Shui Qing suddenly said as if he remembered something: "By the way, there is something you don't know, Miss, before dinner today, Young Master Qizhi took a telegram and came back, saying that he had applied for a leave of absence, and he was going to take a detour back from which country." ”

I was startled: "His head is hot again, at this time, others just want to leave but can't leave, what is he doing when he comes back?" Death? ”

Shui Qing shook his head helplessly: "I don't know." Originally, this telegram was taken for the old lady, but I don't know why it fell into the hands of the second wife. You know her voice, and if something falls on her mouth, it will always turn out. Originally, it would have been nice to give this telegram to my wife, but she had to shout it in front of everyone during the meal. Now not only was the wife shocked, but the old lady was also so angry that she didn't even eat dinner. ”

I gritted my teeth with hatred: "She has a brain disease, she married a man who would only ask the family for money, and finally gave birth to a son and had no interest." She'd better if everyone wasn't happy, so she would be happy. ”

I deliberately kept my steps up the stairs very light, and through a narrow crack in the door, a dim light came through. Shui Qing was right, her mother really didn't sleep.

I tapped on the door with my index knuckle. I heard my mother's mute voice coming from inside the house: "Come in." ”

The moment I pushed the door in, I saw that the handkerchief in my mother's hand was moving from the corner of my eye, and it was in a hurry, leaving a shallow mark. But I didn't want to make her sad, so I looked at him left and right: "Mom, don't rest so late, be careful of wrinkles." ”

The mother sighed, and a pair of small dimples at the corners of her mouth sank deeply, but there was no happy look on her face: "They are all so old, and if they don't have wrinkles, they will become old monsters." She took my hand and looked at me scrutinically: "Didn't you go to the ambulance team to report, why did you come back again?" ”

I leaned on her shoulder and coquettishly recounted the thrilling experience of the afternoon, and I was afraid that she would be worried, so I deliberately avoided the important in many places, and talked about the dangerous things as if it were funny. At the same time, he deliberately concealed a section of the current translation, after all, such a thing as the underground party is really what my mother is most worried about.

I spread my hands and said helplessly: "It's already past nine o'clock when I come out of the patrol room, and now that martial law is everywhere in the French Concession, I will definitely not be able to go back today." Moreover, the matter of Japanese spies can be big or small, they told me not to move around freely for the past two days, and if necessary, they asked me to go back to assist in the investigation. Now, even if you drive me away, I won't be able to leave. ”

My mother patted me on the shoulder heavily, and the force shook my internal organs a little faintly, but she was quite satisfied: "Okay, this Frenchman usually shows off his might, but he still did a good thing at a critical time." What am I going to do with you, it's too late for me to be happy if you stay. You also save me from worrying about my stomach by my side, you look at your clothes, they are dirty and almost can't see the color. You go take a shower first, and stay at home for the next two days. I asked Wang's mother to go to the vegetable market to buy more good dishes, and I cooked it myself and made you your favorite sweet and sour short ribs and fried river prawns. ”

I happily got a little carried away: "Such a good treatment is like returning home." Mom, you don't bring this, if my life is too comfortable, maybe I will stay at home and not leave. ”

That night, I talked with my mother for a long time, from poetry and poetry to life ideals, and finally I couldn't support it anymore, so I fell asleep on the head of the bed.

By the time I woke up the next morning, the first rays of morning light had just come through the curtains, and there was the sound of chirping birds and selling firewood wontons outside the window. Ever since I joined the ambulance corps, I have developed the habit of smelling chickens and dancing, but I never expected that my mother would be gone when I got up so early.

I put on my morning wisp to see what my mother was doing, but I accidentally found the newspaper on the table. It was crushed under the crystal paperweight, but it was still crumpled. The blurred handwriting revealed a message that my mother had cried when she read the telegram.

I think the so-called mother's heart has the most perfect embodiment in the mother's body. She gave birth to me and a pair of twin brothers, and since then, no matter how old we have grown, no matter where we are, she has always worried and worried about us.

I quietly hid the newspaper as if I were a thief, opened the door and followed the scent all the way to the kitchen. I guessed right, my mother got up early in the morning and was really opening a small stove for me. I smelled the rich aroma of meat, probably the pickled tuk fresh that had been boiled for a long time; The black, shiny, oily red sauce on the plate exudes the power of tantalizing the taste buds, making people imagine that the taste is deep and deep, bursting and blooming in the mouth, it is really my favorite sweet and sour short ribs; Nowadays, river prawns have long become a scarce delicacy, but my mother bought a river prawn as thick as a thumb and made it into a crispy fried river prawn; Next to the stove are neatly stacked small wontons that my mother has just wrapped, big fish and meat are not suitable for the fragile digestive system in the early morning, but the light and delicious small wontons are most suitable for hungry Shanghai appetites......

I don't know how my mother managed to buy so many ingredients when all food was available in limited quantities during the war. But the hard work and effort she put into it alone was enough to make my eyes red. I wanted to blindfold her while her back was busy with me, but I didn't expect to be caught before I could touch her.

My mother looked at me with disgust, but then smiled: "Naughty what, don't hurry up and wash your hands and eat." ”

I obediently answered, washed my hands obediently, and sat down at the table. My mother brought my favorite seaweed shrimp skin wonton to the table, along with a few fried dough sticks and a plate of soy sauce: "If it's not enough, I'll also boil porridge and help you make a bowl of good cuts?" ”

I took her hand: "Mom, why are you so particular about having breakfast?" Sit down and eat with me, and we'll talk. ”

Unexpectedly, my mother rejected me categorically: "I have already eaten it in the kitchen just now, you eat it slowly." Later, I will help February prepare breakfast, she has just recovered from a serious illness, her appetite is not very good, but I want to supplement nutrition, I want to make her a pot of pork liver porridge. ”

As soon as I was happy, I became unscrupulous again: "Mom, didn't you buy a whole pig to cook for us?" ”

Mother smiled faintly: "How can it, it just so happened that your father's colleague sent it, so I will change the tricks for you." ”