If your wife's husband dies when you are forty years old;

If your only child is paralyzed in a car accident when he is about to reach adulthood;

If the only property you have left is scammed out by a relative when you are sixty years old;

If you are diagnosed with a terminal illness at the age of 70.

It is said that life is not easy, but if all these are put together in one person, what should you do?

Shi Xiaoai felt that she didn't have the courage to face all this.

Looking at the polite old man in front of him, "stealing books" fits his temperament quite well.

It's not that he looks like a thief, but that the old man has a bookish aura that can't be hidden.

was caught in front of everyone, and the old man drank tea for a long time, but his hands were still shaking.

In the bookstore staff's office, there are only Fan Yunchen and Shi Xiaoai now, and the old man is grateful for their relief and explains the reason for stealing the book.

It's actually very simple, want to see, but poor.

The old man is also an intellectual, has gone to high school, and is educated. Although that generation grew up in stumbling and looking forward to it, with the development of the whole country, most of them have also reaped the benefits of the times, and their old age is not bad.

There are always exceptions. The stable life ended when the old man was forty years old, his wife who had a good relationship fell ill and died, and the old man raised the child alone and did not remarry.

I thought I could breathe a sigh of relief, but my son was in a car accident on the way to school and was paralyzed in a high position. The old man quit his job again, took care of his son alone for more than ten years, and when he was almost sixty, he sent his son away.

In those years, for his wife's treatment and taking care of his son, the old man borrowed a lot of money from relatives and friends, but he never paid it back. After his son left, the old man began to go out to do odd jobs, guarding the gates, sweeping the streets, picking up rags, and trying his best to save money.

Before he lived in seclusion, he gradually cut off contact with everyone. Pity him for his miserable life, in fact, no one thought of asking him to pay him back.

When he appeared, he began to repay the money, which made the bad people move their minds.

A distant relative came to him and gave a "performance", which made him think that the other party was also a hard-working person and urgently needed a sum of money to turnover. When he believed, he mortgaged his most valuable asset, the old building in which the unit was divided.

The result can be imagined, and when the seized person comes to the door, the old man understands what is going on.

He didn't cry, make trouble, or toss, but people from the street came to explain his situation, suspended the seizure, and then helped him apply for low-rent housing. He moved in and had a place to stay.

If you quit your job so early, you will never have a pension. As he gets older, he can do less and less, and slowly, he can only live on a little subsistence.

Maybe it was the creator who made him terminally ill the year before last in order to complete this complete "tragedy". Nowadays, I have to take medicine every day, and I really don't have the money to spend anything else.

The old man was also a book lover back then, and after his life took a turn for the worse, he left books behind for many years.

Today I got the medicine from the hospital and went home, passing by Shang Xi, he suddenly wanted to turn in and go shopping. The modern business model is incomprehensible to the elderly, and many stores don't even understand what they sell.

But the bookstore, he saw it at a glance. After looking outside for a long time, I still couldn't suppress my curiosity, and walked in with the flow of people.

Shi Xiaoai looked at the former Soviet Union with a strong sense of age on the table and did not say a word.

"Grandpa, this book is for you. Fan Yunchen pushed the book in front of the old man.

"No, no, no. Sorry for the trouble. I, hey, the first day you opened, I made a fuss about this, how unlucky, I'm really sorry. ”

"It's okay, I can still afford a book. If you want to read a book in the future, come directly to it, and you can choose it. Fan Yunchen was born in a scholarly family and had a good economic situation, but he didn't expect that from childhood to adulthood, there were still people who needed to "steal" things like "books" everywhere in his home.

Thinking of the grandparents who live happily in their own homes, if it weren't for the common saying that men don't flick when they have tears, Fan Yunchen's tears are about to fall.

But the old man didn't accept it anyway. Shi Xiaoai heard it from his description, he was ravaged by suffering again and again, but he still lived without being arrogant or humble, and resisted all the hardships that life gave him with the greatest sense of responsibility that a person could have, how could such a person accept this kind of alms.

"Grandpa, do you think this is okay? Although our store is open 24 hours, there are not so many people at night, and someone needs to be on duty. If you can stand it, can you come in the evening? We'll pay you, but it may not be too much, but you can read the book as much as you want. ”

......The old man had also guarded the gate before, helped people on the night shift, and knew that some shops did need someone at night.

After all, no security system can deter thieves more than a living person, not to mention hidden dangers such as fires to be prevented.

However, the old man recalled the shopping mall and the beautiful bookstore he had seen along the way, and did not feel that they needed an old man like himself who could not do anything.

"Yes, yes, you don't know how expensive the labor costs are now, we have just opened, and we haven't started making money yet, so you should help. Of course, Fan Yunchen knew that Shi Xiaoai was lying, and he reacted very quickly and cooperated very tacitly.

Shi Xiaoai didn't say anything more. This kind of very assertive old man may talk too much and it may be bad.

Fortunately, in the end, the old man agreed to their suggestion, and the two parties agreed that the old man would come to work next Monday.

"I'm going to have him come today, why are you postponing it until next week?"

Waiting for the old man to walk away, Fan Yunchen asked puzzledly.

"We'll have to at least get a bed, and we'll have to find a place for him to rest. At such an age and in poor health, he really made him work at night. ”

"That's right. But if you let him lie down all night, he probably won't want to. ”

Shi Xiaoai beckoned the little girl transferred from the old store to her eyes and arranged: "I'll go to someone and ask, see how to sign a contract for an old man of this age, and you can get one when the time comes." Daily management, without discrimination. As for the specific work of the elderly, they generally go to bed early and get up early, so they guard the warehouse first, and then let him guard the store when they get up at four or five o'clock. ”

"The bed was in the hallway outside the storeroom, and no one went into the storeroom at night anyway. It is also far away from your lounge, so that you don't come and go and affect the rest of the elderly. Fan Yunchen added.

"Okay. The little girl was delighted to hear this, and hurried back to tell the colleague who had caught the old man stealing the book.

The young man was so guilty that he kept blaming himself.

At the other end of the bookstore, a little boy of four or five years old accidentally fell and cried in his mother's arms.

Shi Xiaoai then remembered that she had always felt that she had forgotten something, damn, what about Tan Shuangguo and Xiaoxiaoguo?

Fortunately, the store that the mother and daughter were looking for was next door, and Shi Xiaoai hurriedly ran over, but accidentally bumped into someone.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. ”

"It's okay, come on, slow down. As the saying goes, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, we sell steamed buns here, and if you are too anxious, you will burn your mouth. ”

The other party was a smiling middle-aged woman, wearing an apron from the shop next door.

Shi Xiaoai and Du Rongpei had never met before, but she inexplicably felt that Du Rongpei had a sense of familiarity when she laughed.

Tan Shuangguo and Xiaoxiaoguo were sitting at a small round table on the street, eating happily.

Shi Xiaoai was about to go over, but heard Du Rongpei shouting behind him: "Ms. Mo, you are here, welcome." ”

Ms. Mo, that Mo Qingfang, read the latest chapter of "Little Satisfaction, Big Happiness Paw Book House" for free for the first time.