Gu Zhanshuo came in with a pot, just in time to hear their last words, so he said, "Whose eyes are sharp!" ”。

Gu Zhanyan opened his eyebrows and said, "Big brother, look, look, I have a black mole here." ”

"Big brother, you put down the pot, I'll look at your eyebrows." Gu Zhanyan took the pot in his hand, put it on the dining table, and reached out to flick his left and right eyebrows, "There really isn't." ”

Gu Yaluo shook her head and chuckled at Gu Zhanyan, who was curious about the baby.

"It's getting dark, isn't Mom coming back?" Gu Yaluo turned on the light and asked.

The yellow light scattered all over the room, but this kind of tungsten light bulb of more than ten watts has a small enough brightness.

"It should be soon." Gu Zhanyan said uncertainly.

"I'm back." Gu Yaluo said, she heard Lu Jiangdan's footsteps.

Then the two brothers also heard Lu Jiangdan's footsteps.

Gu Zhanshuo hurriedly opened the door, "Mom, why do you bring so many things, not to mention calling the landlady and asking us to pick you up." ”

"Zhan Yan, Luo'er come and help." Gu Zhanshuo shouted into the room.

There was no need for him to call, the brother and sister had already gone out to help Lu Jiang Dan get things.

"Why is the iron rooster so kind this year and has sent such New Year's goods." Gu Zhanyan said harshly, "Brother, Luo'er opened it to see if it was expired food." ”

"Don't be so harsh when you speak, you kid." Lu Jiangdan slapped Gu Zhanyan on the back of the head, "This year's benefits are good, and the quality of New Year's goods is not bad." ”

"Mom, tomorrow's first day of the new year, are you still at work?" Gu Yaluo asked.

Lu Jiangdan looked at Gu Yaluo in surprise, "Luo'er, your hair?" "Just now the light was dim in the corridor and I couldn't see clearly, but now when I entered the house, I saw my girl becoming a boy.

"Long hair is too troublesome, so I cut it, and besides, my mother also cuts her hair!" Gu Yaluo said in a heartfelt manner, and then shook her head, "Isn't it beautiful?" ”

Lu Jiangdan was stunned for a long time, and now he is training her, but it will be useless, "Forget about the New Year, don't take it as an example." Don't cut it anymore. ”

Gu Yaluo smiled and responded, "Okay! ”

"Mom, Ming'er won't go to work!" Gu Zhanshuo asked again.

"I wanted to, but the factory wouldn't be open." Lu Jiangdan said with a smile, his eyebrows and eyes revealed pleasure.

At this time, Gu Zhanyan had already opened the carton and took it out, a chicken, two catties of meat, yellow croaker, sea rice, a small packet of nougat, firecrackers, and Spring Festival couplets......

"Luo'er will give you candy!" Gu Zhanyan stuffed it directly into her mouth.

"Hmmm! Well! "The entrance is sweet, with a strong peanut and milk aroma, filling the mouth, very chewy, and the more you chew, the more fragrant it becomes.

"Eat it too." Gu Yaluo smiled and watched Lu Jiangdan and Gu Zhanshuo's mouths being stuffed with sugar, and their mouths bulged like frogs.

"It's almost put away, Ming'er's mother will make it for you to eat." Lu Jiangdan said with a smile.

The brothers put the New Year's goods back in the carton, Lu Jiangdan took out his wallet and said, "Zhanshuo, Zhanyan, Luo'er, your tuition fees have been settled." She happily opened her wallet and took out a stack of hundred-dollar bills, "Dangdang...... Mom's salary this month is 1,000 yuan. After the New Year, my mother was promoted to the leader of the workshop team, and her salary would increase by 30%. She then laughed, "Our days will get better and better." ”

"Of course, we picked up three times as many soda cans as we normally would." Gu Zhanyan said happily, as if the money was beckoning to him.

At this time, they are hopeful for the future.

&*&

"Sister Lu, Sister Lu......" A young woman stood outside the door and whispered.

Lu Jiangdan put away his wallet in a little panic, got up and opened the door, and an embarrassed smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, "It's Su'e!" Is there anything wrong with this late hour? ”

Lu Jiangdan looked at her in the darkness in the corridor, lowered his head, and his long hair naturally hung down, covering his face.

"Don't cry! What came in and said. Lu Jiangdan heard her low sobbing voice and quickly pulled her into the house.

Gu Yaluo and the others got up and sat side by side on the bed, giving way to their places.

"Aunt Li!" The brothers exclaimed, their faces filled with concern.

Gu Yaluo looked at the brothers, looked at Li Su'e, and searched her memory.

Li Su'e is Lu Jiangdan's co-worker, who is hard-working, capable, hardworking and kind, and a representative of traditional women.

Although the family population is simple, the burden is light, and there is only one son, the family is not rich, because there is a lazy man who loves to gamble, and this life is very poor.

However, Li Su'e is a little clever, and she is also forced to live helplessly. In order for his son to know that he was hiding private money, and lending the money was temporarily deposited with others.

Lu Jiangdan has borrowed 400 yuan from her in the past two years, this is the creditor coming to the door, no wonder the brothers are worried, and only sigh: Life is impermanent, and the year is difficult.

Lu Jiangdan and Li Su'e sat on the chairs next to the desk.

"He's beating you again." Lu Jiangdan grabbed Li Su'e's hand and rolled up his sleeves, and his arms were blue and purple.

Li Su'e withdrew her hand and glanced at Lu Jiangdan quickly, her eyes flickered, avoiding Lu Jiangdan's gaze, and said to Ai Ai, "Sister Lu, he beat me, he went to play cards again, lost everything, got drunk, and took out his anger on me and Xiaohao." I don't plan to live with him, I plan to come out with Xiaohao, but I just have ...... ......"The right leg is pressed up, and the left leg is up.

Lu Jiangdan came over and said with a smile, "I should give it back to you." She took out four hundred yuan from her purse and handed it to Li Su'e.

Li Su'e was overjoyed, then with a bitter face, she lowered her head and whispered, "Sister Lu, don't bother you, I have to take Xiaohao away while the child's father is asleep." ”

"Then I'll send you." Lu Jiangdan got up and said.

"No, no." Li Su'e waved her hand busily.

Lu Jiangdan turned around and sighed at the mouth of the staircase where he sent the person.

"Mom, there's no money, let's earn it again." Gu Zhanshuo stepped forward and grabbed her hand and comforted.

"I'm worried about money! I'm worried about you, Aunt Li. Lu Jiangdan sat on a small stool and said.

Catching up with the children's eyes, Lu Jiangdan said, "What is the situation in your Aunt Li's family, you also know that if she can leave, I am afraid that she will be soft-hearted and continue in a daze." She shook her head, the consequences can be imagined, "This gamble is already fatal, and no matter how lazy people are......" she shook her head speechlessly.

"Mom, you have to mean that Aunt Li is lying." Gu Zhanyan raised his eyebrows and said in surprise.

"I'm afraid that we won't give money, so I said this on purpose." Gu Zhanshuo said in disbelief, "No wonder Aunt Li looks weird today, and she doesn't dare to look at us." ”

"Maybe I'm embarrassed!" Lu Jiangdan thought about it for a while and understood that the money she lent out was not only her family, it must have been difficult to ask for in other people's homes, so she had to do it.

It's easy to lend money, but if you want to get it back, especially among friends, you can't wipe your face, and sometimes you can't even open your mouth.

Lu Jiangdan picked up an oiled paper bag and said, "I don't want to, Mom will go and heat up the roast goose and add vegetables." ”

"Is Mrs. Gu at home?"

Hearing this, Lu Jiangdan subconsciously covered his purse, needless to say, Gu Yaluo also knew that the creditor was here again.

There is an old saying: debt is not more than a year!

In the next hour or so, the creditors visited one by one, and the money in Lu Jiangdan's hand had not yet been warmed up, and the debt had been fully repaid.

Even the last New Year's carton she brought back was finally repaid.

As a result, as soon as he heard the knock on the door now, even Gu Yaluo's heart trembled.

Gu Yaluo looked at her mother's weather-beaten face and pursed her lips slightly.

The twins are twelve years old and they are ten years old. At this time, he got married early, and his mother Lu Jiangdan was only thirty years old.

But at the moment, he looks like he is forty or fifty years old, running around all day, not having a moment to spare, and breaking his heart.

Where is there still the mood to pay attention to their image, the long flowing hair has been cut short.

The clothes on his body were still brought out from the Gu family, and they were white after washing, and the cuffs and neckline were already raw.

And the clothes with better texture are all gone.

The years are ruthless, and in just three years, a gentle and graceful woman has been sharpened into a calculating aunt.

"Let's all cheer up, we are now debt-free and light, travel lightly, and our days will be better and better in the future." Lu Jiangdan smiled and cheered up the children, but there was a hint of bitterness in this smile.

"Mom, I won't go to school after the New Year." Gu Zhanshuo was silent for a long time and said.

"If I don't go to school, I shouldn't go to school, because I have drained my house." Gu Yaluo said calmly, now she is going to school is a pure waste of time.

"Nonsense, I have graduated from high school, I can read books and newspapers, and I am not illiterate. Besides, my brain is not as smart as Luo'er, Luo'er has to go to school, and my brother is waiting for you to take the university entrance examination. Gu Zhanshuo did not hesitate to depreciate himself.

"Don't talk nonsense, you two hurry up and extinguish this mind for me, I tell you, you can't go to school if you don't go to school!" Lu Jiangdan, who was sitting on a small stool, became anxious when he heard it, "You don't go to school, what are you doing?" ”

She sighed in her heart, her mother regretted it, her mother knew that she shouldn't have married after graduating from high school, and she should go to college.

I fell out with my family in order to get married, and now I have a home to return to, and I am alone outside.

I can't find a good job. It is said that if you have a high school degree and can find a clerical job, who will let you take three children! In addition, some bosses have bad intentions, so they would rather stay in the factory.

"But our family has no money, and the tuition fee is ......," Gu Zhanshuo tried to reason.

Lu Jiangdan pursed his lips and said, "Mom will find a way to deal with money, and Mom will be promoted to team leader after the New Year, and I can advance some salary first." Rest assured! Mom must let all three of you siblings go to school. ”

"Brother, we can take the first exam, get a scholarship, and reduce the burden on my mother." Gu Zhanyan hurriedly said, hoping to dispel his thoughts.

"This?"

"Don't do this, that, mom has the final say." Lu Jiangdan directly made a final decision.

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