M City is a relatively backward and small place, and in the era of relatively single information channels, it always knows about the earth-shattering things that are happening in the outside world one step later.

Now let's turn the page to April 2003.

Looking at the overall situation, it seems that everyone's life was still running smoothly at that time.

Hua Lone's mother gave Hua Lin a little money for the first time and asked her to go to the wholesale market to buy a new pair of shoes by herself.

In fact, Hua Lin can't count how many old shoes and old clothes of her aunt's sister she wears, and she can't remember the last time she bought shoes.

Oh, if I had to remember, I would be able to recall one thing, one thing that wasn't too glamorous.

For the sake of the uniformity of the performance and the final performance effect, the dance teacher strongly requested that he bring his own professional dancing shoes, and designated the kind of soft ballet shoes that can be folded with soles.

Obviously, this style of dancing shoes is naturally useless in the eyes of Hua Lone's mother, except for a few minutes on stage, you can't even walk in real life, isn't it a waste? Therefore, Hua Lone's mother has not let go of her mouth to buy.

And most of the girls only have the same style of hard sole dancing shoes, Hua Lin did not borrow them, only got a clue where to buy shoes.

The teacher must be very dissatisfied, Hua Lin dragged on in front of the teacher for a long time, and finally approached the day of the official performance. Due to the insistence of the dance teacher, Hua Lian's mother compromised even if she had more resentment in her heart, and took out 10 yuan to let Hua Lin ride her bicycle to buy a pair of back.

Hua Lin always remembered that it was a night without stars, and there were 8 ballet shoes; But passing by the night market fried skewer stall under the street lamp, Hua Lonely's heart was moved, and she couldn't resist the temptation of fragrant incense, she used 1 yuan to satisfy her selfish desires, bought a ham sausage, and only lied about 9 yuan of shoes when she went home.

This kind of thing involves the level of counteroffer in actual operation, and the difference of one yuan is not enough to explain anything, so this 1 yuan has become a small black hole in Hua Lone's heart.

After a long time, the taste of the ham sausage in my memory is not sweet and delicious, most of it is bitter.

The wholesale market that Hua Lin went to this time,Strictly speaking, it shouldn't be the main wholesale.,Hua Lin doesn't know what to call it more appropriate.,He's located in the pedestrian street.,But compared with the glamour of the pedestrian street.,It can only be described as dark.。

It's a four-story building, and you can't really see anything from the outside, but when you enter the building, you find that it's another world inside.

Boisterous and shrewd.

A shop next to a shop, each layer of regular and unruly piled up different goods for sale, daily food, clothing, housing and transportation, learning and living large and small, as long as there is time to wander around, you can buy.

There is an entire floor dedicated to all kinds of shoes.

The victory here is the cheap, and those who have experience know that the price offered by the boss must be the price of killing pigs, at least he should divide it by 2 or even more as soon as he opens his mouth.

As for whether the quality of the goods is beautiful, I don't know, anyway, you get what you pay for, and the quality is not as good as the brand goods of the pedestrian street store downstairs.

The air was full of the smell of all kinds of rubber soles, and Hua Lin looked left and right in it alone, not very comfortable, just wanted to buy it quickly and leave quickly.

Every store looks the same, sitting with a budget boss or proprietress written all over their faces, knocking on various prices with a computer, and posing to customers as if they have suffered a loss and lost money.

She also doesn't dare to enter the store casually, she rarely goes out on the street with her parents, she doesn't even know the basic routines, and she doesn't know how to deal with such people, the more enthusiastic the boss lady is, the more uncomfortable she is, she carries the little money in her pocket, and she is very timid, even if she sees the shoes she likes very much, she doesn't dare to ask the price, she is afraid that she will exceed the budget, and she is afraid that she will not be able to bargain and be embarrassed to leave.

After several turns, it is not easy to choose a pair of blue casual shoes.

Maybe the proprietress saw at a glance that this little girl had nothing to do, and directly quoted the low price, in Hua Lian's opinion, she was very glad that the price was not as expensive as she imagined, so Hua Lin only symbolically repaid a little price, quickly bought the shoes, and then left quickly.

Although the process is not very wonderful, after buying these shoes, Hua Lin likes them more and more.

Finally, after the weekend, on the way to class on Monday, Hua Lin happily changed into new shoes, that kind of spirit, pedaling the bicycle is extraordinarily powerful, as if stepping on colorful auspicious clouds.

Strange, why do you keep meeting students who have gone home?

Before the intersection, she heard someone shouting.

"Flower Silence! Flower Silence! ”

After the green light, Wang Lei rode over.

Hua Lin was still thinking in his heart, wondering if he had seen that he was wearing a pair of beautiful new shoes.

But I heard Wang Lei say: "We have a holiday, the notice has been posted, and now there are no classes, classes are suspended for two weeks, and SARS is going on outside!" ”

What the?!

For the whole country, the sudden outbreak of this disease, the outbreak of a large city with a large population, is extremely frightening to everyone, everyone is concerned about the rising number of patients, waiting for its inflection point, looking forward to the hope of life, and praying for the safety of everyone.

Small places such as M City, where there are almost no migrant population, has become a relatively safe and isolated island, and citizens have received information about this major event through newspapers and used their spiritual strength to support their compatriots in the hard-hit area.

The school's decision to suspend classes for two weeks is in response to the state's order and is seen as a move to attach importance to public medical safety.

However, at that time, Hua Lin didn't fully understand the seriousness and horror of the earth-shaking situation outside, and the "holiday" incident had another meaning to her.

Her new shoes, she can only be left alone to admire.

Since it is a temporary holiday, there is no homework to speak of.

Adults go to work normally, and good students who can read can arrange themselves reasonably, find extracurricular exercises to continuously supplement and improve their studies; And if you don't know how to read, you will use this lot of time to send boredom.

For example, Zhang Xin and Hua Lin always talk on the phone at home and make porridge on the phone.

Zhang Xin revealed that due to the internal relationship of her mother's work, there is no charge for her family to call out, so Zhang Xin always calls Hua Lian.

Zhang Xin likes to talk to Hua Lin about all kinds of things that happened in her tutor's house, no matter whether Hua Lin wants to listen to it or not, there is always Lu Yinuo in the stories told by Zhang Xin.

In Zhang Xin's description, she and Lu Yinuo are already very familiar, Zhang Xin will tell Hua Lin that Lu Yinuo still has no good feelings for Hua Li, so that Hua Lin has a score in her heart, don't secretly have any expectations.

The world of flowers is too monotonous, there is no collection of books, you can't watch TV, you can't understand physics and mathematics, and it's not a bad thing to have Zhang Xin calling him every day.

But Zhang Xin is not as unlevel as Hua Lone, she also has her life, making up classes, going out to socialize with her parents, going to her parents' unit, and learning art, so she doesn't call Hua Lin every day to say boring things.

When she didn't call, Hua Lin would feel bored.

So Zhang Xin recommended the "chat room" of telecom dial-up to Hua Lian.

Zhang Xin didn't hide it, she told Hua Lin the truth: This is one of her mother's tasks, a newly developed telecom profitable business, in the initial stage, they need to expand their business, so that more people can dial into this chat room, forming a telephone community with a certain degree of popularity, which is related to performance indicators.

Zhang Xin said that the people who were calling and chatting inside didn't know anyone anyway, just like netizens, if Hua Lin was really boring, just dial this chat room number and give it a try, which can be regarded as helping her mother complete the task.

At first, Hua Lin was a little hesitant, after all, he was talking to a stranger.

But thinking that Zhang Xin's last sentence was about helping her mother complete the task, at that moment she suddenly felt that she could come in handy for Zhang Xin.

So she followed Zhang Xin's dialing instructions, step by step into the chat room, Zhang Xin seemed to be right, the people inside didn't know each other, they chatted wildly, and it seemed that it was very interesting to listen to different people talking inside.

The family didn't know anything about it.

Until one night, the whole family fell asleep.

The phone in the living room at home rang suddenly, like a midnight bell, and the little heart of Hua Lone, who was in the small bedroom, suddenly jumped, and she had a very strong sense of foreboding.

As soon as Dad answered the phone, he only said "hey", and then he didn't make a sound, but only listened very carefully. Originally, he was still a little sleepy, but this phone call may have made him more and more sober.

Hanging up the phone, his trembling voice turned to Hua Lone's mother: "Have you ever called anyone on your home phone?" ”

Hua Lone's mother didn't quite understand what it meant, so naturally she hadn't touched the phone.

"Whose phone number?"

Hua Lone, who was hiding in the room and eavesdropping, heard this, and her back felt cold.

"The tip of the telecommunications system, we owe a lot!"

As soon as the words fell, the door of Hua Lone's room was kicked open, and the big night flashed to Hua Lone's bed, and dragged Hua Lin out of bed with unmistaken accuracy.

"Isn't it you? Isn't it you? ”

How could it not be her!

It turned out that the chat room that Zhang Xin said was profitable by charging high information fees, and the landline at home was directly in arrears!

The anger of the parents is off the charts.

Hua Lone's mother was also furious after learning about the situation, and she misunderstood that Hua Lin had called her junior high school classmates.

So my father was beating me, and my mother was chattering: "I told Ge Taisheng that I don't want to talk to you on the phone, how can I still communicate, this phone might as well be withdrawn, and cause trouble." ”

Mom was angry with his father again, "It's all your family who wants you to install a landline, saying that it is easy to contact if you have a phone at home, and it is not enough to have a mobile phone..."

On weekdays, Hua Lone's father doesn't like his mother to talk about the rights and wrongs of his family, and this provoke him to sprinkle all his anger on Hua Lone.

Do you think she will have itchy skin if she doesn't beat her for a while?

Poor Hua Lonely, encountered a tragedy comparable to the biggest right and wrong many years ago, she knew that she was wrong, she had no way to tell, and there was nowhere to hide when she was beaten.

The world of flowers and loneliness shakes the mountains.

After the school reopened, she didn't tell Zhang Xin these things, and all her teeth were broken and swallowed in her stomach.

First of all, she shouldn't blame Zhang Xin, she believes that Zhang Xin didn't deliberately let her into the trap;

Second, for the loss of her family, she regretted it very much.

She knew that she was trying to satisfy her selfish desires, but she just wanted to repay Zhang Xin a very small favor, but she didn't expect the price to be so huge, and the taste was a hundred times more bitter than that ham sausage.

This tragic little person is always in contradiction and stirs himself into trouble.

The hateful have pity; The poor man has something to hate.

When will she wake up to her studies and focus on her studies?