One of the most unforgettable things about being a soldier.

The most unforgettable thing about being a soldier.

I was a soldier in Sanya, Hainan Island, and went home to visit relatives for three years. There is one thing I will never forget.

Go home to visit relatives for a month during the Spring Festival. Besides visiting teachers, classmates and comrades-in-arms, try to stay at home with your parents. I don't know how a month passed so quickly. It seems to have passed in the blink of an eye. It's time to go back to the army. I left home the night before and stayed at the home of my comrade-in-arms in Zhengzhou (at that time, my home was far from the urban area and it took more than an hour to get to Zhengzhou Railway Station, so I left home the night before). Before leaving home, my mother didn't do anything unusual, just reminded me.

In the morning, when my comrades and I passed the ticket gate with train tickets, my mother called me by my nickname in the distance. The voice is too familiar and intimate, very penetrating, as if the whole waiting hall is echoing. I looked back and it was my mother. My mother didn't take anything with empty hands and said nothing. She just looked at me affectionately and silently. I dropped my military salute and ran quickly across the fence, holding my mother's hand and saying, "Mom, why are you here?" The train is about to leave, so go home early. "In winter, it is very cold. It's hard to get up early and get dark. It's hard for an old man with little feet and a woman in her fifties, but his mother cares nothing but to see her son again.

When the train started slowly with a long sound, I couldn't control it any longer. Tears kept falling like pearls with broken lines.