Chapter 89: Chunmei's Letter
The next day, Dongmei pulled Nana with her left hand and Taotao with her right hand, and the three of them sent Weiguo to the road below the base, waiting for the car to go up the mountain. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Wei Guo reluctantly looked at the two children and said, "You go to school hard, listen to your mother, and your father will come back in winter." ā
Hearing this, Tao Tao reluctantly said: "It's summer, why do you want to come back in winter?"
Nana's favorite words to follow her brother said, "That's it, why doesn't Dad come back in the fall, winter is so far away." ā
Listening to the words of the two children, Wei Guo said helplessly: "This is Dad's job, if Dad doesn't work in the mountains for a few days and comes back, then who will earn money to support you?"
Tao Tao pointed at Dongmei and said, "Mom, Mom can feed us by going out to sell popsicles every day." ā
Hearing that Dongmei was selling popsicles, Wei Guo repeatedly told Dongmei: "It is important to take care of children, care about children's health, and pay attention to children's learning, which is far more important than selling popsicles." ā
Although Wei Guo did not agree with Dongmei going out to sell popsicles, Dongmei did not think so.
After careful research, she found that although she spent more time selling popsicles and less time disciplining her children, the children's academic performance not only did not decline, but increased.
The most important thing is that in his absence, the two children slowly learned to be independent, which is the key.
Before getting into the car, Wei Guo smiled at Dongmei and said: "After waiting for me for a few months, when we come back next time, we will be able to add a color TV from Eighteen Villages just like Lao Du's family." ā
Hearing this, Dongmei said happily: "Okay, husband and wife are birds in the same forest, you make money in the mountains, I make money at the base, and when I come back next time, I must buy a TV for the children." ā
Hearing that the next time Dad came back, he would buy them a TV, the two children happily hugged each other, and said to Wei Guo, who had not yet gotten in the car: "Dad, go to work, don't come back in the autumn, and come back in the winter." ā
Listening to the childish words, Dongmei and Weiguo couldn't cry or laugh, but they still promised to buy a TV for the children next time.
After Wei Guo left, the summer vacation ended quickly, and Taotao and Nana also started school.
Dongmei has restarted her career selling popsicles.
Compared with before, she was alone selling popsicles at the school gate, but now she has more Song Nian's daughter-in-law to accompany her, and Dongmei feels much more comfortable.
At the beginning of the fourth grade, Tao Tao noticed a strange phenomenon.
There are a lot of new students in the class, and these new classmates basically don't speak Mandarin, and when the teacher asks them who their parents are, they all say that they are the children of relatives, not the children of workers, and even the older brothers and sisters of these children in the school dare not admit them.
At that time, the unit stipulated that dual workers could only have one child, while single workers could have two children.
However, there are many double workers who secretly give birth to two children.
And there are many single workers, whose wives are in their hometowns, and when they haven't brought them out, they have already given birth to three children.
As a result, with the increase in unit houses, the employees were slowly allocated their own houses.
The conditions permitted, so everyone brought out their wives and children who stayed in the countryside.
However, due to policy reasons, the hidden child has never had an identity and can only pretend to be a relative's child and exist in the unit.
When Tao Tao started school, he quickly met a lot of new friends.
Among them are the old Du family's child Du Juan, the child Nan Wang, who claims to be two years older than Tao Tao, and a few new girls.
What surprised Tao Tao the most was that for the first time in the class, a child from a non-unit came, his name was Luo Haitao, and he was a child of a homeless villager in the nearby mountains.
Because Luo Haitao's parents are not local villagers, their children can't enter the village school, so they come to the children's primary school in the unit base to apply.
Because Luo Haitao went to school several years later than all his classmates, although he was in the fourth grade, he was much older than everyone else, and his natural height was much higher than everyone.
Compared with the three years of the year, the entire fourth-grade students have expanded several times.
There is not enough teachers, but new teachers cannot be recruited.
In the absence of a way, the unit can only find from the front-line workers, who have a little culture, or good handwriting, through a simple assessment, become a teacher in the children's school.
Because the quality of front-line workers is generally low, after they were fortunate enough to be teachers to teach and educate people, they laid the groundwork and planted a shadow on the later student beatings.
The weather on the Loess Plateau changes quickly, and not long after the end of the summer vacation, the temperature has plummeted as soon as September begins.
Everyone lamented that the weather here is not spring and autumn, but summer and winter.
Due to the colder weather, Dongmei's popsicles are obviously not selling.
There was no choice but to rest.
Dongmei, who had rested, calculated the accounts and sold this inconspicuous popsicle by herself, and in more than five months, she made almost 1,500 yuan, not to mention other businesses.
At that time, everyone was proud to have a stable, drought and flood income, state-owned enterprise, but the income was not high.
Dongmei also resolutely thought so.
But by selling popsicles, Dongmei found that this inconspicuous job, which was looked down upon and even ridiculed by everyone, could casually earn more than an ordinary logistics worker in a month.
If it is better, it can even catch up with the wages of workers on the front line.
So, Dongmei couldn't help but think of those who opened shops, restaurants, sold fruits, sold snacks, etc., and the income of those people was definitely higher than that of ordinary workers.
Therefore, Dongmei couldn't help but start a business in her heart.
It was also at this time that a letter from Dongmei's sister Chunmei completely broke Dongmei's peace.
Dongmei, who rested, was bored every day, in addition to picking up and dropping off her children to school and taking care of her children's meals, she just stayed at home and read novels and newspapers.
He originally thought that with the 1,500 yuan he earned and the 3,000 yuan that Wei Guo got back, plus 500 quick money, he would be able to open a clinic for Wei Guo's younger brother Baoguo.
Then, when Wei Guo comes back in winter, he will come back with another two or three thousand yuan, and take out a thousand yuan from it at will, and he can buy a TV at home.
However, Chunmei's letter ruthlessly broke Dongmei's vision.
On this day, Dongmei felt that her palms were itchy for no reason, and she couldn't help but tell herself in her heart, is Weiguo coming back, or which relative is coming to look for her?
Because Dongmei found that every time her palms are itchy, then someone from her hometown must come over.
So, Dongmei didn't go out for a day, preferring to stay at home and wait, afraid that if she accidentally went out, someone from her hometown would not be able to find herself.
However, after waiting for a day, not a single relative waited.
However, in the afternoon, Dongmei saw a spider in the corner again.
Dongmei also made a strange discovery, that is, she found that every time she saw a spider, no matter where she saw it, she would definitely be able to receive letters written to her by others.
In that era when phones were scarce, there were no mobile phones, no QQ, and no WeChat, Dongmei could only judge the transmission of information through this kind of thing without any scientific basis.
At this time, Taotao and Nana, who came back from school, also saw the spider in the corner.
Tao Tao hurriedly shouted: "Pest, let's kill it." ā
Nana also chimed in and said, "Kill it, kill it." ā
When the two children fetched the sweeper and the dustpan to kill the poor spider, there was a knock on the door outside.
The postman shouted loudly outside: "Yin Dongmei, your letter." ā
Hearing this, Dongmei was stunned for a moment, and said in her heart: "My God, this is too accurate, every time I see a spider, I will have my own letter, and this time is no exception." ā
So, Dongmei hurriedly stopped the two children from hurting the spider and said, "Don't move, Mom's letter is here, go outside and get it back for Mom." ā
Hearing this, the two children rushed out of the door and went to get a letter for Dongmei.
Dongmei walked over gently and put the spider in a safe place.
Dongmei looked at the fleeing spider and wondered, whose letter was it?
At this time, Tao Tao rushed in with the letter, looked at his mother and said, "Mom, your letter?"
Dongmei took the letter and hurriedly looked at the signature on it, only to see the words "Yin Chunmei" clearly appearing on the letter.
Seeing that it was her sister's letter, Dongmei happily thought, Chunmei's eldest son was born a few years ago, and now her second child should also be born.
Dongmei smiled and couldn't wait to open the letter.
I saw that two densely written letterheads appeared in front of Dongmei's eyes.
Moreover, the letter paper was speckled with spots, as if it had been soaked in water, and as if tears had dripped onto the letter.
With curiosity, Dongmei began to read.
As the reading deepened, Dongmei's originally smiling face like a flower began to become calm, and then on her calm face, her eyebrows wrinkled again, and in the end, Dongmei's expression turned hideous.
After reading the letter, Dongmei angrily threw the letter to the ground, gritted her teeth, and tears flowed down her eyes.
At the beginning, my sister Chunmei, as the most beautiful girl in the village, all teachers, cadres, dentists, and workers came to propose marriage, but she couldn't look down on it, so she fell in love with the second-rate Yan Ning.
Now it's okay, the evil fruit of my choice, I knocked out my teeth and swallowed it in my stomach.
Yan Ning is difficult to change the nature of a second-rate son, not only does he not work, he can't get any of them back to the family, but he also beats and scolds Chunmei.
Now, Chunmei's intestines are leaking outside because she gave birth to her second child.
In the face of such a serious condition that can kill at any time, the Yan family has no one to take care of, let alone money to go to the hospital for treatment, can they let people lie in bed and wait for death?