Old things in the south

Chapter 73 Mother is a Good Role Model
It was five o'clock in the afternoon when Dajixiang took his seat, and it was illuminated by the Great World Cinema opposite.When the audience for the third game came out and the audience for the fourth game hadn't entered yet, Dajixiang became lively amidst the rush and retreat of the crowd.

"One customer of Sixi glutinous rice balls!"

"Sparse rib noodles for one customer!"

With the shouts from the waiter, the slender snack bar began to get crowded.The guests who left the show crowded in, and the guests who were rushing to the show squeezed out. The waiter held the dishes and had to walk high above the heads of the guests.At this time, everyone seemed to be in a hurry, and everyone lost their temper in order to buy time. The guests were afraid that they would not be able to catch up with the movie, and the waiter was afraid that they would not be able to catch up with the guests.

The shoeshine kids also love to mess around at this time!

"Little devil!" Wang Tai got kicked on the buttock by the waiter. The guests thought the waiter served food too slowly, and the waiter thought Wang Tai was squatting here to block the way.

Wang Tai had no choice but to move to the side of the table again, and the guests who were eating the scalding gnocchi widened their eyes and cursed again:
"Tell you not to wipe it!"

The fat lady next to her also frowned and said, "I hate it!"

Fortunately, Wang Tai is used to this, so he squeezed inside again, went to another table and squatted down, before he would carefully check whether the guests' leather shoes needed to be polished, but now he doesn't care about that, just hold the guests' leather shoes Then he asked, "Do you want to shine your shoes?" That's why shoeshine kids are so annoying.But in this short sitting time, in order to gain time—in other words, in order to win a dollar of business, he had to be so annoying.

But after all, you can still come across a door-to-door business. At the table in the corner, Wang Tai met his regular customers.

"Little ghost, come here!" The guest stretched out his foot from under the table, and Wang Tai saw that it was Mr. Lin, a newspaper reporter, with his girlfriend.

So Wang Tai squatted under the table obediently like a puppy, opened the shoe shine box, oiled it skillfully, rolled it out, and began to work with a rustle.

The guests on the table were eating the bowl of sparerib noodles in a mood of admiration. The sound of biting the ribs and snorting and sucking the noodles, even though Wang Tai was under the table, he could still feel, or it can be said, imagined. The food is delicious.

It's five o'clock, everyone's stomach will be hungry, Wang Tai is no exception.He hurried home after school, changed his clothes, put on the shoe-shine box on his back, and ran out. Although his mother always said, "Let's go after hot bowls and rice!" Wang Tai always didn't want to miss the good business between the two movies. , so he would rather go hungry.People are worthy of being exercised animals, and they don't feel much better when they are used to being hungry.

You know, Wang Tai is an unfortunate child. His father is lying on the bed for a long time, and his mother has limited income for mending others.Wang Tai is also a good boy. If you wipe five pairs, you will give five yuan to your mother. If you wipe ten pairs, you will give ten yuan to your mother.But he has never polished ten pairs of shoes!Because he has to go back early and do his homework!He also can't spend all the money he earns like other shoe-shine kids, eating Danzai noodles, playing dice, and going to the movies.Wang Tai couldn't even bear to eat a bowl of red bean soup that cost [-] cents.For example, he is hungry enough now!
A leftover spare rib fell off the table and landed right next to Wang Tai's feet. He kicked the spare rib over in a playful way, "There's still meat on it!" He thought about kicking the spare rib out again. , It happened to be snatched away by a puppy that ran in for food.

Ms. must have been very hot. She took off her coat, put it on the back of the chair, and then slid down a bit. What, is it a bone again?When Wang Tai stretched out his foot and was about to kick again, he realized that his heart was beating. It was a stack of—ah, banknotes!Immediately he got his foot down, and thought quickly, what's the next step?Anyone can't help but hesitate at this time, right?In this world, what people need most and what they lack most is it!For the family environment of a shoe-shine kid, what Wang Tai is stepping on must be useful in many ways.But as I said, Wang Tai is a good boy, and a good boy includes many aspects. Although Wang Tai had the wit to step on the banknote, he didn't have the courage to decide whether to keep it, so he stopped working and hesitated. .

But it seemed too late to give him a longer time to think about it. When he stopped rubbing and rolling, Mr. Lin had already retracted his feet, threw him a dollar at the same time, and then floated away with his girlfriend in his arms.

Wang Tai was stunned for a moment, and finally moved his feet, quickly picked up the banknotes and put them in his trouser pockets. He had great auspiciousness, and walked on the way home.At the corner where no one was around, his heart skipped a beat and he took out the money to count: a full 100 yuan! "Why not, it's not stolen!" He comforted himself with this only reason.

100 yuan!To shine a hundred pairs of shoes!He has to work 20 days to earn it, and he has an exam next week, so he can give the money to his mother and take a few days off.Mom won't scold him, he picked it up, not stolen it!And mom can buy a chicken for dad to eat, or a box of medicine needles is enough, and it's okay... There are many uses, many, many uses...

The banknote was warmed by Wang Tai's pinch, and at some point he reached home.

For Wang Tai's early return, the mother never expressed surprise, sooner or later was a common occurrence.On the contrary, Wang Tai himself seemed to have done something bad, slipped into the hut, sat at the table and kept thinking, how could he explain the origin of the 100 yuan to his mother?Although his mother would not blame him, she had to trust him. "I picked it up?" Will my mother be surprised and happy when she sees it?

Until after dinner, Wang Tai was still standing in front of the dining table in a daze, watching his mother tidy up the dishes and the sound of washing dishes in the kitchen. He never encountered a more suitable opportunity to hand over the money to his mother.Does it take courage?He got up and went to the kitchen.

He put his hands in his trouser pockets, holding a thick 100 yuan in his left hand, and three soft one-dollar bills in his right. Standing in front of his mother, he first took out the three bad bills:
"Mom, here you are."

As a mother, this middle-aged woman feels infinite bitterness about the money her child earns from working and studying every day, but she never expresses this idea, she is always very happy , and took over the money with a well-deserved look.In this era, in this kind of life, in this kind of family, she knows what kind of training the children should receive.

"Mom." Wang Tai was about to reach out his left hand to hold the 100 yuan.

"It's okay, three yuan is not a lot, it's enough for a day's food!" Mother said in a comforting tone, "I know you have an exam and come back early, go to study!"

In this way, Wang Tai seemed to have no chance to take it out, so he had no choice but to leave the kitchen happily to prepare for homework.

After an unknown amount of time, there was a sudden commotion in the yard, chopping, chopping, and the sound of coal baskets and the like being knocked over in the yard. My mother and Aunt Zhang who lived in the same courtyard were jokingly chasing after something.

"Catch it, catch it!" It was the mother's voice.

"Which big hen is flying here!"

Then the mother and Aunt Zhang were discussing whose chicken it was and how it flew over. In the end, the mother judged that it belonged to the neighbor with the red brick wall. "I'll help you kill it now." Aunt Zhang said.

"Ah, how can it be, it's someone else's chicken!" Mother seemed surprised by Aunt Zhang's words.

"Why not, it's not stolen!"

It's not stolen!Aunt Zhang's words touched Wang Tai. He couldn't help but walked to the window and looked out. His mother was holding the big hen in her hand, and she kept shaking her head.

"It's good to kill it and give it to you, Mr. Wang! People don't know."

The mother didn't seem to be moved by Aunt Zhang's instigation. She walked out and said to Aunt Zhang: "If you kill and eat like this, even though it is not stolen, it will be the same as stolen!"

Seeing his mother's back disappearing from the street gate, and Wang Tai's left hand sticking out from his trouser pocket, he suddenly felt that the 100 yuan in his trouser pocket was weighing so heavily on his thigh. Can I do my homework at night with peace of mind?

He went back to the table and sat down, picked up a pen and subconsciously wrote many Arabic numerals of one hundred on the exercise book, and wrote the word "steal" in each circle, steal, steal, steal, my mother just said Yes, it's not stolen, and it's no different from stealing!
He felt very regretful, and also felt very lucky. If he took out the money just now, what would his mother say!
His mother came back, and seeing her come in to dust off the dirt on her body, she seemed extremely relaxed, which made Wang Tai feel even more heavy. His left trouser pocket seemed to be caught by something weighing hundreds of catties, and he had to get rid of it immediately. No.

He looked at the small alarm clock on the table, it was just 06:30, and there was still half an hour before the departure, so he could catch up and find Mr. Lin and his girlfriend.After packing up his homework, Wang Tai picked up the shoe shine box again.Seeing her son walking outside, the mother couldn't help shouting from behind:

"Didn't I tell you that three yuan is okay, and it's enough for a day's food?"

But Wang Tai has already run away.

(End of this chapter)