What can move tomorrow

Author: Wang Qianxin
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: "I fear my return will be delayed" "，。，。，." The poem "Youzi Yin" by Meng Jiao from a thousand years ago is well-known, vividly depicting the anxious emotions and heavy feelings of a mother for her distant-traveling son. Today, with greatly improved living standards, "sewing densely before departure" may be less common, but there is still a mother who does so. At this moment, the mother sits by Fangyan's bedside, feeling her daughter's sleeping breath, and reaches for the needle and thread to sew for her. The family has always been financially strained, with no decent clothes. Most of the clothes are gifts from kind people, and Fangyan treasures them. As long as they are wearable, she absolutely refuses to throw them away. If a piece of clothing gets torn or the thread loosens, Fangyan sews it herself, not wanting to worry her mother. But tomorrow is the day she leaves, and the mother can only do her best to help her child heading off to university. Now, the admission notice from Jingmen Vocational and Technical College is in hand, but Fangyan is suddenly lost. Waiting for the notice is painful and difficult, just like when she planted a watermelon seed in the backyard as a child, eagerly waiting for it to sprout. She fertilized and watered it every day, afraid it wouldn't grow, afraid her efforts would go to waste. Now, with the notice in hand, she can't help but worry about her elderly mother at home. Jingmen, that imagined city, will be her home for half a year without returning. Will she be well-fed and warmly clothed? Will she be cold or hungry? "I fear my return will be delayed," and this is true for the mother. How can it not be true for the daughter? She doesn't want to leave her mother, who is the one who gives her the most love. Since she could remember, she noticed the difference between her mother and other mothers from the children's strange gazes. Her mother toiled from morning to evening, often crying in pain from the aches in her body. She couldn't accept it and cried day and night, which made Liu Fangyan melancholic for a long time and made her personality become solitary. The mother noticed this and always comforted her, saying, "Fangyan is the most obedient and hardworking child in the world, and she understands. Don't be sad, Mom isn't tired, and she isn't suffering." Gradually, as time passed, Fangyan realized she had to be her mother's eyes, and her mother became her diary. She deeply appreciates her mother. A blind person struggles to live in a beautiful world without even seeing it clearly, yet she raises two healthy children—such a mother is great. I must also be a good daughter, study hard, and let Mom enjoy her life. When she took the notice from school back home, the mother had already been picking, chopping, washing, and cooking vegetables in the garden. Hearing her daughter's footsteps, the mother called out, "Child, you're back." Liu Fangyan nodded, and felt tears about to fall. Looking at her mother's figure, Fangyan gathered the courage to tell her what was on her mind. She said to her mother, "Jingmen is very far from us. The teacher said that city is very beautiful and the living conditions are quite good. I want to go there to work and study, and then I can stay and work there. Later, I'll take you there."