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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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