share time: 2026-02-27 00:35:24
Lin Xiaoman, who hasn't returned home for three years while working in the city, plans to use "overtime" to avoid her mother's request for a reunion this Year of the Horse. Little does she know, her mother Li Guilan has secretly saved money from grocery shopping to buy a standing ticket, carrying warm cured meat and a red sweater knitted for Xiaoman to the city. A heavy rain delays the train for 8 hours, and Guilan rubs her hands to keep warm at the station exit. Xiaoman only remembers it's Little New Year when she sees her mother's message: "Mom is waiting for you after work." When she runs to the station through the rain and falls into her mother's arms, she finds Guilan's shoes full of mud—but the cured meat is still steaming. Turns out, a mother's "boundlessness" is never a slogan; it's the waiting hidden in the smell of cured meat every year, the care woven into every stitch of the sweater.
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