A woman in her forties, ragged in her forties, rummaging for something next to the dirty, foul-smelling garbage can, stood behind her a little girl with a dirty face, secretly wiping her tears.

The woman rummaged here and there. After a while, she still didn't find what she was looking for, she looked back at the little girl, and blamed herself for walking up to the little girl and holding the child and said, "Good boy, it's the mother who is useless, it's the mother who is useless, and she makes you hungry again." ”

The little girl was about 5 or 6 years old, with two pigtails on her round head and a mouthful of white and neat teeth that contrasted sharply with her dirty little face. "Mom, I'm hungry. The little girl cried loudly. Pedestrians on the road cast strange and pitiful glances, but no one reached out to help.

The woman also secretly wiped a handful of tears and comforted the little girl. "Good boy, bear with me a little longer, Mommy still has a candy here. With a slight tremble, she took out the only candy from her pocket and handed it to the little girl, and when the little girl peeled off the candy and put it in her mouth, she immediately went back to the trash can to rummage through it a second time.

The sugar was gone, and the little girl cried again with hunger. Despite the cries of the children, the women continued to rummage.

"Found it, there's something to eat. "After a few moments, the woman held up half a loaf of bread and happily showed off her 'fruit' to the girl. She hurriedly took half a piece of bread in her hand to the little girl.

"Come, good boy, let's stop crying, if we have something to eat, let's open our mouths. The woman squatted down and tore half a piece of bread into small pieces and sent them to the little girl's mouth.

With food, the little girl stopped crying. Chew on the 'deliciousness' in your mouth. "Mom, you eat too. The little girl left the last few bites for her mother and delivered them to her mouth. The woman looked at the poor child and shook her head. "Mom, not hungry, not hungry. You eat it all. "The mother refused the food that her daughter handed her.

"Mom, why are you crying. The little girl looked at the woman and stretched out a small hand to wipe the tears from her eyes in distress.

"Mom didn't cry, Mom just accidentally touched it, and her eyes were a little uncomfortable. The woman again held the child tightly in her arms.

"Daughter, are you full?" she asked.

"Well, I'm full, the bread is delicious. The little girl replied with a smile, her smile shining like the sun into people's cold and helpless hearts.

The woman dragged the little girl away, and their figures gradually disappeared into the noisy streets of the city, and Ning Hua saw this scene from afar. She thought of her father and mother, who were like this woman who protected their children, who cared for her and loved her. At the end of her life, she should go back to see them again anyway, and then say her final goodbye to this cruel world. She put the pesticide in her backpack and went to the small hotel she had yesterday to stay overnight and go home tomorrow morning.

When I arrived at my hometown, it was still sunset. Mourning is greater than dying, the acquaintances who come and go on the country road, Ning Hua seems to be invisible, someone calls her name and she doesn't see it, and there are people whispering behind her back that she can't hear it. At this time, she just wanted to go home early to see her parents and complete the last thing before she died.

"Mom, Dad, I'm back. When he arrived at the door, Ning Hua called out to his parents, thinking that they would come out to greet him with joy, but no one answered. She walked slowly into the house, her parents had probably just had dinner, and the dishes and chopsticks and leftovers were still on the table. Ning Hua put down the bag in his hand and walked to the back of the house. "I've just eaten, where are you going? ”

I walked to the last room, and my mother's voice came from inside. "I can't cure this disease, I don't want to drag you down anymore, drag down my daughter. The mother's voice was interspersed with a heavy gasp that seemed uncomfortable.

Ning Hua stopped and thought. Didn't my mother have asthma and rheumatism? ’

Father answered. "Don't say that, we are a family, and we have been together for many years. The family is a little poorer, but the money sent by the village party secretary recently is enough for you to take medicine for a while. ”

"Hey, what kind of medicine do you take, that is, you have to spend the money on me, if you take the money to pay off the debt, you don't have to work so hard in the future. ”

"I'm just risking my life, and I have to let you continue to be treated. ”

"His father, I know that you have been good to me all these years, but my illness has been treated like this, it is a bottomless pit, Ning Hua has just graduated, and the family has another ass of debt, how can I drag you two down again. Mother's voice was very small, but Ning Hua outside the door could still hear it clearly. My mother has always been strong, but what kind of disease is it? She was more confused and nervous outside the door.

"If you don't treat it, if there is really that day, what should I do for the rest of my life, Ning Hua will become a motherless child, even if this day will come sooner or later, let God pity our helpless family, let it come later." "A strong man with tears in his eyes.

"Since the beginning of this year, I vaguely feel that the pain is getting worse, sometimes I can't sleep in the middle of the night, I know that the cancer must be spreading, my time is running out, my only wish is to ......"

"What, cancer? My mother had cancer? Why did I never hear my parents talk about it? Ning Hua was so frightened that he took a few steps back, knocked down the chair behind the door, and made a noise.

"Who. The parents heard the noise, interrupted the conversation with the mother, and stood up to check.

"Ning Hua. The father was also taken aback when he saw his daughter standing outside the door. "You, why are you back at this time? For the appearance of his daughter, the father obviously did not expect.

"Dad, what did you just say, what cancer, what time is running out, tell me I misheard. Ning Hua looked at his father desperately.

"Daughter, you heard it right, you heard it right. My father couldn't help but wipe his tears. "Your mom got breast cancer two years ago, and we kept it a secret from you. ”

"Dad, Mom, why are you hiding it from me, why don't you tell me about such a big thing. Looking at his parents, Ning Hua once again fell into deep panic and panic.

"Daughter, I didn't let your dad say it, it's not easy for you to go to college, if you tell you that I have a disease, how can you still settle down and study, anyway, if you have cancer, you will have to go sooner or later, and your mother doesn't want to delay your future." The yellow-faced and thin-skinned mother got up from the hospital bed and leaned on the door frame to look at Ning Hua.

"Mom, what are you talking about, no matter how important my studies are, how important is your life, I can't go to school, but I can't live without my mother. Ning Hua said bitterly. This trip home, she understood why her mother used to always say that she was in pain, but it turned out to be ....... She blamed herself more and more, and became more and more sad, how could she be so selfish and want to leave her parents alone to seek relief.

"Hua'er, hurry up and help your mother lie down. Ning Hua hurriedly helped her mother to the bed. She couldn't stop leaning on the edge of the bed and crying.

"Daughter, don't cry, there will always be death in this life, birth, old age, sickness and death, human nature, don't cry. The mother stroked her cheek and wiped the tears from her eyes.

Ning Hua couldn't be completely self-contained, when she was about to say goodbye to this world with pesticides yesterday, she didn't cry, she thought that her tears had been gone in the month she had an accident, but today her tears were like a sharp blade, and every drop pierced her heartache......

"I'm too selfish, I'm too selfish. Why didn't I care much about you and my dad, and why didn't I find out about your illness sooner? I really didn't need to graduate for so long and didn't make any money to honor you and my dad, let alone treat you. ”

"Daughter, it's not your fault, don't blame yourself. Your dad and I are proud to have a daughter like you. "The father went out, and the mother and daughter were alone in the room talking.

"It's my fault, if I made more money and you were treated sooner, you wouldn't be in so much pain now. If I don't go to college, your condition won't get worse. ”

"Hua, you know all these moms you think. In fact, my mother doesn't want to die, how can I be willing to leave you two, but God has created people, and we can't get rid of our fate. Mom knew her life was short. ”

"Mom, don't talk nonsense, you will definitely live a long life. Ning Hua held her mother's hand tightly.

"You don't have to comfort Mom, Mom has lived this age and has seen it, and she has been prepared for all this. If this day comes, you must take care of your dad, your dad's life is too hard. ”

Ning Hua glanced at his father's busy figure, and it was very appropriate to describe his father with four words. "Mom, don't worry, I will definitely let my dad enjoy Qingfu and carefree for the rest of his life. ”

"I'm relieved when you say that. Also, apart from your father, the last thing your mother can't let go of is you. Mom's biggest wish now is to hope that it will last until the day you get married and have children, seeing that you have your own family and found a suitable man, Mom is relieved to be there. ”

"Mom, don't say it, don't say it. Speaking of these things, Ning Hua couldn't control her emotions even more, after so many things, she didn't think about getting married and having children.

"Hua'er, promise Mom well, hurry up and find someone to marry, and let Mom watch you get married. Mother excitedly grabbed Ning Hua's hand and kept coughing.

"Mom, slow down, slow down. I also hope that you can see me get married, but in the end, marriage is not child's play, and finding a man is not buying vegetables in the vegetable market, how can I say that I will get married. Speaking of marriage, Ning Hua still resisted, but in the face of her mother, who was in the end of her life, she couldn't say anything to death.

"As for the two colleagues who have come to our house before, I think they are both pretty good. ”

Speaking of Xiaobai, Ning Hua was a little melancholy. "They, they're all married. ”

"Married, are you both married? I thought one of them was quite interesting to you, how did you get married so quickly. Mother asked again.

"Both are married, not long ago. ”

"That's a pity, after all, people are still children in the city, and we can't compare to others. Hua'er, Mom asks you again, are you willing to fulfill Mom's wish before Mom leaves?" the mother asked seriously.

"Mom, I won't let you leave us, I'll take you to the big hospital in the city tomorrow. ”

"Hua, you answer your mother's words, are you willing to fulfill your mother's wishes. ”

"I ......," the mother coughed again. "Mom, I listen to you, don't get excited. ”

"Next door, the big family in the next village, the Wang family is the best family in our area, their son happens to be about the same age as you, he didn't study in junior high school, his family is trying to find a literate girl to be a daughter-in-law, the last time you came back, his son saw you somewhere, went back and told their parents, after you left, someone in their village mentioned this matter to me. As for me, I neither agreed nor refused at the time. Since you don't have a relationship with those two children in the city now, how about you go and meet the son of the Wang family?"

"Mom, it's not in a hurry at this moment, I just came back today, you can talk about this matter in a few days. Ning Hua wanted to find an excuse to postpone it.

"Hua'er, if you don't settle down for a day, Mom will worry about it for a day. "My mother was in unbearable pain just by speaking hard.

Ning Hua didn't want to watch her mother suffer from illness, but she didn't want to take her life lightly.

The father walked in and hurriedly fed the mother the medicine. "Hua'er, you just promise your mother to go and see you. Regardless of whether you look down on people or not, it should be a way to give people face when you go to meet them, and the Renwang family has taken good care of our family recently. As a father who sent you to study for you to go to college, the hot is to hope that you will go out of the countryside and marry better, the happier we will be, but now that your mother's time is short, you should give it a try, just to fulfill your mother's wish. Their family conditions are good, much stronger than ours, even if you really get married, you will not be made to suffer in the future. ”

Ning Hua couldn't resist the persuasion of his father and mother in turn, and agreed.

The next day, he went on a blind date with the other party, the man and the man's parents were very satisfied with Ning Hua, they proposed marriage to Ning Hua's parents, Ning Hua disagreed at first, but her mother threatened her with her life, Ning Hua thought about it: "Anyway, they are all people who have died a few times, what does it matter if they marry or not, it should be for the mother who worked hard to raise her." Eventually, she agreed.

The wedding date is set for three months later.