Chapter 21: Is it a shame to pick up garbage?

Grandma received a lot of phone calls, the eldest daughter's, the youngest daughter's and son-in-law's, the eldest son's eldest daughter-in-law's......

Everyone criticized her on the phone.

"Mom, are we short of you to eat or drink, are you going to pick up garbage?"

"You go pick up the garbage, where do we put our faces as children?"

"You can pick up the garbage yourself, and you even let the children beg?"

"That's not begging," Grandma argued, but she couldn't remember the word Lang said, she called "art practice" "busking," "that's busking." ”

"Isn't busking just begging? Which beggar doesn't pull an erhu and sing a tune when he comes to the door to beg for money? ”

Grandma cried.

She used to miss her children, and she always thought, "Oh, children, why don't you hang up on her?" The eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law went abroad, and international calls are very expensive, but the two daughters are in China, and the domestic phone is cheap.

But now, she doesn't want to get any calls from any of her children anymore.

When people are old, they are useless, and when they were young, which child dared to scold her? They were all beaten and scolded by her, and now the children have grown up and their wings are stiff, and she is old, no one listens to what she says, and it is her turn to be scolded.

The more I thought about it, the more sad I became, and there were tears on her face.

Langhua brought the sugar jar from the kitchen: "Grandma, grandma, my teacher said that if you eat some sugar, you can feel better." ”

Xiao Langhua's little hand took out a rock candy from the sugar jar and stuffed it into her grandmother's mouth, tilted her little head and asked her, "Grandma, is it sweet?" ”

Xiaoqi came over with a wooden "don't ask for help" and scratched his grandmother's back, saying, "Grandma, I'll scratch your back." ”

Lang also came over and said to grandma: "Grandma, I play the guzheng, not the erhu." ”

There is no difference between guzheng and erhu for grandma, they are both qin.

Lang said: "Grandma, there is still a difference, you can only put one bowl in front of the erhu, but my guzheng is so long, you can put many, many bowls." ”

Lang opened his arms and gestured, and grandma couldn't help but laugh.

Grandma laughed, and the children cheered, clapping their hands and saying, "Grandma laughed, grandma laughed!" ”

Grandma asked everyone seriously: "Do you feel ashamed when you go to the street to perform?" ”

Lang said: "I'll be embarrassed, but I can make money for grandma, grandma is happy when she has money." ”

Xiaoqi said: "I'm also embarrassed, but with my cousin here, I'm not alone." ”

Langhua said: "Grandma, grandma, I won't be embarrassed. ”

Lang touched Xiao Langhua's head and said, "You are still too young, and you will be embarrassed when you grow up." ”

Grandma has mixed feelings.

Lang asked, "Grandma, are you embarrassed when you pick up garbage?" ”

Grandma recalled her experience of picking up garbage, whenever she picked up garbage on the side of the road and went to the trash can to find out if there were any paper skins and bottles and cans that could be sold for money, she also felt embarrassed, because there were always so many strange eyes looking at her next to her.

But she insisted on picking up the garbage.

"I'm in my sixties, I don't know anything, I'm too old to go to work, and picking up garbage and selling it for money is the only job I can do. As long as I'm not lazy, I have an income every day, I've saved a lot of money by picking up garbage, reaching out to your uncles for money, I feel more humiliated than picking up garbage! ”

The children applauded their grandmother.

Xiao Langhua even gave grandma a thumbs up: "Grandma, you are awesome!" ”

"It's okay to pick up garbage, but pay attention to hygiene, there are a lot of bacteria in the trash can, grandma, you see you're sick." Lang's words caused Grandma to think.