她是和儿子建生一起回老家去的。虽说已是腊月二十的时候,建生却说时间还早得很,非要顺路去看一个朋友不可。他的朋友住在江城乡下,到了江城,便给她找了间旅馆,自己下乡去了,说是一两天后回来。儿子大了,她只好随着他转。虽然知道如果她坚持不答应的话,他也不会忤逆她,但那样一来,整个过年建生就都会觉得没意思,不开心起来。再说她也算着时间果真还不算晚,也就放他去了。现在过年不像过去 She is going back to her hometown with her son Jian Sheng. Although it is the twelfth lunar month twenty when Jian Seng said the time is still very early, we must stop by to see a friend can not. His friend lived in Jiangcheng countryside, arrived at Jiangcheng, then gave her a hotel, went to the countryside and said that it would come back in a day or two. The son was big, she had to turn with him. Although he knew that if she insisted on not agreeing, he would not upset her, but that way, the Chinese New Year will feel boring, unhappy up. Besides she also considered the time really not too late, also let him go. New Year is not like the past