Cartoonist's Dream

—Mom, will you take me to the zoo?Other students said they had been there, but I didn't.

...Didn't I take you there several times before?

——Mom, will you take me to the zoo tomorrow?I want to see monkeys.

... What's so interesting about monkeys, play with the children on June [-]st.

—Mom, can you take me to the zoo today? [

...Okay, okay, stay at home first, and I will take you there when you come back at noon.

Then, the little boy waited until his mother came back at six o'clock in the evening, when the zoo had already closed.

That night, the boy had dinner with his mother with tears of grievance...

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Li Mu has long forgotten the scene at that time, and the reason why the impression is so deep now is entirely the result of her mother's constant nagging after she got old.When talking with her mother, she always mentioned this incident occasionally, saying that the most guilty thing back then was not being able to take him to the zoo.Were you asked for weeks or months?In short, it was only agreed after the son's painstaking begging.

The mother said that when she finally agreed to come down, what she saw was her son's cheerful little face and boundless joy of bouncing around.But she came home very late on June 8st. When she opened the door, she saw the [-]-year-old him squatting in front of the TV and weeping, while watching the black and white pockmarked TV in a daze.That lonely figure is like a wooden doll stripped from the whole world.

The older she gets, the more clearly she remembers this incident. Whenever she talks about the zoo, tears can always hang on her dry presbyopic eyes; Reasons to comfort the guilty mother.

Li Mu likes to watch the programs of Animal World, whether he is 20 years old or 30 years old, he never tires of watching them, and never gets tired of watching them over and over again.After learning the relevant theories, he felt that, as Freud said, childhood had a huge influence on human beings, and after adulthood, it was necessary to constantly practice something to fill in the vacant mind.People still like to watch the animal world in middle age... Maybe it is to make up for some shortcomings.

The same is probably true of the old mother. In the constant narration, the feelings of remorse are elicited again and again to make up for the guilt caused by that mistake.

In fact, Li Mu understood how her mother felt that day.

I was begged for several weeks in a row, thinking about not taking my son out to play for more than half a year, I finally agreed but didn't choose the right date. On Monday, June 1998, 6, as a busy Monday, few people would take a taxi to the street.But this day is Children's Day, many parents ask for leave to accompany their children, and the unit also gives employees a morning or afternoon leave.Since it is rare for a family to play with their children once, of course they are not stingy when spending money, and they are willing to take a ride from the bridge head to the north of the bridge for a few hundred meters.

There are plenty of tourists on June [-]st, and taxis are in short supply. The mother who is in the taxi business is naturally very busy. If she works hard on this day, she can earn three days' worth of money.The father who is a gambler is in the casino every day, so he will definitely not help his mother take over.The whole day's driving work can only be carried by the mother, so naturally she can't spare time to accompany her son to the zoo.However, this is also the place where Mother Zero suffers the most.On June [-]st, many parents take their children out to play. Most of the places they go to are parks, especially the zoo.Thinking of her son waiting at home, while other parents took their children to the zoo in her car, the mother's mood was as complicated as eating five-flavored vinegar

——Driving until tired, lying down, counting money until hand cramps, a family traveling by car, thinking about their son who is full of expectations at home.

Pear wood is very clear...

——This is my mother's five-flavored vinegar at that time.

She chose a job and a huge profit in a day, but when she got old, she felt very regretful. Money is more important, ideals are more important, or family is more important?When my mother was young, she felt that the former was important, but when she was old, she suddenly realized that the latter was more important.

In order not to make my mother feel guilty about the zoo again.

On June 6st, Li Mu sent his mother away according to the practice of weekends, and then hid in the room to catch up on the manga manuscript.It is unrealistic to complete a manga in a few weeks or a month as written in the novel.

A professional cartoonist can draw 2-3 pages a day! [

A cartoonist without an assistant can draw no more than one page a day.

Li Mu belongs to the latter. He didn’t hire manga assistants. However, whether he was in class or at home, he basically drew manga all the time. He also omitted the idea of ​​manga plots in the middle, so he drew 10 manga in 20 days. pages.

The so-called manga enthusiasm probably refers to him like this.

I shut myself in the house all day and buried in the pile of comics, and I can feel very happy without communicating with others.He was prepared to be alone all day today, but something unexpected happened to him tonight.

After having dinner with his mother who was tired all day, his mother actually offered to take him to the park.Then, he really took him to Jiangbin Park.Of course, although Li Mu was also a little surprised, it made sense on second thought. Wasn't this stimulated by Children's Day?Seeing that other children are taken by their parents to play on this day, and only their own son stays at home alone, it will definitely not be a good feeling for a mother.

Speaking of Jiangbin Park, it is actually a small park next to the embankment of the Lujiang River. It is not as good as those leisure parks built in Nanhua City in the future.A small park only occupies a few acres of land, and it can be seen at a glance from a slightly higher building.There are only some rocks and rocks in it, and there is also a carp pond where you can feed carp. Even such a small park requires an entrance fee of 10 yuan.

Of course, Children's Day is free for children.

However, Limu still begged not to go in halfway. Anyway, my mother is very tired after working all day, and this Jiangbin Park is not worth seeing. It is better to watch people fishing by the river bank and enjoy the summer river breeze. .

With the saved ten yuan, I bought a balloon, two bottles of Wahaha and Happy Beans, and the mother and son walked around Jiangbin Park to the embankment.The stone chairs facing the green river can let people enjoy the river view while resting. Whether you sit, lie down or kneel on it to enjoy the cool summer breeze, it is a kind of enjoyment for people who are tired all day.

"Don't you really need to go to the park? Mom remembers that you wanted to go many times, but mom didn't have time. Today is Children's Day, mom should take you to play, but now the zoo is closed and the animals are sleeping. Mom can only Take you to the small park." Li Xiuli patted her son's head and helped him tear open the package of happy beans.

Small park is another name for Jiangbin Park. In addition to the zoo and small park, Nanhua City also built People's Park and Nanhu Park in 98.It was not until after 05 that Shimen Park, theme parks, forest parks, barbecue parks and various leisure parks began to be built. At this time, people's lives began to become rich.

"on'tmn, on'tmn" Limu inserted the tubes for two bottles of Wahaha, handed a bottle to his mother, then took the opened happy beans, and said old-fashionedly: "Children's mood is like autumn, you can't figure it out." transparent."

"Hmm... don't go if you don't want to go, those two sentences you just said are in English?"

"Although it is only taught in the third grade, goomornng, gooevenng, goofternoon, fther,

Mother is too simple for me, so I used to finish it in the library. If you want to learn, mother, I will teach you. "

"I've finished studying..." Li Xiuli noticed the important point in her son's words, she nodded secretly and said, "Forget it, mom, it's hard to study when you're old, and your brain can't keep up."

"Mom is not old, she is only 28 years old at the top, and the newspapers say that there are 60-year-olds who go to college to attend lectures."

Li Mu's mother was wearing a dark blue suit jacket, which was quite different from other drivers. She looked more professional, and she also looked young and tall.If I was willing to study hard back then instead of marrying my father, I am afraid that I would be one of the working women now.But in this way, there will be no birth of Xiao Limu.

"Let's learn after earning enough money. Mom doesn't have extra time to study now."

"Um"

Li Mu sat on the stone chair and swung her little feet deeply, thinking that her tuition had always been funded by her mother.My father fished for two days and screened the net for three days, and a man who sometimes gambled could not provide fixed tuition at all.Grandma is rich, and she collected grandpa's salary and rent, but she never helped her mother pay for her tuition.

In a few years, my father's younger brother, that is, the son of Li Mu's uncle, will go to school, from elementary school to technical secondary school, all of which will be provided by grandma.Grandma's dishonest behavior made her mother very angry all the time, and she often secretly thought that it was because grandma didn't like her and hurt her son. [

"The water level in the Lujiang River is so low..." Li Mu deliberately changed the subject, not wanting to make her mother think about it in an unhappy way.

"Don't look at the fact that the Green River is very shallow now. It will be flooded directly to the embankment in the rainy season in June and July." Li Xiuli said, pointing to the embankment to the 2/3 of the river surface.

"When the river is about to rise, it can still rise..." Li Mu stopped abruptly halfway through his speech.

He didn't pay much attention when he was reborn, but now it's probably because of the relationship with the scene, and at the same time he talked about the rise and fall of the river, he suddenly remembered one thing! In July 1998, a major flood occurred in the Yangtze River, and many embankments and collapses occurred along the Yangtze River. Premier Zhu scolded the bean curd project.

At that time, more than 4000 people were killed in the waters of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, and the country lost more than 2500 billion yuan.

Even if Limu racked his brains, Limu couldn't remember the exact number, but the loss was definitely greater than what he recalled at the moment. After all, the data he recalled was the data at the time of the disaster, not the final statistics.Generally, in the event of a catastrophe, the final statistics are often the most accurate, but the losses are often more serious than the statistics at the time of the disaster.In fact, the flood situation at that time had exceeded the scope of the Jianghuai River Basin.

Although the Lujiang River in Nanhua belongs to the Pearl River system, it was also affected by the weather at that time. The flood water did not cross the embankment of the Lujiang River. Fortunately, the People's Liberation Army piled sandbags overnight to raise the height. Otherwise, Pingnan Village would not have been submerged by tens of centimeters.At that time, as long as every household could afford the money, they all boiled a large bucket of brown sugar and ginger water for the PLA, and Li Mu's grandma Liang Minjing also steamed a large pot of eggs.

The bucket is the bucket for cooking rice dumplings, and the pot is for heating rice dumplings. No matter which one can fit two small pear trees, the amount is very sufficient!

The eggs were finished, and the ginger syrup couldn't be finished. In the end, the Li family drank the last half of the bucket by themselves.

At that time, the flood of the Yangtze River became a popular report for a while.

At this moment, thoughts continued to squeeze out of Limu's memory.

In addition to the 50-year flood in the Yangtze River, an earthquake and tsunami also occurred in New Guinea, killing more than 2000 people in Africa.

At that time, Prime Minister Zhu Rong scolded: "Didn't you say that it is as solid as gold? Who knows that the inside of the embankment is actually tofu dregs! Layers of contracting, layer upon layer peeling, have created one after another shoddy bean curd dregs projects that cut corners and materials. Such projects should be investigated from the root From now on, the personnel in charge of design, construction, and supervision must be investigated. Human life is at stake, a century-old plan, and a thousand-year great cause, to come up with such a tofu project, a bastard project! Corruption to such an extent, how can it be possible!"

These are the exact words of Premier Zhu.

It is rare to be reborn. Although there is a risk of being traced, Limu feels that it is necessary to remind the officials and the people to make early preparations to heighten and strengthen the embankment to avoid floods.

"Don't worry, the river will not exceed the embankment. Our embankment is trapezoidal. Every meter the river rises, it has to be doubled." Li Xiuli has never seen when the Green River can flood since she can remember. to the extent beyond the embankment.

"Yeah, we don't have to worry about that. The Lujiang River is only a tributary of the Pearl River. The embankment project of the Lujiang River is well constructed, not a tofu project." Limu pretended not to know.No matter how wide the river is, when the flood comes, it will actually take an hour or two to fill it up.

"You even know that the Lujiang River is a tributary of the Pearl River. Having said so much, do you understand what the tofu project is?"

"Isn't it just a building with cement on the outside and bean curd residue on the inside? A small workshop that makes tofu and soy milk can make money!"

Li Mu suddenly became very naive and answered, which made her mother desperately hold back the laughter that kept coming up.Although her son's recent performance surprised her a little, it really made her uncomfortable to be honest.Moreover, it is better for children to do children's things, and he should be allowed to enjoy more anxious childhood, and children's words are often very funny.