"Here, eat it, then go back to sleep." The old man glanced at the quartz clock on the wall that had just had its battery replaced, and took away the plastic basket on the coffee table. Underneath was a plate with half a handful of mutton skewers in it.
"Uncle Wang, who works at the Power Supply Bureau, brought this back to your dad for dinner."
As she spoke, my mother poured him a glass of water: "I originally wanted to bake it for you for breakfast tomorrow, but your dad said it won't taste good overnight."
"I'm not hungry, you and dad can eat."
"Are you still hungry after running all the way back?" I knew what he was thinking: "Eat quickly and go to bed."
"..."
In fact, for Lin Yue, the most difficult thing to bear is not the kindness from the beauty, but the kindness from his parents. .
"All right."
He picked up two bunches, keeping one for himself and handing the other to my mother.
The old man over there washed his face, put the cattail leaf fan on the TV cabinet and entered the east room. After a while, the sound of the floor fan's blades buzzing and rotating came from inside.
He took two bites and found that my mother had put the meat skewers back.
"Why don't you eat?"
"You go ahead and eat it. Mom is already overweight. If you eat it at night, you will get fatter."
My mother is 1.6 meters tall and weighs 49 kilograms. She is already on the thin side, and she is already in her forties. She is not a great beauty, so she would care about the fattening effect of a few bites of meat on her body?
It’s not just that I want to leave delicious food to him.
In 1997, mutton kebabs cost 50 cents each, and fourteen skewers were sold on the table, which was seven yuan, equivalent to a day's living expenses for three people. Dad rode a three-wheeler, and mom swept the market. When the monthly income was good, it was 600. As the New Year approaches, it will be more than 500 per month on average. I have to save for his tuition. I don’t usually consider going out to restaurants or other places where guests will come during non-holidays. To buy a piece of meat, I have to count the days and eat meat. when.
In the movie, Charlotte is a single-parent family. In 1997, she could afford a guitar, a bookshelf of genuine tapes, and two bedrooms and a living room. Such family conditions must be found only for employees of state-owned enterprises.
"Fine."
Lin Yue sighed, not being pretentious about this matter, and started eating alone with his plate in his arms.
My monthly income is 500 and I dare not eat meat, but my monthly income is 1,000, so for him, filial piety is too inefficient to rely on concessions. The right way is to make more money to support the family, but the side task is to let him go to school, and he cannot go to society. When doing business, he might even make his parents angry, saying he is ignorant and incompetent and wasting his time.
Originally, I was a very old woman when she gave birth to him. She did not take good care of her body during the confinement period, which damaged her vitality and made her look very sick. If she was so angry because of his unconventional way, this would be really bad. Not easy to handle.
That's why he had such thoughts,
"I'm stuffed."
Lin Yue stood up and walked to the west room after wiping out the mutton skewers on the plate like a whirlwind.
"Mom, you should go to bed quickly."
The old woman smiled and said, "Here we go."
Lin Yue sighed. People without children will never understand how happy parents are when they watch their children wolfing down food.
He pushed open the door, found the pull cord against the wall and pulled it, turning on the light, flooding the room with light.
To the north is a single bed. Because one of the legs of the bed was broken, a few red bricks were stuffed underneath to prop up the bed. There were a few tattered comic books on the bedside. I had saved money for my birthday last year. I smashed the can and used the money inside to secretly buy it, called "Superman Gable". There is a cabinet in the left corner, but it is not a vertical modern wardrobe. It is an almost square flip-top wardrobe for the elderly. Shirts and coats cannot be hung up. They can only be neatly folded and put in. Afterwards, a few mothballs are thrown in to prevent insects and moths. It has a bit of a deodorizing effect.
There are several posters posted on the north wall, including portraits of Ronaldo and Zidane, a photo of the BEYOND band, and a portrait of Noriko Sakai.
Under the window facing the single bed is a desk. Because it is a property that the market management office does not want, there are a few keys on the drawer.
Lin Yue didn't go to bed. He walked to his desk and sat down. He opened the bottom drawer and took out a stamp album from it.
This era is not like twenty years later. Some people collect figurines, some collect cameras, some collect motorcycles, some collect luxury watches... Anyway, there are all kinds of things. The most popular collectibles in this era are ancient copper coins and There are various commemorative medals after the liberation, and then there are stamps. The most popular ones are those belonging to the twelve zodiac animals. It is said that the monkey stamp is the most precious. If it is in good condition, it can sell for 1,000 yuan. There are also those issued this year to commemorate the return of HK. Stamps were also speculated to the sky.
Turning to the first page, the first thing that comes into view is the least valuable residential stamps. From Inner Mongolia to Jiangsu to Tibet, the face value ranges from 1 cent to 1 yuan. Some of them are used and some are not. , and some with missing corners and flesh, all of which were damaged by too much force when tearing them down from the envelope.
Flipping further back, there is a set of stamps about grotto art, a few stamps about the scenery of the motherland, and half a set of commemorative stamps about the Asian Games...
These are all the things he saved when he was in junior high school. He lost interest in high school because the pit was too deep, and because a classmate whose parents worked at the post office criticized him for dimensionality reduction, so... what to collect stamps? , is it exciting to play arcade games, is it exciting to watch martial arts? Forty cents can make you happy all day long.
He took out the manuscript he had written in the self-study class from his personal space, stuffed it into two envelopes, took out two 20-cent+ stamps from the stamp album, pasted them on them, sealed them, and felt relieved after finishing his thoughts. He walked to the single bed and took off his clothes to sleep.
…
The next day, he got up earlier than usual, took the bus to the post office, mailed the letter, and then headed to Xihong No. 7 Middle School.
There are three classes of morning reading plus language and mathematics, followed by the big break.
When the loudspeaker sounded exciting music, students in school uniforms walked out of the classroom one by one, walking in groups of three and five to the square in front of the teaching building.
In order for students to have a good physical condition, recess exercises are a necessary part of every school.
However, when everyone lined up and stood in the square, the music suddenly stopped. At this time, someone tapped the microphone, bang bang bang~
A group of people were frightened and looked at the radio station with frowns.
"There will be no recess exercises today. An emergency meeting will be held. Just yesterday, an appalling student attack on a teacher occurred in Class 2, Grade 3. The main culprit, Charlotte, committed a heinous crime and should be expelled. However, I hope he recognized his mistake in time. He repented by jumping off a building. After discussion with several teachers, I decided to remember that Charlotte was beaten once and asked him to review his mistakes in front of all the teachers and students in the school."
"In addition, there is Lin Yue in the second class of the third grade. He took advantage of the chaos and touched the sensitive parts of the female classmates. He is simply the scum of the scum, the scum of the scum. Originally, the school should clean up such a black sheep, but Nian saved him at the critical moment. In order to find the student who jumped off the building, the school decided to be lenient and give him a major demerit, and also asked him to review his mistakes in front of all the teachers and students in the school."
A heinous crime.
A scumbag.
Yes, these two people are famous.
Meng Te patted Zhang Yang on the shoulder: "Zhang Yang, where is the sensitive part the principal mentioned?"
"Stop thinking nonsense, you don't have that thing."
Qiu Ya, who was standing at the front, pursed her lips tightly and tightened her whole body. Is there anyone who would help her vent her anger like this? For a girl, the face is a sensitive part, the ears are a sensitive part, the chest is a sensitive part, the hands are a sensitive part, the legs are a sensitive part, the butt is a sensitive part, and... in short, there is no insensitive part in the whole body, the principal Heilin is trying his best Forget about jumping, can you not drag her into it? How could she see anyone in the future?
At this time, the sound of drinking water from a cup came from the loudspeaker. It seemed that the principal really regarded this as a regular meeting.
"Which one of you comes first?"
"I'll come first." Charlotte, who was in the crowd, raised her right hand high, glanced at Lin Yue, and walked step by step to the high platform in front.
Now, everyone from the first grade to the third grade of high school, from male classmates to female classmates, to fake bitches like Mente, all know him.
Over there, Wang Yu spread out his fan and looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle like a winner, waiting for Xia Luo to apologize.
However, there was no sign of remorse on the face of the person involved. He winked at one person, nuzzled at that, walked behind the desk with the microphone with a smile, took a long breath, and stretched for a long time. waist.
Ever since he realized yesterday that he had traveled through time and was about to become prosperous, a whole night had passed today, and he still had not recovered from his agitated mood. The red flags, green trees, blue sky, rising sun...everything he looked at looked cute.
"Hurry, there is another person behind you, don't waste everyone's time."
Charlotte was startled by the sound of the loudspeaker. She quickly cleared her throat and pointed at the microphone: "Hey, hey, you can hear it, right... Well, after thinking about it all night, I, Charlotte, understand what it means to be a human being. The ultimate truth is that an inch of time is worth an inch of gold, and an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time. Looking back on the past, I spent the first half of my life wasting time, so I want to thank God and Earth..."
"You have to thank the school and the teacher." The principal interrupted his pretense again: "Thank you for the good quality of the trousers and your classmates who are very good at martial arts."
Charlotte rolled her eyes and said: "I want to say sorry to everyone today, Teacher Wang. From now on, the grievances between the two of us will be wiped out. Finally, I also want to say sorry to classmate Qiu Ya for not being here yesterday." You, but don’t worry, I will keep working hard.”
