Teacher Zhang saw that Dongmei was suddenly silent, she patted Dongmei on the shoulder and said, "Cui Tao's mother, Cui Tao's mother ......"

Hearing this, Dongmei eased up from her contemplation, she looked at Teacher Zhang and said, "Teacher Zhang, the measure you said is indeed a solution, but you have to give me some time and let me go home and think about it." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Teacher Zhang saw that Dongmei was a reasonable parent, so she encouraged her and said: "The child will be prosperous in the future, more important than anything else, as a woman, you must be willing to give up your career for your husband and children, and even give up your happiness." ”

At that time, in a remote corner of the Loess Plateau, the status of women was far less lofty than it is today, and it was far less independent than it is today.

The mainstream culture here still believes that a woman can have no career, no happiness, or even no health, but as long as her husband or children are successful, then the woman is considered successful.

However, Dongmei didn't think so, obviously, her thoughts far exceeded a corner of the Loess Plateau at that time.

Dongmei is a woman who pursues economic independence and has a successful career, and in this small yard of a family, she can provide herself with a career to work hard and struggle, and she can also cook for her two children, that is, to sell food at the farmers' market.

At the same time, it can only be sold at the farmers' market.

Because, apart from here, there are no factories or projects for Dongmei anywhere else.

Teacher Zhang sent the worried Dongmei to the school gate and said: "The purpose of calling parents this time is to make you make sacrifices for your children's education. ”

Dongmei was tired and helpless, she walked out of the school, and asked Teacher Zhang the last question, she said: "Teacher Zhang, I usually call parents, and the children report to their parents, why did the class leader inform me today?"

Teacher Zhang smiled and said: "I told Taotao, let her call you to school, I have something to talk to you, but Taotao told me that you are very busy, and there is no schedule, no way, I can only let other children go to convey the news to you." ”

Hearing this, Dongmei couldn't cry or laugh, looked at Teacher Zhang and said, "I'm a housewife who sells food, where is there anything that is not scheduled, this child, there is really nothing to do with him." ”

After Dongmei returned home, she habitually tied her apron and walked into the kitchen.

However, as soon as she took out the ingredients from the plastic bag, Mr. Zhang's words appeared in her mind.

Dongmei stood in the kitchen for three minutes, not doing the same work.

She stayed in the kitchen, neither sitting nor standing, and she had no intention of preparing for the next day's sale.

In the middle of the night, Dongmei put all the ingredients she had just bought into the refrigerator, and then walked out of the kitchen herself, sat on the sofa, and waited for Taotao's school.

Dongmei, who was sitting on the sofa, soon fell asleep, and she had a familiar dream.

This dream has always haunted Dongmei, she doesn't know how many times she has done it, but now, she is still having this dream that she can't escape.

She dreamed that she was sitting in the college entrance examination room, with a pen in her hand, meditating on a math problem that she couldn't sit on.

Seeing that the time for the exam is approaching, and the college entrance examination is about to end, I still haven't answered this question.

Dongmei was very anxious, she was so anxious that she was about to cry, because the failure of this question may mean that she failed the college entrance examination, and the university she dreamed of, would she miss it like this?

Seeing that the examiner who had collected the paper had already walked to her, but she hadn't answered the question yet, Dongmei cried anxiously.

However, at the moment when she cried, she suddenly heard a familiar voice shouting to herself: "Mom, why are you asleep here?"

"Mom, we're out of school, it's time to eat. ”

Dongmei woke up from her sleep, and at the same time thought chaotically in her heart, why are people calling me mother, why are people calling me to cook, is it that I am already married and have children, but my college entrance examination is not over yet?

Suddenly, Dongmei opened her eyes, she looked at her son Taotao and daughter Nana standing in front of her, and slowly woke up from her dream.

It turned out that everything just now was a dream, and I finally failed the college entrance examination, and I missed the university after all.

Maybe you can make up for a year or two by yourself, and you can get into college, enter the ivory tower, and become a college student.

In the future, after graduation, he will be assigned to work and become a working class.

At that time, I could proudly announce to others that I Dongmei also had a job, and it was a formal job......

"Mom, why are you crying? ”

"Mom, why are there tears in the corners of your eyes?"

After a while, Dongmei finally returned to reality from the dream.

While wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes, she stood up, looked at the child and said, "It's okay, mom just had a dream, I dreamed that mom was taking the college entrance examination." ”

Hearing this, Taotao counted his fingers and said, "Mom, you have completed the college entrance examination for seventeen years, why do you still dream of the college entrance examination?"

Dongmei walked into the kitchen and cooked for the two children, and replied to Taotao: "Mom has been dreaming of the college entrance examination since she failed the college entrance examination, and although she is now thirty-seven years old, she is still dreaming of it. ”

After speaking, Dongmei shook her head, sighed and said, "Although my mother failed the college entrance examination, my mother hopes that both of you can succeed in the college entrance examination and become a college student." ”

Hearing this, Tao Tao immediately assured Dongmei: "Mom, don't worry, I will definitely be admitted to university in the future to win glory for my mother." ”

Since Taotao's academic performance has always been very good, he has the confidence to say such things.

Nana's academic performance is always in the middle of the class, and sometimes even downstream, all of which she doesn't have the confidence that Tao Tao has.

She said: "Mom, I must work hard, and like my brother, become a college student." ”

Although now, compared with the brother and sister, Taotao is much better, but when the college entrance examination is over, Nana was admitted to a science university, while Taotao was only admitted to an ordinary second-class university.

Dongmei walked into the kitchen, took out the leftover buns from yesterday from the refrigerator, put them in the steamer and steamed them.

Then, she scooped the leftover porridge from yesterday's rice sale into the pot, turned on the liquefied gas and boiled it.

This kind of daily leftover food has started since Dongmei started selling rice at the farmers' market.

The daily food is basically the same, that is, what is left, what the whole family eats.

Tao Tao and Nana have become extremely disgusted with eating steamed buns, just like eating dumplings before, to the point of deep hatred.

When Dongmei walked to the table with porridge and buns, Taotao and Nana pinched their noses, because the two children had already arrived, and they couldn't stand the smell of buns.

Tao Tao pinched his nose, looked at the xiaolongbao and porridge that Dongmei put on the table, and said unhappily: "Mom, are you eating steamed buns and porridge again today?"

Nana also said, "Mom, can't you eat something else?"

Dongmei shrugged her shoulders and said helplessly: "There were so many buns left yesterday, let's not eat them, should we throw them away?"

Although Tao Tao was already very hungry, he only drank porridge and did not eat steamed buns.

He frowned and said, "Since there are so many buns, why don't we throw away the extra buns." ”

Nana also said: "Throwing away the buns, we eat rice, churn dough, and hemp food......

Dongmei picked up a small steamed bun, ate it and said: "Such a good steamed bun, but it is made of fine white noodles and big meat, if you just throw it away, what a waste of food, what a pity, it is simply a crime." ”

After speaking, Dongmei took the lead in eating a bun.

Although Dongmei was tired of eating the buns, she knew that if she didn't take the lead in eating the leftover buns, the two children who were hungry wouldn't eat them.

Tao Tao had no choice, so he picked up a bun with difficulty, put it to his mouth, and said, "Oh, when will I end this day of eating steamed buns every day?"

Nana also learned from Taotao's appearance, picked up a handful of steamed buns in embarrassment, put them to her mouth and said, "I don't like to eat steamed buns the most." ”

After speaking, the two children began to eat steamed buns.

While eating steamed buns, Dongmei said to the two children: "When my mother was a child, where were you so happy, not to mention eating meat buns, but sometimes I didn't even have to eat Wowotou." ”

Tao Tao finished eating a bun, picked up another bun and said: "How delicious Wowotou is, I would rather eat Wowotou every day than eat meat buns." ”

Nana looked at Dongmei and said, "Mom was so happy when she was a child, how delicious it is and how sweet it is." ”

Dongmei ate the leftover xiaolongbao hard, even though she was full, she still ate the steamed buns, because she didn't want to waste food, so it was a little bit of food.

Dongmei chewed the bun vigorously, and then swallowed hard into her stomach and said: "When my mother was a child, there was a period of time when there was no food at home, and she lived by eating pumpkin every day. ”

Hearing the pumpkin, Tao Tao and Nana said in unison: "The pumpkin is so delicious, sweet and soft, we would rather eat Nanguan every day, than eat steamed buns." ”

Dongmei saw Taotao eat four xiaolongbaozi, Nana ate three xiaolongbaozi, and there were four xiaolongbaozi left.

Dongmei took the water cup, looked at the four xiaolongbao and said, "The last four buns are choking on the water." ”

As she spoke, Dongmei picked up the water cup, took a sip of buns, took a sip of water, and ate the last four buns.

Seeing that all the buns were solved, Dongmei was finally relieved, she smiled and said: "I finally finished eating the rest of the buns, we didn't waste a grain of food, we are really happy." ”

Tao Tao and Nana didn't understand what their mother was doing, they thought, if the buns are thrown away, they will throw them away, and it will be good to continue to wrap them tomorrow, flour can be bought in the grain store, big meat can be bought in the slaughterhouse, and the vegetables in the meat filling can be bought in the farmers' market, why not throw away those buns that can't be sold?

And for Dongmei, the two children who have never been hungry will never understand the pain of starvation and the preciousness of food.