母亲一辈子都没戴过首饰。六十大寿那天,我给她买了一枚金戒指。当我把戒指给母亲戴上的时候才发现,在母亲的手指上,依然还戴着那枚磨得发亮的顶针。在岁月的打磨下,母亲的手越来越粗糙,唯有手指上那枚顶针依旧锃亮。看着这枚泛着光泽的顶针,我又想起了一些往事。从我记事起,母亲的手上就一直戴着这枚顶针,据说那是姥姥送给母亲的陪嫁品。那枚顶针是黄铜做的,环圈有两枚戒指那么宽,里圈刻有细小的梅花图案,外圈布满密密匝匝的小窝点。 My mother never worn jewelry. On the 60th birthday, I bought her a gold ring. When I put the ring on my mother to wear only when found in the mother’s fingers, still wearing that bright shiny thimble. In the years of grinding, the mother’s hand more and more rough, only the fingers on the thimble is still bright. Looking at this glowing thimble, I remembered some of the past. From my memory, my mother’s hand has been wearing this thimble, which is said to be the grandmother’s mother’s dowry. That thimble is made of brass, the ring has two rings so wide, the inner ring engraved with a small plum pattern, the outer ring is full of densely packed turns of the small dens.