"Come, Yuanyuan, eat this delicious, it tastes good. Feel like your own home here, and don't be inhibited. ”

Chu Dongmei pushed the fruit plate on the coffee table in front of Tian Yuanyuan, and greeted Tian Yuanyuan warmly.

Gu Fanxin next to him also entered the friendship of the landlord. She ran to the kitchen and cut two plates of fruit and brought them out.

A plate is placed next to the master and the elder brother. A plate was placed on the coffee table in front of them.

For a while, Tian Yuan and Yuan Yuan had mixed feelings. Look at Yao Hongwei who was playing chess with Professor Lin next to him.

Listening to the joyful laughter, I feel that the atmosphere of Professor Lin's family is very strong. It's something I've never experienced before.

I still remember that the most impressive day when I was a child was on the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, which was the saddest day for their family.

Every day on this day, their family is gloomy and bleak, and they are at a loss.

Because my father was frail and sick, he was often hospitalized, and his relatives and friends borrowed it all over, and finally the relatives were afraid that they would not be able to pay it back, so they no longer dared to lend them money, so they had no choice but to borrow usury.

On the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, rich people will buy New Year's goods in a big way to prepare for a sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

But poor people like them, people who owe money, are the hardest to endure on this day.

Because according to the customary rules, the debts of the current year must be paid off in the current year, and the debts cannot be collected at the end of the year, and they cannot be forced to collect until the lights fall in early February.

Therefore, creditors send people around to collect debts on Chinese New Year's Eve, and those who cannot afford to pay their debts have to take refuge everywhere, and they cannot return home until the first day of the new year.

Therefore, in the past, there was a saying that "the grain households are better at the end of the year, but they are sad when they have no money".

The most memorable memory is the winter when I was ten years old.

That winter, Tian Yuanyuan's father's illness recurred and he was hospitalized.

My mother was so anxious that she asked a reliable friend to come back and borrow money everywhere. But her relatives and friends were already scared, and when they saw her friends going, they all said that they had no money.

In the end, it was my aunt who introduced that there were loan sharks who could be borrowed to help the emergency.

Saving lives is like fighting fires, and at that time, the friend also went to the rich man who gave usury introduced by his aunt to sign and draw a pledge, and borrowed 10,000 yuan from a loan shark to save the emergency.

Speaking of the loan shark, he is still related to their family.

In terms of generation, they are their distant grandfathers.

After Tian Yuanyuan's father was discharged from the hospital, in order to repay the loan shark as soon as possible, their family worked hard to finally earn the first money of 4,000.

After earning the money, my mother hurried to my aunt's house, wanting to repay part of the loan shark as soon as possible.

I didn't expect the 4,000 yuan to be in the hands of my aunt. was actually detained by his uncle under the pretext of cutting off his beard.

Because Tian Yuanyuan's father was hospitalized and her younger brother went to school, her mother had borrowed money from her aunt's house and had not repaid it, so this time the uncle withheld the money on this ground.

It is natural to repay debts, although it is said that the current behavior of the uncle-in-law is a bit unrighteous and immoral.

There was no way, so the mother had to come back empty-handed with a sad face.

So that time the top loan shark was like a snowball, rolling bigger and bigger.

Several times, the distant grandfather came to the door to collect debts aggressively.

Mother always whispered and begged to be slow.

But the grandfather intensified, and every time he spoke more and more unpleasantly.

Generally speaking, loan sharks do not come to collect debts.

But then the grandfather saw that their house was surrounded by walls.

There is no valuable collateral, and I am afraid that I will end up with a chicken and a flying egg, so I will come to the door to force the debt.

On the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, they went out with their whole family to hide debts and locked the broken house.

Quietly hiding under a bridge hole, shivering from the cold.

Under the bridge, the wind was bitterly cold, cold and hungry, and at night, the younger brother was so hungry that he could only cry.

But he was held in his mother's arms, afraid that people would hear the voice, so he covered his mouth and didn't dare to let him cry out loud.

The family hid in fear until late at night, making sure that the debt collector had left before daring to go home.

In other people's homes, this night is the happiest day for other children, because their parents and elders will give them New Year's money.

But their parents didn't give their siblings a penny.

Because the heavy debts are pressed on their bodies, they can't wait to spend every penny in half, where is there spare money for them to make New Year's money?

At that time, she was sensible, and she didn't blame her mother for not giving them New Year's money.

Only my younger brother is still young and ignorant, and when he sees that others have New Year's money, he always cries and longs for himself to have New Year's money.

His mother couldn't be troubled by him, so she had to give him two cents.

Mother is like this, she lives frugally and carefully, of course, she can't be as big as other people's families.

Because the family is hollowed out, you just want to eat some meat if you have no money, and it is difficult to improve the food for your family to satisfy your hunger.

Because of years of hard work and overwork, my mother looks ten years older than others.

Even gray hair on his head. She saw it in her eyes and hurt in her heart.

That's why when I was in junior high school, I took the initiative to give up my studies, dropped out of school, and came down to work to help my family earn money.

Speaking of which, I really want to thank the country's nine-year compulsory education system for saving their family a lot of money.

Otherwise, it is estimated that she would not even be able to touch the threshold of junior high school.

Seeing people carrying schoolbags and happily going to school and studying, she buried her sadness and sadness in her heart.

I just hope that I can earn money so that my younger brother can continue to study, and he will no longer be forced to give up halfway like himself.

After dropping out of school, Tang Yuanyuan worked in a toy factory in a village and town. Wait until her first month's salary is paid.

The first thing I did was to buy a fish, cut a piece of meat and make it home for my family.

Because the family was too poor before, the remaining money was used up for my father's treatment.

Even if my mother cuts meat, she only cuts two or three dollars.

Make a meatball soup and stew it with cabbage vermicelli.

My mother picked up the fragrant meatballs and put them in the bowls of my father and younger brother, but I was reluctant to eat a bite of meat.

At most, she and her mother drank a little broth, which was a tooth sacrifice.

She is precocious, and she doesn't blame her mother for being partial. Because my father is not in good health and my younger brother is young, he needs nutrition.

For those who are struggling on the poverty line, it is enough to have enough food and clothing.

So later, my aunt came to the door and said that she would be a rich family to improve her life as a mother-in-law.

Mother happily agreed. Because she doesn't want her daughter to marry a poor guy like herself, she has no money to treat her when she is sick, and her relatives and friends are implicated and dragged down to suffer from poverty and suffering for a lifetime.

It is her mother's dream and wish to let her daughter marry into a rich family and be a young grandmother who does not hit her head in the wind and does not hit her face in the rain.

Looking back at the past, in fact, my mother also had her difficulties.

She only knows that the family is rich, and her daughter will not be poor if she marries, how did she know that people like Cheng Erming are so bad.

Hey, I hope that after my salary is sent back, my family can improve their lives.