"The First Half of My Mother's Life" - Hung Hom Chapter

I used to like "Chengnan Old Things" very much, I like the unpretentious life in the south of the city, and I envy Yingzi for having such a variety of experiences at such a young age. of.

I remember reading a novel called "Innocence", which was a book for young people. At that time, I didn't have a smartphone, and I liked to read books. I read everything. It tells the story of the protagonist who opened up the past of her mother who depended on her by fate, which made me not consciously curious about my mother's past.

I remember my mother told me a lot about her when I was a child. She was sent to relatives in the countryside shortly after she was born and raised until she returned to Hong Kong at the age of three. Although she was young in those few years in the countryside, she still remembered that she used to play with her cousins and sisters at that time. Like Yingzi in "Old Events in the South of the City", she ran all over the street, and the neighbors knew her, and she was full of human touch.

Later, she returned to her parents, who lived in Hung Hom and lived there for another three years. At that time, there were not so many longevity shops (coffin shops) in Hung Hom, and it was still a place full of "popularity". She remembered that the building had seven floors, and her home was on the sixth floor. She often crouched by the window and looked down at Chatham Road North Avenue, watching the bustling motorcade, watching pedestrians going out to work in the morning, and welcoming the neighbors home from get off work in the evening.

She also remembered that the building had no elevator and that she had to climb long stairs every time she went home. Next to the stairs at the entrance of the building, there used to be an aunt with a local accent who rented it to do the snack business. Once on Mother's Day, my grandmother brought her and my aunt home. When I entered the building, I saw the aunt selling snacks. The aunt said a few words of courtesy to my grandma, In half salty Cantonese, I asked her and her aunt how many years of "beer" (several years of classes, that is, grades). Later, my mother asked me if it was a Shanghai accent. My friends from Shanghai taught me a few Shanghai dialects before, and I remembered that Shanghai dialect was a little soft, maybe it was, but unfortunately there is no way to test it now.

Later, before my mother went to primary school, she moved her family to Ho Man Tin Village, and there was a story from the future, including the supernatural incident that she occasionally mentioned to me. I remember the first time I set foot in Ho Man Tin. It was four years ago when I went to the Open University to congratulate my friends on their graduation. At that time, I thought Ho Man Tin was a lot of slopes, but I remembered that this was where my mother grew up for many years, and it was my first time to set foot at such an old age. , as if traveling through time and space.

As I get older, I start to fantasize about moving away from where I live now, and when I have kids, maybe I'll tell them where I used to live and where I studied... I don't know if my story is interesting to them ?

Author: @王木木
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