Affection Zhang Baotong 2016.9.9

It's the end of December, which is the coldest time of the year. The biting cold wind www.biquge.info carried snowflakes through the streets of New York, freezing so cold that people didn't even dare to show their hands. And it's getting colder. Sarah, a 23-year-old Thai girl, dressed in thin old clothes, squatted in the cold wind, huddled in a corner of the street with her arms clasped, shivering incessantly. In front of her, there was a piece of cardboard that read: Whoever wants to give me a bite to eat, I will serve him for the rest of my life.

Sara was smuggled to the United States from Thailand. It turned out that she had heard others say that the United States was a paradise, and that when she arrived in the United States, she would be able to live the life of a rich man. However, when she came to the United States, she found that this was not the case at all. She has been in the United States for several days, sleeping on the streets all day, begging for a living, especially in the winter, when the weather is very cold, which makes her feel even more unbearable. She's starting to catch a cold, and if she continues like this, she'll definitely die here. So, she was going to sell herself so that she could live.

The cold wind and snowflakes are still blowing in bursts, and the streets are full of pedestrians. However, the people seemed to be in a hurry, and as they walked past her, they only glanced at her and the sign in front of her, and hurried away, as if they had nothing to do with them.

Sara was cold and hungry at this time, and how she wished that someone would come and take her to a warm place and have something to eat. That way, she wouldn't have to stay here starving and cold. However, people walked past her in droves, but not one of them even greeted her.

She regretted that she should not have left her hometown and come to this strange country. If she is at home, although she does not live well, she will not be starving and freezing like this, and no one cares. Thinking about it like this, she felt very remorseful. However, it is useless to regret it now.

It was about noon when an old man in his 50s stopped in front of her and looked first at the sign, then at her. She wondered if he was looking at what she looked like. In fact, the Sara people are not ugly, and they can even be said to be somewhat beautiful. Because in her hometown, the boys called her Junni.

The old man also looked poor, and his clothes were thickly dressed, but they were also very old. The beard is long, the hair is thin, the appearance is untidy, and the expression is trivial. However, he was watching her. So, she smiled earnestly at him, hoping that he would take her out of here.

Perhaps it was her laughter that moved him, and the old man crouched down and asked her, "Why do you want to do this?"

"I'm Thai, and I'm here with no relatives and no cause, nowhere to go," Sara said. ”

The old man nodded, took her by the hand, and said, "Poor child, go, come to me." ”

Sara nodded gratefully, shook the card in front of her, stood up, and was carried away by the old man like a stray dog.

The old man's name was Jones, and his family lived in a neighborhood not far from here. The house he lives in is not large, only a single room of 145 square meters. Because he had no children, no wife, no job, and his family was destitute, he received government benefits every month. As a young girl, the last thing I like is to live with an elderly man, but for a foreign country like Sara who smuggled in from Thailand, in order to beg for food, to have a place to live, in order to have a legal identity, let alone live with an elderly man, even if she is allowed to go to the sword mountain and the sea of fire, she is also willing.

The old man has been alone and widowed for decades because he has no children and no daughters, and his temper and temperament are very strange, and he is lonely all day long, and he never interacts or talks to others. Moreover, Jones also has many quirks, such as cleanliness,, and musicality. His daily life revolves almost around these things.

As soon as Sara arrived, Jones told her that there were many things in the house that she could not touch or touch. He has to take care of the pots and stoves and tableware by himself, and he has to clean up the bedding and sheets on the bed by himself. While the old man was playing the violin, Sara could not speak or speak, but could only listen attentively. The orchids and roses raised by the old man are even more delicate, and Sara not only cannot touch them, but also cannot water them. Because Jones watered the flowers as if he were feeding a baby, dripping them drop by drop with a colander. Still, Sara can do it. She felt that she had to be able to do it too, because she was just an outsider after all. Therefore, she always complied with all the old man's requests to her and never complained. She wants to repay the old man with her own efforts. Moreover, she felt that Jones was a good person, and respected him and appreciated him in her heart. For Jones never took the opportunity to manipulate her, to take advantage of her, nor to speak presumptuous or offensive words to her, and treated her like a proper employer, and like a father to his daughter.

However, Sara is not idle, she is looking for some work everywhere, because she came to the United States to live a different life than she used to. Sara grew up in an unhappy family, her mother had a nervous breakdown due to drug addiction, her father was an alcoholic, and her grandfather refused to take her in, so she had to live on the streets. She started begging at the age of 8 and her mother died of AIDS when she was 15. She remembered that on the day her mother died, there was only a coffin, not even a simple funeral ceremony. When the coffin was buried, she jumped on the coffin and lay quietly on it, saying her mother's final goodbyes. When her last glimmer of hope is all gone, she is left with nothing but sadness. She knew that if she continued to sink, she would be as miserable as her mother's, so she decided to say goodbye to the past and start a new life. To this end, she borrowed a large sum of money from relatives and smuggled her to the United States to find a new life.

Sara goes out every day looking for work. Jones, on the other hand, stayed at home all day and did his own thing. In this way, they lived under the same roof for more than a year.

On this day, Jones proposes to Sarah. Sara thinks Jones wants someone to take care of him in his old age, so she decides to marry her. And Sara has her own ideas. Because after getting married, she has legal American citizenship, and she can go out to find a job reasonably and legally, and she no longer needs to secretly work in the dark. The taste of working in the dark is really uncomfortable, so that the people in the immigration bureau chase and check all day long, and once they find out, they will be sent back to China, which makes people worry all day long and cannot be peaceful. So, Sara is willing to marry Jones and longs to live a self-reliant life.

After getting married, Sara got a job in a restaurant. She folds paper towels and washes dishes like a machine every day, and her salary is not high. However, it made her feel very happy and content. Because of her stable job and income, Sara no longer has anything to worry about and worry about.