& lt Spring Silkworm (original)

Spring is the season for sericulture. I often think of my mother at this time. Before liberation, our family was very poor, and my mother exchanged some money for raising silkworms to pay tuition for her younger brothers and sisters.

There are several mulberry trees in front of our house. As soon as spring comes, the mulberry has just sprouted, and my mother takes out a few silkworm eggs as usual. Each silkworm egg is only one foot square, covered with brown silkworm eggs smaller than sesame seeds. When the mulberry leaves grow to the size of Yu Qian, there are many young silkworms crawling on the eggs. This is how the life of a silkworm begins.

Mother smiled and shook these little lives in the small plaque. The plaque has been sprinkled with a layer of tender mulberry leaves cut into filaments. My mother took me to pick this from the mulberry tree, clean it, and cut it thin and evenly.

Silkworms are getting bigger and mulberry leaves are getting thicker every day. When the silkworm grows to half an inch, the small patches are replaced by large patches and the whole mulberry leaf is fed. Every morning, my sister picks mulberry leaves, and my mother tells me to wash my hands, dry the pieces of mulberry leaves with a towel, and then scatter them gently and evenly in the plaque.

Silkworms are getting bigger and bigger, so they can't stay in one plaque, so they are divided into two plaques, and then into three plaques ... The plaques are increasing one after another. My mother took my sister and me to clean a room next door as a sericulture room and moved seven or eight plaques into it.

Every night, my mother always gets up and adds mulberry leaves. When I wake up, I often see my mother holding a candlestick to feed silkworms. The flickering candlelight shone on her wrinkled and kind face.

Pushing open the door of the sericulture room, there was a rustling sound immediately, like rain. That's a silkworm eating mulberry leaves. At that time, the burden of picking mulberry leaves fell on my father's shoulders. Father cut off the mulberry leaves with a pair of big mulberry scissors and carried them back in bundles.

Silkworm is going up the mountain soon, and mother has to get up twice a night, which makes her back ache. My sister and I often get up to help. Mother cleared the silkworm excrement from the plaque, and sister put mulberry leaves in the plaque. When I pick up silkworm excrement with a dustpan, I always see the sweat on my mother's forehead.

Silkworms have gone up the hill. They were caught on a "mountain" made of wheat straw. A few days later, the "mountain" was covered with white and yellow cocoons. While picking cocoons, my mother gently said to my sister and me, "son, you should study hard at school!" This tuition is hard-won ... "

I looked up and saw some silver wires on my mother's temples.

Extended data

"Spring Silkworm" (the sixth volume of the five-year plan) is an article by the famous writer Ba Jin recalling his mother's sericulture life. The author narrates the past of mother's hard work in raising silkworms for her children to study with affectionate brushstrokes, and expresses her infinite love and nostalgia for her mother.

"Spring Silkworm" is from Ba Jin's Random Thoughts. This was created by Ba Jin with his life experience. It is precisely because of the pursuit of beautiful ideals, the pursuit of perfect personality and a highly serious historical attitude that Lao Ba Jin began to write.

He painfully recalled in "Random Thoughts"; He reflected deeply in Random Thoughts. He resumed his pursuit of youth in Random Thoughts. He completed the shaping of a real personality in Random Thoughts.

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