 300. Thinking of the "Fu Lei's Family Letter" that I flipped through the day before yesterday, I saw that Father Fu wrote a letter to his son back then, and he always liked to repeatedly tell him at the end of the letter, "Don't be too homesick", "Give less gifts and spend less money", everything is a little know, this is actually "the heart of parents in the world". When people are young, it is often impossible to realize that the love of the world will not be all kinds of big truths and slogans, but will be condensed in the small details of life.
Seeing a group of celebrities on Weibo discussing, #What do my parents want during the New Year#, I don't need to discuss it to know what my parents want most. It's not sensational, their New Year's wish is actually very simple, that is, a family reunion. It's just that for this kind of "reunion", when it comes to my old mother, she will refine it specifically, especially in the matter of eating. For example, she knew that I liked chicken, and she would raise a large number of them before the meeting, waiting for me to come home and feast on them, stewed or stewed, and they themselves liked duck and goose meat. For another example, she knew that I loved to eat local meatballs, so she would buy ten catties and eight catties of fresh meat by myself a long time ago, specially ask a skilled hand to make them, and store them in the refrigerator, so that I could make a snack when I went downstairs late at night.
Even, a few years ago, when she heard that beef bones can be cooked in soup, which can be both nutritious and not overnourishing, she would buy a lot of them every year, and the flesh and blood of the severed limbs and legs were blurred, and the two large refrigerators were stuffed to the brim, and she couldn't open them with all her might...... Therefore, the painstaking efforts of parents all over the world will not be superficial, and they will show their strengths and be extremely concrete in their ideas. However, this kind of embodiment is specific and subtle, and the way is very subtle and unique, and it feels that every family is not the same. My father is always reticent and always doesn't know how to communicate with you, but he is much kinder than usual, and my old mother is very anxious and seems to have good things to eat for you all the time.
As a son of man, of course I know, #What do parents want when it's the New Year#. It's just a pity that I can't go back to my hometown for the Spring Festival this year. A month or two ago, my mother was knocking on WeChat to find out if I was going back, but she didn't seem to want to put pressure on me and didn't ask publicly. Last week, after I made the decision not to go back for the time being, I could clearly feel that they were deeply disappointed in their hearts, but they were still silent. So far, the only thing they have asked me to do is to show me the cherries on the Internet, but I haven't bought them yet.
Picture: Micro film "You Old Man"
