Send mooncake

By / Li Haizhou        Photo / Zhang Longyu

       Almost a month before the Mid-Autumn day, my grandpa has already phoned my parents three times with the same content to remind them to buy moon cakes for him and grandma.
       My father and mother are construction workers in Guangzhou city, and my younger brother and I study here following them, while my grandparents stay in the hometown, Sichuan province.
       My grandma said that grandpa liked eating moon cakes, especially the moon cakes with Guangzhou taste.
       My grandpa is not fine. Hearing that grandpa has stomachache, my father phones him not to eat hard food. Last Mid-Autumn day, my father didn’t buy moon cakes for him but sending him 2,000 yuan.
       The day on the Mid-Autumn day, my father phoned my grandpa, while my grandma answered the phone who said that grandpa was angry, had threw that 2,000yuan and was cursing my father not filial. My father was dumbfounding. He asked my grandpa to answer the phone and apologized to him and promised to buy moon cakes at once. Hearing the roaring from the other side of the phone “The Mid-Autumn day is over, eating moon cakes is unmeaning”, my father hung up with embarrass. I thought it was unfair for my father and said “My grandpa has money, who can buy moon cakes himself”. My younger brother also agreed with me “Yes, why grandpa is so angry?” However, my father said “Your grandpa would like to eat moon cakes with Guangzhhou taste.” My younger brother asked: “Can he not buy moon cakes with such taste in the hometown?” My mother said: “He the old man would like to eat moon cakes bought by his son.”
       After hearing mother’s words, I suddenly realized that I became to understand my grandpa. During the several days in the spring festival when we come back, my grandparents always takes out all walnut and chestnut kept for months, and then my younger brother and I eat fully. When we come back to Guangzhou, the bags are full of bacon and sausage from the hometown. My grandpa told me that he could not chew walnut and chestnut but bacon and sausage. Can you chew the moon cakes bought by my father for you?