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Oriental Petrochemical (Shanghai) Corporation / Wang Huanji

          In a few days, I left my relatives and visited my friends. Before I could accompany my parents properly, it was time to leave again in a twinkling of an eye. Even if there are too many concerns and reluctance, but the children are about to start school, our husband and wife to return to work, everything is in a hurry, can not stay more.


        The night before she left, she had almost prepared her luggage and took her son back to bed, leaving me and my daughter to chat in their parents'room. Sitting at the bedside of my parents, my mother prepares meals for us on the road under the lamp, and my daughter fights for my grandmother from time to time, so we have a chat.
        
         Mother's head was obviously a few more white hair, and father in the shadow of the lamp was more and more thin. This year, both of them are 63 years old. They are supposed to be children and grandchildren around their knees and take care of their lives. But their father still works in a property company more than ten kilometers away from home. He goes out early and returns late every day. His mother farms in the countryside, sells vegetables in the street in the leisure time, and raises many piglets in the pigsty. They usually get up early and go to bed late to do housework, and look at their aging figures. As a son, I always feel very unfilial. I can not help but advise my parents, "Don't work so hard!" However, his father said, "This is a rare era, as long as we work hard, there will always be gains, unlike in the past, tired and tired can not manage the food and clothing of a family. Although my mother and I work hard on weekdays, we are very happy. If we do some farm work, we will be forging chains. Moreover, the human relations in the neighborhood also need economic support. Although it is incumbent upon you to open your mouth, we can still do something after all. We can contribute to the society and lighten the burden on our children. Why not? Mother echoed, and for a moment I was speechless.
        
         Not only that, my father kept telling me, "You have to take responsibility, work hard and be responsible in order to be able to stand up to your units and leaders, not to worry about us, not to blame yourself, now there are high-speed trains, cars, you can go home at any time. Besides, it's not easy for you to fight in big cities. We've all come here to understand your hard work. As long as you can eat and wear warm clothes, let's rest assured, it's the greatest filial piety. "So they talked until I fell asleep in a fragrant way...
        
         Early in the morning, the annoying cock crow woke me up and opened my eyes, only to see that my parents had arranged our refreshments reorganize bags in good order. For this reason, they did not seem to close their eyes all night, nor did they have the heart to wake me up, so quietly prepared, my eyes could not help but wet. In their eyes, I will never grow up!
        
         When we left, the two elders took us to the village entrance and followed the car for a long time until I said, "Go back!" Only then did they stop at the entrance of the village. Watching their shadow in the rearview mirror is getting smaller and smaller until it disappears in the mirror, my heart is bitter. Wandering is helpless, these years, used to the world cold and warm, very lucky to find a shelter in Shanghai, so I have been running, dare not stop. But I know that my heart never leaves, as long as my parents are there, my home is there!
        
        

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