Chapter VI: Poor Families
"Mom, I've been admitted, I've been admitted to Yizhou University!" The girl in a white-washed dress opened the door of the house with brisk steps and rushed in, she wore a simple ponytail, and the clothes she wore were also the cheapest stalls, but this could not hide her youthful and beautiful figure and vigorous vigor.
Because of the excitement and the long run, her face was a little red, and her name was He Ke.
"Mom, I'm admitted to college!"
Her mother, Li Lilian, didn't seem to hear it, and she was still busy with small work in her hands.
"Mom, I'm admitted to college, aren't you happy?" He Ke sat beside Li Lilian gently.
Only then did Li Lilian stop sewing and mending clothes, turned around to look at He Ke and said with a kind smile: "Of course my mother is happy, my daughter is so competitive, our family can live a good life in the future." ”
But in her expression, there was a bit of happiness, and there were some other emotions that He didn't quite understand.
Feeling Li Lilian's trembling hands, He Ke reached out and held them gently, looked at her and asked, "Mom, what's wrong with you, is something wrong with Zhongwen again?"
Li Lilian nodded, and said with a smile of relief: "It's nothing, my mother is naturally happy, our family is sensible and well-behaved, and she is beautiful, she knows how to help her mother earn money at such a young age, and her grades are good, and now she is admitted to university again, how can her mother be unhappy?"
Before she finished speaking, Li Lilian pulled out her hand, stroked He Ke's hair tremblingly, and suddenly choked up: "Your father left early, and it is useless for your mother, other people's children are pampered like treasures when they are so old, but you still have to go out to do odd jobs, take care of your mother, and raise that disobedient brother for him to go to school, you say that my mother should be..."
"Mom, why are you talking nonsense again!" He Keqiang endured his sour nose, held Li Lilian's hands tightly and said: "Our family depends on the three of us, I am the eldest sister and an adult, I don't take care of you, who will take care of you?"
You can raise me and my brother to be white and fat, you are already the greatest mother in the world. You don't have to worry about my tuition fees in the future, the school teachers have said that I can apply for the national subsidy for poor students at that time, and the school has a special green channel for poor students. And in the future, I will have more free time to go to college, I can have more time to do part-time part-time and odd jobs, and when the time comes, I can also subsidize my family, and when I graduate from college, I will find a good job, and then it will really be for you and my brother to live a good life, okay?
So today's good day, Mom, you just take half a day off, don't go out to sweep the floor, I'll go buy some food, and when my brother comes back from school, I'll cook a big meal and let's celebrate. ”
He Ke's father died of illness when she was five years old, and her mother, Li Lilian, is now a sanitation worker in Yizhou City.
At the beginning of this century, the general environment encountered an economic crisis, she was the first batch of workers to be brushed off, and then never found a stable job, in order to make a living, had to hastily find a job as a sanitation worker, but I did not expect this to be nearly 20 years.
Women are weak, but mothers are strong.
The children of the poor are in charge of the house early, and since she can remember, He Ke has learned to do housework to share the pressure for Li Lilian, and when others are still in the arms of her parents and begging for her beloved gifts, she has begun to cook for a family of three every day.
After the age of six or seven, she didn't want to do anything but ran to the vegetable market as soon as she got out of class every day, because there were still leftover fruits and vegetables that the vegetable farmers didn't have time to pick up and throw away.
But after all, because I was too young to take on more things. Li Lilian, who is in her prime, is aging rapidly, barely living with a small salary every month, pulling her two children with hard work, and she has no conditions to find a man who can look at her.
He Ke is sensible early, but the mother doesn't know how to educate her younger son, He Zhongwen.
Like all troubled teenagers, he is rebellious, perverse, and impulsive! The difficulties of life have made Li Lilian tired of coping, and she has long had no energy to control him, which has also given him more room for "horizontal" development.
Being invited to tea by the head teacher of the school has almost become commonplace, although she doesn't care about her face, but that dress and temperament or other factors really make He Zhongwen feel disgraced at school again and again, and thus become more rebellious.
He Ke and him, the biological sister and brother, have always been developing in two extreme directions, which makes Li Lilian exhausted.
After going to college, He Ke spent almost all the time between classes, sleeping and eating part-time jobs and odd jobs, and because of his excellent grades, the school even sent her the first-year college student poverty allowance and scholarship at the same time, which was enough for her family of three and herself to maintain their lives in school for half a year.
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Lying on the bed, tossing and turning for half an hour and not falling asleep, the iron frame bed was squeaked and squeaked.
"Coco, are you in heat?" The girl on the bed opposite wailed, and then stretched out a white thigh from the futon and pointed at He Ke, "Usually you can sleep deeper than a dead pig in less than ten minutes in bed, what's wrong today?
"Dead girl, the crow can't spit out ivory in its mouth, you are in heat, you miss your lover! I am asleep, and I have to go to class tomorrow!" The shocking scene of yesterday evening lingered in her mind, this was the second time in her life that someone stood up and stood in front of her, as if at that moment, he so easily blocked the storm between heaven and earth!
It's not that she fell in love at first sight for this, but at a certain moment in her life, those explosive pictures suddenly appeared because of herself, which must be unforgettable for a lifetime.
As for the first time, it was the "dead girl" in He Ke's mouth just now, who stretched out her slender white legs from the futon and pointed at her with her very Q thumb, the rich second generation who was famous in the class.
After entering the school, when others were jealous of her beauty, coveted her beauty, and ridiculed her origin, that girl, like a patron saint, appeared beside her, and forcefully smoked a big ear scraper for a low-eyed guy, and since then she has become famous in the department!
In the words of Han Zhiqi, that is, the girl: "You are the second wife I raised in my previous life, and I couldn't give you a name in my last life, so I came back to compensate you in this life!" made He Ke feel like a best friend or even a sister for the first time, which was a taste of happiness.
Finally, for a moment, she felt that she was lucky. Good night, this world. Study hard, work hard, and the future will not be as difficult as you imagined, right?