Niu Liang's mother took out a photo album from the cabinet, sat on the sofa in the living room, and looked at the photos of her son from childhood to adulthood, with a string of smiles on her face. finally stopped at his son's latest heroic photo. For a long time, close your eyes and pray silently:

"May God bless Niu Liang to be admitted to the film academy! May my dream of a star mother come true!"

At this time, Niu Liang pushed the door and walked in, his face was solemn, and he was holding a schoolbag in his hand.

Niu Liang's mother looked up and saw that Niu Liang was back, so she quickly stood up, stepped forward, took her son's hand, looked at it and asked: "Niu Liang, volunteer for the college entrance examination, I asked you to apply for the acting department of the film academy, have you decided?"

Niu Liang swallowed: "Yet—not yet!"

Niu Liang's mother: "You must seize the opportunity to be admitted to the acting department of the film academy, and strive to be a big star in the future, so that our family will also be glorious, glorious!"

Niu Liang stopped talking, took his schoolbag into his room, and closed the door casually.

Niu Liang's mother saw her son close the door, came to the sofa to pack up the album, and put it in the cabinet. Then I went into the kitchen to cook.

In the bedroom, Niu Liang put his schoolbag on the chair in front of the desk, raised his eyes and saw a painting of a famous car and a model on the wall, and felt even more annoyed. I simply lay down on the bed and closed my eyes. Unexpectedly, various voices echoed in his head again:

"How do I tell my mother?...... Tell her, she can't stand it...... Don't tell her?...... Hide ...... Tomorrow the teacher will tell her when he finds out?...... went to take the college entrance examination and deliberately failed the ?...... That's shameless...... If you are admitted to the school, you will not sign up for school?...... Vanity!...... As soon as the entrance examination is over, middle school will be over, so why waste time doing things I don't like! I really don't want to spend a day in school...... But how do you tell your mother the truth?...... Deceive?...... It's so uncomfortable to hold it in my heart!"

Niu Liang tossed and turned on the bed, and his heart was in a mess. Suddenly, my heart was crossed: "Long pain is better than short pain!"

Then he turned over and got up from the bed, straightened his hair and clothes, opened the door, and walked out.

Niu Liang's mother squatted on the ground and washed the vegetables in the pot for a while, and then fished them into a basket next to her. Stood up, turned around and turned off the heat in the pressure cooker on the stove. I took out a white porcelain bowl from the cupboard, and two eggs from the refrigerator, smashed them in the bowl, and kept stirring them in my hands.

Niu Liang came to the kitchen, plucked up his courage, and said, "Mom, I don't want to go to college! I don't like to go to any film school to be a star! I-"

Before Niu Liang finished speaking, Niu Liang's mother was so surprised that the bowl in her hand fell to the ground all of a sudden, broke in half, spilled the egg on the ground, and shouted in distraction: "What did you say?"

Niu Liang continued to muster up the courage to say: "I want to learn to drive and become a taxi driver!"

Niu Liang's mother felt dizzy, and her body flashed twice and was about to fall down. Niu Liang hurriedly stepped forward and held on: "Mom-what's wrong with you? Such a trivial matter won't make you faint, right?"

When Niu Liang's mother heard the latter sentence, she suddenly woke up and pushed Niu Liang away: "You heartless thing! I'm angry and angry with you!"

Niu Liang hurriedly went to get a broom and a garbage shovel, and cleaned up the broken bowls and eggs that fell on the ground. Niu Liang's mother leaned on the stove, tilted her mouth and said angrily while watching: "At this juncture, you mentioned what you want to learn to drive, what kind of taxi driver you want to be! I don't take the college exam, I have a cheap bone! I really gave birth to you for nothing, I raised you for nothing—— you cook by yourself! I don't serve you without conscience!"

With that, Niu Liang's mother took off her apron angrily and walked out of the kitchen.

Niu Liang washed his hands, put on an apron, took over the rest of his mother's work, and did it quickly, and the meal was ready in a short time. Niu Liang took the rag out of the kitchen, came to the dining table in the living room, wiped the table, looked at his sulking mother lying on the sofa, and shouted, "Mom——, it's time to eat!"

Niu Liang's mother turned around: "Don't eat!

Niu Liang: "What's so angry about this?"

Niu Liang's mother sat up from the sofa steeply: "What's so angry? They all say that water flows low, and people go to high places, why are you like the boneless water, going to a low place?"

Niu Liang: "All kinds of work are only different in the social division of labor, and there is no distinction between high and low!"

Niu Liang's mother: "There is no distinction between high and low? Can a farmer's work in farming be compared with a scientist's research work? The size of social value is the standard of high and low!"

Niu Liang couldn't answer for a while, and thought with his head down. Niu Liang's mother was even more energetic: "I see that you still read less, so let's go to the university entrance examination obediently!"

Niu Liang raised his head suddenly: "What is the measure of social value? I think that many researchers have not made any famous research in their lifetime, and they are not as valuable as a farmer who farms and contributes real food to society every year!"

Niu Liang's mother was dumbfounded. Niu Liang's mind became active, and when he saw that his mother did not react, he continued: "Besides, what is the basic basis for people to choose a job? It is their interests and hobbies! Not any social value! If a person does not like this work and insists on asking him to do it, then this work will become his hell! It will make him live in pain and suffering all his life! A people-oriented society is also concerned with people's happiness and happiness first, so the state must issue a volunteer form every time he recruits and recruits workers. What is volunteering? Volunteering is hobbies and hobbies! It's not about forcing people to do jobs they don't like. Since I was a child, I have dreamed of being a taxi driver, and that is the most humane profession -- a profession in which power and beauty, reality and dreams are completely in my own hands! I don't like to act, to be called around and fiddled with like a puppet! I want every day of my life to be my true self! The most merciful mother in the world, why do you force your son to do a job he doesn't like, so that he lives in pain every day?"

Niu Liang said and spoke, and gradually cried affectionately, as if there were 10,000 grievances, 10,000 desires, 10,000 pleas, and 10,000 painful struggles. Listening to her son's affectionate crying, Niu Liang's mother's ears suddenly remembered her wife's instructions before she died, a painful expression appeared on her face, her hands grabbed her heart, and shouted:

"Oh, don't say it! You made me discover the little child of my star mother's dream! Go and do the job you like! May your father's spirit in heaven forgive me for this mistake!"

Niu Liang didn't expect his mother to change his position so quickly, and his long-term sad and painful state of mind was first shocked, and then he ran to his mother with tears in his eyes and a smile: "Mom, you agree with my decision in this way! You are really my good mother!"

Niu Liang's mother looked at Niu Liang's handsome face, and found that her son's face was stained with a little oil, and ten thousand loving hearts took out a handkerchief from the bag, and while rubbing it for Niu Liang, she said:

"You will always be my proud son!"