Orphan's letter wrings tears out of Chinese readers

(chinadaily.com.cn/ecns.cn) Updated: 2015-08-04 15:50

The essay written by the girl.

Full text of the essay is as follows

Tears

My dad passed away four years ago.

My dad loved me very much when he was alive. My mom always tries her best to cook my favorite food for me. She must miss my dad very much.

Mom was sick one day, we went to the county, and then to Xichang (to see doctors). But all the money is gone, and her condition has not improved.

One day mom was too sick to get up. I cried in front of her and said to her: " Mommy, you will get better soon. I will support you and cook food for you. After you eat the food I cook for you, and you go to bed, you will surely get better."

But the next day, mom still could not get up and she looked very sick. I had to ask my uncle who just came back from fieldwork and we together sent her to a county hospital.

On the third day, I went to the hospital to see my mom but she was still not awake yet. I washed her hand gently and she then woke up.

Mom said to me while holding my hand:" my darling, I want to go home!"

I asked:" why?"

"It is not comfortable here, I will feel comfortable at home."

So I brought mom home and we sat for a little while. Then I went to cook for my mom. But by the time when I called her to eat the meal I cooked, she was already dead.

My textbook said there is a place called Sun Moon Lake (in Taiwan), that's formed with tears I shed for missing my mom.

Liu Yi

June 20,2015