I came to Shenzhen and soon found a job in a Japanese-funded company with a monthly salary of more than 2,000 yuan. I immediately wrote to my mother to report to her the news that I had found a job. And said: "I haven't found a suitable place to live for the time being, and when I find a suitable place to live and settle down, I will take you to Shenzhen to live together." Now I will send you 300 yuan a month for living expenses. And persuaded my mother: Now that you are old, don't plant any more contracted land, and if the living expenses are not enough, I will send more. The mother wrote back that she was in good health and that the contracted land could continue to be planted. She can live a self-sufficient life; In order to let her daughter show her filial piety, she can send 100 yuan every month. And persuaded me that she heard that Shenzhen is a special economic zone and consumption is high, so she told me not to work myself. I wrote back that Shenzhen's consumption is high, and wages are also high, which is more than ten times that of my hometown. I still send 300 yuan a month to my mother.

Because I was practical and capable, I was quickly valued and reused by the boss, and a year later, the company transferred me to the technical department, and my monthly salary increased to 4,000 yuan. So I rented a room alone and went home to take my mother to Shenzhen to live.

My mother was so happy that she handed over the house to my second uncle and came to Shenzhen to live with me. However, she was thinking about my marriage again, and kept saying to me, "You are not too young, and now that you have a good job, it is time to get married." I'm still waiting to hug my grandson! This may be the last wish of the mother, and if it is not fulfilled, the mother will not be able to live in peace and spend her old age in peace. If my mother is not at ease for a day, I feel ashamed of my mother and cannot work and live with peace of mind; So I also began to think about love and marriage, fulfilling my mother's last wish, and fulfilling my filial piety.

A year later, I really had a love interest, which was the small boss of the Japanese-funded company I worked for - Ichiro Ono. He was very nice and respectful to me, and he was caring, considerate and polite from work to life. I am also amazed and admired by his knowledge, talents, sincerity and humility. After another year, their relationship had further developed and they were looking forward to getting married, so I decided to tell my mother.

When I heard that I had a partner, my mother was very happy, but after listening to my introduction to Ichiro, her attitude immediately changed, and she asked me coldly: Where do you say he is from? I say, the Japanese. Mother asked again, "What is his name?" I said, Ichiro Ono. The mother was also not satisfied with the name, and said: How do you call this name? I laughed and explained: He is the Lang of the son, not the wolf of the tiger wolf; Japanese names like to use this character. The mother shook her head and said, "I can't read and write, so I can't tell which wolf is." I sensed my mother's displeasure and asked her, "What did you hear about Ichiro?" Mother shook her head again: No. I didn't know him at all. Why do you not know at all, but you have a bad impression? I don't understand. My mother was silent for a while and then asked, "Why do you have to find a Japanese?" I patiently explained, "I don't have to find a Japanese, no matter where he is, as long as he truly loves me and likes me, I also really love him and like him. It's just that after all these years, I haven't found another person who really loves me and the one I love. This factory is run by the Japanese. Ichiro and I are in the technical department, he is the section chief, it is inevitable that there is frequent contact, talking, from talking about work, talking about science and technology, to talking about ideas, talking about ideals, talking about feelings, and found that many of our thoughts and views on life are the same, so the closer we talked, the more we agreed, and finally decided to fall in love and combine. ”

I sensed that my mother was not satisfied with Ichiro. What's not satisfying? She didn't say it explicitly. After listening to my explanation, she fell silent again and did not say a word. After thinking about it carefully, I gradually realized that my mother was not used to foreigners, and she did not have a good impression of Japanese people. When I first came to Shenzhen, my mother would ask me when she saw foreigners with high noses and blue eyes: "Now that it has been liberated, it is New China, why are foreigners still allowed to come to China?" I explained: "Now it is different from before liberation. Before liberation, foreigners came to China with troops and guns to invade China, and of course we had to oppose them and drive them out. At present, foreigners come to China because they are invited by our country, and they bring capital and technology to our special zone to open factories, set up companies, recruit Chinese to work, and help us in construction. We should also learn from their advanced technology and management methods. As our ancestors said, see the wise and think together. Others are more advanced than us, so we should learn from them, and we should not exclude all dissidents and be complacent. Now that our country is implementing the policy of reform and opening up, our thinking must also follow the reform and opening up, and we can no longer look at the world and problems with the old brains and ideas of the past. Shenzhen is a special economic zone and the forefront of our country's reform and opening up, and the whole country is learning from Shenzhen. "But. No matter how the country's policies change, the mother always has her own inherent views on some things.

My mother asked me, "Where is he from?" I said, "Japanese." The mother asked, "What is his name?" I said, "Ichiro Ono." The mother asked, "What is that name?" I laughed and explained, "He is the son of a man, not a wolf of a jackal; Japanese names like to use this character. The mother shook her head and said, "I can't read and tell which wolf is there." I sensed my mother's displeasure and asked her, "What did you hear about Ichiro?" The mother shook her head again: "No." I didn't know him at all. The mother was silent for a while and then asked, "Why do you have to find a Japanese?" I explained, "It's not that I have to find a Japanese, it's that after so many years, I haven't found anyone who really loves me and who I love." This factory is run by the Japanese. Ichiro and I are in the technical department, he is the section chief, I am a technician, often contact, talk heart, from talking about work, talking about science and technology, to talking about ideas, talking about ideals, talking about feelings, found that many of our thoughts and views on life are the same, so the more we talk, the closer we go, the same love, and finally decided to fall in love and combine. ”

After a moment of silence, my mother asked me again, "Is he good to you?" I hurriedly said, "Good!" Caring and considerate to me, very caring and polite. Mother stopped talking. I thought she had acquiesced, but she said, "Look, is he genuinely good to you?" Will it be just a game and leave it alone? For these foreigners, I don't know the roots, can you see through it? Don't be deceived! "It turned out that my mother was afraid that I would be deceived. I said, "Your suspicions are justified. At first, I was skeptical. However, after many inspections and tests in the past two years, I found that he truly loves me and likes me, not cheating, and not the kind of person who just throws it away and doesn't ask. Gradually, I also fell in love with him, and I couldn't forget or give up. My mother looked at me for a long time and asked, "Are you sure that he really loves you and has not deceived you?" I nodded earnestly. After a long time, my mother also nodded, which was a tacit acquiescence.

I still felt that my mother was not satisfied with Ichiro, so I was silent for a while, and then I said, "If you are not satisfied with Ichiro, I will quit Ichiro, quit my job here, and go to another company to find a job and find a partner." The mother asked, "What other companies?" I said, "Many: American, British, French, Taiwanese, Hong Kong, all of them." The mother asked, "Can they pay you such a high salary and make you a technician?" I said, "That's not guaranteed." Find a job and take it slowly, maybe even higher, maybe even higher. The mother said, "Are these companies easy to find?" I shook my head and said, "It's harder to say, just look around, maybe you can find it, maybe you can't find it." Mother sighed and said, "Didn't you delay you for so long?" I think, you better not quit, it's good here, the work, the object is very good. You investigate it carefully, and if Ichiro is really good to you, you can get married. I agree. ”

Although my mother has a personal opinion and is not used to looking at foreigners, she is not stubborn. After repeated inquiries, she knew that Ichiro really loved me, and I really liked him, and now that the national policy allows it, she finally respected my opinion and no longer objected. So, for my relationship with Ichiro, my mother still agreed and accepted.

My hanging heart finally let go. So I said, "Ichiro listened to my introduction and respected you very much, saying that you were a great mother. Tomorrow, he said he would come to see you in person. Mother shook her head and said, "As long as he is genuinely good to you." I am from the countryside, and I have never met foreigners, let alone understand their living habits. I've heard that Japanese people have a lot of etiquette, and I don't know what etiquette to use to greet him. If you tell him, you won't bother him to come and visit. I said, "No matter how much etiquette they Japanese have, this is in China, Shenzhen is Chinese land, you can receive him according to our Chinese etiquette." Don't be afraid, I've got me. The next day, Ichiro came to visit his mother with gifts. In accordance with Chinese etiquette, his mother also made sumptuous dishes to entertain Ichiro. Ichiro thanked his mother and proposed to me on the spot. I said yes, and so did my mother.

My mother finally agreed to my marriage to Ichiro, and soon after, Ichiro Ono and I got married and moved into his villa. I'm going to quit the rental and ask my mother to live with us. My mother refused, emphatically saying, "I don't understand Japanese, I don't understand their habits, and I don't know how to cook Japanese food, so I can't live with you because I feel constrained when we live together." I'd better go back to my hometown. After being away from home for so long, I was homesick too. I said, "How do you live if you don't have anyone at home?" Mother said: "Zhuang Shang is an old neighbor for several lifetimes, and your second uncle,—— although he is not your father's brother, but your father has no brothers, he is the closest to our family." They will take care of me. Besides, your father's and grandmother's graves are in their hometown, and I will burn paper for them on the Qingming Festival. ”