short series

The Glory of a Mother

share time: 2025-02-10 12:22:11

At the end of a lane in a southern small town, Chen Xiulan runs a breakfast stall alone, using her calloused hands to save tuition fees for her son Xiaoyu. In his adolescence, Xiaoyu feels ashamed of his mother's job and always deliberately keeps his distance. One day, when a sudden rainstorm hits, Xiaoyu sees his mother, soaked through,踮脚 (ti踮脚 means standing on tiptoe) leaning on the windowsill outside the classroom, tightly hugging a thermal bucket she brought for him. On the way home, his mother casually mentions that she gave up a further study opportunity in her youth to let Xiaoyu's father start a business at ease, only to end up with a broken marriage. As the raindrops hit his mother's no-longer-straight back, Xiaoyu suddenly notices a medicine bottle hidden under her apron—she has been suffering from illness but never complained. When Xiaoyu takes the noodle ladle from his mother's hand for the first time, through the hazy steam, he finally understands the 'glory' his mother has written with half her life: it's not a glamorous status, but the silent guardianship hidden in every warm meal.

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