腊月初一下午五时许,我刚刚忙完手头上的工作,就接到母亲打来的电话,电话中,她告诉我,她砍了二三十斤猪肉来制作腊肉,问我是否还需要多一些。听到母亲问我这个本该由她决定的问题时,我一下子犹豫了,竟不知道如何回答母亲。母亲见我半天没回话,补充道:今天不是腊月初一吗?这些年腊月初一都会去砍肉制作腊肉的啊!你忘记了?…… Five o’clock in the twelfth lunar month, I just finished my work and got a call from my mother. On the phone, she told me she cut twenty or thirty pounds of pork to make bacon and asked if I still needed a bit more. When I heard my mother ask me the question which should have been decided by her, I suddenly hesitated and did not know how to answer my mother’s question. Mother saw me for a long time did not reply, added: Today is not the first day of the twelfth lunar month? These days will be the first day of the lunar month to cut the meat to produce bacon! You forgot? ...