Unexpectedly, the father and daughter didn't come home for a day and a night! When they met at the door of the house, Shi Jiaojiao couldn't help but dodge her eyes when she called "Dad" because of the weakness of going to the bar; And unexpectedly, Daddy Shi's voice was also sluggish, "Jiaojiao." The father and daughter didn't look at each other, and appeared dejectedly in front of Shi's mother, who was busy making dinner.

"You two are so good, father and daughter, go out together and come back together! You're better! Mom pointed to Dad's nose, "Don't say a word, who do you want to scare to death?" Father Shi moved his lips and stopped talking. The shrewd woman took a closer look at her husband, only to see that his eyes were sunken and his beard was unshaven, and she couldn't help but "chuckle" and ask, "What's wrong with you?" The man looked at his daughter standing aside, shook his head, turned and walked to the back of the house, "I'll go and see in the field, and call me for dinner." Shi Jiaojiao looked inexplicable, "Didn't my dad come back yesterday?" "Isn't it, did you two make an appointment?" Between the words, he put the dried vegetable porridge on the table in the hall.

Dinner was spinach porridge, steamed salted fish and cold kelp. The family ate silently, and Shi's mother quietly observed her husband with a sad face, his chopsticks skipped over the two side dishes, and he still drank some porridge empty. "Dad, don't you like kelp the most?" Shi Jiaojiao asked with an ignorant face, who would have thought that Shi's father would put down his chopsticks, touch the back of his daughter's head, and said, "You eat, you eat." Shi Jiaojiao looked at her mother inexplicably, and the woman raised her chin and said lightly: "Eat, let's talk about it after eating." ”

After dinner, her mother came to the room while Shi Jiaojiao was washing dishes, and she turned on the light to see her husband sitting on the bed of the landlord's old-fashioned bed, looking depressed. "Shrimp don't sell well, huh?" Shi's mother asked softly, and when she saw that the other party didn't answer, she said, "It's not good, it's not good, you scare the child like this." At the mention of Shi Jiaojiao, Dad let out a rough breath, covered his eyes and said, "How can I be the one who suffers in the end!" Mother Shi stepped forward, squatted in front of her father, and said, "Don't say anything frustrating, I'll discuss it with you when you say it!" Father Shi slowly raised his eyes to look into his wife's eyes.

"Almost lost! With the more than 2,000 in my hand before, plus the 3,000 you gave later, I only brought back less than 2,000 yuan, and I almost lost it! Father Shi grabbed his hair and avoided his wife's instantly gloomy gaze. How so? Shi's mother asked dryly, and Shi's father was even more heartbroken when he talked about what happened.

The fisherman is an active man, and when he picks up goods at the city's fish market, he finds that wild lobsters and yellow eels are in high demand. After he returned, he handed over the stalls in the vegetable market to his wife to take care of, and he gathered scattered fishermen like Shi's father to buy a large number of wild aquatic products to buy in the city. The purchase price he gave was high, everyone was willing to sell to him, and at the same time, the demand in the city was large, and the goods ran fast, which was really a win-win situation at the beginning.

At four o'clock in the morning that day, when Dad Shi arrived at the receiving point with all his strength, there were already several other sellers waiting. Father Shi secretly compared, proud that he was the person with the largest amount of goods and the largest number of fish and shrimp that day. The fishing boss took the computer and walked out, "I've come and weighed them one by one!" He turned his head to look at Father Shi and said, "Master Shi, you have a large amount, can they let them go first with few goods?" Father Shi raised his hand generously.

Usually, the cars in the city should have come down and waited on the side, but today all the bulk goods are over, and the people in the city have not yet arrived. Father Shi thought that there was nothing else to do, so he stood on the side of the road and waited with the fisherman. After the two cigarettes were over, the fisherman was a little flustered, "If you don't come again, you won't be able to catch up with the morning market purchased in the city!" Dad Shi didn't understand much, and comforted the fishing boss, "It's okay to be a little later, I think it's possible to have a little situation on the road." As the two were talking, the nephew who was helping at the fishing stall came running, "Uncle, phone!" ”

The phone call was from the connector on the aquatic side, and things took a turn for the worse: because the local TV station broadcast a news that "the man was sent to the hospital for emergency illness and died, and it is suspected that he was infected with parasites by eating crayfish before his death", the major aquatic products immediately issued a notice to suspend the trading of related products in advance, and will be notified separately after the facts are confirmed. Father Shi collapsed almost immediately, and kept muttering to himself: "How can you always be good, say that there are parasites, and say that if you can eat the dead, you will eat the dead, this can't ......"

The fisherman immediately made a decision, asked his wife to call the people who usually deliver the goods, first notified them to stop receiving the goods, and then said to the stunned Shi's father, "I cheated you, I will try my best to remedy it." I thought so...... "With Daddy Shi's temperament, he will only blame the bad luck, but he will not really put the responsibility entirely on the fishing boss." So according to the idea of the fishing boss, the two applied for a venue with the vegetable market to sell it all day in the local area, and how much could be saved.

"There's still time, let's figure it out!" After hearing this, Shi's mother gently sat down beside her husband and said. Father Shi looked at his wife with red eyes, "You, aren't you angry?" Mother Shi shook her head, "What's angry?" Can you get the money back when you're angry? Father Shi was full of shame, but his mood eased significantly, rubbed his nose and said: "If you can't do it, go to your friends to borrow it, Lao Niu also told me that day, if the girl has any difficulties in going to school, she should open her mouth!" Mom didn't answer, Dad didn't look over, and said, "I'm too impulsive this time, I will definitely change it in the future." ”

Shi Jiaojiao stood outside the door, she heard the whole conversation, and strangely, she did not feel the horror of the increased poverty as she did when she was a child, but accepted it calmly. Perhaps as the mind matures, people's receptivity must improve. Shi Jiaojiao symbolically knocked on the door, stood in front of her parents, and announced with a smile: "Fei Fei's shoe factory is recruiting summer workers, so I cut the thread and pack the box or something." From tomorrow, I'm going to make money too. ”

Shi Jiaojiao goes to school every day, goes out early and returns late, experiences her first job in a shoe factory, and sometimes works overtime to live in a house in the town with the sixth child; Dad put down the fish cage and started to run around the neighborhood all day long, hoping to find a stable income, and he even thought about going to the sixth father's factory to do a summer job first; As usual, Shi's mother tended to the small field behind the front house of the house in her spare time, and quietly asked around the village if there was any subsidy for going to college...... For the Shi family, it was really a surprisingly hot summer.

In mid-August, the postman rode the post-specific green mail cart and rode the green parcel on the evening when the sun was setting, swaying on the path in front of Zhuangzi. The thick-eyed and big-eyed postman shouted at the door for a long time, but there was no one in the Shi family, but shouted out the neighbor aunt next door who was rarely at home, "What's the matter, you can put it on the balcony for him!" The postman pulled over to the side of the road, picked up a large envelope, and said, "His child's letter of acceptance!" It's no joke, I'll have to wait for her family to come back! The neighbor's aunt put down the rag in her hand, "Is the child from another person really admitted to college?" It's not easy......"

On the same day, the shoe factory sent a batch of urgent goods to Zhejiang, and the packaging team was so busy that it flew up, and Shi Jiaojiao didn't drink a few sips of water all day, but fortunately, she got a rest the next day. Before eight o'clock, the night in the countryside was particularly pure, and the dark night was lined with stars, so much that it seemed as if it were about to overflow from the Milky Way and fall on people! Shi Jiaojiao carried the sixth child, and the two came home humming a small tune, never expecting that in the simple bungalow, the lights were bright, and a room full of people was crowded!

Glancing at the sixth child, Shi Jiaojiao looked at the familiar and unfamiliar faces in front of her suspiciously, most of them were from Zhuangzi, because they didn't usually have the opportunity to meet each other when they went to school. "What, what's wrong?" Shi Jiaojiao's heart sank, and she asked tremblingly. The thick-eyed postman smiled and handed over an envelope, "Open it yourself, everyone is waiting to take a look at this college admission letter!" "Huh? Arrived? Shi Jiaojiao took the envelope and glanced at her parents standing on the periphery.

The happy and kind neighbors dispersed after sharing the joy, leaving behind a family that had not come back to their senses. Only then did the sixth have the opportunity to read Shi Jiaojiao's admission letter, and asked with a red face: "Jiaojiao, is this your first choice?" Shi Jiaojiao pursed her lips and nodded vigorously. Here it is said that the report from September 10th to the 13th, yo, college is easier than middle school, and the start of school is later! Father Shi said with a notice similar to a "letter to parents". The four of them sat around the table, taking turns reading the contents of the envelope.

Shi Jiaojiao propped her forehead, stared at the A4 paper for a long time, and said coldly: "Count seven, seven, eight, eight, and eight, at least six thousand!" Mother Shi sighed, "What's more, don't you want to eat or drink?" You have to count the travel expenses, and you have to buy things to live in the school......" said and shook his head, looked at his husband and said, "It's much worse!" Father Shi nodded silently. Due to the presence of the sixth child, the family tacitly terminated the topic of lack of money.

Seeing that they didn't say anything, the sixth child glanced left and right, coughed lightly, blinked his big eyes and said, "My father always said that he saved me money for college, won't it come in handy now?" Shi Jiaojiao didn't react for a while, and asked casually, "What do you mean?" The sixth child put down the notice in his hand and said seriously, "Didn't my aunt say that the money is not enough?" My dad is rich! Anyway, I didn't have to go to college, so if you do, I'll go to school. I'll go talk to him tomorrow! Shi Jiaojiao couldn't say anything about the naïve and frank of the sixth child, and she couldn't afford to look at her parents and smile bitterly.

Although the sixth child and Shi Jiaojiao are good friends when they are young, the two parents have no intersection, and at most they appear in conversations with each other's children. There is no doubt that Lao Liuyi is sincere for Shi Jiaojiao, but putting it forward directly in this way undoubtedly pushed the speechless parents into an awkward position. When the sixth child really told her father, the parent would think: What an incompetent and cunning middle-aged couple this is! He actually took advantage of his children's contacts to borrow money from people who had hardly met him!

Father Shi patted his wife's shoulder and laughed loudly, "What is a good friend, this is!" He gave a thumbs up to the sixth man directly. After that, Dad Shi put down his hand, lowered his eyes and put away his smiling face, and said softly and firmly: "The matter of money should not be worried by children, if you are worried, it is the dereliction of duty of your parents." Lao Liu's watery eyes looked at Father Shi in confusion, and the man smiled at the girls, "Anyway, don't worry." Shi Jiaojiao took the sixth child's hand, "Fathers in the world are the same, he also saved money for me!" Lao Liu smiled sweetly when he heard the reason.

While the sixth child was taking a bath, Shi Jiaojiao went into her parents' room, and the two were burying their heads in something. Father Shi raised his head and said to his daughter, "Jiaojiao, don't be afraid, Dad must have a way." Shi Jiaojiao walked over and grabbed her mother's arm and said, "Don't be afraid, I'll find a way." "What?" "You can apply for student loans, study hard, and there are scholarships. That's what I've heard in town. ”

Unexpectedly, Shi's mother immediately objected, "The scholarship is your ability, don't talk about it." I've also inquired about student loans, but I don't want to do them. Your parents are strong, with hands and feet, how can they not afford you one! We just encounter special circumstances, and we really can't fight for these with people who are really suffering! Shi Jiaojiao still had to speak, but her mother seemed to be so angry, she waved her hand with red ears, "Anyway, there must be a way." ”

"Mom." Shi Jiaojiao leaned her face on the woman's shoulder and said, "I'm really not afraid at all. The woman stretched out her hand and gently stroked her daughter's hair.