('Husband and wife are originally birds of the same forest, they fly separately until dawn.
——(Ming Dynasty) Feng Menglong's "Warning Words"
Wang Lin used to be a great beauty, but in the past few years, the hard life has caused her to age very quickly. She is only in her early thirties, but she looks like she is in her forties.[.br/>"Mom!"
Wang Xiaohai shouted, making Wang Lin furious! After getting off work at noon, he rarely bought half a catty of meat and wanted to take advantage of his birthday to improve his son's food. His son had suffered so much with him in the past few years.
The last time my family ate meat was during the Chinese New Year, and it has been more than half a year since then.
Wang Lin loves his son very much. How can any mother be willing not to buy meat for her five-year-old son for half a year?
It's just that Wang Lin's salary is more than 300 yuan a month. Excluding the rent, the basic living expenses for the mother and son are basically not enough every month! In addition, he is frail and sick, although he can handle minor illnesses.
, but what I am actually most afraid of is that my son will get sick! So I never dare to use the remaining money every month!
In addition, Wang Xiaohai has reached the age of going to school, and he must consider his tuition fees! This family, which can only rely on his own salary to support it, may not be able to open the pot tomorrow if they don't plan to save!
Wang Lin rushed forward and hugged her son Wang Xiaohai, tears streaming down her face and she stayed behind!
"You unlucky child! Why did you come running here without making a sound! You don't know how anxious your mother was when she saw her absence! Ugh——"
Wang Lin cried, complaining that his son ran out quietly, and slapped Wang Xiaohai's butt with a paddle. He remembered the anxiety he felt when he went home at noon and couldn't find his son, the fear that his son would be raped.
After being kidnapped and taken away, Wang Lin couldn't help crying because he was worried about losing his son!
Liu Hai looked at the middle-aged woman holding Wang Xiaohai in pain, and felt sour in his heart. He could understand the anxiety in this woman's heart.
"Mom, don't cry, I won't run out casually next time! This is the cake this brother gave me -"
Wang Xiaohai stretched out his skinny right hand to wipe away the tears on his mother's face. With his left hand, he raised four cakes in nylon bags and comforted his mother childishly.
"Where did you get this cake?!"
Wang Lin didn't hear his son's voice clearly, but saw the cake in his hand. Suddenly, his expression changed! With a straight face, he asked his son sternly where the cake came from!
For "luxury" things like cakes, she never let Wang Xiaohai look at them when passing by the store.
"Did Grandpa Zhang buy it for you?!" Wang Xiaohai was frightened by his mother's serious expression and did not dare to speak. Wang Lin continued to question!
"No, Wang Lin, these cakes were given to Xiao Hai by this young man." Uncle Zhang was afraid that Wang Lin would scare the child, so he hurriedly explained, and then told Wang Lin what had just happened.
"Thank you, we can't have this cake. Wang Xiaohai, please return the cake to this brother! How many times have I told you not to accept gifts from others casually! Whatever you want, study hard in the future and grow up in the future.
Learn how to make money and buy it yourself!" Wang Lin first thanked Liu Hai, and then sternly asked his son to return the cake to Liu Hai.
"I bought it from my eldest brother——" Wang Xiaohai said weakly. Seeing his mother's increasingly stern expression, he reluctantly handed the cake in front of Liu Hai.
When Liu Hai saw this, he was very touched! He knew that although the single woman in front of him was very poor, she was a very strong-minded person! He immediately felt admiration in his heart. But Liu Hai saw that the little boy Wang Xiaohai was so pitiful.
You are sensible, at such a young age, you know how to save seven months of pocket money to buy a birthday cake for your mother! I really don’t want to disappoint the little boy. Liu Hai suddenly felt very embarrassed and frowned.
Looking at Wang Xiaohai's weak little hands, Liu Hai's heart suddenly moved.
"Sister, I saw that Xiao Hai is so sensible and sold this to Xiao Hai. So I don't want the cake. Xiao Hai, give the money in your pocket to brother - brother sold this cake to you, not to you.
Yes, do you know?"
When Wang Xiaohai heard this, his eyes lit up, but without his mother's consent, he did not dare to take out the money from his pocket. He just looked at his mother pitifully.
"Where did you get the money? Why don't you give the cake to big brother quickly——"
Before Wang Lin finished speaking, he was surprised to find that his son took out a handful of ten cents from his pocket. He was so surprised that he was speechless! Immediately, tears flowed out uncontrollably.
!
"This is the pocket money you gave Xiaohai. He has been saving it for seven months to buy a cake for your birthday. There is a total of seventy cents!"
Uncle Zhang's words made Wang Lin's tears, which he had been trying to control just now, fall uncontrollably! Wang Lin suddenly hugged his son tightly!
Wang Xiaohai liked to eat sweets when he was very young. In the past, when his family was well-off, he could basically let Wang Xiaohai eat any kind of candy, but now he can't.
She really didn't expect that she only gave her son 10 cents of pocket money every month, but he saved all of it! He actually saved 70 cents without her knowing it! Didn't that mean that he had been saving for seven months?
A full seven months! The more Wang Lin thought about it, the sadder and sadder he became, and he hugged his son tighter!
"Mom, my hand hurts because of your hoop." Wang Xiaohai's voice woke up Wang Lin. Wang Lin let go of his hand, looked at his son's hand with pity, asked a few questions softly, stood up and said to Liu Hai.
"Thank you so much for today. I can't buy this cake for 70 cents, but I don't have any money with me. Why don't you come with me to my house and I'll pay you -"
Liu Hai hurriedly said: "Sister, I told you that I sold it to Xiao Hai. Xiao Hai, you are so filial at such a young age. I have learned a lot from him. Between me and him, these cakes and seventy cents are equal."
It’s priceless! It’s equivalent to Xiao Hai’s filial piety!”
Liu Hai's words were somewhat poetic, but Wang Lin actually had a higher education, so she understood Liu Hai's words. While she was grateful to Liu Hai, she couldn't hand over the seventy cents she received from her son!
Wang Lin is undoubtedly a strong woman, and she is also a woman with her own persistence.
"Well, Uncle Zhang, it's my birthday today and I bought some meat. Now it's dinner time. You and this little brother can come to my house for dinner! I have to thank you more for what happened today!"
Liu Hai was about to refuse, but Wang Xiaohai spoke up: "Brother, go ahead!" After saying this, he looked at Liu Hai with expectation and pleading.
Liu Hai couldn't bear to refuse such an innocent request, and Wang Lin and Uncle Zhang were on the side to persuade him again and again.
In the end, Wang Lin even said that if bangs don’t go to the house for dinner, then this cake cannot have bangs anyway! When Wang Lin said this, tears began to well up in Wang Xiaohai’s eyes again!
Wang Lin helped Liu Hai carry his things and walked toward his home.
This is a home that cannot be called a home. A small room is divided into two halves by wooden boards. One side is where Wang Lin and Wang Xiaohai live, and the other side is filled with recycled waste. These wastes are what Wang Lin usually uses.
The money collected from the garbage can be used to raise money for Wang Xiaohai's tuition.
Narrow, messy, simple, and dilapidated are the most appropriate words to describe this home.
The cooking place is on the corridor outside the house.
While Wang Lin was cooking, Liu Hai learned about the situation in Wang Xiaohai's family from Uncle Zhang.
Speaking of Wang Lin, she is really a miserable woman.
Wang Lin's father and Uncle Zhang were old acquaintances. His mother died not long after Wang Lin was born. It was his father who raised Wang Lin. Wang Lin's father never remarried after her mother died, so she
Basically I have never enjoyed maternal love.
Before Wang Xiaohai was born, Wang Lin's father died of illness.
When talking about Wang Xiaohai's father and Wang Lin's former husband, Uncle Zhang gritted his teeth!
Wang Xiaohai's biological father and Wang Lin were high school classmates, and they fell in love early. Wang Lin's family conditions were not bad at that time, with a house in the county and a good reputation. After the two got married, they have been living in Wang Lin's house.
At first, the couple ran a small business in the county and lived a good life. However, not long after Wang Xiaohai was born and Wang Lin's father passed away, the man became addicted to gambling and lost a lot of debt! The creditor came to visit him.
Threatened, Wang Lin had no choice but to sell the store to help her husband pay off the debt. However, Wang Xiaohai's father never gave up his gambling addiction. After selling the family store, he took a break, but he always wanted to use gambling in his heart.
Go get your money back! Later, you secretly borrow money from loan sharks and go gambling!
Wang Lin only found out that her husband had owed a lot of debt outside when a loan shark came to ask for debt!
What kind of things can't be done with loan sharks? Faced with the threat of loan sharks, Wang Lin had no choice but to sell the house left to him by his father for the sake of his children. In addition to all the savings from his business in the past few years, Wang Lin also borrowed money from relatives.
I borrowed tens of thousands from a friend and paid off my husband's debt again!
Ordinarily, with a wife like Wang Lin, any man should turn around! But Wang Xiaohai’s biological father turned around! He stopped gambling! Instead, he became obsessed with buying lottery tickets!
After Wang Lin sold his shop and house, his family's livelihood was gone, he had no source of income, and he had children to support! The man stayed in the rented house all day long "studying" lottery tickets, and would not go out no matter what! The man was
It was unreliable! She had no choice but to go out and look for a job on her own. Finally, she dragged her father's old acquaintance, Uncle Zhang, into a job as a street sweeper, supporting the family with the meager salary of a sanitation worker!
Some people say that things are impermanent.
One day when Wang Lin came home from get off work, he was surprised to find that his husband was no longer there!
After dark, he didn’t come back!
A few days later, word spread throughout the surrounding streets and alleys that the Long County Welfare Lottery had the largest prize in local history!
More than three hundred thousand!
Legend has it that the man who won the lottery was Wang Xiaohai's father.
ps: I endured the cold and wrote another chapter. Today is Women’s Day, a holiday for all women in the world. I wish all women a happy holiday, and I also wish Daosan’s own mother a happy day! Finally, please give me a monthly ticket, folks.