The news of Mihura Zhelang's mother.

Akifumi Miura

Yesterday, my mother in the country called and said that I'm afraid I don't need cotton-padded clothes here in Tokyo, so she sent me back to my hometown. Just as the wife in charge of the phone went out, the eldest daughter answered the phone and told me.

? What cotton-padded clothes? The daughter asked.

Unlike several younger sisters, the eldest daughter was born in the country, not in a hospital in Tokyo. Maybe it's because my mother was brought up from a young age, and I can generally understand her hometown dialect. But sometimes you will encounter words you don't understand and be stumped. Mom said that? Cotton-padded jacket It's a cotton-padded jacket with a lot of cotton and no lapels. Every autumn, my mother will make it herself and send it to Tokyo.

Even if I go to work in midsummer, I feel insecure just wearing a close-fitting undershirt and not wearing a kimono outside. What my mother did was to put a cotton coat over the kimono she wore to work.

Mother will be 80 years old when June comes, but she still does needlework by herself. Although you can't make coats and kimono coats as before, you can still make things like homemade coats and children's summer clothes without help. You have to thread the needle yourself. If you can't sew it once, put the reading glasses on the bridge of your nose and sew them several times. Even when I went back to my hometown and sat next to her, no one ever asked me to sew for her. I can't look at it and say, come on, I'll sew it for you! ? Mom looked embarrassed and said with a smile: Really, eyes are useless these days. ?

It takes a long time to make a cotton-padded coat because my mother has poor eyesight. A month after the summer, the whole family came back.

Hometown, it's almost time to go back to Tokyo. It seems that I suddenly remembered my mother. I found my cotton-padded jacket from somewhere and started to tear it down and wash it again.

? It's no problem not to pile so much cotton. Tokyo is not as cold as here. ?

I just came to my senses after saying this every time, but when I opened the express parcel sent by my mother in June 5438+065438+ 10, as in previous years, the cotton tidbits were bulging.

I remember when I was a child, my mother sat on the mat in the living room and spread out the quilt or cotton gown. I watched the soft cotton wool fall on my mother's shoulder. I think, how like cotton rain! At this time, I think my mother is still stuffing my cotton-padded jacket. It's first frost season in the country, and my mother feels cold and chilly on her back, so she unconsciously pads the shoulders of her coat.

Anyway, it's not easy for my mother to make this coat, so I'll wear it for one winter. In fact, even without a cotton-padded jacket, I have been fat and stupid for four or five years. If I put it on again, it will naturally look more round. This dress is really embarrassing, but don't interfere at home.

Maybe I grew up by the stove, and I always found it difficult to adapt to the heating or the stove. The whole room gets sleepy when it is hot. Therefore, it is still just a quilt stove after winter. But even in Tokyo, at dawn in late winter, the cold outside will attack your shoulders and back. At such a time, it would be a great help to have this cotton-padded coat. Put on my mother's cotton-padded clothes, no matter how cold it is (my hometown describes it as biting cold), my shoulders and back will not feel cold. Taking a nap on the stove or sleeping with clothes on won't catch a cold. Wear it out at night and a short coat.

Most of the materials in the cotton-padded jacket are old kimonos worn by mother. Mom is almost 80 years old, and those kimonos are usually tender in color, but you can wear them if you want. Mother took these kimonos apart and made me a cotton coat. Once finished, send it by parcel post. There must be a letter in the parcel, which, like a record, says when and where the kimono was changed, and finally there is a note: Still not bad?

It seems that the materials are really superior. Helpless, it's very old, and I don't hesitate to wear it as work clothes. Every spring, my cuffs and hem are worn out; The lining of the armpit is bursting; The skirt is polished; Cotton is beaten into small balls and comes out from the back and shoulders.

Every spring, I think: this thing's life should be over, and I want to send it back to my hometown. But in autumn, my mother turned it over and sent it, clean and brand-new. As usual, cotton tidbits are full.

I asked my eldest daughter on the phone with her mother:

? What else did you say?

? Grandma said on the phone:? I'm sorry you lied to me again this time. ? My eldest daughter told my mother that she said so. It's not loud. Grandma seems to be dying. ? I smiled and shook my head and said, but there is nothing I can do about it. ?

My eldest daughter shook her head at my words. Yeah, I can't help it. ?

Mom has been in poor health recently. She has been ill for a long time, her heart is not good, and she often has mild angina pectoris. Until four or five years ago, as soon as she received the letter inviting her to come, she could immediately take a long-distance train to Tokyo for more than ten hours. I can't even do this now.

Mother doesn't look much weaker than before. I heard that I used to ask the doctor if I could stay in Tokyo for a few days, and the doctor would answer immediately. Would you please go? And always give her medicine according to the number of days she lives in Tokyo. Recently, he said sympathetically: I'm afraid it's too reluctant. ? He also said that you can leave if you want, but you can't be responsible for the consequences. Mother didn't think it was a big deal at first, but of course she didn't know the result of the long trip. Afraid of causing trouble to the people around me, I wandered around my home in the country.

When the eldest daughter was born, the mother was 67 years old. Mom said, I can't die before my child goes to primary school; The child went to primary school and said that he would not die after graduation. In fact, the mother got her wish, and now the eldest daughter has graduated from primary school. Maybe my mother feels tired and weak. This time, she didn't say that she would wait until she graduated from high school. She only said that she wanted to see her eldest daughter attend the opening ceremony of middle school.

? Please do come. ? So we wrote back to our mother. At that time, we decided that our wife would pick us up in the country. However, I didn't expect the cold in early spring this year to have a reaction to my mother; In addition, the news that an uncle who lived in Hanazono Sakura Valley of Xinxian County died suddenly in mid-March was also shocking.

This uncle was a doctor who graduated from Keio University and died of a sudden myocardial infarction at the age of 66. Before my uncle moved to Hanazono Sakura Valley, he had lived in the tsunami area of Yokohama for a long time, and my brothers and sisters were taken care of by him. This autumn, I am going to write a novel to record the history of my ominous family and follow in the footsteps of my brothers and sisters who ended their careers in a hurry, so I have a lot to ask this uncle. When I learned the news of my uncle's death from Xiaoqiangu's cousin, I felt at a loss.

? Oh, I have some bad news for you. Are you sitting in a chair? I called my mother and told her. After chatting for a while, I asked again and then conveyed my uncle's obituary.

Mother uttered a deep and sad voice, but unexpectedly told me something to pay attention to in a calm voice and asked me to take a message to my aunt and cousin. There was a silence. When I spoke again, my mother said that the receiver was tightly attached to my ear. Don't talk so loudly. Then I suddenly talked about a past event when I was young.

This is a boring past: when my uncle was alive, my mother invited her to eat ice cream every time she went to Tokyo. Once my mother kept coughing because she was too cold to be used to it.

? Aji (uncle's name is Jiping) always jokes that I cough when I eat ice cream. ?

Mother's voice faded away like singing, and suddenly there came the voice of putting down the receiver.

? Sambalang? Maybe it's samba. That's what we call mountain people in our hometown.

Since then, my mother has completely lost her spirit and seems to really be unable to come to Tokyo. So, I decided to go back to my hometown to see her during the spring break. When I bought a ticket to inform the date of going home, just two days before departure, my second daughter suddenly fell ill with a high fever.

To this end, the matter of returning to China has to be given up. Mother said we lied to her, referring to this matter. I wanted to take my worn cotton-padded coat away this time, but I still have it. I was afraid that my mother would be angry and asked to send it back quickly.

Mother always likes to put tea candy in her mouth when she is sewing. I bought a bag and put it in a cotton coat. While packing, I thought: even so, I will go home in the near future.

Brief introduction of the author

Mihura Tetsuro (193 1 ~) is a Japanese contemporary novelist. His main works include Enduring Sichuan, Marriage, Road to the Sea, Journey to the Wind, etc.

works appreciation

In the contemporary Japanese literary world, Mihura Tetsuro's works "Enduring Sichuan", "Road to the Sea" and "Journey to the Wind" have touched many readers with the dignity of pure literature, which can be seen from his recent refusal to attend the award ceremony of Jiechuan Literature Prize. He can't stand the impure defilement of his literary palace.

What we saw in "Mother's News" is also his childlike innocence, which shows his feelings for his mother. In the author's view, her mother is the concern of her life. This paper traces her impression of her mother from the topic of cotton-padded clothes. Her thrift or kindness left an indelible mark on the author's mind. From the exhortation to care about her daily life, the author deeply understands the love of her mother for her son. Although the cotton-padded clothes worn by the author were re-sewn with mother's old cloth, in the author's opinion, such clothes are always very warm to wear, just as the article said: No matter how cold it is at night, the shoulders and back will not feel cold when wearing the cotton-padded clothes made by mother. ? Like China and Meng Jiao? Thread in the hand of a kind-hearted mother, making clothes for her wayward son? It feels so-so. The structure of the article is carried out in the illusion and memory of reality, but because the author is full of emotional hints, people will not feel whether there is a time gap between the description of reality and reality. In terms of language, as some critics have said, the author described the expression of love delicately and movingly in seemingly plain language. Let readers unconsciously feel the author's maternal love.