去年,爸爸因病去世,妈妈就成了全家唯一的顶梁柱。悲痛中的妈妈剪掉曾精心护理的一头长长的秀发,穿着一身粗布衣服,加入了本村一个流动的小建筑队,干一些卖力的下手活儿。中午短短的休息时间,又得赶回家在我们兄妹俩放学前做好饭菜。一年多的早起晚睡,风吹日晒,不足40岁的妈妈看上去好似50岁的人了。每看到妈妈未老先衰的身影,我心里总有一种酸溜溜的感觉。妈妈之所以这样,都是因为我们兄妹俩呀。闲暇之余,妈妈总是叮嘱我们说:“咱们人穷,但志不能短。”妈妈没有多少文化,说不出一套套的道理,但 Last year, his father died of illness, mother became the only pillar of the whole family. Grief mother cut off a well-care long hair, wearing a coarse cloth, joined the village of a mobile small construction team, do some hard work. At noon a short break, they have to rush home to make food in our brothers and sisters before school. More than a year of early morning and late sleep, the wind and the sun, less than 40-year-old mother looks like a 50-year-old man. Every time I see my mother is not the first signs of aging, my heart always have a sour feeling. The reason my mother is because of our brothers and sisters ah. In my spare time, my mother always tells us: “We are poor, but we can not be short.” There is not much culture in my mother’s life,