Enjoy the full moon

By  /  Peng Guilin    Photo  /  Yang Tao

     When I was very young, my father worked in another town, and my mother and I lived together with my father. The whole family lived in a small room which had only a window. Though the living condition was poor, we three lived happily. At night, my father always looked at the moon and counted stars with me. Each year, the day of the Mid-Autumn day is the time I spend most happily. On this day, our whole family sits around a wooden table with three legs under the window, while we put all kinds of moon cakes and some candies on the table. The beautiful moonlight sprinkles the room through the little window, at the same time, we admire the beautiful scene along with eating moon cakes, and we are immersed in infinite bliss. Usually I often asks my father to lift me to look at the moon outside the window.
     I remembered that on the Mid-Autumn day of one year it was raining, I noisily wanted to look at the moon and at last my father carried me. In the beginning, I ordered father: “The moon grandma has gone. Lift me higher”. Finally, I directly rode on father’s neck desperately to look for the moon through the window, which made my mother laugh. Later, when I was a student in the kindergarten, my parents always made fun of me because of such thing. I was not angry but happy, because I clearly remembered the warm brace of my father and the happiness from enjoying the sight of the moon on the Mid-Autumn day.

      Later, I was sent to my hometown Bazhong city, Sichuan province to go to school, including the primary school and the middle school, while my parents still stayed outside, who just came back for few days during the Spring Festival. I often longed for spending a family-unitized Mid-Autumn day.
     When we ate dinner on the New Year’s Eve, my parents promised to meet my one wish. I told them with tears: “Papa, please carry me to look at the moon.” Following, my father’s eyes were full of tears and my mother began to cry. Only my grandpa who knew nothing blamed me:“To see which moon at the night of e New Year’s Eve?”