Tao Zhizhi didn't speak, and her sister shouted: "Sister, feed us, we have to eat vegetable porridge." ”

Her father was a little angry: "How old is the child, and you still need to be fed?" Your sister is one of the second daughters, and the whole family will still expect her to turn over in the future? You two lose money and goods and dare to work your sister? Eat it yourself, don't eat if you can't eat it, hungry. ”

"Say what? They are all girls, and these two can also be admitted to the second daughter's middle school, and our children are smart. ”

Her mom said with a smile.

"God, are you going to exhaust me? A small bank clerk has to support two more students from the second female middle school, which is terrible, and my son will not be able to find a wife in his life. Really, you really dare to think that I can let Xiaohui finish middle school, and I will thank God. ”

"Dad, I'm going to college."

Tao Zhizhi heard her father say this, a little proud.

"Going to college? How much does that cost? You are really not tired of your father is unwilling, if you can finish the second daughter's middle school, you will definitely be able to find a good family when you go on a blind date in the future, and collect more dowry for your brother to save, this is enough, what do you want? We are a small family, it is a great thing to study in a second daughter's middle school, if you don't have a school to give you free, or you can't afford to read it, just your clothes, expensive to death, you have to be careful when washing, and you have to iron, this is not a dress that our family can wear, the color is so light, and it is not cotton, what kind of material is this, it is really annoying. Her mother was still chattering.

Her father was unhappy, and picked up the bowl and slammed it: "Okay, okay, as soon as you eat, you will nag, do you want someone to eat?" ”

Although he was very unhappy that his wife gave birth to three daughters, and it costs money to raise these three daughters, fortunately, the eldest daughter is smart and can be admitted to the second daughter's middle school, or she is born for free, which is not many people in the city can get glory, so although he is very dissatisfied with his daughters, he can just complain a few words to the eldest daughter, and if others nag, he will be angry.

It may be that this voice is loud, and the son cries.

The wife was busy carrying her son around the house, complaining as she went: "It's too much, I'll just say a few words, it's better than you beating the children." Have a good meal, you have to make the chickens and dogs jump. ”

"If you want to cry out and cry, don't dangle in front of your eyes, it's really annoying."

Mr. Tao was very angry, drank the porridge in one gulp, threw down the bowl and left.

Tao Zhizhi drank the porridge silently, it was really unpleasant, she hated the smell of rotten vegetables and leaves, and she had to brush her teeth carefully before going to school every day, for fear of being smelled of cabbage on her body, she kept lying, making people misunderstand that her family was very good, she didn't want to be known that she was actually the eldest daughter of the small staff family, and there were two sisters and a younger brother at home, her mother took care of three children unkempt every day, complaining a lot, her father was even more worried, a small staff job of copying and writing, always worried about being laid off, after all, it was a 40-year-old person, I don't have any background in the bank, and I only rely on copying to get by. Sometimes after work, I have to stay up late to help the newspaper copy part of the manuscript to earn some extra money, and the next morning I wake up with red and swollen eyes like rabbits: I am reluctant to spend money on electricity, and the kerosene lamp smokes.

Her father worked so hard, even if he made a fuss because of annoyance, she would admit it after hitting her a few times, thinking of this, Tao Zhizhi sighed softly. His father's cry came from the back room: "Don't sigh, your good luck will be finished by you." ”

"No, you came back today with such a face, are you angry again at the bank?"

At this time, Mrs. Tao thought that her husband's face was not good when he came home, so she hurriedly leaned over and asked.

"Well, no, who dares to make me angry? I'm a veteran of the staff. ”

It is indeed an old staff, this old word often presses his heart heavily, he is most afraid of layoffs, he must start with an older person with no background expertise, it just so happens that he has all three, just rely on a good word to get a job, may be lost at any time. This big family, if you lose your job, you really can't find a place to beg, after all, you are a person who has studied in middle school, where can you beg for food without face? It's really hard to get a job at the age of forty.

On the way home, I heard a few young employees talk about layoffs, and one of them smiled and said: "Mr. Tao, get ready, anyway, a few of us have asked about other jobs outside, and we can't be tied to a rope and wait for death." ”

"At this time, I am afraid it will be difficult to find a new job." Now that it's frozen, it's hard to find a job when the bill is settled at the end of the year.

"Yes, you have to find someone to introduce, this year is not good, there is no introducer guarantor, it is really difficult to find a bowl of rice."

Mr. Tao thinks about himself, the lowest level of the small staff, there is no one in the family with a little background, mixed with a small staff like him is already the best way out, the rest of the so-called relatives, nothing more than pulling foreign cars, farming in the countryside, working in the yarn factory, it is good not to drag yourself down, no one can help.

Thinking of this, his mood became heavier and heavier, and when he got home, he saw that it was vegetable porridge again, and the rice grains were getting less and less, and there were more and more cabbages, and he was irritable and hated to lift the table, he held back his anger and ordered himself not to lift it, a few bowls of rice porridge, no matter how little rice is, it is food, and the poor will be punished for wasting food.

"Your dad must have been at the bank." Mrs. Tao coaxed her son and sat down to drink vegetable porridge.

Tao Zhizhi silently fed the two sisters with a spoon, one bite of this, one bite of that, if you give more to this and less to that, she will immediately scream: "Sister is eccentric!" ”

"You have to be angry, find a good family in the future, your father won't go out and be so angry, hey, you're seventeen, what kind of books are you studying, it's better to marry a good family on a blind date as soon as possible."

"I can't finish middle school and can't find a good family."

"Nonsense, you don't look ugly, everyone around here knows that you are among the second daughters, and it must be easy to find someone on a blind date."

"What? Everyone in the neighborhood knows about it? Mom, who did you talk to? Tao Zhizhi was taken aback, her movements were a little heavier, and her sister shouted: "It hurts, do you want to knock out my teeth so hard?" ”

"That's a good thing, of course everyone should know it. What are you so surprised to do? You were the first of the two girls to be admitted, what a long face. ”

Tao Zhizhi doesn't want everyone around here to know where he is studying, who knows what relatives these people have, what if there are people who know the students of his school? If this news is known to others, knowing that her Tao Zhizhi's father is a small clerk in the bank, there are a bunch of younger sisters and younger brothers at home, and her mother is going to the morning market to pick up the cabbage leaves peeled by others, this is really a shame to die, how can you live in the second daughter.