父亲已是七十多岁高龄的老人。母亲故去两年多,父亲尽管衣食不愁啥也不缺,有孩子们在身边陪着,可还是看着他老人家丢三落四没着没落,似乎苍老了许多。言谈中常常唠叨经历的艰难岁月,说常常梦见早年在东北的打工生活和给予过他帮助的远方亲戚。从这时起,我和姐妹们就商量着不能让老人留遗憾,开始张罗着帮老父完成圆梦之旅。父亲是上世纪五十年代末去的东北。当时生活极为困难,长期吃糠咽菜已到了难以活命的边沿。恰巧,父亲一位在哈尔滨火车站工作的远房表弟回家探亲,说那边只要出力就能吃上饭,还能攒点钱寄回家,父亲没给家里商量就义无返顾地偷着跟表弟 My father is an old man in his 70s. For more than two years, my mother, however, did not lack my father’s food and clothing. There are children who accompany her. Often talking about the difficult years of nagging in his speech, he often dreamed of the early years of working life in the northeast and distant relatives who had given him help. From this moment onwards, my sisters and I discussed not to allow the elderly to stay regret, began to find a way to help his father complete a dream trip. My father was the northeast of the last century fifties. At that time, life was extremely difficult, long-term eating branopharyngeal has reached the edge of hard to survive. Coincidentally, his father a distant cousin working in Harbin Railway Station to go home to visit relatives, saying that as long as the output will be able to eat rice, but also save money to send home, my father did not give the house to discuss the deliberately steal with the watch younger brother