Mother's Lover (short story) Zhang Baotong 2016.6.25

That night, I couldn't sleep, so I suddenly remembered some things my mother told us, that summer my mother went to Hangzhou to work, but because the boss said that the salary was too low, she couldn't accept it, so she borrowed 200 yuan from an acquaintance and bought a train ticket to Xinjiang. She took the train from Hangzhou to Zhengzhou Railway Station, waited in the waiting room of Zhengzhou Station for eight hours, and then got on the train to Beijing to Urumqi. When she got off the train, her leg was so swollen that she could barely walk. I don't even dare to think about it, but that's how my mom went through it, and once or twice a year. When I think about it, I think my mother is amazing, tenacious, enduring, and has an iron will.

Thinking about what my mother had experienced, I couldn't stop crying, moved and grateful to my mother. After a while, my daughter-in-law woke up, saw that I was crying, and hugged me tightly, kissed me, and comforted me. She said, "My baby, what's wrong with you?"

I didn't speak, I just burst into tears.

The daughter-in-law said, "Are you angry with our mother again?"

I shook my head, but still didn't speak. She hugged me like a baby to sleep. At that time, I felt that my daughter-in-law was so amiable and lovely. I don't think I'll abandon her if she gets seriously ill one day, even if she can't have sex anymore. At this time, I suddenly asked myself: What is love? Love should be a feeling of selfless dedication. It consists of giving the other person what they need materially, mentally, emotionally, and physically desired. If any of these are missing, it cannot be called love. And these can only be done between lovers in addition to husband and wife.

However, the lover is a very unstable relationship, and one day, for various reasons, the two may break up, and may even never continue to contact and associate with each other. However, the relationship between lovers is more like that of lovers than the relationship between husband and wife, because the instability and non-openness of the relationship make their love more romantic, mysterious and lovely. It won't be too dull, too dull like marriage. I couldn't help but wonder what would happen if my mom and that man were really together? Of course, they would have been doing well, but they would never have been able to live together normally. I feel so sorry for my mom.

This made me hate the woman named Ruan Xiaoying. Although she looks quite beautiful, she is extremely selfish and her heart is extremely dark, in order to save her marriage and family, she dragged her man to death, and did not hesitate to ruin his life. Not to mention that this kind of woman is hateful and hateful, let's just say what she has gained? She has kept her marriage and family, but she has lost love, because men have only hatred for her, and there is no love, and in a family where there is no love but hate, what kind of feelings and living atmosphere should it be? Or, cold war and quarrels will become the norm in their lives, and betrayal will become an open secret between them. Because there is no love between husband and wife, many responsibilities, obligations and constraints become empty words. However, why did that Ruan Xiaoying refuse to divorce until she died, and had to drag others to die with her? Maybe Xin Jianming is too kind and honest to be bullied, if she is replaced by me, I won't make a fuss and let her take the initiative to come to me for a divorce to be considered capable.

I don't think my mom would have been able to do that. She never wants to drag down and trouble others. She stupidly just wants people to be good to her, she wants nothing else, she wants nothing else, and she always takes making others happy as her greatest wish. Otherwise, my mother, a rural woman who is not outstanding, will make that man so fascinated, love so deeply and so ruthlessly, willing to spend money to buy this and that for her, and willing to spend time to take her around. Alas, there are some things in this world that are really inexplicable.

Mom's affair has kept my mind calm these days. So, whether I'm driving out or coming home, I'm always thinking about my mother. No matter what I think about her good or bad, I think my mom is so respectable and cute. To be honest, because my mother has been working outside the home for many years, I have lived with my grandmother and father almost all of them. However, I still feel that my relationship with my mother is the closest, because she cares and loves me the most, and everything is for us.

In the past, this feeling and feelings were still relatively superficial and indifferent, since the death of my father in the past six months, my mother has never gone out again, and she is with us all day, and my mother's personality and habits are becoming more and more familiar to us. Therefore, this kind of relationship between mother and son is felt more and more deeply by us.

On this day, I got off work early, and when I passed by my mother's door, I saw that my mother's courtyard door was locked. I just stood outside the courtyard and looked at the buildings in the courtyard. This building is all too familiar to me, because I have to come by the door every day. But recently, when I saw this magnificent and beautiful two-story building again, I couldn't help but feel a different emotion in my heart: my mother's wish in this life is to build me and my brother one such building, so that my brother and I can marry a daughter-in-law that we like and are satisfied with. Now her wish has come true, but my dad is gone. She was left alone here. Sometimes life is like that, when you get what you want, you don't know what is more precious and you are losing. What does this mean for our family and my mom?

I wanted to go inside and see my mom and ask her what she wanted for dinner. However, the door was locked, and I had to go back to my house. However, I didn't expect my second aunt and uncle-in-law to be at my house. When my second aunt saw that I was back, she said to me, "There is something I want to say to you, don't be angry. ”

I said, "When did I get angry with my second aunt?"

The second aunt said, "Last night, the person your mother liked called me and asked me how your mother is doing, and I said she was sick and in the hospital." As a result, someone drove over early this morning and took your mother away. "Maybe the second aunt was afraid that I would be angry, so she looked at me with an uneasy look.

As soon as I heard this, I immediately felt that the sky was wide and the sun was shining in front of me, and my whole body and brain felt extremely relaxed and refreshed. I said, "It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, and no one can do anything." As long as my mom is happy and she wants to, let her go. You keep her chained here, and maybe one day she'll be sick again. ”

My second aunt, brother-in-law, and daughter-in-law all looked at me in astonishment, as if the sun was coming out of the west.

I said, "Anyway, I've told her everything she needs to say, and she can listen to it if she wants to, and forget it if she doesn't want to hear it." ”

The second aunt said, "That person found your mother a job cooking in the street, 2,000 yuan a month, although the money is not very much, but the work is not tiring, and besides, he also rented the house for your mother, and all the things were purchased." You don't have to worry anymore. ”

Hearing this, I said, "I'm not worried, the other person will definitely take better care of my mother than I did." "I thought: since my mother thinks of others as the sun and herself as the moon, let her go around them. As a son, I want her to live happily and happily. I will also pray for her and them every day, and I hope that the two of them can truly love each other together, love each other for a long time, and preferably love each other forever.

2016.6.27The first draft was held in Xi'an

2016.6.28 Second draft