数十年前,我的母亲善待乞讨者的往事,至今令我记忆犹新。我家住在黄河滩头大堤上。因地势高且临河,排灌方便,土质是淤沙两合土,田里的庄稼既不怕旱也不怕涝,每年收成好。而大堤之下荒原几十里却是盐碱地,种旱作物长势不好,收成自然不行。遇到灾年,颗粒无收是常事。每年青黄不接的春天,大堤下就会出现衣衫褴褛、面黄肌瘦的男女老少,他们胳膊上挎着篮子,或拎着布口袋,手拿一个碗或茶缸子, Tens of years ago, my mother kindly treated the beggars past, so far I remember. My family lives in the Yellow River beach embankment. Due to the high terrain and Linhe, irrigation and drainage facilities, the soil is silt sand two crops, the fields of crops neither afraid of drought nor waterlogging, a good harvest each year. The dikes beneath the embankment dozens of miles but it is saline-alkali land, poor crop growth is poor, naturally not harvest. Encounter disaster years, crop failure is common. Each year the yellow leaves the spring, the embankment there will be ragged, pale skinny men, women and children, their arm carrying a basket, or carry a cloth pocket, holding a bowl or a cup of tea,