Chaohai City, on the balcony of Room 101, the first floor of Building 3, Xiaguang New District, Dongcheng District, sprinkled with the soft winter sunshine, a man with short hair, sitting on an old rattan chair, holding a crochet needle in one hand and a gum sole in the other, his fingers quickly sketched a regular woolen pattern.

The shop next door to the neighborhood is playing annoying promotional advertisements with loudspeakers, but the young man knows nothing about it, and concentrates on matching the colors of the wool in his hands.

A lame middle-aged woman, her face always has a sorrow that she can't get rid of, and her eyes fall on the man sitting on the balcony from time to time. With a rag in her hand, she limped slowly through the old things in the room, and from time to time she sighed slightly in a place out of the youth's sight.

The house they live in is not large, about 50 square meters, with two bedrooms and one living room, and it is furnished with old furniture from decades ago. Although the furnishings in the house are old, the floors and walls are clean and the objects are neatly arranged.

Halfway through the wool slippers in the young man's hand, there was a sudden knock on the door of their room.

There was a loud knock on the door, but the young man sitting on the balcony was still immersed in his crochet world and could not hear the knock on the door at all.

"Coming, coming, who?" the lame middle-aged woman asked suspiciously, putting down the rag in her hand.

"Aunt Tong, it's me, Xiao Kong of the Development Center!" came a resounding response from outside the old-fashioned iron door.

When the middle-aged woman heard the comer's self-introduction, she hurriedly dragged her inflexible legs and feet and hurried to open the door.

"Ah, Xiao Kong, come in quickly, come in and sit, Auntie will peel an apple for you," the middle-aged woman with white sideburns smiled and greeted with a little bewilderment.

"It's okay, it's okay," Kong Xueqin took Tong Xin's hand, pulled her to sit down, and said, "Don't bother, I've eaten, I still have a kettle with me, I'll go somewhere else later, let's talk about things first." ”

Kong Xueqin glanced at the young man with his back to them, he didn't know anything about the guests coming to the house.

"This ......" Tong Xin, the young man's mother, hesitated for a moment and asked, "Is there something wrong?"

"I happened to come over today, there are two things, the first is Aunt Tong's government subsidy for your family, which has risen by one hundred and fifty yuan this month, and now all bank accounts must be linked to mobile banking, and our development center will help you handle these procedures in a unified manner, and you can sign and confirm it today." ”

Hearing the news of the increase in the subsidy, the crow's feet at the corners of the middle-aged woman's eyes were stretched, and she nodded happily one after another.

"The second thing is that Aunt Tong has been asking me to help you inquire about the job, and there is currently a position that is quite suitable for children. Kong Xueqin handed the document in her hand to Tong Xin to sign and said.

Tong Xin is a single mother.

Her child, Tong Liqun, is 19 years old and was born with a difficult birth, resulting in very severe hearing damage and brain damage.

After learning about the child's problems, her husband divorced her in a fuss, paying only the basic living expenses every month.

Tong Xin raised Tong Liqun alone, and later suffered a work injury that caused her legs to be unable to walk normally. She has to take care of the children and earn money to support the family, so Tong Liqun did not undergo timely treatment and rehabilitation when he was a child, which greatly affected his ability to speak.

Later, with the help of the Development Center and social charities for the disabled, Tong Liqun participated in sign language and family handicraft learning, and was able to ease the burden of life for the family through hand-knitting work.

But even so, Tong Liqun, who has problems with intelligence, hearing and language skills, will find it difficult to survive independently in society without the help of others.

Tong Xin has always been very worried, and when she is old, Tong Liqun will be lonely and widowed, how to survive in society.

Although hand-knitting can make some money now, it can't be stable after all, which makes Tong Xin feel at ease.

Therefore, the worried mother has been entrusting the Career Development Center for the Disabled, hoping that they can help Tong Liqun find a job with relatively comprehensive welfare protection.

"It's a new type of farm job, it's not very difficult, and the most important thing is that the owner of this farming company offers a good salary and a very comprehensive welfare guarantee. Kong Xueqin patiently told the mother the information she had collated.

In fact, Tong Liqun was not originally selected for the job.

Usually, this kind of work with better pay and benefits is reserved for people with disabilities who have a particularly heavy burden on their families.

For example, on the other side of Daoyu Road, there is a family of five people with disabilities, and the conditions are worse than Tong Liqun's family.

However, the development center helps companies with disabilities to choose employees, of course, taking into account the needs of the enterprises themselves. The person in charge of recruitment of the company introduced by Qin Xu contacted Kong Xueqin again today and clearly pointed out that the four employees recruited are mainly hearing-impaired, and the younger the better, on the premise of reaching the age of 18.

It is precisely for this reason that Tong Xin's mother and son, who have a fairly stable life compared to others, were selected as the targets of this recruitment.

Tong Xin listened attentively to Kong Xueqin's story, and after thinking about it for a while, she replied, "Thank you, you can give my son this opportunity." ”

"This is the time to apply for the job, and our center will send a car to pick you up, so remember to be prepared. Kong Xueqin put away the documents signed by Tong Xin and said.

At this time, Tong Liqun, who had been holding crochet woolen slippers, stretched his waist and turned his head, only to see Kong Xueqin who suddenly appeared.

He was so startled that he almost kicked over the box of yarn next to him.

Kong Xueqin smiled and took out a strawberry-flavored lollipop from her shoulder bag, walked over and handed it to Tong Liqun, and then made a few sign language gestures towards him.

'Sister, please eat lollipops, sweet. ’

Tong Liqun lowered his head and smiled embarrassedly, and then made a few gestures in response to Kong Xueqin.

'Thank you, sister!'

Kong Xueqin has been in contact with Tong Liqun several times, and knows that this young man, who is a head taller than herself, although he has basic life skills, he cannot accept in-depth learning, and his thinking mode is also at the level of a seven or eight-year-old child.

Unable to complete complex tasks, loves sweets and sweets, loves to listen to fairy tales.

Underneath the exterior of an adult is the simple heart of a child.

Kong Xueqin said hello to Tong Liqun and prepared to leave for the next family.

Before leaving, she suddenly remembered something, patted her head, and said to Tong Xin with a smile: "Aunt Tong, the handmade shoes made by Liqun, help me choose three pairs, two pairs of thirty-seven yards, two pairs of forty-two yards, you can just look at the color and choose." ”

After hearing this, Tong Xin said with some hesitation: "Xiaokong, you don't have to buy shoes every time you come." ”

"Aunt Tong, don't worry, your woolen slippers are really easy to wear, the pair I bought three years ago is washed every year, and it is still very new in winter, where is it like the cotton slippers bought outside, basically scrapped in one or two years. Such a good thing was bought by a friend. And the color scheme of Liqun wool is particularly beautiful, simple and generous, and it looks much more comfortable than the rustic earth color bought elsewhere. ”

Kong Xueqin can speak kindly, and without waiting for Tong Xin to say more, she immediately explained a long list, and the praise in her words made Tong Xin smile again.

As she spoke, she also made sign language to Tong Liqun and briefly praised the woolen slippers he knitted.

Although Tong Liqun couldn't hear Kong Xueqin's words, as soon as he saw her sign language, he immediately understood, and hurriedly ran to a wardrobe that had been unpainted, took out several pairs of woolen slippers of different sizes from the drawer of the wardrobe, and looked at Kong Xueqin with bright big eyes and a smile.

"Wow wow, wow, it's so beautiful, the gray-red checkered combination feels so beautiful, and this pair of red and black classic colors, I don't even know which pair to choose!"