有一天，下着很大的雨，已经过了晚饭时间了，妈妈却还没有回来。小女孩站在家门口望啊望啊，总也等不到妈妈的身影。天越来越黑，雨越下越大，小女孩决定顺着妈妈每天回来的路自己去找妈妈。她走啊走啊，走了很远，终于在路边看见了倒在地上的妈妈。她使劲摇着妈妈的身体，妈妈却没有回答她。她以为妈妈太累，睡着了。就把妈妈的头枕在自己的腿上，想让妈妈睡得舒服一点。但是这时她发现，妈妈的眼睛没有闭上！小女孩突然明白：妈妈可能已经死了！她感到恐惧，拉过妈妈的手使劲摇晃，却发现妈妈的手里还紧紧地拽着一块年糕……她拼命地哭着，却发不出一点声音……

One day, there was a pouring rain. Her mother did not come back after supper time. The girl waited and waited, her mother did not appear at last. As the dusk growing darker and the rain falling heavier, she decided to look for her mom by following the way her mother went and returned everyday. She walked and walked, after a long distance walking, she found her mother was lying on the ground. She rocked her mother fiercely, but her mother showed no response. The girl thought that her mom might be too tired to wake up, so she made a pillow with her legs and let her mother rest on it to make her mom comfortable. At the very moment, the girl found her mother's eyes did not close. It suddenly began to dawn on her that her mother had already died. A great trepidation and grief overcame her, she held fast her mother's hands and kept rocking and then found her mother was still grasping a piece rice cake. She wanted to cry, but found there was no crying voice come out.