Women are weak, but mothers are just!
This is a story about mother.
At about four o'clock in the morning, all is silent, and the night covers everything, but the shape of clouds can be seen vaguely in the sky, and a lot of white appears faintly, among which dark blue clouds are announcing that it is not dawn yet.
Several dogs barked in the air, as if they had found something terrible. It turned out that the window light of a family was on, which was very obvious in the dark.
The family is in the vegetable market. Rows of low-rent houses and several independent shops are built along the fence around the vegetable market. No less than 20 families carefully counted the rooms. Many families buy food here for a living, and others are shops that are integrated with the house.
Yellow light came out of the window and shone on the watchdog. An ordinary adult dog can reach a person's thigh when standing up. When he saw nothing unusual, the big dog scurried around and returned to its original place, lying in the small flower bed in front of the low-rent house, continuing to sleep, his ears twitching.
With the lights on in this place, the surrounding residents also light up one after another. Dogs bark one after another, and big dogs bark twice. Suddenly, they heard the front door open and the people inside had come out.
This is a woman who still wears her hair. She seems to be in her early thirties. Under the light, I can vaguely see that her face is still a little confused, half squinting, and her fingers keep rubbing her eyes.
The skin on the hand is dark yellow, even a little black, and you can't help but see several chapped wounds on the back of your hand, which are already scarred. The face is already white and looks extremely dry. If you pinch it gently, it will spread like chalk dust.
I'm wearing a golden sweater, and my lower body is a little bloated with cotton pants. I can guess that there must be warm pants inside, but it's not enough. I can see that my feet are shaking all the time, which drives my whole body. Under the cold wind, it's biting and cold.
Today is the morning of New Year's Eve. Today, we still need to buy food and earn money. Whatever the reason, we should start now!
A cry came from the neighbor's house next door: "Sister Liu, let's go." Sister Liu put her hair behind her back, held it in her hand and shouted, "All right, wash your face and go."
The big dog continued to growl. Sister Liu grabbed her hair and turned back to her room. She quickly closed the door and went back to her room.
This is a room of only over 40 square meters. It is also divided into two rooms. The front is near the gate, and a bed accounts for most of it. There is another person on the bed, Liu Jie's husband Yang Ge. He has woken up and looked at Liu Jie, who is busy. He is also of the same age, and his face is full of loyalty and age.
Sister Liu whispered, "Go back to sleep, I'm going out and I have to work during the day."
Young replied, "Be careful, don't tire yourself." . Sister Liu smiled and said nothing. This is the life of the people at the bottom, working hard for survival and not afraid of hardship!
Young closed his eyes and pulled open the quilt on his chest. Young is a taxi driver. He didn't get home until after one o'clock. At seven o'clock tomorrow morning, he will continue to go out for a sports car, so he will go to Liu Jie to get food by himself.
The reason why I got up so early is to go to another place five kilometers away from here, a farmer's wholesale market to buy food. There is only one reason, and that is cheap. Buy food from the wholesale market to the vegetable market, make a difference and make a profit. It is such a simple job that supports so many people.
The front room is full of articles, mostly daily necessities. Behind the door is an iron shelf with an iron basin and a small mirror on it. Next to it is an incubator with a vague pattern and rust. It turned out to be pink, with a gorgeous peony flower on it, but now I can't see it clearly.
Liu Jie didn't rush to wash his face, but walked into the room. This is the back room. There is a curtain made of cut sheets in the middle. I reached out and pulled it away. It's dark inside. Liu Jie came in, next to a canvas bed, there are two seven or eight-year-old children, a man and a woman.
The girl was sleeping soundly on it. When she heard her mother's footsteps, she vaguely shouted, "Mom," whispered Sister Liu, "It's okay. Go back to sleep."
The girl mumbled something, but Sister Liu didn't catch it clearly and went back to sleep. The boy below snored, seemed unresponsive and slept soundly.
The back room is much warmer. Sister Liu and Brother Yang don't want their children to sleep outside, and they are always blown by the cold wind.
Looking at the sleeping child, Liu Jie was relieved. She was very happy. She slipped out slowly, returned to the washbasin and picked up the hot kettle.
Wow, steaming water gushed from the spout and hit the washbasin. When the weather is warm, it is used upwards. Sister Liu grabbed the towel to one side and threw it into the washbasin. There are small pimples on the towel, which seems to have been used for a long time.
I tentatively touched the water, then twisted the towel and began to clean up, sweeping away the cold and fatigue on my face, and the hot air surrounded my face.
Sister Liu scrubbed the towel again and put it on the shelf. She grabbed the cream on the small cabinet next to the shelf, squeezed out a large piece of nails, rubbed it evenly on her hands, rubbed it on her face, and wiped the excess on her hands completely to play some protective role.
I went to the bed again, grabbed a black coat, put it on, then put a gray scarf on myself and put on an indispensable hat. After being completely fixed, I sealed all the gaps in my body.
Turn around and pick up the key, walk to the door, turn off the light in the room, and open and close the door in one go. Go right in front of the door, and there is a human tricycles next to it.
Open the lock and the big dog barks twice from time to time. Sister Liu pushed the traffic quickly through the flower beds, and tricycles emerged from every low-rent house. Some have stopped at the door, some have started, and some are coming out. Sister Liu saw her neighbor Xiao Zhang and shouted "Let's go".
There are two people around, and four people often go to get food together, so they form a team together, go together and come back together.
When you come outside, the cold wind is ruthless, and it rushes to everyone, like facing your own enemy, looking for every weakness of people and trying to defeat you.
Although the wind is biting, it can't stop everyone. Tricycles drove out of the vegetable market one by one. The street lamp is still on, and you can see a lot of lights, but there is no one, no figure or movement on the road.
The four men were silent, pedaling tricycles at their feet, and the laborious squeak rang through their ears, as if scratching people's ears.
Tricycle slowly forward, after more than half an hour, all the way to endure the cold wind, a few people with weak legs finally came to the vegetable market.
It's just past 4: 30 in the morning, but it's already like daytime, and there are lively crowds everywhere. Sister Liu shouted, "As usual, meet here at 5: 30", and the four of them rang the answering voice and dispersed to buy the dishes they needed.
Sister Liu rode into the wholesale market and came to a familiar place, the steamed stuffed bun shop. She is a frequent visitor here.
The smell of meat got into the nose along the air, which aroused Liu Jie's appetite. She stopped the car and walked over and said, "A bean paste bag" is only fifty cents, but it needs a meat bag. Liu Jie can't bear to eat expensive food, so a bean paste bag is enough.
The boss grabbed a hot one, put it in his pocket, stuffed it into Liu Jie's hand, and took 50 RMB from him. Liu Jie touched the steamed stuffed bun and kept it in her arms, but she couldn't bear to eat it for a while.
Riding a tricycle inside, thinking that eggplant, water spinach, Chinese cabbage, potatoes and tomatoes sold well yesterday, I will continue to buy some today. By the way, I am buying some chicken, fish and pork. After all, today is the New Year.
It's cheaper to buy in the wholesale market. Come to a familiar business booth, or a familiar vegetable vendor. Sister Liu greeted warmly and looked at the food on the stall. Although she comes every day, she still checks them every day.
The owner of the vegetable vendor also knows the temper of Liu Jie and other vegetable vendors, and they are all waiting.
Sister Liu looked at it and said to her boss, "Boss Wang, can this dish be cheaper?"
Boss Wang just smiled and said, "It's already very cheap. I have to say it once a day. " The boss also knows that this is what everyone who comes to get food will say, and bargaining is the fun of every day.
Boss Wang continued: "It was impossible to be cheap before, but today, it's New Year's Eve, and it's not easy for everyone. Today, it is 20 cents cheaper. "
Sister Liu's face lit up and she quickly said, "Then you can't go back on your word. Hurry up and check the following dishes, and you will catch a lot soon. "
Boss Wang said affirmatively: "Spit out the nail, don't go back on your word, just take it!" "
Sister Liu has gained 20 Jin again. She was relieved that it was much cheaper. She was so happy that she was decisive when she took the money. Looking at the money handed back by boss Wang, Sister Liu carefully counted it twice before putting it in one of her wallets.
It's a wallet, but it's actually several pieces sewn together. Boss Wang said with a helpless and funny face, "Sister Liu, how many times is this? Don't worry, Wang Dagen, I won't be short of weight. This is the first day you know me! "
Liu Jie was beaming, not embarrassed at all. She said, "Don't worry about counting, I believe you." She turned and said "thank you" and went to other stalls.
Boss Wang looked at Liu Jie's back and continued, "Come, look, fresh Chinese cabbage".
With the dawn, there are more and more people in the wholesale market. The air smells of dirt, rotten leaves, the stench of animal manure and the sweat on people. However, in the cold winter, these smells will not be as cold as the wholesale market.
Sister Liu kept bargaining, bargaining, paying and changing money according to the method just now. All the actions took place this winter. Familiar, simple, complex and lively!
Soon, the tricycle under Liu Jie's feet has been gradually filled until the back compartment has been flooded, and even a part of it has been vacated. It takes more effort to keep the tricycle moving forward.
Sister Liu grabbed the plastic film in the carriage, covered the food and began to walk around. Yo-ho, quarrels, animal cries, wheels, car horns and even children's cries resounded through the whole market. This is a symphony for ordinary people, a unique rhythm of life for ordinary people, and an ordinary day.
Back to the assembly point, someone is already waiting. Sister Liu parked the car and took out the bean paste bag in her pocket. There is still a trace of warmth, even the sweat around her pocket has appeared and turned into glittering and translucent water drops.
Bite down, revealing the black bean paste, Liu Jie big chewing, filled with hunger, without hesitation, eat all the bean paste bag after four or five broken, as to whether to eat, only Liu Jie knows.
After the four-person team assembled, Liu Jie took the lead and set off by bike. At this time, the road was still dark and the surrounding area began to light up, but it was not far from dawn. It's already half past five.
It takes about 20 minutes to go back than when I came, and it may take 6: 30 to get home. There are dozens of pounds of vegetables in the car, which is dozens more in a people-oriented job. This weight is unbearable.
But for a vegetable seller, this weight is far less than the burden of life and the responsibility of being a parent. This is life!
One foot after another, each foot needs hard work, sweat has dripped from the forehead, containing salt, moisture and struggle!
The four of them didn't communicate much, just kept silent, and the heat hovered around Liu Jie. At this time, Liu Jie has stopped the cold attack, and even wondered why it was not cold, but it was already dawn.
I don't know if my sweat turned winter into summer.
The tricycle creaked, unbearable for such a weight, and made its own silent roar, but at the top of it, Liu Jie was already tired, and the pain on his feet spread continuously, even to his neck. Sweat slipped from her forehead to her neck, and some water stains wet her scarf, but Liu Jie didn't notice it.
In Liu Jie's eyes, there is only one destination, and that is her home, and that is the vegetable market!
After doing this for dozens of minutes, I finally arrived at the vegetable market. Liu Jie gasped, some can't stand it. Although she exercises every day, she is still very tired. Just for her children and family, Sister Liu never complained and never felt hard.
Back home, Sister Liu has bought three meat buns and three bags of soybean milk in the vegetable market as breakfast for the children and her husband, and parked the tricycle outside.
Sister Liu picked up steamed buns and soybean milk and went home. Brother Yang has packed up, just as Sister Liu came in and took the steamed stuffed bun from her hand and said, "Thank you."
Liu Jie and Yang Ge looked at each other, their eyes already said everything they wanted to say. After putting down breakfast, Liu Jie hurried out. Young had to start his job as a taxi driver. He arrived at 12 at 7: 00, had dinner for half an hour, then continued to eat at 6: 00, and then went to 1 0 in the morning.
This is what an ordinary family has to do to make a living.
Sister Liu hurriedly rode a tricycle to the middle of the vegetable market and came to her booth. The rent is one yuan a day. She set the dishes, took out the homemade watering can, and inserted a few holes in the bottle cap with the kettle, and it was finished.
Although it is still very cold, there is already a shelter space in the booth, and the warmth is constantly emitted from the body. Water droplets condense into pearls on vegetable leaves, which are crystal clear and beautiful.
At this time, a red sun rises from the east, shines on the water drops, and prints a rainbow, which is beautiful and full of hope, colorful and everything is new.
Sister Liu began to sell vegetables, brother Yang got up and went out, and the two children woke up from their sleep and began to learn to do their homework.
Everyone has his own life. Although hard, difficult and tired, I have no complaints!
Today, I wish all mothers in the world a happy birthday!