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Chapter 101 World
[Chinese] Tie Ning
The baby does take hold of the whole world, which is his mother; the baby can indeed smile at his mother, and his world is always warm and whole in his eyes.

Even in the dream, the young mother knew that the New Year was coming.

Even in her dream, the young mother knew what she should pack in her travel bag—some things for the New Year, and she was going to travel with her baby to reunite with her natal family in the countryside.

Just like that, the mother took a long-distance bus with the baby in her arms, and on the luggage rack above her seat were the bulging bags of their mother and child.The car drove out of the city and drove towards the vast plain with a lot of passengers.My mother never remembered that a long-distance bus could drive so fast that she seemed to be flying with her baby rubbing against the ground. She ignored the extraordinary speed and the lead-heavy sky outside the window, but kept looking up. Luggage rack, shine your eyes on it.The bulging bag was full of her thoughts: there was a sweater she knitted for her mother; an electric stove she bought for her father; a red woolen coat she carefully selected for her younger sister; The "cruiser" leather boots that I thought about buying.And her laundry, and her baby's "diapers."

In this way, the long-distance bus drove the mother and the baby all the way, as if not wanting to stop.

For a long, long time, the city has been left far behind, and the country has not yet appeared far away. The lead-like sky pot has suffocated the land and the long-distance bus on the land. Mother, a wave of fear exploded in her heart.She wanted to cry, to cry out as if she were in danger.She looked around, and the passengers in the car were also looking at each other suspiciously. She yelled, but couldn't hear her own voice.She pinched the back of her hand hard, and the back of her hand hurt.So where did her voice go?She looked down at the baby in her arms, who smiled at her.

The baby's smile made the mother calm down for a while, but then the mother felt a landslide shaking, her eyes were dark, her head suddenly hit the window glass, and the glass shattered silently, mother and baby Was thrown out of the car.

Mother cried out in the boundless darkness.She couldn't hear herself or move her feet.She knew she was crying "my baby," and even though the baby was in her arms, she was holding her tight, she wanted to know what had happened to the world, and she wanted to know where the world had driven mother and child.When a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, my mother saw that the ground under her feet was cracking silently.This is a kind of hopeless crack, and the earth has swallowed up the mother's long-distance bus not far away and the full passengers in the blink of an eye. "This must be the end of the world," the mother said numbly to her baby, bowing her head.By lightning, she saw the baby smiling at her.

Only a baby can smile at such a moment, and only such a baby's smile can make the mother give birth to extraordinary courage.She began to struggle to move her feet, and she stopped screaming.The baby's smile brought her sanity back to her, and she knew she had to save every inch of her remaining strength by silence.She finally miraculously climbed up from the crack in the earth, and she climbed onto the earth again.The sky was getting brighter, and my mother's feet were already dripping with blood.She felt no pain because the baby in her arms smiled at her.

A young mother is running on the broken ground with her baby in her arms. There is no one in the wilderness, and the ground is still trembling slightly.The sky was cloudy and clear, bright and dark, and my mother didn't know how long she had been running.It seems that the world no longer has time, and there is only a blank dial left on the watch on my mother's wrist.The blank dial made the mother cry in despair, the blank dial made the mother feel that she no longer had the strength to save the baby and herself, and she could no longer rely on this world, which was about to disappear in a slow and constant tremor.Mother looked up and saw that she had nothing under the sky.She buried her head on the baby and began to wail soundlessly.

The baby was still smiling at its mother in her arms.

The baby's persistent smile surprised the wailing mother, and she also felt his little hand grasping her skirt tightly and trustingly, as if he was firmly grasping the whole world.

The baby does take hold of the whole world, which is his mother; the baby can indeed smile at his mother, and his world is always warm and whole in his eyes.

The baby's small hands and the baby's smile once again conquered the crying mother, and once again packed up her broken spirit.For the first time, she understood that she was not without everything, she had extremely strong arms, and she also had hot tears and sweet milk.She must let the world survive intact, and she must dedicate the beauty and prosperity of this world to her baby.

The mother trekked between the crazy world with the baby in her arms, let the cold wind bite and the wind and sand fill the air, she calmly unbuttoned her skirt and let the baby suck her.

The mother trekked between the impermanent world with the baby in her arms, letting herself look haggard, and letting heavy snow cover her black hair.Dressed in rags, she headed towards the village with high spirits. There was her natal family there, and their mother and son were rushing to celebrate the New Year.

My mother had no water for a long time, so she gulped down the white snow; my mother had no food for a long time, so she used her hand as a shovel to dig up carrots and white radishes in the wild that were neglected by farmers.The milk made from snow and radish is still sweet, and the baby is smiling in her arms.

It's dark and bright, and it's dark and dark.When the mother finally saw the village of her mother's family, the village was already... a piece of rubble.Among the uninhabited and extremely silent rubble, there is only one old hand stretching out to the sky.The old hand had been stiff for a long time, but the mother immediately recognized that it was her mother's hand.The mother's mother didn't grasp the world, but the baby in her arms was always tightly grasping the mother's cotton-fluttered skirt, and smiling at his mother.

The mother who was sitting paralyzed on the ruins stood up again, and the belief of hope rose again from despair.She wants to lead her baby to escape from the ruins, even if it is thousands of miles away, she has to return to her city, where there is her home and her husband.At this moment the mother thought of her husband.

The mother was back on the road with the baby in her arms.The ice and snow melted into the land in an instant, and there was no water and no food.The mother's breasts gradually shrunk, she began to tear the broken cotton jacket on her body, and she began to chew the cotton wool in the jacket, the milk gushed out again, and the baby smiled at her in the mother's arms.

Young mother wakes up from her sleep, pampering her loving husband brings her a cup of hot milk, the mother pushes away the milk and jumps out of bed to greet her baby, who is lying in the light blue cradle to the mother Smile.On the floor was their bulging luggage.

The mother turned to her husband and said, "Do you know where the world is?"

The husband looked at her blankly.

"The world is here." The mother pointed to the smiling baby in the cradle.

The mother asked her husband again, "Do you know who is the world?"

The husband was even more at a loss.

Mother walked to the sunny window, looked at the crystal new snow outside and said, "The world is me."

The young mother said nothing, but her heart was filled with deep gratitude.Because she suddenly discovered that dreams are actually a kind of reality!

Without this nightmare, how could she and her baby have that tragic and persevering journey that night?Without this nightmare, how would she and her baby have the strength to hold the world in each other's arms?
Heart mark notes
When a child is born, he is everything to the mother, he gives the mother dreams like songs and dreams, he gives the mother the intoxicating warmth, his lively and lovely figure, his carefree smile, is the mother the whole world.And mother, is it not the whole of the child's world?The mother gave the child a safe and warm embrace, and the mother gave the child a blue sky as clear as water.As long as there is a mother, a crying baby can immediately smile; as long as there is a mother, even naughty children can become well-behaved; as long as there is a mother, no matter how cold and dangerous the place is, it is home.Mother is the child's world.

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