Chapter 35: A Child Without Shoes
The eighth team is a remote area for the families of workers, the purpose is to settle the workers who do not have a house, but are in urgent need of a house, because it is too remote, and far away from the base, so there is no property here, and there is no special management of people, the house is relatively chaotic, as long as no one lives in the house, who lives in, it is who's. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In this way, Dongmei's family finally had their own house and a bathhouse.
Every morning, when they wake up, when they open their eyes, the first thing they see is a shower head facing them, and even so, they already feel very happy.
There was no bed in the room, so Wei Guo ran to ask Wan Qing to borrow a wire bed.
The wire bed was too narrow, and it was too crowded to sleep in a family of four, so Wei Guo went to a colleague and friend to borrow two long Mazha stools, supported them by the wire bed, and then moved the mattress and sheet cover outward, and a single wire bed instantly became a double bed.
There is no cooking and cutting board at home, so Wei Guo ran to move an abandoned desk, then cut the fast iron sheet, beat it bright with sandpaper, and nailed it to the desk, which is the cooking board.
As for the flour and oil, Dongmei went to Wanqing's daughter-in-law to borrow it.
Without a rolling pin, Dongmei cut a small tree with a kitchen knife, cut the head and tail, and peeled the skin, which is a natural rolling pin.
However, for this rolling pin, Wei Guo was almost caught and beaten by his fellow countrymen.
Because he had no money, Wei Guo ventured to the small poplar garden planted in the villager's field on the other side of the river, found a small straight aspen, cut it from the middle, and carried it in his hand.
Just as he was about to leave, he heard a fellow rushing out from behind, holding a sickle in his hand, roaring and rushing towards Wei Guo.
Wei Guo originally planned to come over to make up for the villager after cutting down the small tree and paying his salary next month, but in the face of the countryman's fierce sickle, Wei Guo panicked, threw down the "rolling pin" in his hand, and ran away, and the villager chased after him.
The two ran all the way from the garden to the dirt road by the river, and Wei Guo was exhausted from running, but the fellow still chased after him with a sharp sickle.
At this time, Dongmei was waiting for the defense of the country on the other side of the river with her two children.
At this time, she heard Taotao next to her holding her hand and saying, "Mom, look, Dad on the other side is chasing someone with a sickle." ”
Dongmei followed the direction of Taotao's finger and saw Wei Guo in a white shirt, being chased by a fellow in a blue tunic and holding a sharp sickle in his hand, Dongmei's face turned white in an instant.
Her heart suddenly clenched together, holding the children's hands, pulling the two children, running in the direction of Weiguo, shouting.
But Wei Guo is separated from her by a river, and the distance is far away, so she can't catch up at all.
After running for a while, the two children were too tired to run, and Dongmei could only stop in place and look at Wei Guo running in the distance.
At this time, Dongmei was very helpless, how she hoped that the person who was hunted down and killed was herself, not the father of the child, she would rather be killed herself than have any mistakes in Weiguo, because she would not make money, and Weiguo is the pillar of the family.
Taotao, who was tired of running with his mother, sat on the ground, picking the grass on the ground, and said to his mother, "Why hasn't Dad caught up with the person in front of him again." ”
Three-year-old Nana grabbed the corner of her mother's clothes and said to her brother, "The one in the back is not Dad, the one in front is Dad." ”
Dongmei was about to cry out in a hurry, she looked at Wei Guo, who was farther away from her originally, but was about to be caught up, and her whole heart was about to jump out.
If Wei Guo is caught up and slashed a few times, what will happen to the children, as a family member with no job and no income, who will earn money to support the children.
The distance between Wei Guo and the fellow with the sickle is getting closer and closer, from ten meters to five meters, to three meters, and then to one meter, seeing that the fellow is about to slash at Wei Guo's body with the sickle.
Dongmei cried instantly, she held the two children in her hands, and tears flowed out like a sea that had broken the embankment.
Just when the fellow caught up with Wei Guo and reached out to grab Wei Guo, suddenly a tractor drove from behind the two.
Wei Guo's eyes were quick, he grabbed the manger behind the tractor, jumped over, and got into his pocket.
The speed of the walk-behind tractor was not fast, but when the fellow saw that Wei Guo got on the tractor, he also gave up the chase and stopped, maybe the fellow chased all the way, and at the last moment, he was also exhausted.
Wei Guo, who had saved the day, came to his senses, only to find that in the pocket of the manger he jumped into, in addition to himself, he was also pulling seven or eight local fellows.
It turned out that in this remote place, the only means of transportation was a tractor with a manger pocket attached.
Dongmei, who was in the distance, stopped crying when she saw her husband jump on the tractor and get rid of the scythe of his fellow countryman.
She hugged Nana, pulled Taotao, and sped away in the direction of the tractor like crazy.
When Wei Guo got off the tractor safely, Dong Mei cried and threw herself into Wei Guo's arms like a child, lying on her shoulder and crying.
Wei Guo hugged Dongmei tightly, and he also shed tears.
Dongmei cried while beating Wei Guo and said, "If you don't protect yourself, if you have three long and two short, what will I do with the child?"
Wei Guo hugged the mother and son, and shed tears of guilt.
At night, in order to prevent Wei Guo from going out to find a rolling pin, Dongmei took advantage of the night, carrying a kitchen knife, and cut a branch from a relatively tall branch in the community.
In this way, the whole family has the most basic living facilities.
Dongmei changes her tricks every day, cooking for the children, making noodles today, cutting noodles tomorrow, making dough sheets the day after tomorrow, and making hemp food the day after tomorrow, although they are all a bowl of noodles, without any dishes, but the children eat very happily and very deliciously.
Like all children, Tao Tao and Nana like to go to the sand pile to dig and play in the sand, and they play in the sand pile every day until late before returning.
The sand wore out the soles of the shoes very much, and the children at that time were all wearing cloth shoes, and soon, Taotao's soles were broken with a big hole.
For Dongmei, making cloth shoes by hand is a simple thing, and when she was in the countryside before, the whole family's cloth shoes were basically made by themselves.
When I was in my hometown, there was a surplus of discarded old Brina soles, but here, the remaining cloth was only enough to make shoe arms, but not enough to make shoe soles, and the patriotic unit did not start work, and the remaining money was not enough to eat, let alone buy cloth.
Dongmei looks at her children every day, wearing shoes with broken soles, running around and playing, the psychology is very uncomfortable, as a mother, she has no ability, let her children wear intact cloth shoes, it is really the biggest sadness.
On this day, Tao Tao ran back crying, it turned out that although Tao Tao played with other children in the community every day, but the other children all spoke Mandarin, only Tao Tao and Nana spoke dialects, and the language was different, so they were inevitably not bullied.
Dongmei knew that her children had just come out of the countryside and had not yet learned to speak Mandarin, and they were always bullied by other children, so she asked Taotao with concern: "What are men crying about, is someone bullying you?" ”
Tao Tao said aggrievedly: "I led Nana to play in the sand, and a child ran over and scolded us for being rural babies, and took off my shoes and hid them." ”
Dongmei smiled and said: "Cry for this little thing, you can't draw more, whoever pushes up the three generations is not a rural baby." ”
Tao Tao suddenly took off his shoes and said to the mother, "The sole of my shoe was originally a small hole, but after they hid it, they cut a big hole for me." ”
Dongmei lifted Taotao's shoes, and sure enough, a big hole was cut, it seems that Taotao's shoes can't be worn, but Taotao only has this pair of shoes, these shoes are not worn, what can you wear?
It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and money is a hard head, which stumped Dongmei.
Without shoes, Taotao can only stay at home obediently, unable to go anywhere, running around barefoot all day long.
Dongmei, who was a mother, saw it in her eyes, and the pain was in her heart.
That night, Dongmei lay on the bed and couldn't fall asleep, a six-year-old child, it was the time to be alive, staying at home all day, which was not detrimental to the child's growth, no matter what, she had to find a way to solve the problem of the child wearing shoes.
Dongmei, who hadn't slept all night, finally had an idea in her head.
Early in the morning, breakfast was made for the child, and she hurried out.
The naughty Tao Tao followed his mother and wanted to go out, but he just walked barefoot to the door and retreated, he was afraid that he would have no shoes and would be laughed at by the children when he went out.
Dongmei came to the largest garbage dump nearby, found a tree branch, and stood in the garbage dump rummaging through things, as if looking for something.
At this time, Dongmei, for the sake of her children, was not worried about being seen and ridiculed, she stood on the garbage heap for more than an hour, rummaged through branches for a long time, and finally found a pair of liberation shoes (yellow rubber shoes) that were worn out and thrown away.
The quality of the previous liberation shoes is still very good, even if the upper is worn out, the sole is still very thick.
Dongmei took the broken shoes home, cut off the upper with scissors, cut off the soles, and then cut the soles of the original adults into children's soles according to Taotao's insoles.
With the sole, she is not afraid of no shoes, she took out the upper of the shoe that she had made before, and used needle and thread to connect the cloth shoe uppers and the soles of the liberation shoes seamlessly, and a pair of children's shoes combining soil and foreign was born.
At this time, Taotao was lying next to his mother, staring intently at the shoes in his mother's hand, looking forward to his new shoes with longing eyes.
Dongmei patted Taotao's head and said, "Tao baby, come and try it, see if it's comfortable to wear." ”
Tao Tao jumped up eagerly, happily put on the new shoes, and ran around excitedly.
Before Dongmei could ask him how his new shoes felt, he had already run out of the door like a gust of wind and ran towards the big sand pile where the children were playing.
Since then, Tao Tao has a new task, every once in a while, he will take his sister Nana, to the garbage heap where his mother picked up the liberation shoes to find, luckily, he can also find a pair of worn-out liberation shoes, and then kick them in his arms, take them home, and happily hand them over to his mother.