I can sit comfortably in the office. Drinking tea and playing with mobile phones. Marry a woman who is inferior to me in terms of assets, appearance, ability, and family conditions.

This woman will hold me high because in this small town of Penang, her husband is a civil servant with a stable income.

But even if I tried my best. I can't afford to buy a Rolls-Royce in my life, and even going to a Western restaurant for a big meal has become a luxury.

This is not the life I want.

I'm only 24 years old. I don't want to retire yet. Since I walked around Wang Quandingteng Nightclub last night, my ambition has risen sharply.

It was the first time I had drunk so much and longed for a life of drunkenness, and it was the first time that I had such a strong urge for money.

I walked back to the hospital silently with the roasted wheat in my hand.

My mother and father were still drinking the millet porridge boiled in the hospital, and there were no grains of rice in sight, and it was like clear water.

I put the siu mai on the table, "Mom, Dad." Let's eat some dry food! His mutton roast mat is so popular that I waited in line for a long time to get it. ”

The mother opened the plastic bag containing the roasted wheat and pushed it in front of the father.

She was never reluctant to take an extra bite of something expensive. Even if these things are the most common in the eyes of others.

My mother blamed me.

"Ever since you went to that dumpling restaurant to work the night shift part-time. Spending money is getting bigger. How much is a pound of roasted wheat, it is not full at all, if it is replaced with steamed buns, it is enough for our family of three to eat for several days. ”

Dad was very open-minded, grabbed a piece of roasted wheat and stuffed it into his mouth. Licking his mouth and tongue when he eats, his mouth is full of oil.

"Don't talk about children. He can earn his own money, what's wrong with spending a little? You have to be like you, and you don't want to use toilet paper when you go to the bathroom. If you have to search for those torn newspapers everywhere, the newspapers are so hard, and you have to rub the skin on your back, and I have to apply ointment to you. ”

The mother sighed leisurely, her face a little unhappy.

"I'm teaching him how to live, and the dumpling restaurant is making money. It's not a serious job, either.

Your cousin's son, your cousin. Like you, I just graduated this year and now works as a clerk in the Water Conservancy Bureau. More than 5,000 yuan a month, working eight hours a day, and now his girlfriend has brought it home, saying that he will get married next year.

Look at you again, the provincial exam is going to be taken in a few months, and you are still messing around in that dumpling restaurant every day? I have to serve dishes and wash dishes for the rest of my life.

Wear that lowly job that can't hold your head up. Your cousin asked me the other day, "What are you doing?" and I was too embarrassed to speak. The sons of other people are capable of racing one by one. My son is still addicted to serving dishes. ”

There's something wrong with me in my heart. It's already the 21st century, and you have to be a white-collar worker in an office to be capable.

But I didn't dare to talk back to my mother, so I had to pick up the basin and prepare to wash myself.

When my mother saw that I ignored him. Instead, he was even more angry. Stubble scolded.

"As soon as you say that, you put on a face to show me. I see that you have let the little vixen who came yesterday spoil it.

Learn from whom, what kind of clothes a good girl wears. It has its breasts exposed. The bottom can't cover the butt. What kind of good family can it be?

You mingle in their circle every day. Sooner or later, you will be harmed, and if there is any problem with your private life, even if you are admitted to the civil service, you will not be able to pass the political examination.

I think you're going to do what you're going to do in this life?"

"Enough!"

I felt more and more unhappy. Why did my parents always look at me like this? When I graduated from college, it was my mother who wanted to pull me to the small town of Penang.

Now my college classmates, some of whom work in foreign companies, are busy every day but have a future. Some are executives in small companies, and they grow beer bellies at a young age.

And I, under the guise of graduating from a prestigious university. But I had to hold the book and take the test for the career editor I didn't like at all.

"I have my own life. Can you respect my opinion? You've been involved in my affairs for more than 20 years. Can't I walk the road of my own with decades left?"

The more I talked, the more excited I became, and I slammed the washbasin in my hand to the ground.

I'll never forget that yesterday at the King's Power Nightclub, even the bartender at the front desk didn't give me a serious look.

Why? Just because I don't have status, I don't have money. I can't decide my birth. Why should I let someone else make choices for me in my future?

I looked at my mother steadfastly, refuting him for the first time in my life.

"Mom, I've decided. I'm going to work at the dumpling restaurant opposite. What a broken civil servant, a bad career, and a dead salary, I won't take the test. ”

When my mother heard me, her lips twitched slightly. Suddenly, he slapped his thigh and cried.

"Oops, why do you think I'm so unlucky! I'm sick when I marry a husband. gave birth to a son, a white-eyed wolf. ”

At this time, the mother became like a scoundrel woman, and she couldn't even play the scene of crying, making trouble, and hanging herself.

I scratched my hair anxiously and paced back and forth on the ground in anger.

The more my mother cried, the more fierce she became. I threw all the siu mai I had just bought on the ground.

"You've grown up, and your wings have hardened. I can't listen to what I'm saying. You don't listen to me. I don't eat your stuff either.

From now on, I will not be your son. You think you're jumping out of a crack in the rock. I'm not your mom either. ”

The father was beside him, and he got out of bed with difficulty. One by one, they picked up the siu mai from the ground.

He comforted the peacemaker.

"Son, don't be like your mother. However, civil servants still have to take the test. You can't make random decisions on a whim.

Your dumpling tube's salary is high, though. But the status of the waiter is too low.

There is no stable job. You can't even please a wife. ”

I couldn't stand the atmosphere in the hospital room. This depressed me seemed to be about to suffocate.

I completely ignored my mother who was crying and swearing.

Turn around and walk out the door.

I silently walked to the door of the hospital. I used to think Penang was so small that I could take a bus. From Ben Thanh East to Penang West, it only takes an hour to explore the whole city.

But now, I'm standing in front of the hospital in a daze. But he didn't even know where he was supposed to go.

Suddenly, a woman's voice sounded behind me.

"Little brother, come and help. Alas, that little brother in black, can you come and help me?"

I looked around and was the only one dressed in black. Could it be that you are talking to me?

I turned around in a panic and called me a familiar face, one of the group of night women who had come to my father's hospital room that day to visit Sister Chen.

This is the oldest Sister Ni in a pink tweed suit. It's him, who said that he hadn't opened his beard for two days, and asked others to burn money and call him for him.

Sister Ni stood next to the trunk of a taxi, with two large suitcases standing next to her, as well as some pots and pans and other daily necessities.

I hurriedly stepped forward.

"Sister, what are you doing here?"

Sister Ni sighed silently.

"These are Xiao Chen's relics, and I helped him pack them. I'll mail him back to his hometown in a moment. Stuff a little bit. Little brother, can you help me carry them in the trunk?"

"Okay!"

I said yes.

While helping to carry the boxes, he casually chatted with Sister Ni about homely things.

"Sister Chen's death is such a big thing, his family doesn't come. I also want you to help me mail the relics back!"

Sister Ni leaned on the car door and twisted open a bottle of mineral water. I took two sips of it.

"If Xiao Chen had a conscientious person in his family, he would not have come to Penang to do our job. ”

Sister Ni is a very talkative person, and she follows me leisurely. told all the stories of Sister Chen's life.

Sister Chen's name is Chen Xiuliang and she is 34 years old this year.

Chen Xiuliang was born in rural Gansu Province and is the fourth oldest in his family. The nickname is the four girls. It is said that Sister Chen's hometown is patriarchal, and Chen Xiuliang's top three are all sisters, hoping that he can be a boy. As a result, she was born a woman.

So his parents gave Sister Chen away when she was born. Is it a distant relative in the same village, and that relative has two sons at home, and wants to raise a girl as a child daughter-in-law?

"Isn't it illegal to raise children and daughters-in-law?"