After a night of baptism, the morning sun is particularly soothing. Wu Wei stretched his waist on the bed, and he didn't wake up in the hazy sunrise after a long absence.

I got up and washed up and ate some bread for breakfast alone. With the sun on his face, he is still the gentle and elegant teenager, ready to welcome a new day.

Wu Wei stepped on a bicycle and ran to various shopping malls and hotels in the city to find a part-time job.

From morning to afternoon, I was always unsatisfactory, but I never gave up, thinking that if I could find it, I could do it.

The sky paid off, and Wu Wei got a job in a shopping mall. Because of the high traffic of the mall on weekends, two temporary workers were recruited to clean in shifts.

Wu Wei chose to work from 15 o'clock to 20 o'clock, and starting next weekend, the salary is also a daily settlement, only 18 yuan a day. If it was during the SARS epidemic last year, this odd job would have been hard to come by.

Wu Wei didn't plan to reveal to anyone that he was doing odd jobs, he had his own purpose.

On weekdays, on weekends, Mu Yuxun just cleans, does laundry, and studies. And today there is one more thing, part-time work.

At less than three o'clock in the afternoon, Mu Yuxun set off to work, in order to save one yuan of bus fare, Mu Yuxun walked the whole way and walked for nearly an hour.

After arriving at the restaurant, it was the time for the staff to eat, not only did it not make up. The manager did not treat Mu Yuxun differently because he was just a work-study student.

Eat with all the staff, both meat and vegetarian. Mu Yuxun lowered his head, only sandwiched the dishes closest to him, and didn't dare to look at the rest.

"You girl, if you don't eat some meat, you don't have the strength to work." A middle-aged fat chef sandwiched a piece of pork ribs for Mu Yuxun.

"Brother Zhang, are you eating, and are you still working?"

Employees get together to eat, talk and laugh.

Watching these elders talking and laughing, Mu Yuxun liked this atmosphere from the bottom of his heart.

After everyone finished eating, they were ready to start working, mainly in the back kitchen.

"Mu Yuxun, you wash these vegetables first and peel the potatoes."

Mu Yuxun sat in the corner of the back kitchen, cleaning the vegetables, and picking off the bad parts of the vegetables. When you're done, you have to scrape the potatoes with a peeler, which is a boring job.

At about the same time, I am also responsible for washing the dishes. In fact, washing dishes is the main job. Between the first and second batch of guests in the evening, washing dishes is Mu Yuxun's core task.

Wearing leather gloves, he didn't look up for nearly an hour, bent over, buried himself in washing dishes, and there was an aunt next to him who was also like Mu Yuxun, but much faster than Mu Yuxun, hammering his waist twice from time to time, exhaling and relieving the pain.

The busy work side reflects that the hotel is in excellent business condition. At half past eight, the manager let Mu Yuxun get off work, and the manager took special care of Mu Yuxun, a work-study student who was willing to endure hardships.

On the other side,

"Happy birthday." Xie Lan expressed her blessing to Wu Wei, who had just entered the house and was sweating.

Today is Wu Wei's birthday, Xie Lan went out early in the morning to customize a cake for her son and buy a birthday gift.

"Look at the style, do you like it?" Wu's mother took out a shoebox with a clear Nike logo. In 05, it was still a luxury coveted by many teenagers.

"Come back, I don't like new shoes, I wear foot pads."

Wu Wei's mother was disappointed again, she really didn't understand why other people's children like to pursue famous brands, why her own children only buy roadside stalls.

Xie Lan always thought that her son had a different aesthetic from herself, but later felt that her son was different and liked to be diligent and thrifty, until her son went to junior high school, she knew that her son also liked brand-name products, but she didn't know why she never bought them.

Whether it is 300 yuan, 500 yuan, or 1,000 yuan for his son, he will only take 100 yuan each time, and the rest will be thrown on the table.

Xie Lan misses worry-free when she was a child, holding her legs, begging to buy this and that. Now, Xie Lan himself can't remember when Wu Wei was last coquettish.

But Wu Wei remembers and will never forget.

"Mom, can you bring a good friend to our house tomorrow to celebrate my birthday?" Little Wu worried, tilted his head, hugged his mother and said.

"Of course, tomorrow is your tenth birthday, my little birthday boy." Xie Lan rubbed Wu Worried's face and said amiably.

"Thank you, Mom."

This is where the happy childhood ends, and the bitterness with the family is born.

"Mu Yuxun, you wait for me." Wu Wei carried a small schoolbag on his back, kept running, and shouted to the little girl in front.

"Today is my birthday, I agreed with my mother that I can invite my classmates to come to my home to celebrate my birthday." Wu Wei held his knees with his hands and said with a weak breath.

"You're inviting me?" Mu Yu, who was still holding a few flattened cans in his hand, asked back.

"yes, there's no one else here." Wu Wei looked around.

"Is that okay?" Mu Yuxun couldn't believe it.

"Seven o'clock in the evening, don't forget."

"Hmm." Mu Yuxun was a little shy.

"Jingle bell, jingle bell." The doorbell remembers.

Wu Wei jumped out of the chair to open the door, and sure enough, it was Mu Yuxun, very punctual.

"Happy birthday, Wu Wei." Mu Yuxun wore a very clean children's dress, and handed Wu Wei an automatic pen as a gift with both hands.

"Thank you, come in." Wu Wei happily accepted the birthday gift.

Mu Yuxun was very restrained, didn't dare to sit down, and looked at the beautiful scenery and furniture in the house.

Wu's mother and father brought out the prepared meals from the kitchen and were enthusiastically ready to welcome their son's classmates.

"Hello aunt, hello uncle." Mu Yuxun, who was combing two pigtails, had the same posture as in high school, with his hands hanging down in front of him, and bowed to Wu Wei's parents respectively, very polite.

Xie Lan's enthusiastic face disappeared, replaced by a trace of indifference, every time he saw Mu Yuxun, he would have this kind of serious indifference. Wu Wu's father was very polite when he arrived, "Welcome, welcome, sit, sit." ”

"Haven't you ever eaten any of these dishes?" Sheeran hated her very much, and always was.

Mu Yuxun looked at Wu Wei's mother with watery eyes, shook his head, and the two pigtails danced back and forth.

Xie Lan couldn't stand this kind of pitiful little eyes, and said coldly, "It's rude to stare at people with your eyes, didn't your mother teach you?" ”

Mu Yuxun hugged his hands tightly, this time with his head down and shaking his head.

"No wonder, after all, you didn't..."Xie Lan didn't speak, but Mu Yuxun knew what she was going to say.

"Ahem... Cough. Wu's father interrupted his wife's words, but he didn't accuse, and he didn't like the little girl.

"Let's eat." The atmosphere was a little cold.

Wu Wei looked at his mother, a little scared in his heart, he had never seen such an indifferent mother.

"Don't talk, don't make a noise when eating, it's polite."

Xie Lan's endless education of Mu Yuxun, cold words and-for-tat, made the young Mu Yuxun almost cry, and he had been desperately suppressing his tears.

Mu Yuxun sat on the chair, didn't look up, didn't pick up the vegetables, held the bowl with his left hand, and kept pestle the chopsticks with his right hand to pick up the rice in his mouth, and he was not afraid of choking until he finished eating a bowl of rice. got up from the chair and said to Wu Wei, "Thank you, Wu Wei, happy birthday." ”

"Uncle and aunt, I'm full, thank you." Mu Yuxun bowed again, thanked him, and without waiting for a reply, he opened the door and left, no, he should say he ran away.

"I really don't have a tutor." Wu Wei's mother chattered endlessly.

The cowardly Wu Wei didn't dare to speak, he ate mechanically, and didn't dare to express his dissatisfaction.

Mu Yuxun wept in the wind and cried in the night, and no one knew.

Wu Wei's heart is hurting, his soul is crying, and no one knows.

And Xie Lan, as Wu Wei's mother, unknowingly nailed a wedge to the young Wu Wei's heart.

With the passage of time, this wedge has penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and even if it is pulled out, it will be difficult to heal, not to mention that Xie Lan has not noticed it.