Chen Tianlang's home is near the cotton spinning chief.

The black streets, dirty and messy neighborhoods, and low-rise houses are Chen Tianlang's impressions of "home".

Along the way, the dog barked incessantly.

In these years, almost every household has a dog, the people's hearts are not ancient, not as open as before, everyone's thoughts are very red, very positive, now the reform and opening up, everything looks at the money, some people who have bad minds began to steal chickens and dogs, as far as Chen Tianlang knows, not long ago Uncle Zhang's house next door just lost an aluminum alloy pot for cooking, which was the baby that his son brought back to him from SH, he has been reluctant to use it, hidden under the kitchen board, I didn't expect to be shunned by the thief.

The community is poor, and there are no street lights, so Chen Tianlang had no choice but to find the door of his home.

The old-fashioned red lacquered two doors, pasted with the old door gods, are Yu Chi Jingde and Qin Qiong who are holding steel whips, Qin Qiong's eyes have broken a big hole, and Yu Chi Jingde is even more miserable, and half of his head is directly missing. There is a gripper-type door nose on the top of each of the two doors, and if I try to push it, the latch is inserted inside.

The elder sister is working overtime in the cotton mill, only her mother Liu Yuping is at home alone, Chen Tianlang is too lazy to ask her mother to open the door, she has a bad temper, in case she wakes her up when she sleeps, Chen Tianlang's brain is going to be slapped.

Bypassing the gate, Chen Tianlang came to the corner of the wall, looked at the potholes on the wall, took a deep breath, took a few steps back, jumped vigorously, stepped on the pothole with one foot, and then climbed to the top of the wall with sudden strength.

Riding on the wall and not panting, Chen Tianlang touched the height, and as soon as he was bold, he jumped down.

Fortunately, there was no dog at home, but the chickens in the cage screamed a few times, but it soon quieted down.

Chen Tianlang took a breath and felt that it was not easy for those who were thieves, and it was quite difficult to climb over the wall like this.

Feeling that his hands were a little dirty, maybe stained with wall ash, he spread his hands, found the pressurized water well, and there was a basin there, so he washed his hands with water.

As soon as I was about to get up after washing my hands, I snapped on the head and was slapped in the face.

"Rabbit cub! If you don't enter the gate, you learn to learn to climb over the wall, I think you are getting less and less grown!" Needless to say, you can practice the kung fu of patting your head so skillfully, except for your mother Liu Yuping.

"I'm not afraid you'll sleep!" Chen Tianlang turned around and said with a hippie smile.

"Sleep, you big-headed ghost! I dare to sleep if you troublemaker doesn't come back. Liu Yuping said in her mouth, but handed Chen Tianlang a towel and asked him to wipe his hands.

"Just like last time, you didn't come back in the middle of the night, I was so scared that I thought something had happened to you, and finally found you in the back street, and I was beaten and my nose and face were swollen, and I even said that I didn't have the face to go home!"

Chen Tianlang remembers clearly that time when he fought with senior students, he was smashed with black bricks, his bare head was stitched with seven or eight stitches, and he was almost dragged to the police station, and finally he was afraid of being reprimanded by his mother, so he didn't dare to go back, and hid in the alleys of the back streets and wanted to stay up all night, but he didn't expect his mother to shout all the way and find himself. Even now, Chen Tianlang can clearly remember the darkness and dampness of that alley, the loneliness and helplessness in his mood, and the warmth and happiness when he heard his mother's shouting.

"Mom, I've grown up and I'm sensible, you really don't have to worry about me anymore!"

"It's strange to believe you!" Liu Yuping muttered as she entered the house, "I figured it out, your father left early, I didn't teach you well, and in the future, if something really happens, I won't have the face to see him!"

Under the dim light bulb, this is an extremely simple room, in the middle of the hall hanging "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" in the middle of the hall, on both sides are big red couplets, both sides of the New Year's paintings or couplets are all faded, the damaged places are also pasted with paste, just in the corners of the New Year's paintings with lead writing phone numbers, there are some fragmentary numbers.

Below the "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" is a long red desk, which is more than half a person high, and a green iron kettle is placed on it, and then there are four white enamel tea jars of the same size, with a large red star painted on the tea jar, and the words "serving the people" are below. In addition, there is a glass frame, which is full of photos of Chen Tianlang's family, including his deceased father.

"Have you eaten? There are still two hot buns in the pot, if you dislike it, I'll fry it for you!" Liu Yuping knew that Chen Tianlang had a bad mouth, no matter whether he was full or not, he always liked to pick and choose when he ate.

"I've eaten, why haven't you slept yet. Chen Tianlang glanced at the sewing machine placed under the light bulb and the pile of clothes next to the sewing machine.

This is an old-fashioned "butterfly" pedal sewing machine, which can be said to be my mother's best friend, and it is also the most precious gift that my father bought for Liu Yuping before he died. This sewing machine does almost everything the whole family, from underwear to outerwear. Every time the season changes, listening to the sound of his mother's sewing machine, Chen Tianlang knows that he will soon have new clothes to wear.

"Make a skirt for your sister, and make a short-sleeved one for you--- on such a hot day, you are not afraid of suffocating prickly heat in school uniforms all day long!" As she spoke, Liu Yuping sat down in front of the sewing machine again, and started moving her hands and feet neatly.

Chen Tianlang took off his school uniform, and inside was a white "Bayi" vest, "You can just make one for my sister, and you won't be busy with mine." ”

"What, do you think my craftsmanship is bad?"

"No, I'm afraid you're working hard. ”

"Oh, my son will feel sorry for people--- so I will do my studies when I feel sorry, and I won't see you doing your homework when I go home!

"Ahem, I'm out of school. ”

Liu Yuping was angry, and stopped the sewing machine suddenly, "It's almost time for the college entrance examination, you still have this virtue!"

"Mom, I told you, I don't want to go to college. ”

"Why are you going to go to college? Why are you going to work in a cotton mill? People want you just like you!" Liu Yuping sneered, hating her son for not being angry.

Chen Tianlang didn't want to quarrel with her, so he smiled and said, "No matter what you say, I'm not the material for school." I went to sleep---"

Seeing Chen Tianlang enter the back room, Liu Yuping sighed, her son used to be very smart, but he had a high fever three months ago, and after he got better, he was like a different person, he no longer studied hard, and ran out all day long. He yelled at him, and he didn't listen. Seeing that the college entrance examination is approaching, he is still like this, Liu Yuping is dead.

But Chen Tianlang is her cub after all, how can there be a mother who doesn't care for her son, so Liu Yucui also made a plan, that is, to save money to buy a tractor, in case her son is not admitted to college, let him drive a tractor to pull bricks.

I heard that now you can make money by pulling bricks to the brick factory, and you can earn dozens of dollars back and forth, and as long as you pull more, you can earn more.

Thinking of this, Liu Yuping's cool heart became warm again, and she touched the hole under the sewing machine with her hand, and inside the hole was the money she hid, the money to buy a tractor, although it was still very little, but Liu Yuping believed that as long as she made a few more clothes and fed more chickens...... There will always be a tractor.

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Lying on the bed, pillowing his hands, Chen Tianlang stared blankly at the top of the white mosquito net, and a question swirled in his mind: whether to steal or not.

He already knew about his mother's money, and he knew that the money was hidden in the belly of the sewing machine, but the problem was that he couldn't get his hands on it.

What if my mother finds out? She has to kill herself!

But Chen Tianlang thought again, as long as it was used for two or three days, as soon as the batch of steel bars was sold, the money could be repaid immediately, and it could be said that God was unaware.

Well, so be it, it's better to steal money from home than from outside. Besides, this is not stealing, but borrowing!

Chen Tianlang comforted himself with a lot of truth, and then lay on the bed and pricked up his ears, hoping that the sewing machine outside would stop soon, and his mother would go to sleep quickly, so that he could do it himself......

But the sound of the sewing machine just clicked and clicked, and I don't know where my mother got so much energy.

Finally, it was quiet outside.

Chen Tianlang breathed a sigh of relief, tiptoed out of bed, put his ear on the crack of the door and listened outside, until he was sure that his mother had gone to sleep, he slipped out, directly found the sewing machine, reached out and touched the bottom, and soon touched something wrapped in paper, needless to say, it was money.

Chen Tianlang was excited and scared at the same time, for fear that his mother would come out at this time, so he hurriedly hid back in his room, opened the package of paper and saw that almost all of them were tickets of ten yuan and one hundred yuan, neatly rolled together, almost 1,800 yuan.

Chen Tianlang was so happy that he almost screamed, but at this time, there was a sudden sound outside, and Chen Tianlang's whole body immediately stiffened---

Fortunately, soon it was quiet outside, it seemed that my mother went to the toilet, Chen Tianlang exhaled and sighed, it is not easy to be a thief!