Dongdong has become a lot more cheerful.

She would take the initiative to greet her classmates and teachers, and although she didn't get much response, she was a little more confident.

Dongdong's father looked at Dongdong, who was gradually cheerful, and there was a smile on his face.

It was dusk, and Dongdong's father had just finished his day's work, and he was walking on the road, clutching his day's salary tightly in his hand.

Unconsciously, he has drifted north for ten years, and these ten years are not too good to be good, and bad is not too bad, and the days are always different from what he imagined.

He got married, but he didn't start a business, he had children, but he lost his wife.

The girl who was once as simple as him has now become a woman who is a stranger to him. She learned to dislike and not to be satisfied.

She was disgusted with his lack of interest, and she was not satisfied with the tight life after marriage, and after this same twilight, she left him and left Dongdong.

He didn't know where she had gone, he just knew that she probably wouldn't come back.

He didn't hate her, because he was simple when he left the village, but he never left him. It's just that he will always feel guilty in the face of Dongdong who asks his mother where he is going all day long.

A man's life is only about thirty years old, and before the age of thirty, a man can be ignorant, can do wrong things, and can give up everything to pursue his ethereal dreams. But after the age of thirty, a man must be sensible, do the right thing, and decide whether to give up his dreams.

He died at the age of twenty-two when she left, but he was reborn for Dongdong, for this arguably his only family in this city, he didn't have time to feel anything, as long as Dongdong was happy, his life would have meaning.

Dongdong, who used to have low self-esteem, is finally happy, chess has given her a different world, and it has also given her a cheerful personality again, she no longer asks where her mother has gone, and she doesn't care whether it is steamed buns or the most ordinary meals in her lunch box.

All she cared about was her father and the chess in front of her.

I heard that she is going to become a professional chess player.

Dongdong's father is full of pride, although he doesn't understand what the meaning of a professional chess player is, and he doesn't know if a professional chess player can change the life he and Dongdong are currently living in poverty, but Dongdong's smile also makes him work energetically every day.

Today is his payday, and because of his hard work, his leader gave him an extra two hundred dollars in bonuses.

Summer is coming soon, and as long as he works harder, he may get a generous heat subsidy for him than others.

He decided to celebrate, celebrating his days with Dongdong, he licked his lips, and stopped longingly looking at the convenience store next to him that sold all kinds of high-end ingredients that could only be seen on TV.

He hesitated for a moment, pushed the door open, and walked inside.

There are a lot of people in convenience stores, most of them are young people, they may be about the same age as Dongdong's father, but their faces do not have the restraint of Dongdong's father.

They skillfully carry all kinds of beautifully packaged snacks and frozen foods on the shelves, holding mobile phones in line, but on their faces, they can rarely see satisfaction.

Dongdong's father walked to the freezer in a restrained manner, he looked at the Japanese-style quick-frozen food with a price of more than ten or twenty yuan, and calculated in his heart whether it was worth it or not.

But soon, Dongdong's lunch box suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

Dongdong brings food to school every day, basically he will cook a few home-cooked dishes for Dongdong every day, although his skills are good, but the constraints of life make him can only cook one meat and two vegetables for Dongdong.

Recently, the price of pork has been getting higher and higher, plus the interest classes for Dongdong newspaper and the supplementary fees for cultural classes in the school, he has not had much spare money in his pocket.

Therefore, for a lunch of one meat and two vegetables, there is less and less meat.

For fifteen yuan, you can buy a small half catty of pork. But at this convenience store, which is out of place with him, he can only buy two sandwiches with a dash of cheese and cream and two pieces of ham.

No matter how it is calculated, it is a loss, although he thinks so, he still takes two for Dongdong to make lunch tomorrow.

Five yuan a rice ball wrapped in seaweed, is there meat in it?

He thought about it as he stuffed it into his hand again and decided to make breakfast for Dongdong.

Twelve yuan for a carton of imported milk, he didn't even think about picking it up again.

A group of eight yuan, I heard that the raw eggs from the island country were carried by him again.

Soon, his big hands were stuffed with convenience store items.

He held it, as satisfied as a multimillionaire.

Although he knew that the price of these sandwiches, rice balls, milk, eggs, and snacks combined was just a daily consumption in many ordinary families.

But he still held his head proudly high.

After all, it's all he can give his daughter.

At the end of the checkout, a total of 102 yuan was spent.

He generously took out half of today's bonus, the crumpled hundred-dollar bill, and the few coins that had not been seen for a long time, which only made the young girl behind the cashier disgusted.

She indifferently took the banknote handed by Dongdong's father, and subconsciously asked, do you want a bag? Two cents a piece.

Dongdong's father shook his head and refused.

He walked out with this mass of things in his arms in her and the startled eyes of the young men behind him who were about his age.

The sun was shining and the sunset was beautiful.

Although behind him, there were many sympathetic, shameful, and incomprehensible glances.

But none of this affected his steadfast steps.

That's it, step by step, he walked home.

"What a pitiful man this man is!"

"This man is really unproductive!"

"I will never become such a man in the future!"

"I won't look for a husband like this in the future."

"Me too."

The young men and women behind him laughed at Dongdong's father in their hearts.

But Dongdong's father has always been moving forward step by step in the face of these ridicules.

Perhaps, most ordinary men, they are also like this, under the eyes of countless people who do not understand, step by step for their families to endure humiliation and burden.

Dingdong, who was playing chess, heard the sound of the security door opening at home.

She happily put down her chess pieces and ran out of the room, looking at the food in her father's hand in surprise and surprise.

She hurriedly stepped forward to help her father take everything he had.

"It's all yours." Dongdong's father said proudly.

At this moment, Dongdong's father felt that he wanted to be a hero.

And Dongdong also felt that the father who said this sentence was originally a hero.

A hero in her heart, irreplaceable, and can be relied on.

"Dad, hard work!" Dongdong didn't take these foods apart for the first time, but put down the things and hugged his father gently.

In her eyes, she also has the same proud light as this poor man who has no prospects in the eyes of others.

He was proud of her, and why wasn't she proud of having such a father?