Chapter Ninety-One: Happiness After Happiness

On July 18, under the LCD screens in the 1,000 office buildings occupied by Enron Media, I don't know how many people gathered, and like Tian Tian, they were all watching the public service advertisement "Transaction" made by Enron Media.

"The Deal" opens with a dilapidated courtyard, and under the early sun, a skinny little girl stands by the faucet and watches the water slowly flow into the bucket, wiping the beads of sweat from her head from time to time. After a while, the water was connected, and the little girl went into the kitchen, lit the fire on the simple stove, and quickly cooked the meal and sent it to her grandmother, who was sick in bed.

The old woman looked at the gray-faced little girl, her cloudy eyes flashed with distress, but she didn't know what to say, she just silently stroked the little girl's head, suppressed the sadness in her heart, ate the meal, and the little girl helped her sleep, before jumping up and leaving to eat.

In the humble room, the little girl reads a book while eating.

As soon as the camera turned, the little girl appeared on the dilapidated courtyard gate, measuring her height with white chalk, perhaps because of her innocent and simple thoughts, thinking, grow up quickly, so that she can earn money, be able to support her grandmother, and be able to treat her grandmother......

The camera turned again, the little girl took the rice bucket and turned it upside down, only to find that the rice bucket had bottomed out, and one meal was not enough, the little girl stared at the empty rice bucket silently, her eyes were full of helplessness, but she didn't dare to let her grandmother know, she ran alone to the old locust tree at the head of the village, and wiped her tears on the empty rice bucket.

When the sun went down, the little girl wiped away her tears and got up silently, stepped on the shadow through the mottled alley, stroked the mossy red wall with her hand, lowered her head, and walked home silently.

When passing by the village entrance purchase station, the little girl's eyes lit up when she saw others selling scrap, as if she saw the hope that she could raise enough money for her grandmother's treatment.

From that day on, among the bricks and rubble, in the small ditch at the edge of the village, and next to the garbage heap, there was a little girl.

The first time I went to sell the mineral water bottle I picked up, the little girl was a little scared, her little hand trembled and handed over the plastic bag, and the uncle who collected the tattered first took a ten-yuan one to her, and saw that it was a little girl, Xu felt that she had no money to find, so she gave her five yuan of change: "Uncle will give you more, and I will come next time!"

"Thank you, uncle!" the little girl clutched the first money she earned, like a deer jumping and running home, the smile on her red face was very innocent and happy.

"Yaya, is your grandmother's illness cured?" an aunt appeared at the head of the village and called out when she saw the little girl.

"Hmm". The little girl nodded heavily, perhaps in her immature heart, firmly believing that her grandmother's illness would get better.

"The traffickers in the west of the village have just been released, don't go there to play if you have nothing to do. The aunt kindly reminded the little girl.

The little girl nodded yes, then jumped and ran home, and when she got home, she sat on the threshold, counted the money with her fingers, and then wrote down the account in her notebook: "2000-5=1995".

Seeing this scene, Tian Tian was inexplicably a little sad, living in a wealthy family, she never thought that there was such a poor little girl in the world, but the little girl's obedience and sensibility, as well as the strength on her body, were moving.

As soon as the picture turned, the old man appeared again, lying weakly on the bed, coughing twice in pain from time to time.

In the sound of coughing, in the bright sunshine, in every garbage heap and every small ditch, a little girl pulls the garbage heap with a branch, looking for mineral water bottles, tirelessly, every time she picks one, she smiles, she is picking up bottles, obviously picking up one hope after another, one happiness after another.

In this way, time passed day by day, and the little girl kept more and more numbers in her ledger.

1995-3=1992

1992-8=1984

1984-13=1971

1971-15=?1956

There was a time when she made a mistake on it, crossed it out, and wrote it again.

The little girl earns more and more money every day, and the number on the ledger decreases little by little, but there is still a difference of 1800, which is like a happiness that can never be reached.

The little girl suddenly broke down.

One sunset evening, the little girl stood in the middle of the field, crying helplessly, "......Grandma!

After crying, the little girl desperately washed her red and swollen eyes by the river and pretended to be happy to go home.

When she went to bed at night, the grandmother on the other end of the bed was coughing, the little girl saw that there was blood on the tissue in her grandmother's hand, she turned her head silently, her thin body shrunk into a ball on the narrow bed, her little hands clutched the ledger, and there was broken light outside the window, sprinkled on the little girl's shriveled face, the little girl stared at the number 1800 on the ledger, this number was not big, but the little girl's eyes were full of panic and despair, like a bird that could not find its direction in the rainy night.

Seeing this, Tian Tian's heart was stabbed.

She found that the eyes of many girls around her were red, 1800, maybe for the white-collar workers in this high-end office building, it was just half a month's salary, the money for a beautiful dress, and the consumption of a French meal, but for this little girl, it was an unattainable dream to treat her grandmother.

In the early morning of the next day, the little girl stood in front of the faucet and set up a dusty mirror, washed her face carefully, dressed herself, smoothed the messy bangs in front of her forehead with her little hands, dressed herself up beautifully, and wiped the face of the old man who was resting on the hospital bed, and straightened out her bangs.

The old man did not open her eyes, she was exhausted by the pain, she was too tired to open her eyes. The little girl sat at the head of the bed, looking at her grandmother's wrinkled birch bark face, and looked carefully, looking, staring, as if she was afraid that she would never have the chance to see this old man, this sick old man, this scavenger who had picked her up from the garbage heap.

After a long time, the little girl pursed her bloodless lips, got up and stopped, looked at the old man for the last time, and gently pushed the door away......

"Where is she going?"

Such a thought flashed through Tian Tian's mind.

This is someone who shouted in surprise: "The aunt said before that the traffickers in the west of the village have just been released, don't go there to play if you have nothing to do!"

Tian Tian's sudden pull, should she be going......

The screen suddenly went black, and when the screen lit up again, the little girl appeared in the west of the village.

At that time, the sun was blazing, and in the field at the west end of the village, there was a burly man wielding a hoe to plough the field, and the little girl stirred her hands together and shouted timidly, "Uncle."

The man stopped what he was doing, twisted his face, stared at the little girl expressionlessly, and asked who are you?

The little girl clasped her hands together and picked her palms uneasily: "I, I am an orphan in the village orphanage. ”

The man said, "What are you looking for me?"

The little girl raised her little face, with tears in her eyes, which did not fall, and she said in a childish but firm tone: "Uncle, you sell me, I am still short of one thousand eighteen, and my grandmother will be treated." ”

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PS:

This is a CCTV public service advertisement "Transaction", I was very moved when I saw it, it was like writing it down, in fact, there is also a book written about this story at the starting point, and the writing is not bad.

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