Chapter 37: The Children in the Garbage Heap
On this day, Dongmei suddenly found that it had been several days, Taotao had not spoken Mandarin with herself, but spoke dialects from morning to night, and after thinking about the reason carefully, she blamed herself, since Wei Guo left, she had not spoken a word of Mandarin again, so it was so permissible that her children did not speak Mandarin anymore. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
So, she kept an eye on it. One day, Wan Qing's child Qiang came to go out with Taotao, and she deliberately paid attention to the conversation between the two, and he was relieved all of a sudden.
It turns out that all Taotao speaks to outsiders in standard Mandarin, but at home he uses a standard dialect to talk to himself, Dongmei turned her head and thought, this is okay, since Dongmei forced herself to speak Mandarin with Taotao, she suddenly found that there is no way to express a lot of meaning in Mandarin, and the relationship between mother and son is not as good as before, but after changing to dialect, not only can she speak freely, but it is easier to convey feelings, so she sighed that it is really a party of water and soil, and a person who raises a person.
Since the two parents are good friends, Taotao and Qiangqiang naturally became the best playmates.
The two are the same age, almost a month old, but Qiang Qiang is much stronger than Taotao.
On this day, the two, as usual, each led their respective sisters to the big sand pile to play together.
The sand pile is very large, about the size of a basketball court, the height is almost two meters high, it is a nearby sand quarry, the sand from the river, because the sand suddenly dropped, and was hoarded, the merchants waited for the price to go up, and then sold, but unconsciously, it became the happiest playground for all the workers and children.
The children would build sand figures in the sand, build castles, pinch trains, play with the house, and some children would dig a small sand pit, then cover it with a thin layer of plastic paper, and then cover it with a thin layer of sand, so that a simple trap was made, and if any child accidentally fell into the trap, everyone would be amused and laughed.
But today, Qiang Qiang did not take Tao Tao to dig sand and play, but quietly called Tao Tao to a place where there were no children, and like a spy, he seriously leaned into Tao Tao's ear and said, "I'll tell you something important." ”
Tao Tao hurriedly leaned his ear over and said, "Isn't it that those bad boys have dug a big sand pit somewhere, and they want to trap us in it." ”
Qiang Qiang shook his head and said, "No. ”
Tao Tao asked anxiously, "What is that?"
Qiang Qiang looked left and right, and saw that there were no other children, so he said: "In half a year, I will go to preschool, and I heard my mother say that you will also go to preschool." ”
Tao Tao said, "Of course. We're going to school together. ”
Qiang Qiang stretched out his hand and put his arm around Taotao's shoulders and said: "But you know that when you go to school, you have to accumulate enough for 100 front of the matchbox skin (that is, cut the matchbox and remove the other sides, leaving only one skin on the front), and 100 panda torches, and hand them over to the teacher when you sign up, so that you can go to school." (Asian Games '90 logo)
The panda torch in Qiangqiang's mouth is actually a pattern drawn on a small snack plastic bag.
After speaking, Qiang Qiang took out two panda torches and a pile of match skins from his pocket, and Tao Tao saw that the so-called panda torch was actually a pattern of a panda holding a torch and cutting it out of a plastic bag.
While showing Taotao, he said, "I have only accumulated two, do you know Tang Tang." He's amassed fifty. ”
Tao Tao said with a surprised expression: "Then let's save it quickly, otherwise if I don't hand over a hundred matchskins and panda torches to the teacher, I will have to repeat the grade again." ”
After a pause, Tao Tao asked again: "But how can we accumulate enough matchskins and panda torches?"
Taotao's worries are not unreasonable, Qiangqiang's father smokes, and every time he runs out of matchskins, he can accumulate them for Qiangqiang, but Weiguo doesn't smoke or drink, and there are not many used matchskins at home, let alone panda torches.
Tao Tao often saw other children eating panda torches, but he never ate a bag of panda torches himself.
Qiang Qiang said like a little adult: "I have a way, as long as you follow me." ”
After speaking, Qiang Qiang took Taotao to embark on the process of searching for the treasure, leaving his two younger sisters to dig sand in place.
The so-called search, in fact, is to wander around the garbage heaps and dirt roads, and there are matchboxes and panda torches that I see, so I quickly pick them up. Over the course of a few weeks, the two children had accumulated a lot of matchboxes.
Because Tao Tao is stronger and more meticulous, the two children compare the accumulated matchboxes, and Tao Tao is much stronger than Qiang.
However, when comparing the panda torch, there are very few of the two people, and in that era of material scarcity, there are very few children who can eat small snacks, so it is naturally much more difficult to pick up the panda torch.
After the two of them finished comparing, they quickly put things into their pockets, for fear that a gust of wind would blow away the things in their hands, in their eyes, this matchskin was simply more precious than flipping tickets.
The two children were struggling to pick up the panda torch, so Tao Tao saw Tang Tang's house not far away, he patted Qiang Qiang's shoulder and said: "Let's go to Tang Tang, I heard that he picked up a lot of panda torches, let's go to him to borrow some, as long as he goes to school, let's return it to him." After speaking, the two went to Tang Tang's house to find Tang Tang.
When Tang Tang took out the accumulated panda torches, Taotao and Qiang Qiang were stunned, he had seventy or eighty panda torches.
Tao Tao looked at Tang Tang with envious eyes and asked him, "Where did you pick up so many panda torches?"
Qiang Qiang, who was standing behind Tao Tao, stared at Tang Tang with big eyes and asked, "Did you pick it up from the big garbage heap in the east, or from the small garbage heap in the west?" ”
Tang Tang shook his head mysteriously and said, "Neither." ”
The two children asked Tang Tang in unison, "Where did you pick it up?" ”
Tang Tang didn't speak, just a strong mysterious smile.
Tao Tao looked at the pile of panda torches in Tang Tang's hand, blinked his eyes, and said in a pleading voice: "Tang Tang, you have so many panda torches, can you give me a few? ”
Qiang Qiang in the back also learned Taotao's tone and said: "Give me a few too, not much, just give me a few." ”
Tang Tang counted the panda torches in his hand, and then generously gave Tao Tao ten, Tao Tao jumped up happily, but he didn't give any to Qiangqiang.
It is also interesting to say, Tao Tao, Tang Tang, Qiang Qiang, the relationship between the three little boys is very delicate.
Children often fight between them for a little thing, fight in the morning, just in the afternoon, fight more, naturally you can distinguish the winner and loser, between them, Tang Tang is the strongest and strongest, followed by the strong, and finally Tao Tao, but the result of the fight is that Tao Tao can't beat the strong, the strong can't beat Tang Tang, Tang Tang can't beat Tao Tao.
Therefore, Tang Tang was still more afraid of Taotao, so he only gave Taotao a panda torch.
At noon that day, when cooking some liquefied gas, Dongmei couldn't find a match, and with great effort, she finally found a scattered match in a small drawer, but the matchbox was missing.
She couldn't figure it out, she usually used matches, and put them on the windowsill next to her with the box, where did the matchbox run today, and suddenly a terrible thought arose in her heart, she felt that Taotao was stealing matches and going out to play with fire, otherwise why were the matches scattered all over the place?
Inadvertently, she untied the bedding on the bed, and what shocked her was that she found a stack of flattened matchboxes under the futon, Dongmei was shocked, and she was even more sure of the fact that Taotao stole matches and went out to play with fire, and he didn't play once, but every day, and played N times a day, otherwise how could there be so many matchsticks at home.
She rushed out of the door, looking for Taotao in the house, but there was no trace of Taotao, and shouted a few times, but still no one was seen, so she went back to hurry up and cook, thinking, as soon as the meal is ready, she will go out and catch Taotao back, and teach a good lesson, otherwise he will give someone an order and make a mess, which is terrible.
At this time, Tao Tao was with Qiangqiang, following behind Tang Tang's buttocks, looking for a panda torch in a garbage heap, but he didn't find a panda torch after looking for a morning.
Under the repeated questioning of Tao Tao and Qiang Qiang, Tang Tang finally told the truth.
It turned out that Tang Tang took advantage of his parents' inattention every day to take out five cents from his parents' pockets to buy a bag of panda torches to eat, and then cut the pattern of the panda torch from the plastic bag.
Hearing this, the two children suddenly realized that Tang Tang had been stealing the family's money to buy the panda torch instead of picking it up.
After speaking, Tang Tang took out five cents from his pocket, went to the only commissary in the community, bought a bag of panda torches, and invited the two children to eat together.
Panda Torch is a very small, very cottage puffed food.
Tao Tao is the first time to eat the panda torch, he thinks it is too delicious, he has never eaten such a delicious thing, in his young heart, this is the most delicious thing in the world, if one day he can eat the panda torch every day, that is his greatest wish.
After eating the panda torch, when Tang Tang threw the bag, he accidentally found a matchbox not far away, and was just about to pick it up, but Tao Tao rushed in front of Tang Tang and walked over, Tang Tang saw that Tao Tao wanted to pick it up, so he took the initiative to give up picking up the match skin.
But when Tao Tao was just about to put the match skin he picked up into his pocket, he was stopped by Qiang Qiang, who took a step forward and said, "That's mine." ”
Tao Tao said unrelentingly: "I picked it up first, how can it be yours, it's mine." ”
Qiang Qiang stepped forward, grabbed Taotao's hand, and grabbed the matchskin as he snatched it over, and said, "Although you picked it up first, I saw it first, so it's mine." ”
Tao Tao didn't let Qiang Qiang at all, the two children fought together in an instant for a matchbox, as Qiang Qiang threw Tao Tao to the ground, followed by Tao Tao's cry, the trembling was over, Qiang Qiang proudly put the matchskin in his pocket and walked away, but Tang Tang helped Tao Tao up and sent Tao Tao home.
Tao Tao walked all the way, cried all the way, his heart was too aggrieved, obviously it was his own things, but he was snatched away by Qiangqiang, when he was about to get home, Tao Tao was tired of crying, and the crying was reduced, but at the moment he entered the door, he saw his mother, and Tao Tao's grievances came up again.
So he burst into tears, and he felt that the louder he cried, the more he would be loved and comforted by his mother.
But Taotao never thought that Dongmei, who was cooking, was annoyed that she couldn't find Taotao and played matches with Taotao, and the moment she saw Taotao, she was furious, and she went up to catch the crying Taotao is a violent beating, and Tang Tang, who was standing at the door to send Taotao home, was even more dumbfounded, thinking that Taotao was really pitiful, and he was beaten twice in a row in a while.
I only listened to Taotao's cry from high to low, to no, and then to high, and slowly, Taotao's corporal punishment ended.