In March 1957, he suddenly received a telegram from his younger brother: "My mother is seriously ill and in danger, return quickly." "I sent the leave report to the school and the principal immediately approved a month off, it was my first time to visit my family, and it had been eight years since I left my hometown in 1949!

I traveled day and night, got off the train to catch the car, got off the car to chase the train, and walked for five days and nights before arriving at the Zhushan Bridge in my hometown.

From 1947 left my mother to study in Hongdu, to March 1957, I haven't been home for ten years, today I can finally see my mother who thinks about it, I am very excited, I got off the car from Zhushan Bridge, trotted all the way, and finally arrived at the hometown of the county. The eldest sister, the third sister, and the fourth sister were all at home taking care of the housework, and when they saw me coming back, they were full of joy and wiped tears from their faces. My mother was still in the hospital, so I dropped my bags and ran to the hospital.

Wenshan County Hospital is still the same as before, located in an ancestral hall (Xu Family Ancestral Hall), and the two century-old osmanthus trees in front of the door are tall and lush, and their vitality has not diminished. I stepped into the courtyard gate and came to the ward, and at a glance I saw my brother accompanying my mother, and I shouted, "Mom, I'm back." He was so sad that his throat choked and he couldn't speak. My mother raised her head and looked at me, and it took her a long time to wake up, "Mao Yanzai, you're back!" I miss you every day! ”

In 1947, I left home to study in Hongdu, and in 1949, I passed through Wenshan County with the army, and the mother and son did not have time to see each other. My mother held my hand tightly and looked at me carefully, I haven't seen each other for ten years! My mother is already in tears. I looked at the old, thin mother, sad into my mother's arms, mother and son hugged tightly and cried, I was afraid that my mother would be too sad, so I comforted and said: "Mom, don't cry, isn't Mao Lingzi back, this time I have to live at home for a month." ”

The younger brother said that his mother was extremely dangerous this time, and because of the timely rescue, oxygen delivery, injection, and medical staff made every effort to rescue him, he turned the crisis into safety.

I clenched my mother's dry hand, and I couldn't hold back my tears, and I couldn't bear to wipe away the crystal tears that fell on my mother's dry hand. I asked my brother, what disease did my mother have? He said that it was the long-term lack of nutrition that caused heart failure, severe coma, and unconscious.

I went to the dean to find out. The director of the hospital was Mr. Zhou, who taught health classes at Wenshan County Junior High School from 1944 to 1945, and I saluted him and shouted, "Director Zhou, do you still know me?" In the 40s I was your student. He looked at me for a long time, shook his head and said, "I don't recognize me." "It's no wonder that after more than twenty years, he is old and I am also grown.

I didn't have time to catch up and ask about my mother's condition. The dean said: "It's out of danger, it doesn't matter, the old man is caused by a long-term lack ......of nutrition and extreme weakness, as long as the nutrition can keep up, it will be fine soon." I clasped the dean's hand and thanked him repeatedly. Later, the doctor prescribed some Western medicine and Chinese medicine, saying that there was no need to be hospitalized, and that he could just go home to recuperate. We took my mother home that afternoon, and the whole family was happy.

My mother worked hard and tired all her life, and gave birth to twelve children. My mother-in-law only gave her salted radish, and she said that she wanted to "quit oil", and she didn't even give a piece of tofu. Due to the long-term lack of nutrition, working hard for the livelihood of the family, overloading, exhausting all the energy in the body, before the age of the sixtieth year, it is already a person in the last years of the wind and candles.

Several sisters were busy trying to get their mother back to recover as soon as possible, trying to get some delicious food to replenish her body. At that time, meat and other things could still be bought in the market, and the traditional Chinese medicine that replenished qi and blood was put together with meat, stewed over slow fire, and three meals a day continued. I stewed the cooked notoginseng powder I brought back from Nanzhao Province and meat and eggs for her to eat, and her body gradually recovered, and the old man was in a comfortable mood and enjoyed the joy of family, and the old man's face was full of brilliance and his complexion was much better.

One day, my mother suddenly offered to go to the island province to see her two sons, and we felt like a fantasy and thought it was impossible. Although after the liberation, the elder brother and the eldest brother had several letters (all of which were transferred through Xiangcheng), but after all, both sides are now in a hostile state, how can they get there? How do I go through the immigration and exit procedures? If the island province does not have an invitation letter, it is impossible for the higher authorities to approve it.

I advised my mother not to think about it, but to recuperate with peace of mind. When my mother saw that we couldn't do this, she cried every day, didn't eat or drink, and we all panicked. One day, the eldest brother Zhang Xueyou suddenly sent a telegram from Xiangcheng, saying that he wanted to pick up his mother to Xiangcheng, and asked his younger brother to escort him to Shencheng and leave the border bridge. Maybe the sect brother had already made contact with the eldest brother beforehand.

Soon the eldest brother sent an invitation letter from Xiangcheng, and we immediately wrote a report and sent it to the Public Security Bureau, applied to visit relatives in Xiangcheng, handed over three photos, and filled out the relevant forms. After completing these procedures, we still have no bottom in our hearts. A week later, two comrades from the Public Security Bureau sent visas to Xiangcheng and more than 10 catties of national food stamps.

The visa is issued by the Administration Department with a steel stamp and is valid for one month. With the exit visa, the whole family immediately got busy, buying clothes for my mother (changing the old one into a new one), shoes and socks, preparing fruits and medicines to eat on the road, etc., everything was ready, just waiting for the boss to come to the entry visa.

In my free time waiting for an entry visa, I went to visit his parents at the home of my old classmate Zhou Yangming (later renamed Zouping) and greeted the second elder. The old man also liked it very much, and asked me about my experience as a soldier over the years.

Before the liberation of Wenshan County when I was in junior high school, I and Zou Ping were close classmates, in school together, playing, almost every night in his house with classmates, until after graduating from junior high school did not break up, he was admitted to Tianxiang Middle School, I was admitted to Luzhou Middle School, a separation is more than ten years, until today we have not met. The old classmates were very affectionate when they saw each other, and he was very envious of me for being able to abandon my pen and follow Rong, with a heroic and sassy military demeanor, and he suddenly asked me:

"Got a match?" I'll tell you the truth.

He said, "Shall I introduce you to one?" I said, "As long as you think it's okay, I won't object." ”

He said, "Well, it's a deal." ”

Later, I learned that the object of the introduction was his own sister, that is, the little girl who loved to play with us since she was a child, and often dragged two snot-clearing snot-Zou Admission. I was born in November 1936, 8 years younger than me. Since we have been playing together since we were children, we have no guesses, and now she has become a big girl. Our parents have known each other for a long time, and we both live on Wenshan Street, and Zouping's father opened a soy sauce shop in the old society, and after liberation, the public-private partnership and assets were returned to the public. As soon as my marriage was brokered by Zou Ping, my parents agreed. But I heard that the enrollment was still substitute teaching in Dingjiang Township and did not come back. Due to the inconvenience of transportation, I didn't see her until I left Wenshan, which is a pity.

The boss's entry visa hasn't been sent yet, and my vacation is almost here, so I can't wait any longer. Loyalty could not fulfill filial piety, so he had to return to the army on time. A few days before leaving home, the words that can't be finished, the love that can't be finished, the chicken has crowed for the first time at night, and my mother is too tired, so everyone sleeps.