Part I: "The Original" Chapter 48 A Letter from Far Away

"Zihan,

How are you?!

At the time of receiving this letter, I was already on a small island in the UK, facing the sea.

Every morning, I would have breakfast with my family, enjoying the warm sunshine, and often the chirping of birds, I don't know its name, Cai Chuan said like a magpie from home.

We had a small garden and a vegetable patch to ourselves. I didn't expect the carob seeds brought out from Jiangbei to germinate, and I happily climbed up the bamboo vine that Cai Chuan and I built every day, and now it is more than half a meter high, and it is covered with tender green leaves.

At noon, we will cook Jiangbei's hometown dishes together. Zihan, it's really strange, I've lived in Sungai House for so many years, there are a lot of mothers-in-law and mothers, and there are more than a dozen dishes at each meal, but I never taste the taste, I watched the two children eat alone, but I was like chewing a candle, unpalatable, unpalatable.

After I came here, Cai Chuan said that I was fat, and I could eat two big bowls of Jiangbei's rice at every meal.

Zihan, I have lived half my life before I understand how happy and important it is to be with the person I like.

I used to be most afraid of time passing slowly, and every day I counted the age of my children and looked forward to them growing up. Even if my precious youth and health disappear, I feel that it doesn't matter, and even death, I am not afraid, which is a relief for me.

But Zihan, do you know me now?! Every day before going to bed, my heart is full and sweet, and I am full of plans and expectations for tomorrow morning. It seems like my life is really starting now. Sometimes, I look at the sea, and even regret that I have lost my youth so much, but when I see the rich family of four happily volunteering in the church, watching the excellent papers being published, and watching my mother-in-law lying on the rocking chair basking in the sun, she has a satisfied smile on her face.

Zihan, I'm relieved. Some people's youth is destined to be a kind of trial! Thinking of this, I am glad that I was the one who was at the beginning, even though my whole body was covered with blood and my heart was full of holes, but I still kept the responsibility and morality of a mother. Now I suddenly regret the relics and treasures that I smashed.

Zihan, I was really happy and relieved when I smashed it. I am like them, no matter how much they are valuable, whether they are precious or not, no one cherishes them, no one cares, and they are fragmented. This is who I was at the beginning, who I was in pain and despair.

Zihan, write this letter to you, in addition to reporting safety, to tell you the news, Cai Chuan proposed to me, this has always been just something that I imagined countless times in my mind, but it really happened. I was at a loss. I'm worried about my mother-in-law, I'm worried about getting rich and having a letter. I once thought that he and I could grow old together quietly, which was the best arrangement for me. But he gave me perfection. I was a little reluctant to accept it at first, but there is a text that says:

Mom, uncle's determination is what I did with Facai and my grandmother, you have paid for us unreservedly in the first fifty years of your life, the pain and embarrassment of your support I and my brother couldn't understand when we were young, but we are all grown up now, we have experienced feelings ourselves, and we have been able to understand your despair, but you have never chosen to give up on us for your own happiness. You chose not to have yourself, not decades of youth, and chose to grow up with us, even though my brother and I were born in a broken family, and my father was a scumbag, but you used full maternal love to support a small world of light for us, and retained the opportunity for me and my brother to live happily. Mom, our today, is the price you pay for all your youth, your loneliness, your pain. Mom, you are a mother, but you are also a person, a person of flesh and blood, feelings and perception, thank you for your choice for us, you let us realize that mother's love can really be given like this. The poet who praises love says that death is the proof of love, but you use your own life to make us understand that love is companionship! For us, you spend the most precious time of your life in our growth, and you yourself are lonely, and we now understand that you drank and smashed things in despair, which is a kind of life is worse than death.

Mom, what we want to tell you is that we have finally grown up, lived up to your heart, and we have our own happy life. It's time for you and your uncle to pursue your happiness. The roulette wheel of life, if all the previous ones are missed, then let us now be brave enough to correct it, because now we can do it!

Mom, I wish you and Uncle have gone through half a lifetime of hardships, and now it's time to give each other a true fulfillment. We look forward to your happy life. The two of you bear responsibility and restraint in love is the best love education lesson for me and my brother, but your loving life is the most precious wealth for us, that is: a happy life, worthy of my heart! If I also have a person worthy of love in the future, I hope that I will have a happy result with him instead of full of regrets, because life is only once.

Always love your daughter Cai Youwen and always love your son Cai Facai

Zihan, I agreed. I followed my own heart. Perhaps, as you said, no matter how touching regret is, it is not as good as the ordinary of happiness. Zihan: Cai Chuan and I are now enjoying this ordinary and ordinary happiness! He said that now is life. Me too.

Zihan, I don't know if you and Zihao have tied the knot when you receive this letter, I want to tell you that Zihao is a person you can trust in this life, never miss him!

It's nice to live with someone you love!

Zihan, I'm really satisfied! I wish you and Zihao happiness! And the future baby, he is all our first good beginning! Must be happy!

Best regards!

Ma Guihua"