Mother's Lover (short story) Zhang Baotong 2016.6.25

My daughter-in-law called and said, "My mother is sick and has been sent to the county hospital." ”

I was startled and asked, "What's wrong with our mother?"

The daughter-in-law said, "I don't know, she said she felt pain in her chest." ”

As soon as I heard this, I immediately became worried, afraid that it was not my mother's old illness that would have happened again, so I asked my daughter-in-law, "Did you check it out?"

The daughter-in-law said, "I'm in the emergency room." However, my mother feels much better. Then he asked, "Where are you now?"

I said, "On the way back to Danfeng from Xi'an, I will be home in half an hour." ”

The daughter-in-law said, "Come here, the baby is about to get out of school, I have to rush home to pick up the baby and cook for the baby." ”

I said, "Got it." Then he picked up the speed and drove towards Danfeng County.

When I went out yesterday morning, I saw that my mother was fine, but why did this happen today? Could it be that my mother's lung problem was committed again? Because the air bubbles in the lungs pressed the heart, my mother had a major surgery on her chest the year before last, and the money alone cost 50,000 yuan, which was almost the money she earned after two years of hard work. Although my mother's illness was cured, the doctor said that she could no longer do heavy work and should not be angry, otherwise she would relapse. Therefore, we have been worried that my mother's illness will recur, and since this year, we have resolutely not allowed my mother to go out to work. Because my mother went to the city to work and did all the hard work in cleaning, from getting up at 6 o'clock in the morning to returning to the house at 8 o'clock in the evening, it was very hard and tiring. We don't want my mother to earn that hard-earned money anymore, especially if her illness returns, and the little money she earns is really not enough for her to see a doctor. However, my mother has been almost idle at home for half a year, how can her old illness relapse?

I drove the car very fast, and in less than half an hour, I drove the car next to the county hospital. I went to the emergency room of the hospital and saw my mother lying on the hospital bed alone, looking very lonely, and I thought to myself, my mother is really sorry that my father is gone. I walked up to my mother's hospital bed and saw that she was squinting, and a teardrop was slowly rolling around her eye. I wondered what was wrong with my mother, and it only took a day to become like this, my eye sockets were sunken, and I looked so haggard that people couldn't recognize it.

I whispered, "Mom." ”

Mom opened her eyes and smiled at me and said, "Coming?"

I said, "I heard Zhenzhen say that you are hospitalized, so I will drive here." ”

Mom sighed softly and said, "Have you eaten?"

I said, "Not yet." "That's when I realized that the patients next to me were all being taken care of by their families and eating. I know my mom must not have eaten yet. He said, "I'll buy you some food, what do you want to eat?"

Mom shook her head gently and said, "I don't want to eat it, and I can't eat it." ”

But I didn't care about it, so I went out to buy food. I bought a bowl of noodle soup for my mother, took it back to the hospital in a plastic bag, and told her to sit up and eat. When my mother finished eating, she said to me, "Baby, go to work." I have a doctor here to take care of me. ”

I asked, "Mom, what is wrong with you, and what is wrong with you?"

Mom said, "I just feel stuffy in my lungs, and I'm a little out of breath." I was afraid that it was an old problem, but the doctor checked and said that there was nothing wrong with the lungs, and asked me to do a CT scan in the afternoon, and if there was no problem, I would be discharged from the hospital. ”

Because we rural people spend their own money on medical treatment, and if they are not sick, they cannot live in hospitals. I said, "I'll wait until I'm done." ”

After eating, my mother said to me, "Baby, I want to go to the city to work, Xiufen has called me several times." ”

I said, "She's only thirty-eight years old, but you're forty-eight years old, and you're sick, how can you be like her? No, our brothers just run away from the famine and ask for food, and won't let you go out to work." ”

"But I want to go, I'm used to being outside, and I don't want to be idle at home." ”

I said in a tough tone, "No, you're so old that you think you're just a twenty-eight-year-old daughter-in-law?" ”

But my mother insisted, "No, I've been thinking about it for a long time, and I still want to go out to work, stay at home like this all day, and get sick if I don't get sick." ”

I had to send the goods to the unit as soon as possible, but I didn't have time to tell my mother more, so I left the hospital. I wondered: everyone wants to relax, but my mother loves to work. Ever since I started school, my mother has been away from home for many months, taking a large group of young girls and daughters-in-law to Xinjiang to pick cotton and work in the big cities outside. In the past few years, because the cotton in Xinjiang has been harvested by machine, she no longer goes there, but she still goes to Taiyuan this year, Hangzhou next year, and then Beijing and Shanghai. It seems that my mother is really suffering and tired, and she feels uncomfortable when she doesn't go out to work. But in the past two years, my mother has not gone anywhere, but only stayed in Xi'an to work. It wasn't until the beginning of this year that my father suddenly fell ill while building a house for others and passed away, and my mother had to come back from Xi'an, and after that, she never went out to work.

It can be said that my mother spent most of her life outside, and usually, she could only return to her home for ten days and a half during the New Year, and when the New Year passed, she left with a large group of women. And my father also went out early and returned late, building houses for others all day long. My grandmother and I go to school and eat with my brother. Therefore, when my mother came back once, my whole family was very happy, and every time my mother was leaving, the whole family would feel an inexplicable panic. In particular, my father would always hold my mother's hand and try to persuade her to stay longer, but my mother was always so resolute and said to leave, because so many women were waiting for her.

Look at the two small buildings built in the two compounds of our house. One is for my daughter-in-law and me, and the other is for my younger brother, who works outside. This is unique in our village, because some families have not even built a small building, but ours has built two small buildings. From this, I can deeply feel how hard my mother has worked for our family in this life. So, we don't want my mom to go out to work anymore. It's time for her to enjoy the blessings, too.

When I got home, my daughter-in-law asked, "What's wrong with our mother?"

I said, "I won't have the results until the CT is out." But the doctor said there didn't seem to be a big problem. ”

But the daughter-in-law said, "It's your fault that you drove the man away, or else, with the man in front of her, our mother was happy all day long, and she was as happy as a little girl, but as soon as the man left, her illness came." ”

When I heard this, I got annoyed, slapped the table, and yelled, "What are you talking nonsense?" because I didn't want her to damage my mother's image and see her as an immodest woman.

My daughter-in-law was startled, but she didn't dare to say anything more, so she took the bowl I had just eaten and went to the kitchen.