What kind of person is the mother in the letter?

Wang Ting

Mother sent a pair of old cotton shoes from her hometown. When I opened the package, I found a piece of paper stuffed in my shoes, on which I drew a cotton-padded jacket, two quilts stacked together, and some pills crossed out with diagonal lines. The pencil drawing on the paper has faint traces of repeated wiping.

I seem to see my mother's stiff and cracked hand, holding a thin pencil and eraser, drawing and wiping over and over again. My eyes are not moist, and my heart is full of bitterness.

The fellow villagers took the drawing paper and looked at it. He was puzzled and asked me, "What did your mother draw?"

I choked and explained, "My mother said it was cold, so she should put on more clothes and cover two quilts at night. Remember to tuck in the quilt before going to bed and don't catch a cold. "

After listening to this, he looked at me in great surprise and said, "How can you understand your mother's meaning with such a simple painting?"

I have mixed feelings in my heart. Tell him that his mother once wrote such a letter.

In the third year of senior high school, I didn't go home for two months in order to have more time to review my lessons at school. Mother entrusted the villagers in the town to send living expenses. When the neighbor left, he handed me a small note.

It was recess and the corridor was crowded with classmates. I was reading the note, and a naughty boy who lived in the town walked by me quickly, snatched the note from my hand, ran into the classroom, stood by the podium and opened it. He looked at it strangely for a few seconds, then held up a piece of paper and handed it to me. He smiled and shouted, "What is your mother drawing?" Your mother can't read! "

In an instant, my cheeks turned red, and I rushed to the podium and grabbed the note. I saw that it said: an apple, an egg, a pig, and a dozen thick RMB. In a flash, tears kept spinning in my eyes. I never thought that my illiterate mother would come up with such a way to tell me: I have money at home, I don't suffer at school, I eat more fruits and eggs, and I buy more meat in the canteen. My tears pattered on the paper and I began to cry. ...

When I read the meaning of the letter to my classmates, many students' eyes were wet, including the boy who robbed me of the note. A boy who is usually taciturn said, "For illiterate mothers in rural areas, we should cherish time and study hard!" " "There was silence in the classroom, and everyone quietly buried his head in the book. ...

In fact, in poor and remote villages, mothers who do housework around the stove with their backs to the loess are mostly illiterate. All their lives, except the whole family, are chicken and duck farms. Inside and outside the house, they wear old clothes that children don't want, carry water, cut wood and dig the ground to grow vegetables. When cold comes and summer goes, get up first in the morning to cook for a change; Be the last one to sleep at night and sew clothes and socks.

In a blink of an eye, many years have passed.

Now when I see such a picture letter again, there is still a warm current in my heart. Suddenly, it dawned on me that for so many years, in this illiterate mother's heart, there must be a belief that has been supporting her, and she took the trouble to fly a love across Qian Shan and send it to her child's heart.

About the author: Wang Ting, male. His works are scattered in more than 600 publications at home and abroad, such as Reader, Youth Digest, People's Daily, Ta Kung Pao, Southern Metropolis Daily and Xinmin Evening News, and he has been selected into various papers and books.

Kind and simple, a good mother with children.