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Even  in  the  midst  of  displacement,  he             shortly after giving birth. The house we
         tried  his  best  to  keep  us  in  school.  He         lived  in  was  shabby,  and  every  winter,

         died  when  he  was  only  54  years  old,  in          cold winds got in through many cracks.
         1963.  Yet  that  same  year,  my  mother               Over time, my mother suffered seriously

         urged me to go to the United States for                 from rheumatism. When she was in her
         further  study  as  originally  planned.                forties, she often said that she couldn't
         Walking  towards  an  indefinite  future,  I             lift her arms, and sometimes she found

         could  never  have  imagined  that  that                it  difficult  to  do  buttons.  However,  we
         would  be  my  final  goodbye  to  my                    were  not  aware  enough  to  urge  her  to

         loving  mother!  My  father  recovered                  see  a  doctor.  She  had  to  continue  her
         consciousness  for  a  time,  thanks  to                never-ending  household  chores.  Now
         medication  and  the  caring  attendance                that I think about it, it was really a sin.

         of my mother. He died in 1980.
                                                                       When  my  mother  died  of  a  heart
              My mother labored hard since she was               attack,  the  family  told  me  not  to  go
         a  child.  Doing  all  kinds  of  housework             home  for  the  funeral,  because  they
         tempered  her  physical  strength.  In  my              knew that I had not finished my studies,

         mind,  she  was  as  strong  as  my  father.            and  our  financial  situation  was  still
         Chinese  people  are  careful  about  a                 poor.  In  fact,  my  studies  had  almost

         mother’s  health  after  giving  birth  to  a           come  to  an  end,  but  because  the
         child,  but  she  often  had  to  get  out  of          incident  was  so  sudden  and  I  lacked
         bed to cook and wash clothes in the river,              savings,  I  could  not  see  my  mother’s

                                                                 face for the last time. "In the past, there
                                                                 was  Wu  Qi,  and  his  mother  was  not

                                                                 near." The ancients despised him, and I
                                                                 can  really  say  that  I  was  extremely
                                                                 unfilial.

                                                                     My  mother  was  buried  in  Yuanshan

                                                                 Township, Yilan County, fifty years ago,
                                                                 in the same place as my father. They are
                                                                 together  in  a  double  grave.  The  two  of

                                                                 them will always be together. However,
                                                                 the  two  old  people's  wish  to  be  buried

                                                                 in their hometown never came true. I've
                                                                 been  thinking  recently  that  I  was,  in
                                                                 fact, an unfilial son. This makes me truly

                                                                 heartbroken!






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