The next day, after Wei Guo went to work, Dongmei began to rummage through boxes and cabinets at home.

Nana, who was sleeping in her bedroom, heard a knock in the living room, and she thought that there was a burglar in the house.

She hurriedly walked out of her bedroom, holding her waist.

Nana squirmed to the living room, and she looked at the protective gloves all over the floor.

She asked curiously, "Mom, where did you get so many labor protection gloves?"

Dongmei was standing on the balcony with a stool.

As she opened the cabinet on the top of the balcony, she said, "When your father was working in the mountains, all the gloves that were not used up were brought back, and I found them all." ”

Nana looked at the gloves scattered on the living room floor.

She didn't understand and said, "What are you looking for so many gloves for?"

Dongmei took out the gloves on the balcony ceiling and kept taking them out.

She threw down her gloves and said, "What else can I do, of course I have to take them out and sell them." ”

Hearing that her mother was going out to sell gloves, Nana said incomprehensibly, "Selling gloves?

What do you mean?"

In the past, whenever Wei Guo took down the labor protection gloves from the mountain, Dongmei would always take them back to her hometown and give them to her relatives.

In the old era when there was material scarcity and everyone was not wealthy, relatives liked the gloves given to them by Dongmei, after all, they could carry them when they worked.

However, with the development of the times, as well as the development of the country's economy and the improvement of people's living standards, the relatives in their hometown are no longer rare, and Dongmei has taken back the gloves of her hometown.

Even, some relatives directly refused Dongmei's kindness, and even refused to accept Dongmei back and give them labor protection gloves.

Dongmei turned out the gloves in the balcony cabinet, and threw them on the floor of the living room with a large pile of gloves.

She wiped the sweat from her forehead and said, "There are so many gloves, at least there are five or six hundred pairs."

Such a good glove, let's not count much, a pair can be sold for 1,500 yuan for three yuan. ”

I heard that my mother collected these labor protection gloves and wanted to take them out and sell them?

Nana was surprised and said, "Mom, what kind of gloves do you sell?"

Dongmei said bluntly: "Your brother is about to get divorced, I will sell some gloves and save money for your brother to marry his daughter-in-law." ”

Hearing this, Nana finally understood her mother's good intentions.

It turned out that the reason why my mother collected all the extra gloves at home was to take them out and sell them, just to save money for my brother to marry his daughter-in-law.

Nana looked at her mother distressedly and said, "Mom, your health itself is not good, so don't go out to work."

It's not that I don't have a job, and when I have a baby, I go to work, and I save money for my brother and a daughter-in-law. ”

Dongmei found hemp rope from the tool cabinet and wrapped these gloves around ten pairs, and single, double, cotton, thin, and neatly classified.

She said: "Your brother, you are going to get divorced in a month, and when you finish giving birth and go to work, it will be a few years later."

If it's too late, you don't care.

I can give your brother some benefits, just create some benefits,

Can't let your brother be a bachelor for the rest of your life, right?"

As she spoke, Dongmei found a large cardboard box, and then stuffed this large pile of gloves into the box.

Nana couldn't bear it, and her mother, a patient in her fifties, went out to stand on the street selling gloves.

She said, "Mom, don't go, give me the box, and I'll go out and sell these gloves for you." ”

After speaking, Nana thought to herself, after taking out these gloves, she threw them away on the spot, and then took out 1,500 yuan from the bank and returned them to her mother, so that her mother would not be tired.

Besides, in this part of the provincial capital, especially the area of Fengcheng Fourth Road, there are high-rise buildings everywhere, and the streets are full of white-collar workers, who would want these, there are a certain age, oil workers wear, rough and bulky gloves?

Hearing that Nana was going out to help sell gloves for herself, Dongmei shook her head and said, "You hurry up and lie down on the bed for me, don't stand for too long, don't you know, you almost had a miscarriage." ”

With that, Dongmei helped Nana and walked to her bedroom.

Nana reluctantly said: "Mom, the child in my belly has already passed the three-month danger period, and now it is very stable, you can let me go out and sell gloves for you." ”

Dongmei helped Nana to lie down on the bed, and then pulled the quilt to cover him.

Dongmei told her, "The child in your belly is important, what gloves do you sell?"

Besides, you're such a short person, and you have a big belly, you can't move, that big cardboard box?"

With that, Dongmei went out with the box.

After Dongmei went out with the box, she walked forward along the fourth road of Windy City.

She remembers that near the intersection of Windy City 4th Road and Weiyang Road, there was a particularly large China Mobile.

And at the entrance of China Mobile, there are many vendors who set up stalls.

Selling children's toys, selling pirated books, selling hats and scarves, applying film to mobile phones, etc.

So, Dongmei was going to hold her big box of gloves and go there to set up a stall to sell these gloves.

From the south gate of Bright Garden to the gate of China Mobile, it is only a short distance of one kilometer.

However, Dongmei hugged the box and walked for half an hour.

In between, she took at least three breaks.

When Dongmei came to the destination with the box, she was so tired that she wanted to sit on the ground.

After she put the box on the ground, she stood next to it and unbuttoned her coat hotly.

She sighed, age is not forgiving.

I think back then, when I was young, when I was selling steamed buns at the Ganquan base in northern Shaanxi, I rode a bicycle by myself, carrying more than 200 pounds of things, and I could ride it directly from the big slope in the yard of the base.

The slope was very steep, and even a man had to slow down in the middle.

However, Dongmei was able to ride it directly.

Moreover, when she was young, Dongmei felt tired.

Wei Guo works in the mountains, and Dongmei is alone, not only selling steamed buns in the vegetable market, but also taking care of two children.

She really gets up early and is greedy for darkness, and she is busy day and night.

Even so, she never felt that her body couldn't stand it.

But now, when I walked a distance of a thousand meters with a large cardboard box in my arms, I was tired and out of breath.

Moreover, she felt her heart beating hard.

Dongmei squatted next to the cardboard box and rested for a while.

After feeling her body slowly recover, she opened the box and began to sell gloves.

Because Dongmei sold popsicles, medicines, dumplings, buns and other things when she was young, Dongmei was not stage frightened at all in terms of selling things.

She shouted as she looked at the pedestrians around her.

She said: "Gloves, gloves, three dollars a pair, walk by, don't miss it." ”

Compared to those who sell toys around, hats, scarves, masks, and pirated books......

...... for applying film to mobile phones

Winter plums are much more conspicuous.

Not only because Dongmei's shouting voice is very loud, but also because Dongmei is very old.

Compared with the young people in their twenties around her, Dongmei is already at the level of an aunt, or even a grandmother.

Hearing that a pair of gloves cost only three dollars, a group of girls soon surrounded him.

The girls were talking about it: "What kind of gloves, it's so cheap?"

"It's winter soon, let's buy a pair of gloves and wear them just in winter. ”

"There are no pink gloves, I like pink. ”

As she spoke, the girls took out their gloves from the cardboard box.

However, when the young girls saw Dongmei's gloves, their eyes widened in surprise.

"Isn't this the glove that migrant workers wear, how can we wear them?"

"These gloves, how big, ugly, and rough. ”

With that, the girls turned and left.

When Dongmei saw the girls leaving, she explained later, saying, "Children, these gloves are not usually worn to keep warm, but are worn when working. ”

After the girls left, a few more young people came over.

However, when everyone saw that Dongmei's gloves were very unusual, no one bought her gloves.

Dongmei stood at the door of China Mobile for more than an hour, and did not even sell a pair of gloves.

Although she was a little discouraged, when she remembered that after her son divorced, he had no money to marry a daughter-in-law, and he might have to be a bachelor for the rest of his life, Dongmei regained her confidence.

She thought to herself, the person who came to see the gloves just now was either a female student or a young male white-collar worker, as if she hadn't met a person who was working. 、

If someone who works passes by and sees such a good glove that sells for only three dollars, he will definitely buy it.

So, Dongmei stood for more than half an hour.

At this time, Dongmei, she already felt that she couldn't stand up.

Dongmei really regretted that when she came out, she didn't take a small stool.

That way, at least I can sit on a stool and sell gloves.

It's not like now, it can't even stand.

Just when Dongmei felt that she couldn't stand still, suddenly, the surrounding vendors began to pack up their things, and then ran wildly into the distance.

Dongmei looked around, and she didn't notice anything unusual.

Since she has been suffering from diabetes for 13 years, her eyes have been severely damaged by diabetes.

Her eyesight has deteriorated very badly, and it is not as good as it is year by year.

Suddenly, the young man next to Dongmei who was applying film to his mobile phone shouted at Dongmei: "Auntie, the chengguan is here, why don't you run quickly." ”

Hearing that the chengguan was coming, Dongmei reacted.

At this time, Dongmei saw that a Wuling Hongguang van drove not far away.

There were a few big red letters written on the van: Chengguan Law Enforcement.

It was too late, it was too fast, Dongmei picked up the box as fast as she could, and ran in the direction of the bright garden to the west.

However, Dongmei had just run two steps, and the young boy who was running ahead of her and applying film to her mobile phone turned back again.

I saw that the boy shouted while running: "The chengguan is in front, and another car has been parked, the west side has been blocked, everyone runs along Weiyang Road to the north." ”

Hearing this, Dongmei was stupid.

She said in her heart, young people can run, she is an old woman, and she has to hold a big box, how can she run?

Just when Dongmei was hesitating, the vendor who sold toys just now had been stopped by the chengguan.

Dongmei saw that the chengguan was confiscating the vendors' toys.

She suddenly became anxious.

She said in her heart that she spent a morning and finally sorted out all the labor protection gloves at home.

I haven't sold a pair yet, if it is confiscated by the city management, won't I lose a lot?

As a result, Dongmei doesn't care that she is a 53-year-old patient with diabetes and coronary heart disease.

She followed straight ahead, the young man who was wearing the film, and ran towards Weiyang Road.