A small bag of medicine cost fourteen yuan, and Li quietly left the health station, which was considered a cool place, and poured into the crowd on the street at noon.

It's less than 30 minutes before the start of work, and I know that the way back is not as groping as before, and it takes about ten minutes to get back to the factory. But he was very hungry at the moment, and even if the time was not too tight, he couldn't go back to the factory to enter the crowded canteen and wait in line for a few minutes to find an empty seat to eat. - What should I do if I am late?

After thinking about it for a while, Li Jingjing went to the small restaurant not far from the health station, blushed slightly, and embarrassedly grinded out the sentence 'I want two bowls of egg fried rice one by one'. After the shopkeeper habitually asked, "What else?" made the wording of "That's it", he sat silently in the corner, let the shopkeeper's strange gaze pierce him, and bowed his head to chew the lunch that was not fragrant...

....

The dreary afternoon was coming to an end in the blink of an eye. The machine stopped running and began to be cleaned. The heat dissipation fan was cut off due to the cleaning of the basement, and the quiet of the noisy workshop was like a more difficult stove - it was time to get off work.

Li Jing, who stayed behind to help clean up, listened to the topics discussed by his colleagues as they approached the end of the month.

"Whew... After two days, I can finally check my salary. ”

"It's been a hard month, just a few days. I just don't know how much the salary is...."

"It's a thousand. ”

It's about wages.

Li listened quietly and silently, and the envy in his eyes couldn't be concealed and turned back and forth on several people. Ah, how much salary can I get this month? Even if I work until the end of the month, I can't make up 10 days when I am full, and I can have 300 yuan.

I don't know if I can give 30 yuan for full attendance...

When the topic ended, there was a whisper among young people, mostly discussing buying a mobile phone and going to an Internet café to surf the Internet. Li Jing listened, suddenly remembered something, his face became ugly, and he still bowed his head and remained silent. After the hygiene, I hurried back to the locker room to change my clothes and walked home.

Li Jing found that he was careless about an important thing - when calculating the living expenses for the next month a few days ago, he regarded the next month's salary as the monthly salary of 700 during the internship period.... He ignored the fact that the factory had to pay 15 days a month. When his salary is paid on the 15th of next month, he can only receive less than 10 days of wages this month, and he may not have 300 yuan... Originally, 200 yuan of smallpox was very tight this month, but how could we expect a salary of less than 300 yuan next month? Even if another 200 yuan was allowed to be advanced, eighty percent of them would have to pay the rent of 200 yuan, let alone save tuition.

...

Night has not yet fallen.

The sunset cuts through the canopy of trees at the corner of the street, and speckled glow dots the walls of the popular new supermarket. On the glass wall on the first floor, there are a variety of children's toys that look more delicate and beautiful in the light of the sun, and on the other side are bright suits hanging from the dolls that contrast with the yellowed old-fashioned shirt of Li Jingjing standing next to the glass wall.

Li Jing stared at the glass window in a daze, pausing like this for a while. Finally, as if he had made a decision, he pulled the cuff of his shirt, which had been wet and uncomfortable after walking for about twenty minutes, and after getting more comfortable, he hurried into the endless crowd, into the supermarket with the cool air conditioner on, and came to the closet with toys around the corner.

"Do you want to buy toys for your child?"

The female tally clerk was fiddling with a few puppets on the shelf, and when she saw Li Jing coming, she immediately stopped what she was doing and asked enthusiastically.

"I'll take a look first..."Li Jing replied with some embarrassment.

"Okay, you see first. She laughed.

Delicate puppets and fun toys are a sight to behold. Li Jing twisted the factory uniform and looked at the shelves, saw the satisfactory toys from time to time, squinted slightly and looked at the price, and then retreated in surprise. From time to time, I look at the toys that are satisfied with the price, and shake my head in dissatisfaction because of the inferior manufacturing....

Li Jing knows that money is in short supply at the moment. Don't talk about next month, this month's living expenses plus scattered expenses, even if you add part-time jobs, it will not be enough for expenses. Buying a toy is really not what to do now, but he promised Xiao Nan....

It may be that spending money like this will be difficult for a while. But no matter what, if you get through it, life will always go by...

In the end, Li Jing picked a ten-dollar ragdoll bear, holding a doll in his left hand, a medicine bag and factory uniform in his right hand, walking awkwardly in the mall - it's not that he doesn't buy toys, the cheap ones obviously don't have to be tossed, they can withstand the toss of children, and the price is terrifyingly high, so it's impossible to buy it.

Before leaving, he came to the children's clothing area, paid attention to a few girls' clothes that he was satisfied with and were not expensive, secretly wrote down the price, and silently left the supermarket.

....

When he came to the entrance of the hotel, Li Jingjing's awkward appearance with his hands full made the man surnamed Lu stunned for a while, and after reacting under the urging of the guests, he smiled and said, "Obedient... What did you buy? Such a big thing. "Say, it's to add" Xiao Nan wanted to go back in the afternoon, stayed for a while, and couldn't send it home just now. ”

"Something to buy for Xiao Nan. Li Jing smiled, "Then I'll go back to Brother Lu." ”

"Come and eat later. "The swarthy man's enthusiasm day in and day out.

When he returned home, it was a scene that made Li Jing quietly dumbfounded.

The wooden plastic bucket under the small table had been pulled out and placed next to the bed. On the bed is a necklace that is densely strung with thread and has not yet been knotted. If you look closely, there are at least twenty strings. At this time, Xiao Nan was sitting on the edge of the bed, her little hand was grasping a new string and counting carefully, she saw Li Jing who opened the door, her little hand paused, tilted her head and said happily, "Dad, Dad, you tie these up, I got a lot!"

“....”

Li Jing couldn't cry or laugh. He also thought that Xiao Nan might be a little unwell and came back to sleep, so it turned out that he went home to fix this.

"Ah, what's that?" Suddenly, she noticed the large bag in Li Jingjing's hand.

"Daddy bought you a good thing. Li Jing smiled quietly, "Come, put your things down, have you eaten enough at night?"

Xiao Nan's big eyes were full of curiosity, she got out of bed barefoot, leaned over, and replied, "I'm full, Uncle Lu got delicious pig's feet for Xiao Nan today." After replying, she didn't forget to ask, "What good things, Dad?"

Li Jing put the ragdoll bear aside, boiled the water in the kettle, took out the medicine bag, and ignored Xiao Nan's immediately bitter little face, and couldn't help but say, "Come on, take the medicine first." ”