Chapter 11 Handing Out Leaflets
When my mother finished speaking, she forcibly pulled my brother into the house.
I sighed, turned around to brush the dishes, I suddenly felt very aggrieved, I was really tired of living!
My tears fell into the basin one by one. But I quickly raised my hand to wipe away my tears, it was nothing, at least I had learned to resist now. I can't just listen to my mom all the time, that will only make me completely rotten for the rest of my life, the same rotten as in my previous life.
Even if the future is full of mud, I will definitely persevere to the end! I still have 10 yuan kicked by my father in my pocket, and I must save 20 yuan in two days tomorrow and the day after tomorrow! If the person who distributes the leaflets doesn't want me, I'll try to see if there is a place where I can work for a day's money? Otherwise, I will go to the vegetable market and have a look?
After cleaning up, I washed up and prepared for bed, I took off my cotton pants, and the money in them fell, I quickly reached out to pick it up, who knew that my mother came to the hut to find me at this time, I was startled, and quickly grabbed it and stuffed it into my quilt.
My mother frowned, "What are you doing, what are you hiding?" she said and was about to lift my quilt, but I quickly held it down.
"What can I have? Isn't it just a button on a cotton trouser? You don't make it for me, it's been years, the buttons are loose, the cotton pants are not warm anymore, are you a mother like this? Just take care of my brother, and let me live like a beggar?" I muttered.
My mom got angry and poked my forehead with her finger. began to mumble: "It's just your business! You're so old, and you still use me to make clothes for you, I used to make my own cotton pants when I was seven or eight years old, and my hands are lazy, I see what you can do in the future!"
"What the hell are you going to say, just say it's okay, why are you scolding me every day?" I hid the money, and finally got rid of the stubble.
My mom snorted, "I almost forgot." What did your dad do here, what did he tell you?"
I said: "He said that my uncle is going to come here to work and rent a house nearby, and he doesn't know that the two of you don't live together. Maybe I'm afraid that my grandmother and grandfather will be worried in their hometown. ”
"Hmph! He still has such a heart, when he was like that to me, did he think about asking me?" my mother snorted coldly; "I married the Song family, I was a good daughter-in-law from the beginning, lived a good life, had children, and now it's like this, I still have to help him lie, who knows if I meet a bastard! It's really hard." Men are like this, I accept my fate, children are not sensible, if you don't drag me down, I would have lived like this?" she began to tell her suffering from beginning to end.
I've heard these things 860 times, starting with my brother's illness and ending with my dad moving out and getting involved with someone else, without giving a penny.
I pulled up the quilt and yawned, "I'm going to sleep." Go and stay with my brother. ”
My mom glared at me fiercely, "You're so cold-blooded! I want to see what you can do in the future! I don't have any money, so what kind of payment, if you still want to study, it's a dream, I want to see if I can win, or if you win!" she said and left.
I felt inexplicable, lay down and thought about it, and then understood.
She probably knew about my school's payment, right? I guess she heard someone say it when she was shopping for groceries?
I now feel that my mother doesn't want me to study except for lack of money, and she still has some jealousy of me, because I am relatively free compared to her, at least I have hope for life, but she has a dark future, and seeing that life is eternal despair, she hopes to pull me down and squat in the dark with her. Just like in the previous life.
She doesn't want me to go out, she doesn't want me to wear good clothes, she wants me to be as miserable as her.
That's why in my previous life, I knew what kind of person my ex-husband was, and he could force me to marry him.
I closed my eyes and sighed deeply, let's make money first.
The next morning, I got up to light the stove to cook as usual, and I mixed last night's dishes for my mother, added a little sauce, mixed half a piece of frozen tofu, and made tofu soup, which tasted good.
My mother was eating, and she looked at me with a very strange look in her eyes, and I didn't squeak and get the soot out.
My mom went to the door, and suddenly she turned back, and she put a laundry tub aside, and went into the back room, and threw a lot of clothes into it, and there was also my brother and her covers, and I looked at her with a frown.
My mom didn't say anything, poured a large basin of cold water into it, and then shoved the washboard into my hand.
I looked at her, "What do you want to do?"
She looked at me coldly: "Do you want to go out to play? Do you have to wash your clothes? You're so old, who do you expect to do the work at home?"
I said, "When I'm done, it's noon, and I'm going to go out? I can wash, but you can wait for me to come back and wash." "I think she just had a heart, the quilt covers and sheets were changed not long ago, where is it dirty?
My mother shouted in a high-pitched voice: "No, now you have to wash me! I'm going to sweep the road now, if I come back, if you leave before you wash, I'll..."
"What, you're going to kill me?" I smiled coldly, "Are you so unwilling for me to go out?"
"You don't know what's going on at home? I'm working hard, and you're still going out to play? You remember, if you don't want to live anymore, if you want me to comb your skin, you can go out! Don't look at what kind of virtue you are, go out and be cheap!" she said and took a sip, and strode out.
I didn't look at the clothes at all, I simply ate a little something, and then put on a padded jacket, thinking that it would be in the cold wind for a while, so I added an old padded jacket from before my father, an earthy blue scarf, and set off haphazardly.
My brother sat up at this point and looked at me a little stunned.
I said, "Sister, I'm going out, can I come back and buy you sugar gourds?"
My brother nodded, looked at the soaked clothes, and said, "Sister, don't be afraid, I will protect you, and my mother will not beat you." ”
"Good. I laughed and rubbed his head, and then I went out against the wind, although I was wearing a lot, but the wind outside was really strong, and as soon as I went out, it blew through. Under my feet is my mother threw away the old cotton shoes, too big, one walk and one drop, wearing three pairs of socks inside, but it is still so cold that I can only speed up the pace and walk quickly.
I thought I had gone early, but when I got to the place where the leaflets were being distributed, I found that there were already quite a few people standing there, mostly housewives in their forties and fifties, who were supposed to help earn some extra money.
I was the youngest of them, and standing there, I tried to stand as straight as I could, so that people could look very competent.
The boss who handed out the flyers looked at me and frowned: "You kid, can this work? Aren't you here to make trouble at such an age? Go home quickly!"
I hurriedly said, "Don't drive me away, I really want to make money, I can work and endure hardships, believe me"
"Can you really do it?"
I nodded vigorously, and the boss was suspicious, and still gave me a large stack of flyers, but told me that it was five dollars less a day than the others: "Who knows if you ran away in the middle?"
Although I was unwilling, I could only agree. The area where I was responsible for handing out the leaflets was the crossing of two streets. It happened to be a place facing the wind, and it was estimated that if you stood there for a few minutes, you would freeze to death. But because there were several bus stops over there, the boss needed someone to go there to distribute flyers, and everyone didn't want to go there, so I let me, a newcomer, go. I also worked hard to make money, and I carried the flyer over there to hand it out.
It's really a sin, I stood there trembling and handing out leaflets, but basically two-thirds of the people didn't look at it, they just left, and some people took the leaflets and glanced at them, and threw them on the ground, and I had to pick them up, and I was holding the leaflets, shaking over there, and I was really going to freeze to death. For a moment I really wanted to throw the flyer in the trash and walk away.
But I knew no, I couldn't go back to school without money.