The afternoon sun was still so strong, like a large pot of honey poured from the sky, so brilliant that it poured down, and immediately the whole place was golden. The dazzling western sun, leaping in through the doors and windows without obstruction, is like a giant mirror, exposing this small restaurant to the extreme, sparkling under the snowy sky. Under the sunlight, the gold sign in front of the door, like a huge poster, embedded in the black border, is even more obvious and dazzling.

As soon as the meal arrived, the restaurant began to get busy. Sun Xiaohong spread a snow-white tablecloth on each table, and on top of each tablecloth, she placed a napkin box and a small kettle. Then wait for the guests to come and eat. She's a serious person, as long as she tells it once, she can do it right away. Not only is she nimble, but she is also willing to work hard, and every day when she arrives at the store, she cleans the inside and out. At this point, Master Wang served her, and she was also very relieved.

More and more guests came in one after another, and they walked in twos and threes. Most of these guests, acquaintances in the village, after they entered the door, sat down on the chairs, picked up the recipe and hurriedly ordered. At this time, Sun Xiaohong walked up to them with a smile, poured them tea respectfully, and then waited aside with a small book in his hand. After the guests ordered the dishes according to the recipe, she immediately wrote them down one by one, and then took them to the kitchen and handed them to Chef Wang.

Chef Wang didn't speak when he saw it, he silently wrote down the name of the dish, picked up the big spoon casually, quickly opened the stove, and then turned on the fire to stir-fry. He was busy at the smoky stove, with his hands and feet, his eyes, nose and ears, and he was so busy that he stood for three or four hours at a time. After a few hours, he walked out the back door, stood in front of the open doorway, tore the white towel from his neck, and gasped for air as he wiped his sweat. The skinny cook is 800 pounds, it seems that he is a chef, he doesn't have to drink water to eat every day, and he is full of oil smoke.

Sun Xiaohong spread out inside and out, serving tea and pouring water for a while, and serving food and taking napkins for a while. When she met some picky guests, she also had to accompany a lot of good words to explain the reason, and after the guests paid the bill and left, she had to take turns picking up the dishes and chopsticks on the dining table, and after she scrubbed the dining table one by one, she also had to wash the dishes in the kitchen. With such a gust of wind, she seemed to be even more nervous than Master Wang. Sometimes there are customers at a large table in the store, and her feet seem to be faster than usual. When she was not busy, she came to the kitchen, stood aside, and silently watched Master Wang stir-fry, looking at it, she also learned to fry a few side dishes.

Master Wang's restaurant is not big, more than a dozen tables of guests come and go, go and come, all are repeat customers, eat green food, although the consumption is not high, but the small profits are quick turnover, but it is not obvious to stuff Master Wang's pocket.

Every afternoon, when the meal is eaten, it is the golden time in the store, and Master Wang's children will come to the store to help collect the money. When the guests are satisfied, they can sit together and eat dinner quietly. At this time, Sun Xiaohong, looking at the sumptuous dinner on the table, she was so tired that she had no appetite at all, she picked up a pancake with chopsticks, put it in her mouth, chewed a few bites slowly, and drank a few mouthfuls of vegetable soup, and she couldn't eat it. After filling her stomach, she went to the hut in the kitchen to change out of her overalls, put on her own clothes, and walked out the door with her legs raised. As she walked around the room that day, one of her heels was so tired that she couldn't move.

As soon as she walked to the door, she saw Cui Er, the communicator in the village, hurriedly riding her bicycle towards the restaurant. When he saw Sun Xiaohong, he hurriedly stopped the bicycle, blocked in front of her, and said with a smile: "Second sister, are you just going home? I'm glad I arrived just in time, otherwise I would have to go to your house to find you. Give, your good news, go home and see! As he spoke, he handed an envelope into Sun Xiaohong's hand.

Sun Xiaohong thought that he came to the restaurant to eat, so she didn't pay much attention, she was in a hurry to go home, so she lowered her head and continued to walk forward. Hearing Cui Er say this, she stopped. She took the envelope handed over by Cui Er, looked at him incomprehensibly and said, "Well, our store has just finished busy." What's going on with this letter? Where did it come from? ”

"The middle school under the hill. Did you take their recruitment exam a few days ago, it seems to be a handwritten letter from Teacher Gu to you. I don't know much about this, but if you take it back and look at it, you'll understand what's going on. Second sister, I still have something to do, I'll go first! After Cui Er finished speaking, he got on the bicycle with a leg, twisted the handlebars, and walked away.

This sudden news can be said to be a great thing for Sun Xiaohong, she listened to Cui Er's words and was stunned for a moment. She didn't know whether she was happy or sad, she stood there in a daze, stupidly seeing that Cui Er was gone, she came to her senses, her two trembling hands tightly grasped the letter, her heart was like a drum, and she was so excited that she couldn't speak.

She hadn't been so happy for a long time, and she immediately crossed the road and excitedly walked into the familiar alley. The sunset slowly fell into the embrace of the earth, and she felt that the world was so beautiful, and the little lights in the village, wrapped in the dusk of the night, were silently immersed in the silvery moonlight, which was really like a dream that was about to leave.

She quietly returned to the house, gently pushed open the courtyard door, came to the door, and looked inside, only to see her mother sitting at home by the sewing machine, looking down to sew an old pair of pants that had been scratched by a tree branch. Nervous, she walked over and handed the letter to her mother. Mom's hand didn't stop, as if she didn't see it. Her two feet continued to pedal. Sun Xiaohong's eyes kept staring at the needle and shaking up and down, and the sewing machine suddenly rang for a long time before stopping.

"You don't have to show me these things. Say, what's the matter? Mom said coldly. She turned her pants inside out and tucked them under the stitches again without any concern.

In a panic, Sun Xiaohong tore open the envelope with great flattery, and when she shook off the letter and saw the words written on it asking her to report as soon as possible tomorrow, she took the letter to her mother again.

Mom turned her head and stared at the small line on it, and her eyes suddenly widened. She didn't ask about the situation, she immediately put down the torn pants in her hand, excitedly pulled the letter, read it word for word from beginning to end, and then skimmed the letterhead into Xiaohong's hand, and suddenly rushed out of the door. She trotted all the way to the courtyard and called Sun Guodong: "Old Sun, take a look, our Xiaohong has been admitted to a private teacher!" The letter said she was going there tomorrow to report for duty. ”

Her voice, like a gust of wind, rippled in the alley for a long time, and then floated lightly into the distance.

Sun Xiaohong stood in the room, she watched her mother run out of the room nervously, and her heart finally fell to the ground. She suddenly felt that the sky and the earth were very wide, the starry night was very bright, and the road ahead was very wide. It seems that the indifference of everyone around her to her will also be slowly resolved. As the saying goes: "When the wall falls, everyone pushes it, and the drums are beaten." "When I think of all the troubles of these days, they will disappear. Sun Xiaohong suddenly felt that she didn't seem to be so sad and unbearable!

After Sun Guodong learned the news, he was naturally happy for his daughter. Xiaohong sat in the room for a long time, she didn't know what to say to her father, so she went back to sleep quietly. Xiaohong's mother is the one who can't hide things, this night, she not only went to the fourth aunt's house to show off, but also went to the third aunt's house for a walk, and when she returned home, it was already the middle of the night.

"It's not that I'm talking about you, you just have a fast mouth, and you can't hold four taels of sesame oil in your dog's stomach, so you can't stop anything. Isn't Xiaohong just a private teacher, what's there to show off, there are more children in the village who have been admitted to college, which parent is like you on the mouth, you have nothing to do and go out and shout, and you don't know what beauty is? Can it be stopped! When Xiaohong's mother came back in the middle of the night, Sun Guodong, who was sitting on the kang and smoking, saw that Xiaohong's mother came back so late, and knocked the cigarette bag and pot in his hand to the kang edge, and kept complaining.

"As long as you're nosy, you didn't see what they said about Xiaohong behind their backs. One by one, the dogs look down on people with low eyes, they can't help them, they say cool things one by one, one is more than the other, and they don't know which tendon hurts them because our Xiaohong hurts. Now that Xiaohong has been admitted to a private teacher, I just let them see how weak our Xiaohong is compared to her children? Xiaohong's mother said, took off the shoes on her feet, and went to sleep on the kang without clothes.

"You love to compete and be competitive, so many days have passed, they love to say what they want, anyway, they can't grow up, they have lived in an alley for so many years, they have to be forgiving and forgiving, what are you doing with them?" After Sun Guodong carefully put the cigarette pouch and pot into a cloth bag, he pressed the switch on the wall, and the room suddenly became dark.

On the morning of Sun Xiaohong's work, many women's heads suddenly poked out in the quiet alley. They all hid in the door and peeked secretly, probably out of envy and jealousy, and no one came out to greet her. All kinds of different eyes swirled around her body, and she was hairy.

Dayiwa's mother remarried, and Shimitsu's mother moved away. Xiaofeng's mother had a cerebral thrombosis, and even the fourth aunt, who loved vanity, stood at the door with her head shaking her head and slurring her speech, sending her back out of the alley. Thinking about some of the harm these people have done to themselves, it's actually quite hateful. Sun Xiaohong had to admire their mouths and imagination. The reason why she can have so much frustration today is more than half of the reason why they are fueling the flames and knocking on the side.

Sun Xiaohong is no longer angry with these people now, no matter how bad their mouths are and their scheming is too much, they are just addicted, and the gossip that comes out of their mouths is often self-defeating, self-defeating, think about Da Yan's mother, who pulls her long tongue all day long, and it turns out that the joke on her head is worse than others', when she didn't move away, from the end of the alley to the end of the alley, she didn't say the words of a bad person for half her life, she hurt others and hurt herself, scolded and scolded, In the end, she didn't end well, and the result was all self-inflicted.