明天是奶奶生日。刚接到在北京打工的母亲的电话,说她已在回家的路上。母亲六十多岁的人了,不听我们儿女的劝阻,硬要去北京打工。在我们不知道的情况下,她跟着村里的一个包工头和另外几个打工人,一同坐上了北上的列车。母亲大字不识一个,又从未出过远门,走了两个多月,一直没有回来过。主要是因为没人和她做伴回来。她一个人不会买票,不敢回来。这次奶奶过生日,母亲竟一个人从八百多里远的北京往回赶。 Tomorrow is grandma’s birthday. Just received a phone call from a mother who was working in Beijing and said she was on her way home. My mother, a man in her 60s, did not listen to our children’s discouragement and insisted on going to Beijing to work. When we did not know it, she followed a village contractor and a few other workers and took a train to the north. The mother did not know one of the characters, but never been far away, more than two months away, has not been back before. Mainly because no one is back with her. She will not buy a ticket, afraid to come back. The grandmother birthday, my mother actually alone from Beijing more than 800 years back to catch up.