sleepless tonight

Chapter 4 Incompetence
As soon as my front feet went out, there was a gust of wind behind me, and I quickly lifted my back feet.

With a clang, the door closed.

"Ake, see what Dad brought back?" I went back to the house with a bowl of rice and said to my daughter Chen Ke.

On the kitchen table, there were washed green vegetable leaves. Although Chen Ke was told not to wash the vegetables, she still washed them.It was a bit cold, and her little hands were red.

"It's rice, Dad, you're amazing." Chen Ke saw the bowl in my hand, ran over, stared at the rice in the bowl, "Dad, give it to me, I'll steam the rice."

"Hehe, you rest, cover your hands under the quilt, and I'll steam the rice." I couldn't bear to let Chen Ke touch the water again.

There is only one electric water heater at home, and there is no hot water pipe in the kitchen, only cold water. It was already a bit chilly at the end of October, and I feel sorry for Chen Ke.

Receive water, wash rice, cook rice, all in one go.

"Why don't you go cover your hands under the quilt?" Chen Ke has been watching at the door of the kitchen, I turned around and said, "It will take at least ten minutes to cook, and when the rice is cooked, I will serve it to you, you go to the quilt wait here."

"I still haven't finished my homework. I'm going to do my homework." Chen Ke said, turned around to get the schoolbag, took out the textbooks from it, moved a small stool, and stood guard at the door of the kitchen.

After doing homework for a while, Chen Ke looked up at the rice cooker.

When I saw this scene, my eyes were a little sore again.

Chen Ke was so eager to eat a bite of rice that he showed such concern. I really failed, and I couldn't even guarantee my daughter's food and clothing.

Guessing that the rice was about to be cooked, I fried the vegetables and heated up the two plates of leftovers on the table.

The time is just right, and the rice is cooked.

There was no time to make the rice boring, so I turned on the rice cooker and filled Chen Ke with a bowl of rice, a bowl full.

"Father, I can't eat so much, I only need half a bowl, and I'll give you the rest." Chen Ke said.

"Let's eat, give it to dad if you can't finish it, there is still a lot of rice, dad has something to eat." I said.

A large bowl of rice is enough for a family of four.

There is plenty of rice in the pot.

Holding the bowl, Chen Ke ate a mouthful of rice and some green vegetables. The food was delicious and sweet, and her eyes narrowed.

"It's delicious, it's delicious, this rice is really fragrant, even more fragrant than any rice I've ever eaten before." Chen Ke said while eating.

"Eat more if it tastes good." I smiled, took a bite of the radish, and then frowned.

This radish is really bitter.

But just now, I saw Chen Ke clearly eating two or three pieces of radish with a smile.

A Ke told me that the radish was bitter, but I didn't expect it to be so bitter, and she seemed to be used to it, or the rice was too fragrant to cover up the bitterness of the radish.

"Don't eat radishes, it's too bitter, eat green vegetables." Seeing that Chen Ke went to pick up radishes again, I said.

"It's okay, it's better than nothing at all." Chen Ke said with a smile, "And the rice is really delicious, if you eat it with rice, it won't be bitter."

My eyes are a little red.

"Ah Ke, this radish is too bitter. Eating it is not good for your health. Dad will definitely make a lot of money in the future, buy you delicious food, and take you out to eat delicious food." I picked up the radish , thrown into the trash can.

Chen Ke glanced at the radish in the trash can, and there was a look of pity in his eyes.

Seeing this scene, my heart hurts even more.

I swear, no matter what, I will let my daughter live a good life.

"Father, can we eat KFC after you make money?" Chen Ke looked up at me while chewing on the rice.

"Well, yes, Dad will take you to KFC when he makes money." I nodded and replied loudly.

"Okay." Chen Ke shouted excitedly, throwing himself on me, "Dad is so kind."

Chen Ke and I ate half a pot of rice. Chen Ke was only eight years old and didn't eat much, but he ate a full bowl and his stomach was full.

Just as I was cleaning up the dishes, Chen Le on the wooden bed cried and yelled. I hurriedly wiped off the water stains on my hands, ran to the wooden bed, and carefully picked her up.

After coaxing for a while, it didn't get any better. Finally, under Chen Ke's reminder, I found out that Chen Le had pooped on the diaper, which made her uncomfortable, so she kept crying.

After changing the diaper, I took some rice from the pot, boiled some porridge, let it cool down and fed it to Chen Le little by little.

It seemed that she was indeed hungry. Chen Le didn't choose anything, and ate half a bowl of porridge. I carried her around the room for a while, and she fell asleep again.

By this time, it was eleven o'clock in the evening.

Lying on the bed, covered with a damp-smelling quilt, with Chen Ke's small face beside me, I felt that my responsibility was heavy and the task of making money was urgent.

The two daughters are just in the stage of growing their bodies. Chen Ke is older and does not need to eat milk powder, but it is impossible to always have two plates of vegetables every day. There is not much oil and water.

Then there is Chen Le, who is only one year old. He can't even walk well, and he can't speak very well. It is the time when he needs to supplement nutrition. He must drink milk powder. Porridge is not nutritious.

The next day, when I was still dazed in bed, I heard movement.

When he opened his eyes, he saw Chen Ke washing up.

"Father, are you awake?" Chen Ke saw me and said, "Go to sleep for a while, I left some rice yesterday, I'll make some porridge for you to drink."

For a moment, I felt extremely ashamed.

I am a person in my twenties, and I have to take care of my daughter. In such a cold day, she got up earlier than me, and she still wanted to make breakfast for me.

"No, Dad will get up right away." I sat up at once.

Dressed quickly, washed up, and cooked a large pot of porridge with the leftover rice from yesterday.

After drinking porridge, Chen Ke went to school. I told her to be careful on the way, thinking about going to her school sometime.

"Da... Dada." Chen Le woke up on the baby's bed, stretched her arms and legs, and when she saw me, she smiled and opened her hands.

I picked up Chen Le, dressed her, checked her diapers, and fed her some porridge, when I suddenly thought of a serious problem.

Chen Ke is eight years old and usually goes to school, so I don't need to take care of her.

But Chen Le is only one year old, and she can't do without people at all. Someone has to be by her side to take care of her. In this case, how can I find a job to make money?

"Damn it." I scolded myself secretly, such a question was actually ignored by me.

What should I do?
After being silent for a while, I decided to call my parents. At this time, I can only ask my parents for help.

I took out my mobile phone, found my father's phone number, and dialed it, but it reminded me that I was in arrears, and it had been shut down!

At this time, I remembered Tong Wangjun's words again. She seemed to tell me that my mobile phone was shut down.

call.

I exhaled a foul breath, calmed down the depression in my heart, hugged Chen Le in one hand, went out, and knocked on the door next door.

"What are you doing?" The door opened, and the woman stood at the door, looking at me with a bad expression on her face.

"My mobile phone is down, can I borrow your mobile phone to call me?" I said to the woman with some embarrassment.

"The phone is off, just recharge the phone bill." The woman said, "What do you want me for?"

"Money is tight, no money." I said.

The woman stared at me a few times, showing a hint of a smile.

"No wonder you came to borrow rice yesterday. It turned out that you had no money, not because of the trouble going downstairs." The woman said, "You are really a failure, and you don't even have money for food."

"Everyone has times when they are frustrated, life is alive, and things are impermanent, don't you think so?" I said, "I will return the rice I borrowed from you very soon. Just give me a call and it will be fine in a few minutes." , when the time comes, I will return the phone bill and rice to you."

"No." The woman flatly refused.

"It's only a few cents, do you want to be so ruthless?" I said, "We are all neighbors, and now you know that I am in trouble. If I don't make this call, my family of three, one adult and two children, will be very difficult." You may starve to death. At that time, you will be the murderer who indirectly killed us."

"You are starving to death, and the world has one less disaster. As for your two children, it is also caused by your incompetence." The woman retorted unceremoniously, "Don't bother me anymore, if I harass me again, I will Will call the police."

With that said, the woman directly closed the door.

I knocked a few more times, but there was no echo.

"You are a woman with a heart like a snake and a scorpion. You don't want to save yourself." I said bitterly, but there was nothing I could do. In the end, I had no choice but to carry Chen Le downstairs. At the supermarket at the door, I used the supermarket's landline to dial got my father's phone call.

(End of this chapter)