After my mother resigned, she lay down on her desk all day, and the messy books and pages were stacked in piles on the table. She flipped through the documents I couldn't read, and from time to time she picked up the fountain pen she had at hand to sketch and write them down in her notebook.

Although these days, we spend the whole day with my mother, but compared to the past, our daily communication is only a fraction of that time. Only when the water in the enamel teapot at hand dried up, my mother asked me to add water to her. This teapot is a commemoration of the intellectuals when they cut the queue, and other things are almost gone, only this teapot with the portrait of the chairman written 'Vast world, great achievements', and my mother has always taken it with me. In fact, each of the four of them has a tea jar of this style, and the others have changed the thermos cup, but my mother is still using it. The lid of this teapot is connected to the handle by cotton thread, which has been dyed with tea, from white to brown. The tea jar was dropped by me a few times, and a few pieces of white porcelain fell off the cylinder. Later, I used my pocket money to buy a thermos cup for my mother, and although she changed the cup to a new one, the teapot was not thrown away and is still in my cupboard.

I went to Aunt Liu's house, where we now fill the teapot with water, and then carefully carry the teapot back to the desk. My mother kept her head down and didn't look at me. I put the teapot on the bamboo coaster and deliberately reminded, "It's boiling water that pours." ”

Mom nodded and replied, "I know, go see the girl, and I'll call you if I have something." ”

I didn't leave right away, but stood there and watched it for a while. Mom didn't wear makeup, and her long hair was casually draped behind her, but it was clean and scented with jasmine-scented shampoo. The long-term concentration made her eyes a little puffy, and her face was much haggard. I looked distressed, but I couldn't afford to share it for her.

Because of my withdrawal, my godmother was afraid that Yiqing would be consecuted when she went to kindergarten, so she simply asked for an extra week of leave. This dead girl has been cured of her illness a long time ago, but she has been lying in bed and pretending to be sick. To take care of that fake sick number, I might as well be in a daze in the hospital.

When I was in a daze, time was always in a hurry, and when I heard my mother call me again, it was already noon. My mother counted six yuan from my father's glass change jar on the cupboard and gave me a steel hammer, and asked me to go to the dumpling restaurant in Laojiekou to buy three bowls of dumplings and come back as today's lunch.

This newly opened dumpling restaurant in Laojiekou is a partnership of three sisters with different surnames, called 'Sister Dumplings', which is well-known in our neighborhood. The crystal skin steamed dumplings made by the three sisters have thin skin and meat, and the middle drum is warped at both ends, like an ingot. A full bowl of dumplings only charges two yuan. Therefore, the store is always overcrowded inside and outside the store, and there is a long queue every time I go.

When my uncles, aunts, grandparents, and grandparents saw that one of my children was holding a steel hammer in one hand and three aluminum lunch boxes in the other, they all asked me to cut in line. So I smiled and thanked me, and after a while I bought the dumplings and walked back. Rather than eating a monotonous diet day after day, I would rather my mother wronged my two children to eat some dumplings.

I carried the dumplings into the kitchen, took two dumplings from my lunch box and put them in my mother's lunch box, and two more from Yiqing's lunch box and put them in my lunch box. I sent my mother to the desk first, and then I sent it to Yiqing.

Since Yiqing fell ill, her little princess room seemed to have been infected by its owner, and the room was messy and always filled with a rancid smell.

Seeing me come in, Yiqing turned over and sat up and took the lunch box I handed out. Seeing Yiqing's unkempt appearance, I Zou Zou frowned and said, "You can't get out of bed to eat, do you want to take a mirror to show you, you look like a sloppy king now." My mother is the same, she sits at her desk all day and doesn't go out for activities. ”

Yiqing chewed on the dumplings, choked in a panic, reached out to me for a water cup and said, "Godmother is busy, I'm too lazy to get out of bed." ”

This dead girl is really straightforward in front of me, and she doesn't even bother to hide it.

I picked up the water cup from the bedside table and handed it to Yiqing, and inadvertently caught a glimpse of the spittoon under the bed, and said with a disgusted face: "I really served you, and I didn't go out to the toilet, don't you think it stinks?" ”

Yiqing sniffed her nose and sniffed, and said shamelessly, "Yes! Can you pour it for me? ”

I glanced at Yiqing and scolded: "Go die!" Then get out of this place.

My mother planned to do a hardware and building materials business, and her previous trading company was mainly engaged in clothing and food. Although my mother's plan is not overnight, it still takes a lot of effort to really do it. After staying at home for a while, my mother started taking me to the market.

In fact, our small city has only begun to engage in construction, and there are not many stores of hardware and building materials, and the building materials wholesale market has just been built for a few years. Mom turned back and forth to those shops, at first the shopkeeper was also attentive to introduce, and then went more times, every time I only asked not to buy, the shopkeeper was too lazy to take care of it. When opening the door to welcome customers, most shopkeepers will not deliberately make things difficult in line with the principle of doing business. Only once, my mother pulled me into the door, and the male shopkeeper who was sitting at the small table to eat looked up at us, immediately threw his chopsticks on the ground, stood up and pointed at my mother and scolded. Seeing that the shopkeeper was not welcome, my mother politely said no, and turned around to leave. Unexpectedly, the shopkeeper rushed up and pushed my mother from behind, and because she was wearing high heels, my mother's center of gravity was unstable, and she fell to the ground, and her knee broke a layer of skin. I don't know where I got the courage at that time, when I saw someone bullying my mother, I was full of strength and hit the man's belly that seemed to be pregnant for three months. hit all the meat and vegetables he had just eaten, and he held on to the flower pot in front of the door and sprayed turbidity straight out. Seeing this, my mother picked me up while the man was still unable to fight back. It wasn't until we had run two kilometers and made sure that no one would catch up with us that we sat on the curb of the road to catch our breath.

The bruises on my mother's knees, the blood had stained the white stockings around her red. I squatted in front of my mother and blew on her wound and asked, "Does it hurt?" ”

Mom tore off her blood-stained stockings, then took out a tissue from her bag and put it on the wound, her face always smiling, and fine beads of sweat oozing from her forehead. She patted me on the head and replied, "It doesn't hurt." ”

I know that it is impossible not to hurt, even if a bamboo thorn is pierced in my hand, it is a pain in the heart. I pursed my mouth and said, "Liar." ”

My mother gently stroked my face and said, "As long as you are not hurt, Mom will not hurt." ”

I don't know what kind of strength can make my mother run so far without fear of pain. When I grew up, I realized that this is love, love, which makes people extra strong.