"Nan, put this pad on, you can be comfortable when walking, don't forget, there are still leftover insoles in the suitcase, and when the insoles are almost used up, remember to tell me in advance, and I will give it to you." ”
My name is Li Mulan, I am a freshman, I am packing my suitcase, and I will go to my new school for military training in two days.
And my mother, Mu Yun, was holding four or five pairs of insoles and handing them to me at this time.
"Thank you, Mom, how long have you been taking these insoles? ”
"It didn't take long for a pair of insoles to be fine in a day or two, and a few days to four or five days. ”
"Thank you, Mom, I really don't know what I would have done without your insoles. ”
I have typical flat feet, and the whole soles of my feet are almost 180 degrees, so I have to walk a lot harder than normal people.
My mother noticed my physical defects when I was a child, and she would often massage me and try to help me press a normal arch with both hands.
In addition, she will use all kinds of equipment to help me exercise, in order to make me grow up to suffer less sin.
But what I didn't expect was that my mother's efforts were in vain in the end, and I was still an out-and-out flat foot when I was a little older.
In order to make my walk less painful, my mother started to help me with the insoles herself, although the insoles did not make my feet into normal arch feet, but at least I walked less sinful.
My mother didn't always know that I had flat feet, and the first time I found out about this physical problem was during a military training in my fifth grade of elementary school.
The most basic training in military training is to stand in a military posture, and friends who have undergone military training may know that almost half an hour starts when the instructor asks them to stand in a military posture, which is too long, and naturally there will be students who have physical problems, of course, there are also students who pretend to be sick.
On that day, I was trying to stand in a military posture, and I was very proud to see that my classmates around me couldn't hold up their reports one by one.
"I'm going to be the best guy standing, and the instructor will definitely praise me when the time comes. "I'm in my heart and myself.
However, not long after I had this idea, I started to experience severe pain below my calf, but I have always had a strong personality and I still persisted.
The instructor initially made us stand in the shade in a military position, but as the position of the sun changed, our team was soon exposed to the sun.
The morning sun was not very scorching, shining on my body warmly, my sleepiness increased sharply, although I was hit by the sleepiness of the sun, but the pain in my legs also invaded my nerves, and a thin layer of small beads of sweat appeared on my head.
I don't know if it was the sun or the pain, but after standing for a few more minutes, my eyes turned black, my mouth couldn't make a sound, and my limbs couldn't move.
I still stood tall in a military posture, and the instructor walked by in a row, and finally stopped in front of me, he praised my military posture and stood for the standard, and asked me to be an excellent pacesetter, and he asked my name.
"Report to the instructor! My name is Li Mulan. ”
"Li Mulan. "The moment I heard the name, I woke up, and when my eyes cleared, I found that I was lying in a hospital bed.
Yes, when it was pitch black in front of me, I fell to the ground, and the scene just now was my dream, and it was not the instructor who called me by name, but the nurse in charge of me.
"Li Mulan, where is your family?"
I looked left and right to see that there were no parents, and I was the only one in the ward except for the nurse sister.
"What about this, the child's father went to pay the bill, I was afraid that the child would wake up hungry, so I got her some food, nurse, what's wrong with our child?"
My mom happened to come from outside with a lunch box.
"The little girl is nothing serious, but her legs have been standing for too long and she fainted, parents should pay more attention, don't you know if you can't stand for too long with flat feet?"
"Flat feet?" my mother wondered, "What do you mean by flat feet?"
"Don't you know that children have flat feet? Flat feet are caused by the inversion of the talus, the valgus valgus, and the collapse of the arch of the foot, which causes the center of the foot to become flattened. ”
My mother was shocked when she heard the nurse's words, she used to know that I was prone to falling when I walked, but she only thought that I was simply uncoordinated in my limbs, and she didn't think much about it, but now she learned that I am like this because of flat feet.
"There are no other problems, you can be discharged from the hospital after resting, but remember not to let the child stand for too long in the future, and don't go to military training again, I will ask the doctor to write a note for you, and you can ask the school for leave when you come back." With that, the nurse withdrew.
My mom quickly put the lunch box on the table and went to the doctor's office.
The end result is that I really have flat feet, so I need to drastically reduce my exercise and take a break.
The doctor finally gave me a certificate, and my mother went to school with the certificate to give me a leave note, and my dream of becoming a military training pacesetter was shattered, which made me feel uncomfortable for a while.
Since that time, I have never been to the school for military training or field training, and I can't even participate in the sports meeting, but I can enjoy it at home with the air conditioner when others are suffering, and naturally my heart is much happier.
Since my mom found out about my flat feet, she started to find various ways to help me correct my arches, and she started to help me massage exercises, but the results were mediocre.
That's why she thought of helping me get a pair of soft and comfortable insoles so that my feet wouldn't be so painful.
When my mother was young, she followed my grandmother to learn female popularity, and when I was a child, some of my clothes were sewn by herself, so the matter of insoles is a simple thing for her.
Since I was a child, my insoles have been rounded by my mother, and at my request, she will also embroider all kinds of patterns on the insole, and my mother will also embroider my favorite bear on the insoles.
There are cute cartoons on the insoles, and when I go to school, I take off my shoes to show off to my classmates.
"You see, I have a bear on my insole, and my mother embroidered it for me, you don't have it. ”
"Really, Xiaolan, look so good, I envy you, can you ask your mother to embroider one for me too." ”
"I want it too, I want it too. ”
People always have some show-off mentality, and children are no exception, and I agreed to all the requests of my classmates.
"Mom, Mom, you embroider me a lazy sheep, then SpongeBob SquarePants, and then Ultraman......" Mom also agreed to my excessive requests.
Later, when I went to high school, it became popular among my classmates to wear white sports socks, and I was no exception.
I couldn't feel it when I wore patterned socks before, but after wearing white socks, I began to realize that as long as I sweated, the patterns on the insoles could easily stain the socks.
Adolescent children are all about saving face, and during a class, the teacher gave me a short notice to go for a physical examination, and I didn't realize anything at first.
But when a group of us stood in the physical examination center, my heart began to panic.
This physical examination is to prepare for the college entrance examination in the future, so it is extremely strict, I am a classmate and teacher who has flat feet and have known for a long time, so I am not afraid at all, what I am afraid of is measuring height.
"Hey, have you heard? This time, you have to take off your shoes to measure your height, and the data must be accurate, not a centimeter is bad. ”
"What about those of us who rely on heightened insoles?"
Of course, I wasn't worried about my height, but the white socks on my feet, and I was afraid that people would see them when I took off my shoes, "But I didn't exercise today, I didn't sweat, maybe not?" I began to mutter.
"Next, Li Mulan. ”
As I was thinking about it, the person in charge of the inspection called my name.
I took off my shoes nervously, and I didn't dare to lift my feet at all, for fear that the soles of my feet would be dyed with color and seen by my classmates.
"Height 163, weight 52kg, go down. ”
I breathed a sigh of relief, and raised my feet to get off the instrument, "Huh, Li Mulan, your socks?"
"Why are your socks so dark?
His words soon erupted in laughter, and more and more people noticed me, and I nervously put my feet together and stood in place.
"Hey, hey, what are you doing? You can't get a physical examination? Why are you in charge of so many people. The medical examiner stopped him.
I hurriedly put on my shoes and fled from here.
As soon as school was out in the afternoon, I hurried home.
"Mom! I don't want to pad this rotten insole! "I took off my shoes and threw the insoles on the ground.
"What's wrong, what's wrong?" said my mom from the kitchen with a spatula.
"Look at my socks, they're all dyed, and I don't wear them anymore. ”
"Oh, you can't do it if you don't wear it, you will suffer if you don't wear it. "My mom bent down to pick up the insole.
"I don't wear it, I don't wear it, I'm ugly," I threw the temper I received at school on my mother.
My mom tried tirelessly to persuade me, but I didn't want to wear that insole, and finally my mom came up with a solution, and we both took a step back, and I continued to wear the insole, and she didn't embroider the insole anymore.
After the college entrance examination, I was admitted to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and there will be military training after the new students are admitted, and my mother is ready to help me ask for leave as usual.
"I don't want my mother this time, I want to try, maybe after so many years, I won't faint anymore because of my standing posture, and with your insole, I won't be so uncomfortable when I stand. ”
Maybe it's the regret of my youth and an obsession with the military training pacesetter, but I want to try again this time.
Seeing that I insisted, my mother respected my choice and told me to tell the teacher in time if I had any physical condition, and I agreed.
When I was packing my luggage, my mother came over with a stack of insoles, "Nan, put this on the pad, you can be comfortable when you walk, don't forget, there are leftovers in the suitcase, and when the insoles are almost used up, remember to tell me in advance, and I will give it to you." ”
I took the insole from my mother's hand, so many insoles I don't know how long my mother took it, I gently rubbed it in my hand.
"Mom, I'm sorry. ”
My mom was furious with my unfounded apology.
"When I was in high school before, I hated the insoles you gave me, because I was young and ignorant, I'm sorry. ”
In fact, I regretted it after losing my temper with my mother that time, and I was the one who asked my mother to embroider on the insoles at first, and I was the one who disliked it later.
Now I really understand my mother's good intentions, and if it weren't for this little pair of insoles, my feet would have endured more...
The freshman military training began quickly, wearing the insoles that my mother had personally received, and after so many years of exercise, I barely felt much during the military training, like a normal classmate.
There were records of the previous physical examination, so the classmates and teachers knew that I was flat feet, they took extra care of me, and the instructors knew that I was flat feet but still insisted on training, and often praised me.
There were records in the previous physical examination, so the classmates and teachers knew that I was flat feet, and they took special care of me, and the instructor knew that I was flat feet but still insisted on it, and often praised me.
Although there is occasional pain, but it is also within the scope of my patience, after the end of the military training, I did not get the excellent pacesetter I dreamed of, but for me, to be able to complete the military training, is the best thing.
After learning about me, the teachers of our college also took some photos of my training and posted them on the college's official account to inspire other students, and many students also met me through this official account, and praised me for my good looks and excellence below, and some people even called me "flat-footed beauty".
After the military training, it was the official class, and the girl's feelings were always spring, and soon I fell in love with a boy in the next class.
We have a course where three classes are taken together, and everyone sits together in a lecture hall.
In college classrooms, students often skip class, sleep, and play with their mobile phones, and teachers are not surprised by this situation.
But every time I found that there was a boy who always sat in the same position, never missed a class, and did not play with his mobile phone during class, just stared at the teacher and the blackboard with his head propped up.
"He's so serious, I've never seen him skip class, and he doesn't get distracted in class, who is he?" I asked my roommate next to me.
"Who are you talking about?" I pointed to the boy to show her.
"I don't know, I'll ask. The roommate turned around and asked the classmate in the next class.
Seeing her so familiar with her also felt incredible.
"I asked, I asked, the first place in our major and this grade, called Chen Xinyu, looks very handsome on the side face, I don't know what the face is...... "The roommate talked to me endlessly.
Maybe it was because he heard someone calling his name, or maybe he realized that someone was talking about him, Chen Xinyu turned his head and looked in the direction of the two of us.
"Wow! that's handsome. The roommate also saw Chen Xinyu turn his head and exclaimed.
I stared straight at his face, forgetting to look away for a while, his facial features were handsome, his skin was very white, everyone had just been tanned in military training, his white looked a little out of place...
Seeing me staring at him, he didn't get angry, smiled at me and turned his head.
"Hey, Xiaolan, did he smile at you, he was interesting to you, he liked you. My roommate shook my arm excitedly.
"Don't make a fuss, go to class. "I know my roommate's joking personality, and I don't think much of it.
"Chen Xinyu. "I silently wrote down the name.
But what I didn't expect was that soon I talked to Chen Xinyu, and after class one day, as soon as the bell rang, my roommate pulled me out of the classroom.
"Hurry up, go late, the cafeteria will be more crowded. "She dragged me all the way around.
"Slow down! I didn't take my bag! ”
"What then?"
"You go and occupy a seat first, and I'll go to the classroom to get my bag and look for you. ”
"Okay, then hurry up. ”
After my roommate finished speaking, he ran away, I turned around and turned back to the classroom, and as soon as I entered the classroom, I found that Chen Xinyu was still sitting in his position and had not left, and he looked up at me.
"Li Mulan, why are you back?"
"Do you know me?" almost all of the college students' classes are checked in by mobile phones, so the teacher can't call every student by name, let alone the classmates next door who haven't spoken.
"Hey, I've seen it on the college's official account before, and I'm very impressed. ”
"Oh, I forgot to take my bag, why don't you go to dinner yet?" I asked politely.
"I haven't understood part of this chapter that the teacher talked about, so I'll go soon. ”
"Good. After listening to his words, I didn't continue to answer, I took my bag and prepared to leave.
"That...... Can you leave a contact information?"
As soon as I walked to the door, Chen Xinyu spoke up, I turned around and walked over, and added contact information to him.
When I told my roommate about it, she was thrilled again.
After adding contact information, Chen Xinyu always chats with me from time to time, and he will be the first to find me as a partner when the teacher assigns group homework.
After coming and going, we slowly became acquainted, and unconsciously, the two young hearts were also slowly approaching.
In the second semester of my freshman year, Chen Xinyu found my roommate to help me and confessed to me under the teaching building that the love between the first and flat-footed beauties was blessed by countless classmates.
I agreed to Chen Xinyu's pursuit, and soon the two of us became a campus couple in the school.
I also told my mother about my love, and she was very satisfied with Chen Xinyu, but the only thing that made her feel dissatisfied was that I was from Wuxi, Jiangsu, and Chen Xinyu was from Shenzhen.
Although my mother was worried about this, she did not object to the two of us being together, on the contrary, she often peeked at Chen Xinyu in the name of sending me insoles.
After graduating from university, Chen Xinyu chose to stay in Shanghai to work, while I returned to Wuxi to take the postgraduate examination.
After working for two years and falling in love for five years, he went to our house to propose, and I also flew to Shenzhen to meet his parents, and our marriage was quickly engaged.
Since our two families are far apart, we decided to hold a formal wedding at our house and then go to their house to invite relatives and friends to dinner.
After the wedding, I went home and packed my luggage, preparing to go to Shenzhen with Chen Xinyu the next day, which meant that I had completely left home and was going to a new family life.
I thought my mom would be very reluctant, but she was in a stable mood throughout the afternoon, but my dad was sullen, and at dinner, my mom was still trying to persuade my dad.
After dinner that night, Chen Xinyu asked me to go out for a walk, and when I got home, it was already more than ten o'clock, I thought my mother was waiting for me to come back, I knocked on the door, "Mom, Dad, have you slept?"
"Your dad is working the night shift tonight, I'm watching TV, and I'll go to bed later. "I did hear the sound of the TV coming from my mother's house, so I didn't go in.
"Okay, then you can go to bed early after a while, and I'll go back to the house. “
At one o'clock in the morning, I went to the toilet and came back to find that the light in my mother's bedroom was still on.
"Mom, why haven't you slept yet?" I knocked on the door again.
The mother's room was still quiet just now, and suddenly the sound of the TV came again, "Oh, I want to finish watching this episode, it's going to be right away, you go to sleep first." ”
I didn't think much of it, and I had to catch the car the next day, so I got into the bed and fell asleep.
I woke up early the next day, but I didn't expect my mother to get up earlier than me, she had already prepared breakfast and sat at the table waiting for me.
Seeing me come out of the room, she quickly got up and entered her room.
Immediately afterwards, she took out a big bag and put it next to me, "Nan, you are leaving soon, I don't know when you will come back, you have worn shoes since you were a child, and the insoles will inevitably suffer, I am afraid that you will not have enough insoles at that time, so I specially gave you a little more, and you will be uncomfortable without insoles when you save it." ”
It turned out that my mother didn't sleep last night and was actually buying insoles for me, a big bag full of insoles, at least more than 30 pairs, which was enough for me to use for a long time.
The line in the mother's hand, the wanderer's shirt.
Before leaving, I am afraid that I will return late.
This ancient poem I learned in elementary school, after many years, hit my heart, I finally deeply understood its meaning, I could no longer control it, hugged my mother and cried bitterly, flat feet are not my defects, but the best symbol of my mother's love.