Lijiawan is an inconspicuous small village, located in a beautiful place in Rongzhou City, southwest of the motherland. There are more than 200 families in the village, all of whom are surnamed Li, and Li Ruoyu is the first college student in the history of Li Jiawan, which caused a sensation in the whole village at that time. Li Ruoyu was not only admitted to the university, but also admitted to the university in China, Huhai Fuming University! Especially at the end of the 80s, in the remote rural areas, the simple peasants all had an idea, that is, as long as they were admitted to the university, even if they got rid of the prefix "agriculture" and changed their fate facing the loess with their backs to the sky, they were regarded as national cadres, and they were only assigned jobs after graduation, and they were city people, and they did not have to worry about food and clothing.

After graduating from university in 1990, he stayed in Huhai, the largest city in China, and of course he was only assigned to Huhai Construction Corporation at the beginning, becoming a technician of a concrete batching plant under it.

After getting the first month's salary, Li Ruoyu was so happy that he couldn't do it, because the salary and allowance added up to 600 yuan, which was beyond his imagination. You must know that in 1990, the wages of workers in the mainland were generally only a few dozen yuan, and the higher ones were only 100 yuan, even in Shanghai, generally speaking, the wages of workers were only more than 100 yuan, and the highest was only 200 yuan, and Li Ruoyu, a college student who had just graduated, could get 600 yuan, but because there were very few concrete mixing plants at this time, and there were only a few state-owned concrete mixing plants in Huhai City. The profit of each cubic meter of concrete is more than 150 yuan, and the profit margin is more than 100 percent.

Only 100 yuan was left for living expenses, and the remaining 500 yuan were sent back to Lijiawan, Li Ruoyu knew that his parents worked hard to earn money in order to go to college for themselves, doing odd jobs, moving bricks, and planting more than a dozen acres of land, although they were only in their early forties, but they aged prematurely because of fatigue, with wrinkles on their faces and gray hair on their temples, and a rickety waist, they looked like sixty-year-old men.

Especially Li Ruoyu's mother, Huang, had goiter when she gave birth to Li Ruoyu, commonly known as big neck disease, and she usually has nothing, but once she is working, she is out of breath. At that time, I saw it in the county hospital, and the doctor said that the child had to be stopped, otherwise the condition would worsen, and his life would be in danger. But the Huang family was born with a bodhisattva heart, and he was already soft-hearted, especially the five-month-old fetus in his belly, that is the meat on his body, where can he give it? Therefore, she insisted on giving birth to the child in her womb, and the doctor had to shake his head. It's just this delay, coupled with Li Ruoyu's absorption of his mother's nutrition in his mother's belly, the countryside in the sixties and seventies was still very poor, the material conditions were already poor, and Huang's nutrition couldn't keep up, so the disease was also aggravated, and after Li Ruoyu was born, Huang, who was only in his early twenties, changed from a young and beautiful young woman to a sick middle-aged woman.

Li Ruoyu has made a wish since he was a child, and when he grows up, he must earn a lot of money, so that his parents can enjoy his happiness, no longer engage in heavy physical labor, and find the best hospital to cure his mother's illness. Li Ruoyu is indeed different from ordinary children, everyone else goes to play, but he takes the initiative to follow his parents to work in the fields, he just wants to use his thin shoulders to share a little pressure for this family.

Li Ruoyu was frugal and sent most of his salary home to let his parents plant less land, but Li's father and mother were willing to spend the money, and all of them were saved for Li Ruoyu. Mother Huang always said to Li Ruoyu on the phone, son, you have to spend money where you should spend money outside, we have saved the money you sent back, and it will cost you a lot of money to marry a daughter-in-law in the future. Li Ruoyu also knows that his parents are used to saving, and they will not spend it if they let them spend, which is also the fine tradition of the working people of the Chinese nation.

Li Ruoyu's salary is getting higher and higher, and he will be able to get more than 2,000 yuan a month after three months, and the salary of this concrete batching plant is high, nearly ten times higher than that of other industries. In this way, he sent a thousand children and eight hundred home every month, Li Ruoyu was thinking that one day when the money was enough, he should also take his mother to Huhai to see a doctor, he knew that his mother's illness was getting more and more serious, and if he didn't treat it, he was afraid it would be too late.

Later, Li Ruoyu also made his own efforts, step by step into a leadership position, and finally achieved the deputy general manager and chief engineer of the construction materials company under the Huhai Construction Engineering Group, and the annual salary also increased from 30,000 yuan to 500,000 yuan. said that he would resolutely not come to Shanghai in the future, and he was too unaccustomed to it.

And his mother Huang's illness, even the big hospital in Huhai City has no way to completely cure it, can only use medicine to alleviate the condition as much as possible, Li Ruoyu also understands that his mother's disease is indeed not curable, can only prolong life as much as possible, so he can only send as much money as possible to his parents, so that they don't farm anymore, just have a good rest at home, a few thousand yuan a month is enough for his parents to live well in their hometown. However, where can Li Ruoyu's parents be idle, they have been used to farming all their lives, and they really can't get used to sitting and enjoying the happy days, so the second elder still planted his own package production area, although it is not much, but it is still hard.

It was that winter, the first snow of 2014 that came to winter! Li Ruoyu clearly remembered that it was the fourth day of the lunar month, and he saw that the Spring Festival was about to be celebrated, but he received a call from his father Li Mengran at one o'clock in the morning that day, and his father choked up and said, son, your mother is dying, you should come back to see her for the last time!

Li Ruoyu suddenly heard the news, his mind was all blank, and he didn't know how to speak! How so, isn't the mother good? Oh, my God! Why are you so unfair? Mother is kind, Bodhisattva hearted, no one does not say that she is good, she has worked hard all her life, and she has not had time to enjoy happiness, how can she pass away? I don't believe it! Li Ruoyu took his wife and children on the plane and flew back to his hometown.

Although the weather in Layue is quite warm during the day, it is already very cold at 12 o'clock in the evening. Looking at the white notes hanging all over the yard, flying in the cold wind, making a rustling sound, Li Ruoyu's heart was extremely cold! He didn't expect to meet this day so soon, his mother was only sixty-eight years old, if it weren't for the aggravation of her condition because she was going to give birth to herself, she should have lived for more than ten years, and the old people in Lijiawan lived a long life! Blame yourself for being an unfilial son! If it is not for herself, the mother can choose to have an abortion for treatment; Later, there was also a chance that her mother could have surgery to remove the thyroid tumor, but when the doctor told her that the chance of success of the operation was only 50%, she chose not to have surgery, she was afraid that if she could not get up on the operating table, her young son would not be taken care of by his mother; Later, the mother didn't have to work so hard at all, but for her son to have a future, she gritted her teeth and insisted, and made up her son's tuition and living expenses every penny. A mother's love is so great, but as a son, he has done nothing for his mother! Li Ruoyu began to hate himself.

Recalling the bits and pieces of my mother's life, it was full of love! Every time she comes back from the market, she must buy some fruit for her son, because she knows that her son likes to eat fruit the most, but she is reluctant to eat one! It's the Chinese New Year, and my mother always sews a few pairs of cloth shoes for the father and son, while she herself wears shabby, cold liberation galoshes! When her son went to school, she hurriedly took her son to the town's cloth village to pull some fabrics and make two new clothes for her son, but she herself was wearing shabby clothes that had been mended and mended, and she didn't know how many years she had been wearing! Every time she beats the tooth sacrifice, she puts the largest piece of lean meat into her son's bowl, and she only eats some fat meat that her son doesn't like, you must know that at that time, there were only two or three times a month for the tooth sacrifice, and she couldn't help but drool when she saw the meat on the table after working in the field all day every day!

Thinking about it, Li Ruoyu felt that the miserable white light became hazy, and a thin figure slowly walked out from behind the hazy light, wasn't that his mother? Looking at the time again, it was twelve o'clock in the evening.

Li Ruoyu hurriedly struggled to stand up and grabbed her hand, and asked, "Mom, are you back?" Why do they all say you're gone? I don't believe it.

Li Ruoyu only felt that her mother's hands were unusually cold, like ice cubes that had just been taken out of the refrigerator. She didn't say a word, just looked at Li Ruoyu with a faint gaze, then sighed deeply, turned around and left. Li Ruoyu reached out to grab it, but he didn't even grab a piece of the corner of his clothes, and suddenly a spirit woke up, it turned out to be just his hallucination.

Li Ruoyu looked around, and then he suddenly found that the whole house had changed, the ice coffin was gone, the clock on the wall was gone, and even the walls painted with white paint had become the red brick wall of the **10s, and there was a very earthy table of eight immortals in the middle of the room, all of which had become the appearance of the **10s! What's going on, Li Ruoyu only feels that he is a little stumped!