Dongdong's father suddenly felt that he had failed in life.

Obviously, today is the big day for his baby daughter to participate in the competition, and he also asked the company for leave in advance, but he had to return to the company to work overtime in the middle of the competition.

It's a weekend, but it doesn't seem like he's had a full weekend in a long time.

Although he also knows that the current 996 and frequent overtime work are the norm for most adults in China, he also inexplicably feels that this normality may ruin a person's life.

Especially after having a family, 996 and overtime have also made many people lose the meaning of life.

Working overtime day after day, working year after year, it is said that it is for a better life, but how many people have enjoyed life?

Tired of living, regretful misses, looking back on the pain of the past, everyone seems to be just a passerby in this world.

Hard work, said to be for the elderly parents, but also for the children under their knees. But in the end, what parents probably want is not the so-called good life, but the companionship and meticulous care of their children.

Perhaps, even the children under their knees want not to be how great their parents are in the eyes of others, but to hope that their parents can stand behind him when they are sad and confused.

He also seemed to remember a sentence, that is, life not only has poetry and distance, but also firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea in front of him.

But he also felt that he had never seen poetry and distance in his life, and all he saw was firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea in life.

He walked down the road and suddenly slowed down.

He looked around blankly, and he felt that the originally familiar avenue was full of prosperity that he had never seen that did not belong to him.

……

It was almost nine o'clock in the evening when he got home.

He tiptoed open the door, placing a large bag of snacks on the table, and then knocked lightly on the door.

He began to be a little scared, afraid that his most cherished daughter would be angry with him.

I am also afraid that my useless father will make my daughter, who has become a professional chess player, feel ashamed.

He was originally a person who was not good at fantasy, but the reality made him think more than ever before.

Dongdong opened the door tiredly, at this time she was reviewing Yue Jianping's last game of chess today, she really wanted to go further from this game of chess, she also wanted to get the first place, to make life better.

But after reviewing and reviewing, she suddenly found that Yue Jianping's chess could not give her any room for improvement.

After all, they had different starting points, and her only choice could only be one of Yue Jianping's many choices.

It was also her first time that she realized the importance of talent.

……

Dongdong's father saw the loss in Dongdong's eyes, and he thought that it was his own reason that Dongdong did not have yesterday's confidence in his eyes.

He hurriedly picked up the snacks he bought on the way from the table and stuffed them to Dongdong, and then he said sorry with a flushed face.

Dongdong looked at her father's appearance, and she suddenly felt a little distressed.

She cautiously opened the bag, and looked at the assortment of snacks in the bag, and she didn't know what to say.

These snacks cost five dollars cheaper, and twenty or thirty more expensive.

Even many snacks are something that my father has been reluctant to buy.

These things that should have made her feel happy made her feel a little sad at this time.

She picked up a packet of beef jerky from it, stuffed it into her father, and said, "Retreat." ”

Father looked at the beef jerky in his hand, he swallowed his saliva and shook his head and said, don't retreat.

"Retreat."

Dongdong's attitude is extremely resolute, she looks at this bag of beef jerky, she remembers that when she was just in elementary school, the school organized a spring outing, and when she and her father were picking snacks in the supermarket, her attention was all focused on beef jerky.

At that time, she had no concept of money, and she didn't know how hard her father made money, she only knew that the beef jerky looked delicious.

And her father looked at Dongdong with a longing face, although his face was a little embarrassed, but he did not hesitate to buy this bag of beef jerky.

It's just that when he was checking out, Dongdong heard a word from his father.

That's how the price of this pack of beef jerky is higher than the price of a pound of beef.

Dongdong didn't understand this sentence at the time, and when she understood, she hadn't eaten beef jerky before.

……

"It's too expensive to take it." Dongdong is still insisting, and she even made an excuse for this insistence: "This pack of beef jerky is enough for a meal of KFC." ”

However, when her father heard this, he tore open the packaging of beef jerky directly in front of Dongdong, took out a piece of beef jerky from it and handed it to Dongdong's mouth.

"Then you can't go back."

Dongdong looked at her father, who was more resolute than her, in surprise, she lowered her head, did not speak or take the beef jerky.

"Isn't it a shame for you to have a father like me?" The man also lowered his head, and he asked Dongdong tremblingly.

Dongdong listened to this question, and she hurriedly raised her head.

"How so? You're the best father in the world! ”

"I'm the best father in the world...?" The man smiled, and he smiled very sadly: "How can a porter be a good father if he has an air conditioner?" ”

"No... You are the best father in the world! Dongdong hurriedly took the beef jerky from the man's hand and desperately stuffed it in his mouth, thinking of the bits and pieces of these years, Dongdong felt heart-wrenching sadness for the first time.

For the first time, she also knew that the heart-wrenching sadness was not tears, but bits and pieces of sadness in life.

"How can a father who has to hesitate for a long time to buy KFC for his daughter be said to be the best father in the world..."

Perhaps in his mind, a father should be the kind of person who can meet all the material needs of his children, and a father should also be a person who can make his children feel proud of his profession.

Fathers shouldn't be like him, a man who has to complain about buying beef jerky.

"But you gave me the best of you!" Dongdong chewed the beef jerky that should have been sweet.

But why is beef jerky so bitter?