Another morning, the old curtains could not prevent the sunlight from penetrating, only making it unable to send much brightness or warmth. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The meager light that had finally entered, each fighting alone, finally snatched the speckled small areas from the room ruled by darkness.

In the light and shadow, it can be vaguely seen that the room is very small, but there are two wooden beds. They were as distinct as the curtains just a few steps away, old in style, peeling in paint, and no longer young.

Li Min, who was still asleep, was lying on the lower wooden bed on the left side, her eyelids fluttering slightly, but this could not drive away the light that fell on it. So, her eyelids fluttered more and more frequently, and finally slowly opened, revealing a pair of misty eyes.

Through the hazy sight, the first thing that imprinted into Li Min's eyes were the various mold blocks on the ceiling that had long been accustomed to due to long-term water leakage; as well as on the walls on both sides, which for several years have been yellow and black painted walls.

After this state of confusion lasted for a few seconds, Li Min's eyes gradually became clearer and his mind gradually became active.

I woke up.

Am I awake?

Suddenly, Li Min's eyes widened beyond imagination, and she took a sharp breath and lifted the thin quilt so hard that it even slid off the bed and fell to the clean-cleaned floor.

But at this time, Li Min didn't have the heart to pay attention to those at all, she turned over sharply and stuffed her hand under the pillow.

Then I felt for the thick envelope.

It's still there, it's not a dream.

Li Min let out a long breath, his expression slowly soothing. She sat on the bed in a daze, holding the envelope in both hands and holding it to her chest, her body motionless.

After a long time, it was not until the bare air skin began to feel cold that Li Min tucked the envelope back under his pillow. Then she got dressed and climbed out of bed, leaned sideways out of the narrow gap between the beds, and stood in front of the only furniture in the narrow room.

This is a pale yellow wood grain dresser, whether it is an oval mirror with the word "Xixi" carved on the top, or other surfaces that have been painstakingly wiped for a long time, they all look equally clean and smooth.

On either side of the wooden frame in the center of it, there are two piles of objects. On the right, there are two combs, a small watering can and a feather duster; On the left, there are key rings, mascara brushes, eyebrow tongs, nail polish, bottles and bottles marked with various languages, water-red phones strung with exquisite ornaments, wet wipes that Li Min just got in his hand, and ...... And so on and so forth.

I don't have to stay in this kind of place anymore.

A few minutes later, looking in the direction of the pillow, Li Min made up his mind, and then pushed the door open.

The lack of lubrication of the wooden door makes a "creaking" sound, and the slippers kick a "rustling" sound on the concrete floor. In the kitchen, a woman who was busy with work said in the voice of a middle-aged woman: "Minmin is up, brush your teeth and wash your face, I'll make you a bowl of noodles." ”

"Mom, don't eat too much, I can't eat it." Li Min walked over, stood in the position that her mother had just vacated, took the toothbrush she had just applied with toothpaste, and said, "Mom, I have something I want to discuss with you......

"What's wrong with Minmin? You say. The woman said as she took the water.

"I ...... I...... I ......"

Hearing the hesitant tone in her daughter's mouth, which was very familiar in the past and had disappeared for a while recently, the expression on the woman's face froze slightly, and the cup full of water in her hand trembled slightly, and a few drops fell to the ground.

She held on to the stove and concentrated for a while, handed the cup to Li Min steadily, and then made a smile that was almost reluctant, and said in a voice that could barely hear a sigh: "Min Min hasn't been out to play for a long time, and when my mother goes to get my father's pension, I'll give you two hundred, okay?" ”

"No, I'm not going to play, I'm going to ......"

"Minmin obediently......" The woman raised her rough palm and interrupted her daughter's voice.

She stroked her daughter's smooth and tender cheeks in a way that exuded infinite love, and said to her daughter in a tone that exerted infinite gentleness: "Minmin, I can only take so much this month, the family owes 37 yuan for a few months of water bills, and my mother wants to pay it later; The 75 yuan of rice in Boss Zhang's shop has also dragged on for several days......"

At this, the woman paused, and before she knew it, she raised her head, frowned, and began to wrench the fingers of her other hand.

After a while, when the woman continued to speak, it had been replaced by another soft voice similar to self-talk: "...... These two items are 112 yuan, and the 300 yuan borrowed from Aunt Zhu last year came to the end last month; This month, in addition to the family's rice money and vegetable money, I have to leave 70 yuan to pay next month's rent......"

In the kitchen, the woman gently counted the expenses, and she tilted her head to look at the black greasy ceiling above her head, no longer as if she was talking to her daughter.

The woman's hands twisted together at some point, her cheeks moved slightly, and every time she said a number, the wrinkles on it seemed to be getting deeper every minute.

She spoke slowly, for she had to calculate the totals which were difficult for her, both in the arithmetic itself, and in addition to the arithmetic.

Mom, I'm not asking for money......

Looking at her mother's slightly trembling lips, Li Min's heart also trembled slightly.

She wanted to interrupt her mother several times, but perhaps because of the letter she received yesterday, or perhaps because of the emotions she had accumulated over a long period of time, there was always something in her throat that kept her silent.

As if for the first time, Li Min saw her mother's calloused hands, wrinkled cheeks, and cloudy sunken eyes.

Gradually, Li Min's vision began to blur, and the mother in front of her seemed to coincide with the image of the most common grandmother in the comic books I saw when I was a child. And this old grandmother, at the moment, is using a middle-aged female voice, counting the small money that used to be so insignificant to her, and squandered in the blink of an eye.

Suddenly, Li Min understood that every time there was one more bottle on the dresser, and every time she answered the phone call to go out in the middle of the night, an extra tuft of white hair would grow on her mother's head.

The kitchen was bright at sunrise, but the light that fell on my mother's head was like the afterglow of the sunset, illuminating there with more white hair and less black hair.

In an instant, Li Min's nose suddenly became slightly sour, and the determination he had made just now suddenly collapsed. She sniffled vigorously, put down the cup and toothbrush, took the woman's hands and said, "Mom...... I don't want money, I just want to ...... Just looking for a job next week...... I'd like to discuss it with you. ”

……

Li Min took the dishes and chopsticks into the kitchen, unscrewed the faucet and brushed it like never before, and then returned to the small room.

After dressing up a little, Li Min walked to the side of the bed, took out a thick envelope from under the pillow and pasted it on his face, gently polishing his robe.

What to do? With an indescribably complicated expression on her face, she once again looked up at the room where she had lived for more than ten years. Looking at the old furniture, the stains on the walls, and the mold on the ceiling, Li Min bit her lower lip tightly, wrinkled her brows deeply, and her heart sank lower and lower.

It wasn't until she turned her gaze to the two combs on the right side of the dresser, a small watering can, a feather duster, and a pile of objects on the left that her expression gradually relaxed.

The things on the left side of the dresser are getting more and more day by day, and the things on the right side are getting less and less, and the daughter is growing up day by day, and the mother is aging day by day......

Thinking about it, she slowly made up her mind again, a new one.

Looking for a job in Star City next week.

This time, she believes that no one or anything can make her change again.

Pulling open the drawer of the dresser, Li Min gently stuffed the envelope to the bottom of the award certificate that her mother had put away when she was a child, and then she closed the drawer and walked out of the door.

Walking in Huaxi Alley, Li Min raised her head slightly, a habit she had formed since that night.

But despite this, the rest of her eyes still noticed at once that in the position of the depression and some cracks on all sides, there was a girl walking by a girl with negligible clothes, colorful heads, and a phone in her hand laughing.

Or women.

Li Min suddenly couldn't help but shiver, she quickly looked away from there, and ran out of the alley at a speed that seemed to be being chased.

Her feet were bobbing back and forth, her heart pounding violently, and she walked straight to a barbershop in front of the mirror outside the shop before she suddenly stopped.

In the mirror: a girl of about seventeen or eighteen years old, neat and plain clothes, black and shiny hair, is slowly spreading her brows, blooming into a smile, the sun shining on her face, so that it is full of youthful vitality.

At the same moment, in the oval mirror in the small room: an old woman who looked to be about fifty or sixty years old, with simple and old clothes and gray and dull hair, was frowning and holding a thick document in front of her.

In her eyes, a large proportion of confusion and confusion were condensed.

Yes, the crepe words on the paper were too much of a struggle for her.

She stood dumbfounded, maintaining a posture of hard thought, until after a long time, when she suddenly froze, and a look of sudden realization appeared on her face.

In the next moment, she suddenly put down the thick document and suddenly raised her hand to cover her eyes.

But between the fingers, large droplets of water have kept sliding out.

They fall in mid-air, reflected in the sunlight and reflect the crystal clear light to the fullest.

On the dresser sits diagonally an envelope with three rows of inkjet printed text on its surface.

From: Pearl City Harbor Graphic Design Advertising Company/Personnel Department

Recipient: Xiangcheng Computer School/Graphic Design Class/Li Min

Note: A letter of appointment is attached, so be careful to send and receive it.