Chapter 6 Fives

Dalin finally went to work, and his distressed family situation improved.Although Dalin is only an apprentice, he still earns more than ten yuan a month. Shuzhen can't let Dalin support the family alone, and Dalin is not capable of supporting the family. She still picks up waste with her children on her back. She once had a conversation with Dalin about the waste collection, which was when Dalin went to work. Two months later, two months seems to have passed two years for Dalin, Dalin is much more mature than before, his face is black and red from being scorched by molten iron, Shuzhen is vaguely in Dalin's eyes.

I saw the shadow of Master Wen on my body.This made her feel at ease, and there was also an intangible happiness. Dalin said, "Mom, don't do that again." Shuzhen said: "This family cannot suffer you alone." Dalin said: "I can do it, don't smoke or drink, and I will give you all the money." Shuzhen said: "Dalin, you are already at work, and you are not too young. Xiaoxiu and Xiaolin are not named Wen after all. You will get married and live in the future." Dalin stopped talking and hooked his head deeply.From then on, Dalin handed over his mother's wages every month. Every time, Shuzhen would give Dalin one or two yuan from Dalin's salary and said to Dalin: You are a man now, so you don't have two dollars in your pocket. how to do it.

After a few days, Dalin always silently gave the pocket money to his mother.Shuzhen felt very heavy in her heart, and the more sensible Dalin became, the heavier her heart became. Shuzhen does not use Dalin's salary every month unless she has to. She secretly saves the money for Dalin.She went out early and returned late to pick up the trash. Finally, Xiaoxiu and Xiaolin knew about their mother picking up the trash. They first heard what their classmates said, but they didn’t believe it. They thought they were insulting them, and quarreled and fought with their classmates. Until one day, they found out that their mother was dressed in rags. , After digging through the rubbish dumps on the street, they believed that all this was actually true.

One can imagine Xiaoxiu and Xiaolin's mood that night.They feel that they have no face. The parents of their classmates are either party members or cadres, and the worst are workers.They silently protested against their mother by going on a hunger strike. While weeping, they turned their heads away and ignored her.The mother talked to them in a low voice, talking about the high and low of life and work. Seeing Xiaoxiu and Xiaolin like this, Dalin couldn't stand it any longer. He put down his jobs, roughly pulled the two of them aside, slapped each of them, and said angrily, "If you have the ability, you can become the director of the factory."

From then on, Xiaoxiu and Xiaolin didn't dare to protest anymore.But when they saw their mothers picking up rags outside, they never stepped forward to call out to them, and even when they found their mothers, they always avoided them from afar.In front of their classmates, they kept denying that it was their mother.This situation has continued for many years. Shuzhen naturally knows the psychology of the children. Sometimes she looks at the backs of the children, the little backs who are evading in a hurry, and her tears can't stop flowing, and she wipes them with the dirty corner of her clothes.

In a blink of an eye, Daxiu also graduated from high school. There is no reason for Daxiu not to go to the countryside. Daxiu inevitably went to the countryside. The place where Daxiu went to the countryside was far away from home, in a place called Wulapu in Inner Mongolia.This is Daxiu's first time away from home, so Shuzhen is naturally worried.Soon after Daxiu went to the countryside, she sent a letter to her family. In the letter, she told her mother that Ulapu is only tens of kilometers away from the border of Outer Mongolia. Raised the signal flare.This group of educated youths, known as the Construction Corps to the outside world, holds a hoe in one hand and a gun in the other, and is always ready.At that time, the relationship between China and the Soviet Union was very tense, and Ulap was so close to the border, and the situation of war was imminent.

Shuzhen's heart tightened. From then on, she began to pay attention to major international and domestic events.Shuzhen has never read a book and can't read, so she bought a semiconductor radio, and she would turn on the semiconductor all day long to listen to some important events at home and abroad. These alone are still not enough. In the process of picking up waste, she shakes and smoothes the waste newspapers she finds that she thinks may have important events, and then takes them back for Da Lin to read to herself. He seemed more patient and read to her one by one, but then he got bored.Stop reading those outdated news.She begged Xiaoxiu. At that time, Xiaoxiu was already in junior high school and knew the usual characters. She just wanted to show her age.Every night after dinner, Xiaoxiu would read the newspaper for her mother in a serious manner.In the news, my mother let go of her heart for a while, and tightened her heart for a while.She just lived in this tense and tense life with fear.

Sometimes when Daxiu didn't write letters to her family for a long time, Shuzhen's heart hung up. She urged Dalin to write letters to Daxiu, and she always threw the letter in the mailbox by herself until Daxiu came. After reading the letter, she let out a long breath. During the New Year's Day, her yearning and concern for Daxiu reached its peak.Every time when eating during Chinese New Year, she always puts an empty bowl on the dining table where Daxiu often sits at home, puts some meals into the empty bowl, and then babbles about the various benefits of Daxiu being at home .During the chatter, Shuzhen became emotional and shed tears, which made the whole family not in the mood to eat, so it was no longer a festival.

The three children headed by Dalin are all afraid of the festival. Shuzhen began to cut down on food and clothing. She saved up the money, bought some food and packaged it to send to Daxiu in Inner Mongolia. In the second Spring Festival after Daxiu went to the countryside, Daxiu came back from a long distance for a year. In the eyes of her mother, Daxiu has changed, becoming taller, stronger, and darker.Mother touched Daxiu's hand as if she didn't know her, and looked left and right, wishing she could see Daxiu in her eyes.Those few days were the most lively and happiest time for the family.

When going to bed at night, my mother spread Daxiu's quilt beside her, and she asked questions over and over again.Daxiu told her mother how the Corps soldiers opened up wasteland and planted wheat on the grassland, and how they patrolled in the wind and snow at night with steel guns on their backs. Daxiu had said all this in his letter, and it was no longer new, but she still heard it. My heart skipped a beat. In those days, Shuzhen didn't sleep much, she always woke up several times, and then sat with her clothes on, looking at Daxiu in her sleep, looking at it this way, looking at it that way, she couldn't get enough of it.

The day of parting finally came, and Dae-su left home, the city, and returned to Ulap.In those days, Shuzhen seemed to lose her soul. When she called every child's name, she would blurt out Daxiu's name. Since then, Shuzhen has learned to be in a daze. When she was doing something, she would stop suddenly and stare blankly at something for a while, and then ask herself: What is Daxiu doing? She didn't wake up until she finished asking. Gradually, educated youths who had been sent to the countryside began to return to the city.Mother seemed to see hope again, and she asked Dalin to write letters again and again asking when Daxiu would be able to return to the city.Daxiu's reply makes her very confused. Daxiu is optimistic at one moment, and sad at another moment.When she was sad, Daxiu said some bold words, for example, rooted in the frontier and never wavered, and the vast world has a lot to do.Later, the great scholar told the truth that there were a lot of educated youths in their group, and there were very few quotas for returning to the city. In those days, Shuzhen went to the sub-district office repeatedly, asking the educated youths who had gone to the countryside how to go back to the city, and repeatedly, but finally did not get any new progress.