Sang Xiaoyu returned home with dual emotions of joy and loss, and the clock happened to point to seven o'clock.
The mother was letting her son wash his feet. When the son saw his mother coming back, he timidly asked: "Have you borrowed the money?"
Sang Xiaoyu's nose felt sore, she hugged her son and said, "eldest son, don't worry about adults' affairs. Just listen to grandma's words."
Ziqiao suddenly flashed his big eyes and nodded solemnly.
Sang Xiaoyu asked him to go back to the cabin to sleep, and whispered to his mother not to tell her son such things.
Mother said, do you think he is stupid? He understands everything we say.
Mother asked her why she came back so early?
Sang Xiaoyu said that she had no time to eat and was busy borrowing money.
Her mother quickly took a steamed bun from the kitchen and asked her to eat the salted radish.
As soon as something happened at home, her mother's living standard plummeted. Sang Xiaoyu knew that her mother was obsessed with money now, and it was just for her sake.
Now in their family, the only one who can eat some fried rice noodles is their son Ziqiao.
Her mother came up and asked her anxiously how much she had raised.
While eating, Sang Xiaoyu said that she was too embarrassed to check carefully at the wine table, so she poured out all the money in her bag.
Mother began to sort out a bunch of colorful bills. After Sang Xiaoyu wolfed down a steamed bun, she and her mother took inventory together.
Mother checks the money and she reconciles the accounts.
Sang Xiaoyu found that her mother's face looked good, much softer than when she left, so she became bolder and asked her if she was hiding something?
Sang Xiaoyu didn't dare to ask about money, for fear of embarrassing her mother.
While her mother sighed, she still told Sang Xiaoyu what she was most concerned about, money.
She said that your uncle in Shandong took 5,000, and the uncle in Shanghai took 8,000. She also borrowed from her neighbors, raising a total of 8,000.
Sang Xiaoyu tried her best to hide her joy. She asked: "When will they send the money?"
Her mother saw through her little thoughts and knew that she was afraid that if the money was not enough, her two uncles would regret it again.
My mother said: "Don't worry, isn't your cousin in the provincial capital? He will come over tomorrow to send money. I hope he can also contribute."
Sang Xiaoyu said to her mother: "Do you think we two look like robbers who robbed homes? Will relatives have to take a detour when they see us in the future?"
Sang Xiaoyu laughed, but her mother couldn't help but said: "I feel inferior to everyone I see, this damn money!"
My mother carefully picked up the money and found that there were one or two cents in it.
Another twenty-one thousand were obtained.
Sang Xiaoyu seemed to have taken a reassurance, with tears welling up in her eyes. She hugged her mother and said that if it hadn't been for her, she really couldn't bear it, and she wouldn't have been able to raise so much money.
The mother was somewhat proud and felt that she was quite respectable. However, her happiness was short-lived and she anxiously asked her how much money she had.
The two checked it three times and found a total of 5,900 yuan.
The mother said that we should deduct 1,900 yuan. Ziqiao paid an extra month of childcare fees, so let’s give it another month. But there are too many things that need to be paid. When the time comes, no matter what, we have to transfer it and bear the burden.
That's amazing.
Cheng Ziqiao is in a top-notch nursery school, which provides bilingual teaching, which costs 20,000 yuan a year, and some miscellaneous extracurricular tutoring, such as swimming and roller skating. Anyway, it costs money.
Sang Xiaoyu now obeys her mother in everything. She nods her head when she says something, and nods her head again when she says something. Her mother's mood is better, and at least she still has two soldiers under her command.
Sang Xiaoyu did the calculations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division five times, and in the end she was still short of 43,000 yuan.
Sang Xiaoyu was a bit blindly optimistic. She felt that with less than three days left, she might be able to borrow another 12,000 yuan.
But her mother dispelled her optimism and said that we had cleaned up the surrounding areas, and if I called your uncle again, they would not dare to answer the call.
Sang Xiaoyu calculated all the accounts clearly. Her mother borrowed 8,000 yuan from her neighbors, a total of more than 30 people. Sang Xiaoyu's small notebook for issuing IOUs was completely scrapped.
Sang Xiaoyu took out a box that originally contained shoes, put the IOUs one by one in books, seven books in total, and put the book containing the neighbor's IOUs at the top.
The son wrote, drew and played for a while before falling asleep. The mother and daughter sat under the lamp and talked.
The mother asked: "Hurry up and transfer Ziqiao here. We can no longer afford to attend that kindergarten, and it's too far away. The trouble will be enough for you to run away for a while."
"Well, I'm working on it these two days. Just do it bit by bit. Sooner or later, I'll get over it." Sang Xiaoyu had no choice but to cheer herself up.
"You are too optimistic. Every step from now on will be a bump in the road."
"Go through it step by step, you won't die anyway."
My mother was fine just now, but suddenly she got angry again. Menopausal women were really unbearable, and Sang Xiaoyu was really afraid of her mother.
She knew that her mother might have been greatly wronged when her brothers borrowed money, so she said:
"In the past? You thought beautifully, but I got angry when I saw you like this. You didn't have any long-term plans at all.
Even if you borrow all the money, how will you pay it back in the future? Just go back to your wife's house and ask them to pay it back with you!"
Sang Xiaoyu said with blank eyes: "Mom, just leave it alone. Don't I know what their family is like? One is sick and the other is not good. My eldest sister is divorced again and lives at home with her children.
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"Only you can do it? Are you the only one who can do it? Who went to their house to ask for money? It happened for two days, and now? Everyone is gone. Tomorrow I will take Ziqiao to beg for food, so you can use my ability. Ziqiao, I
If you want, go to their old Cheng’s house for dinner, they will do what you want.”
Sang Xiaoyu shed tears and said, "You are my mother. You can't abandon me if anyone in this world abandons me. Who do you expect if I don't count on you?"
"What? The married women should be raised by them, or else they should change Ziqiao's surname. My scalp goes numb when I hear the surname Cheng."
Sang Xiaoyu said weakly: "Mom, I can go to my mother-in-law's house and the days will pass, but do you think I will be happy? I see their faces every day, do you think I still have a way to survive?
Mom, let’s huddle together to keep warm. No matter what, I have to pay back the debt. Mom, you..."
Sang Xiaoyu choked even more and was speechless.
The mother relented, and immediately said with red eyes: "Life is so miserable, the rest of your life is ruined. If Cheng Fan has a conscience, he will come back quickly. After all, a grown man is better than a woman, isn't he?"
"Mom, he can do whatever he likes. I have been fantasizing about him coming back a while ago. His conscience has found out and he knows that I can't bear it alone, so he will definitely come back.
Now I know it's impossible. Even if he sends one hundred and two hundred dollars, I won't be as disappointed as I am now...I don't think about this anymore. Just take it one step at a time. Treat the wounded first, and feel more at ease.
We have overcome these difficulties one by one."
The mother sighed helplessly: "How much is left?"
"Forty thousand, it will be a problem when the court comes. If it is four thousand, I won't worry. Alas, I really don't want to cause trouble."
"Only 40,000? You might as well check with Li Junhao. He is now working as a security guard in a big hotel. I heard that he has made a lot of money. I heard that he wanted to buy a house two days ago."
Sang Xiaoyu said: "Big hotel? Didn't he go to a company? And he got divorced."
The mother nodded and said: "I don't know whether it was transferred or not. Anyway, it was because of the divorce that I bought a new house and prepared to start a family again."
Sang Xiaoyu doesn't have much affection for Li Junhao. The two have lived next to each other since childhood, and Li Junhao always loves to bully the children in the courtyard.
When he grew up, he did not study hard and had the habit of idleness and stealing. When Sang Xiaoyu went back to her parents' home, she would see him walking around.
Contrary to Sang Xiaoyu, Li Junhao likes her very much.
If other children bully her, he will fight against them.
They were in the same house when they were in kindergarten, and he really took care of her like a big brother.
Once when it rained, there was a not-so-deep pit in front of it. Li Junhao raised his legs and crossed it, but the petite Sang Xiaoyu did not dare to cross it.
Li Junhao hugged her and walked over, but before they could stand firm, the two of them fell down next to the mud pit.
When Sang Xiaoyu was a child, she liked to follow Li Junhao. When someone called her a follower, she didn't get angry. Instead, she felt that Li Junhao was like a big brother who protected her.
When she grew up, Li Junhao also tested her, both real and fake.
He said that the two of us are also childhood sweethearts who know everything about us, right?
Sang Xiaoyu didn't know when she started to dislike this "brother" who protected her. Instead, she felt that it was her childhood sweetheart's understanding that blunted a certain unspeakable sense of mystery.
The biggest advantage of Li Junhao is that he doesn't like to pester. After knowing that she has no interest in him, he is not discouraged. Instead, he tells her not to mind too much. He is not a lover but a friend.
Whenever I see her, I always say hello warmly.
Li Junhao got married very early, but his wife never had children. In the third year, the woman ran away with a man who was in the picture tube business. Li Junhao searched like crazy for a month, and then he accepted his fate.
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Ever since he became a security guard for a large company, he was always followed by three or two younger men who showed off their power. Sang Xiaoyu had never known that a security guard could be so proud.
Even more respectful of him.
Li Junhao is also very polite to her mother.
The mother said that whenever something happened to her, as long as he knew about it, she would definitely help solve it. When Sang Xiaoyu's accident happened this time, the mother didn't mention it at all, because she had always looked down on this man who seemed to be doing nothing.
If Sang Xiaoyu hadn't been forced to do anything, she would never have thought of him.
After getting married, Sang Xiaoyu had almost no contact with him. Occasionally when she met him on the way to her mother's house, she would just say hello politely.
Li Junhao never paid attention to Sang Xiaoyu's husband and said behind his back more than once that this man was too good at pretending. After Sang Xiaoyu heard this, she thought he was just jealous.
The past is like wind, flowing through my heart.
Now was not the time to care. After listening to her mother's words, she couldn't sit still for a moment. She quickly got off the kang, put on a coat, and arrived at Li Junhao's door in three or five minutes.
When the mother saw her daughter like this, she felt unspeakably sad.
It turns out that the proud and unconventional daughter disappeared, and what followed was a miserable woman who would give up her money for a few grains of rice.
Li Junhao's home is only four houses away from his mother's home.
When Sang Xiaoyu walked to the door of his house, he saw that the lights were on. Sang Xiaoyu could see through the gap in the window that he was the only one.
Sang Xiaoyu knocked on the door three times, and Li Junhao's somewhat irritable voice came from inside: "Who is it?"
Sang Xiaoyu said in a voice that only she could hear: "It's me."
Sang Xiaoyu really looked down on herself and felt that she wanted to ask for help from a man who didn't even bother to tuck his eyes for money.
When a person is in trouble, he loses even the basic pride, and he is in trouble.
Before she could think about it, the sound of slippers being kicked could be heard from inside the door.
"Who is it? You're talking like a mosquito." As the door opened, Sang Xiaoyu smelled the smell of alcohol.
When Li Junhao saw her, it was like seeing a ghost, looking at her in disbelief.
He opened his eyes hard, and his eyes were a little blurry. When he finally saw that the person who came was indeed her, he immediately smiled.
Sang Xiaoyu's heart was a little loose, not for anything else, but because of the change in his eyes. Nowadays, when people see her, there are fewer and fewer people who are kind to her. She is like a plague, and everyone wants to stay away.
Avoiding her.
Li Junhao let her into the back room and asked her to sit on the messy sofa with some embarrassment.
There was a small table placed on the kang, and on the table were two reddish pig trotters, one of which had been mostly bitten off.
There are also two side dishes, which seem to be cucumbers and tomatoes, which are pretty red and green anyway.
There was a wine glass as big as a tea vat on the table near the end of the kang, with the wine inside still rippling slightly.
Opposite is a small TV, which plays a touching love story.
Li Junhao was pouring himself a drink at home and watching TV. Seeing her looking at this, he felt a little embarrassed, turned off the TV, and quickly pushed the table to the edge of the kang and sat across from her.
Sang Xiaoyu waited for him to sit down and straightforwardly explained his purpose.
When asking for help from Li Junhao, she didn't have a heavy burden in her heart. She wanted the best, and she wouldn't be disappointed if she didn't have it. She just had the mentality of giving it a try.
Li Junhao listened to her explanation of her purpose, rubbed his oily hands, and breathed a sigh of relief, saying:
"I heard your mother tell you about your family's affairs, but I didn't expect that you really thought highly of me and actually asked me for help. It seems that you still don't regard me as an outsider."
Sang Xiaoyu didn't expect that he was using such logic, so she lowered her head and said, "It's really too difficult, otherwise I wouldn't be able to open my mouth."
Li Junhao took advantage of the wine and said: "Xiaoyu, a few years ago my wife thought I was poor, so she left me and ran away with others. At that time, I was just a doorman, but now that I am mixed up, I have to be a beautiful wife.
But these days, when people hear that I work as a security guard, they don’t want to see me even if they want to die. What? The security guard is no longer a human being? Is it hard to spend the money earned by the security guard? "
Sang Xiaoyu didn't know how much money a security guard could earn.
Li Junhao immediately said: "I am now the deputy section chief of the security department, and I have a job allowance."
As he said this, he looked at Sang Xiaoyu's reaction.
Only then did Sang Xiaoyu realize that what he meant by mixing up was the position of deputy section chief.
Seeing that her reaction was not strong, Li Junhao continued: "Our department will soon become a department, and then I will be the director of the Security Department..."