Chapter 10: Life Is So Hard
Xiaodong left, and Yang Zi's illness made each of them in debt, and they scraped together to borrow enough for hospitalization, and the family didn't even have an extra dollar.
Xiaodong wrote a letter to a friend in Guangzhou, and when the friend replied, he put 100 yuan in the letter for travel expenses.
"I'm the eldest in this family! I'm going to look for a job in Guangdong, and it shouldn't be difficult to find a job as a cook, and when I settle down, I'll ask them to advance a little salary and send it over, and before that, you all have to listen to Ah Xiu! It's very difficult at the moment...... Bear with me......" he choked.
After Xiaodong left, everyone began to take turns cooking, every time it was Yinuo's turn to cook, my sister or Lu Xiuwen would come to help, my sister knew that she couldn't cook, Lu Xiuwen said that he was afraid that eating her food would cause diarrhea, so he would rather do it himself......
Xiao Ding and Yi Hong set up a stall on the side of the road, one singing and the other painting portraits of passers-by. But it's just a lot of fun, and there are no people who pay......
In this way, they returned empty-handed for two days, and they were a little discouraged, and when the two of them were in a daze at the beach, they caught a few crabs and came back.
Now, they can only buy one dish a day, five cents of bean sprouts, or five cents of water spinach. Susan has to calculate, because their money is not easy to come by, and if Lu Xiuwen leaves early and returns late, she can only give her ten or twenty yuan.
Lin Yinuo understands that life is so difficult! Xiao Ding, who usually eats three bowls of white rice for one meal, now only eats one bowl, and even Xiao Jing, who has always been so gentle, will climb to the high branch of a tree to touch the bird's eggs......
Susan bought the pork and fried it all the oil in the hot pan, and the fat meat was fried into a black lump with a little burnt yellow, exuding a special aroma, which was the best delicacy that Yinuo could eat at the moment.
They can't afford to buy oil anymore, so they can only use this oil to cook at present, at first Lu Xiuwen ate this dish, and he would vomit all the time, and then he stopped vomiting and had diarrhea every day......
Susan was washing vegetables in the kitchen, and Yinuo walked in to help, but - a plate of bean sprouts, already washed. She had no choice but to stand next to her, watching the pot get hot, and Susan carefully scooped only a small spoonful of oil into the pot, and immediately the meat smelled fragrant.
Yinuo said, "Sister, I really want to eat meat!"
"Arnold......" Susan looked at her distressed and guilty.
"Sister, I'm kidding!" she was most afraid of seeing her sister's sad eyes: "I'm talking about the meat in this oil bowl! Just now I saw a piece of meat the size of grapes! I have already eaten it, haha......"
She picked up another piece of meat the size of a peanut, put it in her mouth, bit her finger and smiled at Susan, "It's delicious!"
Since then, Lu Xiuwen has picked out the meat scraps from the dishes every time and sandwiched them into Yinuo's bowl......
Such days did not last long, and they began to be unable to afford even five cents of vegetables, and the rice was changed to porridge......
Susan took Yinuo with her, and when the vegetable market was closing, she picked some yellow vegetable leaves in advance, came back to clean them, chopped them, cooked them with porridge, and put a little salt in them.
Yinuo always looks at her sister with a look of adoration, no matter what it is, her sister has a way to make it delicious!
In the blink of an eye, the Chinese New Year is coming, and Lu Xiuwen and Susan bought some New Year's goods back. In the past few days, Yihong's calligraphy and paintings have been sold, and they have eaten rice again.
From a distance, I saw Lin Yinuo lying there, poking the sewer with a branch.
"Arnold, what are you doing?"
Lin Yinuo raised his head, and tears fell: "My money fell in...... Brother Rambo gave me seven dollars just now, and he said that he only had these, and my coins accidentally fell into it!"
He ...... Do you often give you money?"
"Well, sometimes give me five cents, sometimes give me two!"
"Before, all the food you 'picked up' outside was given to you by him?"
Yinuo sometimes often brings back a few pieces of coconut candy, a bag of dried tofu, a can of plum and the like, saying that she picked it up on the road, and once she came back with two pockets full of rice, she was strange, it is not unusual that sugar can be picked up, how did she pick up this rice?
"Brother Rambo won't let me tell you, Brother Rambo brought me flour and meat just now, he said it's the New Year, we can make dumplings-"
Susan closed her eyes, and suddenly the sky spun around and she fell to the ground.
The doctor said that Susan had severe anemia due to long-term malnutrition and had to be hospitalized or risk her life.
Yinuo cleans up at home alone, washes dishes, wipes tables, cleans the kitchen, brushes the toilet, takes out the trash, mops the floor, and does the laundry...... She never knew that her sister had to do so much work every day. My sister's thin and small body has such a big workload every day! She shed tears as she cleaned up......
Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, Chinese New Year's Eve was supposed to be a day when the family ate dumplings and watched the gala get together, but my sister was hospitalized, and everyone rushed out to raise money for my sister's hospitalization fee. My sister is thin and frail, and she always leaves good things for her to eat, and her sister has been taking care of her like a mother...... Mother?Lin Yinuo put down the rag and ran towards the shop.
She dialed her mother's phone and cried, "Mom, my sister is sick, and we can't even afford to pay for the hospitalization!" We don't have a penny, Mom, my sister will die, give me some money!"
Mom's voice was loving: "How could Susan be sick?"
"My sister has been malnourished for a long time, severely anemic, and fainted......."
"Why malnutrition?"
Lin Yinuo told them about their living conditions, and when her mother heard her say that they went to the vegetable field to pick up vegetable leaves, she cried very frustratedly: "Arnold, why is this happening? Didn't my uncle say that you are doing well? Why are you like this?"
"Mom, we've been bad, my sister left the best things to me, my sister is sick, you give me a little money, Mom, otherwise my sister will die!"
"Okay, okay, okay! Arnold doesn't cry, Mom will send you money right away!"
"No!" Daddy's voice said, "She's lying to you! They're just a bunch of liars! She just wants money!"
"I didn't lie to you, my sister is really sick and is still in the hospital, and we can't even pay the hospitalization fee...... Daddy, please, give me some money, or my sister will die......"
"Every time you call back, you cry and ask for money! What's wrong with you, Arnold? Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, you don't even let us live a stable life during the New Year, and you say that your sister is going to die, what is wrong with you, Arnold? Full of lies! Who taught you to lie to us? Is it Susan? Or is it that Lu Xiuwen? You tell me, why I let you go home and you don't listen, but you must listen to them? Why do you even call to lie to us for the New Year?"
"I didn't lie to your father, what I said is true! Sister is sick in the hospital now, I need money, father......"
"I don't have any money!
"You can give me five hundred, Dad, I'll pay it back to you!"
"What are you going to pay back?"
"I'll pay it back to your dad in the future, please, if you don't give me money, I'll hate you!"
"You hate me?" Dad's voice changed over there: "Arnold, your mother and I gave birth to you in our thirties, and I have worked hard to raise you for seventeen years, I am afraid that you will be cold in winter, and I am afraid that you will be hot in summer! What you want, what you don't want, we give you the best, you come back late from school, my heart hangs in the air, waiting for you on the side of the road, for fear that something will happen to you...... At the end of the day, you tell me that you hate me! Okay, Lin Yinuo, you used your sister's illness to deceive us, how could you become like this? I won't give you money! Do you hate me? Then I hate you even more! Lin Yinuo, I don't have a daughter who is full of lies like you!"
Dad hung up on her.