再过几天就是父亲的生日。父亲已是五十好几的人，和土坷垃打了大半辈子的交道。为了我们姐弟俩父亲打柴割草，挑炭卖菜，什么活都干过，什么苦都吃为有足够的资金供我上大学，父亲忍痛让姐姐在初二时辍了学。可惜我不高考名落孙山。不顾父亲要我复读的劝诫，我毅然选择了南下 A few days is my father’s birthday. My father is already a dozen or so people who have been dealing with earth for more than half his life. In order for our siblings to firewood and cut grass, pick charcoal and sell vegetables, what kind of work was done, and what bitterness to eat for sufficient funds for me to go to college, my father reluctantly told her sister to drop out of school on the second day. Unfortunately, I do not take the entrance examinations fell into the mountains. Regardless of my father’s repetition of my exhortations, I resolutely chose to go south