In this passage, Luo is receiving a message to inform his mother is in the hospital, because she had retrieved a serious sickness that could possibly be life threatening. One clue that if it is life threatening, they have to send a message to her son. Otherwise, it isn’t a serious sickness they wouldn’t need to call him who was in the countryside for “re-education”. This quote is rational because Luo and the narrator had been awaiting the moment they have permission to return home, and when he gets the telegram to return home it is only to see his mother on her sickbed, possibly dying, not to finally be reunited with his family for good like he wishes. In addition, Luo takes the sick mother’s event as his responsibility that he is not a
