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Chapter 110 Infatuation Stone

[Chinese] Sanmao
My parents didn't understand or appreciate my eccentricity, but they tolerated it.

Many years ago, when I was a 13-year-old boy, I saw someone on the street digging up a tree to build a house. I felt sorry for the tree's death, so I stood by the side of the road and stared blankly.The moment the tree fell, the crowd who were watching at the same time cheered, as if they had done something worthy of celebration.

The tree was too big to be transported as a whole, so the people on the construction site took out a saw and broke the tree down.At that moment, I mustered up the courage to speak to someone, and asked in embarrassment if I could give me the remaining root.The owner gave me a smile and said, "As long as you can move it, you can take it." I said I couldn't move it, but I could drag it.

In the situation of dragging, pulling, carrying and stopping, a little girl who loves face and is extremely shy, walked through the eyes of everyone in the street, and brought the tree root home.

When my parents saw me, who was stunted at the time, dragging back such a big tree root, instead of ridiculing or blaming me, they helped clean it, dry it, and then moved it to my bedroom.

In the following years, I picked up many strange things and brought them home. My parents didn't bother me, but paid special attention to those things that were worthless but meaningful to me.When they were young, they reluctantly accepted this daughter, who was sometimes called "weird" by relatives.

My parents didn't understand or appreciate my eccentricity, but they tolerated it.I also don't want my parents to understand my views on subjective things like beauty. As long as they don't interfere, I feel at ease.

Many years have passed, and in 20, when father and daughter separated for 1986 years, my parents and I still seldom appreciate the same things together. They have their own world, and I bury my head in Chinese books.I thought that my parents still didn't understand me - that's fine, as long as there is love for each other, there is no need to re-evaluate them.

Just a week ago, my younger brother told me that the next day was a holiday, and asked if I would go to the beach with my parents and my younger brother's family.Hearing that it was about the seaside instead of the park, I happily agreed.As a result, I went to read again that night and fell asleep only after dawn.The whole family waited for me to get up the next morning until 11 o'clock. My mother had to wake me up, and she was afraid that I would be disappointed if I didn't follow, and she was afraid that if I woke up, I would lose sleep. In short, she was very embarrassed.Half awake, I just waved my hand and said, "No." I ignored people and turned over to sleep again. When I woke up, I found that my father had left a note telling me that I had to eat alone.

My parents were not at home, so I got up at noon and ran back to my small house not far away to clean up the fallen flowers and leaves. I didn't go back to my parents' house until after five o'clock in the afternoon.

My mother came up to me and asked me why I didn’t eat lunch. I asked where my father was, and my mother said, “Hey, I’m doing your laundry for you in the pool on the balcony.” I opened the screen door and ran out to call my father. He responded, Without looking back, I was brushing something with a brush, and it was so hard.After a while, Dad was looking for towels in the kitchen again, saying that he wanted to dry something, and he asked me to wait in the living room without showing it.After a while, Dad came out, and Mom came out, and the two old men were holding two stones in their hands.

Dad said: "Look, the piece I gave you not only has lines on it, but also a touch of red on the top of the stone. What do you think?" Mom said: "Bend for hours, pick and choose, I just got a stone ball, look how round it is!"

I stared at the two stones, and immediately saw the picture of my elderly parents bending over and turning over the stones in the strong wind by the sea.

"Didn't you like stones before? We know you don't have time to pick them up, so we went for you. Can you see if you can draw?" Mom said.I just looked at my father who was thinner than me in a daze and a daze.For a while, I wanted to scold them for being too foolish, but I couldn't open my mouth, for fear that my voice would choke as soon as I spoke.

These two most simple stones, no color can match them, are the deepest and widest gifts my parents gave me in this life. I believe that the love of my parents—the love of my life, is hidden in these two different stones. Talking Stone gave me.Between parents and daughter, finally at this moment, spiritually, the most complete union was made.

I put the two stones in the living room, and followed my mother into the kitchen. The three of us had dinner together. After the meal, the TV news that my father watched started, and my mother was on the phone.I went back to the small room that belonged to me at my parents' house, and suddenly found that my father had moved these two stones on top of one of my books. ".

Heart mark notes
Family affection is the kind of thing that you don't realize when you are around, and you will miss it once you are away.Thousands of emotions in the world are derived from family affection.Friendship can be a kind of family affection, love will eventually sublimate into family affection, and kindness hides family affection more vividly.Once the emotion between people is deep, it will evolve into family affection. There is only one conclusion: family affection is the most selfless emotion in the universe.

Family love is always there, it tolerates our forgetting and takes it for granted.Many sons and daughters enjoy the love given by their parents in this way, stubbornly occupying it, depriving them of their youth, turning their hard work into items for us to fill our stomachs, exchanging their old age for our vigorous youth, and often Complain about their good advice, complain about their earnest teachings.Perhaps, one day, when we are parents, we will truly understand what it is like to be a parent.

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