Chapter 4 What face do you want if you don't have money My wife's strange thinking
I felt very aggrieved, but I didn't dare to refute it.
In a woman's heart, it must be her husband's fault that her mother and her husband have a conflict.
As soon as the mother-in-law opened the door, she began to have a seizure, "Xiaojing, do you know, your Xiaofan actually went to the street to ask for food, and asked for food, which simply disgraced the faces of the eight ancestors of our Zhou family!" ”
"Asking for food?" Zhou Xiaojing turned his head to look at me.
I immediately raised my hand and swore, "I didn't, I just sat on the side of the road." ”
"Sit on the side of the road, huh." The mother-in-law grabbed the conversation, "I asked you to go out and look for a job, what are you doing sitting on the side of the road?" After fooling my wife, you still want to lie to my daughter! ”
The mother-in-law grabbed Zhou Xiaojing's arm, pulled her into the living room, and cried with a handful of snot and tears, "Xiaojing, you don't know, I was sneered at on the road with him at that time, and I couldn't wait to spit and drown myself." He even happily handed me the 100 yuan he wanted, and lied to me that he earned it from odd jobs......"
"You're asking for a hundred?" Zhou Xiaojing tilted her head and asked.
I blushed and explained, "It's not coming, it's ......."
Zhou Xiaojing had already turned her head, twisted her eyebrows and muttered, "Can you really get the money?" ”
What the? My body shook, what was my wife talking about?
Zhou Xiaojing snapped her fingers, "I know what you're going to do in the future!" ”
"What for?" My mother-in-law and I spoke in unison.
"Be a beggar flower!" Zhou Xiaojing's eyes were full of light, as if she saw the hope of life, "Isn't it often said on the Internet that out of ten begging flowers, nine have a house and a car at home?" If you are lame and have such virtues, there is definitely no hope of finding a job, so we can change our thinking and simply ask for a meal. I don't ask you to give me a house and a car, just ask for Qingqing's school choice fee. ”
Yes? I was stunned, my wife's brain circuit was too ......
The mother-in-law was also stunned on the spot, and it took a long time to regain her ability to speak, "Xiaojing, are you sick, you actually let your man go to the street to ask for food?" That's a shameful business! ”
Zhou Xiaojing waved her hand indifferently, "Mom, now is the era of laughing at poverty and not laughing at prosperity, as long as you have money and dress decently, who cares what you do behind your back?" I might not have been able to give up that bit of dough before. After these few months, I have seen that no face, self-esteem, in front of money, is not TM bullshit at all! ”
Zhou Xiaojing said, walked up to me, I was able to hold my two arms for the first time since I was on crutches, looked me up and down, and nodded while looking, "Well, this leg is lame and it's quite like that." ”
"No, you can't!" The mother-in-law shouted, grabbed Zhou Xiaojing's arm, and persuaded bitterly, "Old girl, we can't do that kind of thing, if you are really short of money...... We can figure it out again. ”
"What can you do?" Zhou Xiaojing's face tightened, "The bank cards at home are almost empty, and the friends who can borrow money can't take care of them now, as for you and Dad...... Anyway, Qingqing's school choice fee can only rely on us now. I've worked hard, but now the economy is so sluggish, eating and raising children is a problem, let alone buying insurance, those rich customers, I don't know how many young and beautiful salesmen are around, I can't talk at all......"
Zhou Xiaojing said as she spoke, a tear flowed from her eyes.
The mother-in-law closed her mouth to speak.
Since I got married to Zhou Xiaojing, my mother-in-law's family didn't say help us, she came to our house every half a year to search once, when it was less than 10,000 or 20,000, and more than 350,000, after borrowing, I basically didn't pay it back, my wife was filial, and she never asked her parents to pay back, because there was a lazy brother at home who was addicted to gambling and gambling.
As for my own family, although my parents didn't ask me for living expenses, it was not much better, and when I was hospitalized in a car accident, my parents gave 20,000 yuan, and the savings of the old couple were all empty.
My wife has seen my attitude towards my old man and my father-in-law's family over the years, so this time I saved up for school choice, and she didn't ask me to ask my parents.
Zhou Xiaojing wiped the corners of her eyes and showed a stiff smile, "Besides, those who ask for food and flowers have all put on makeup, put on wigs and sunglasses, and put some pockmarks on their faces, wearing ragged clothes and leaking clothes, who can recognize that it's you." In the future, you just need to pay attention to find a remote alley and remove the camouflage before you come back from work. ”
After speaking, Zhou Xiaojing turned on her mobile phone and searched for the photos of Hanako, "Look, this, I can't even see my nose and eyes, and this ......"
My wife's fingers slid quickly across the phone screen.
Knock, I tapped the leg of the dining table twice with my cane, and Zhou Xiaojing raised her head and squinted at me, "What are you doing?" ”
"Wife, I don't seem to have promised to be a beggar flower." I whispered to my wife, "Besides, there is already a place for me to go to work today." ”
"Really?" Zhou Xiaojing turned her gaze back to the screen of her mobile phone again, and asked very casually, "Where is it?" What is the monthly salary? ”
"One, supermarket, monthly salary, two thousand yuan...... "I didn't dare to say much about the salary, in case there is a problem with the stock, I am a cripple, let alone two thousand yuan a month, even two hundred yuan, I have to earn my life."
"What is 2,000 yuan for?" Zhou Xiaojing said nonchalantly, "There are still five months left before the school choice fee is paid, and the salary of 2,000 yuan is only 10,000 yuan if you don't spend a penny, and the remaining 90,000 yuan, do you want me to save it alone?" ”
"It's just two thousand at the beginning, and it may rise ...... in the future," I said, quieter and quieter.
Supermarket employees, plus I can't be a tally clerk, I don't even have a commission, even if I do a good job, at most it will be 180 yuan.
Zhou Xiaojing saw that I couldn't talk about it first, so I put down my phone and pressed my arms on the dining table, "I don't have anything to say, right?" So, just do what I say. Tomorrow, I will put on your makeup, and you will go to the gate of the temple to set up bowls. ”
Standing between two women, I, the big man, have completely lost the right to choose.
Maybe it's because of the arrival of the mother-in-law, or maybe the wife Zhou Xiaojing thought of the way to make money, and she was a little happy, the dinner on this day was particularly rich, with fish and meat, and the vegetables were also tender and green. But the thought of begging for food tomorrow was that I lost any appetite.
Early in the morning, before dawn, Zhou Xiaojing dragged me up from the sofa.
When my mother-in-law came, I was herded on the couch.
Of course, my mother-in-law would not wonder why I didn't sleep in the same bed with her old daughter, who wished that her old girl would be as far away as possible from me, a useless cripple. Even, when my mother-in-law heard that I had moved out of the master bedroom, I faintly saw a glimmer of excitement in my mother-in-law's eyes, which was a kind of eagerness for something.
"Come on, put this on, I did it last night."
Zhou Xiaojing put a messy, dusty wig on my head.
The wig was messy, which was cut by Zhou Xiaojing with scissors, and then shaped with hairspray, and the dust was rubbed out with the soles of the whole family's shoes. There is no way, the house is too clean, and there is no place to rub the ashes.
Looking at myself in the mirror with Zhou Xiaojing's makeup, I almost threw up.
People with disabilities, do they have to be like this?
I took Zhou Xiaojing's hand and made a final request, "Wife, let's think of another way, okay?" ”
Zhou Xiaojing snapped my hand away, with a look of disgust, the back of the hand was covered with black spots dotted with her eyebrow pencil, and I felt disgusting myself, let alone a woman.
"What's the solution?" Zhou Xiaojing's face stiffened, and she poked her cheek hard, "If we have another way, will I give up this layer of skin?" Instead of guarding your poor self-esteem, you should think carefully about how to shout for a while, so as to arouse the sympathy of passers-by and throw you a few more steel hammers. ”
Zhou Xiaojing stuffed a steamed bun in my hand and pushed me out of the door, "While it's not dawn now, there is no one in the elevator, you go quickly, so as not to be recognized." Remember, when you come back, you have to change into the clothes I prepared for you. Start work on the first day and strive for a good start. ”
Saying that, Zhou Xiaojing was about to close the door.
"Wife, I didn't bring my phone." I suddenly remembered this important thing.
Zhou Xiaojing looked at me with her arms crossed, "You want to eat and flower, what kind of mobile phone are you playing, isn't that obviously revealing stuffing?" Do you want to be on the city's newsletter? ”
The city's express is the favorite eighteen-hour program for the people of Spring City, from defending the rights of consumers to finding puppies and kittens, as long as someone breaks the news.
But I ...... "If I don't have a mobile phone, how can I speculate in stocks?"
I didn't dare to say this, gritted my teeth, and hesitated for a while, "If you don't bring your mobile phone, in case of an accident, you won't even be able to find someone to help, you know, those who ask for food are not easy to mess with." ”
Everyone is brazen to beg for a living, and in order to grab a good position, fights should also be common.
Zhou Xiaojing's gaze stayed on my four legs for two seconds, and she exhaled a sigh, "Okay, I'll get you the phone." However, don't take it out until you're beaten and vomit blood, and you're not allowed to call me, I'm busy during the day. ”
I nodded vigorously, tears were about to burst out, as long as I was given my phone, everything else was easy to discuss.
Facing the cold wind of February in the north, I walked out of the house, dressed as a flower child. The sun hadn't come up yet, and there was still ice floes on the ground, and my crutches were on it, and I stumbled and slipped and almost fell.
The shoes were also broken, and Zhou Xiaojing deliberately poked a big hole in my leather boots in order to pretend to be more like Huazi, and the cold wind poured in, making me shiver from the cold.
"No, we need to find a warm place." I tucked my cane under my armpit and rubbed my hands together.
It's not even five o'clock, and the stock market doesn't open until nine o'clock, if I really squat at the gate of the big temple as Zhou Xiaojing said, and before the market opens, my hands will be frozen to the point that I can't even move the screen of my mobile phone.
I found a small corner behind the park's science and technology museum, took out the padded jacket that Zhou Xiaojing brought for me, put it on, and then took off the camouflage on my body and wrapped my feet.
"It's warm now." I rubbed my hands together, opened the mobile app, and started looking for stocks to buy.
"Today, do you want to have a big vote?" I thought with red eyes.
Isn't Zhou Xiaojing just worried about the school choice fee, as long as I earn the school choice fee as soon as possible, she may not force me to come out and beg for food......