Little Cotton

18

    Time walked unhurriedly, and half a month passed in a blink of an eye.

In the clothing store where Yu Ling works, there is a sister Chen who is often in the same class as her. When she is free, she likes to drag her around in the corner to talk about it.

Sister Chen is a family person, and she always brings up trivial matters at home when chatting.

What child hid the exam papers and asked a classmate to write a parent's signature for himself, and the parent was invited.

The husband at home complained that she was always the third child in cooking, and also worked night shifts every three days, making it always only him and the children eating at home.

Every time these topics, Yu Ling didn't know how to answer them.

But even if you don't talk about these, there are actually no easy topics to pick up.

For example, complaining about a customer who tried a lot, and didn't buy any of them until the last one, it was a waste of her expression. Another example is that the clothes in Tucao physical stores are getting harder and harder to sell, the monthly commission is getting smaller and smaller, and the income is getting lower every year, and I don't know how long it can last.

With the arrival of the winter solstice, the weather in the south is a little bit colder.

Sister Chen looked at the icy rain floating outside the store, and complained in a low voice: "I don't think there will be any business today."

She was right, it was so cold outside and it was raining, so few people would go shopping The clothing store in the shop suddenly became more deserted than usual.

When she was bored, Sister Chen started to gossip, and suddenly nudged Yu Ling who was warming her palm with her elbow, and asked, "Yu Ling, have you ever dated someone, have you been raped by someone?" Chased after."

Hearing this question, Yu Ling shook her head without thinking.

Such an answer obviously surprised Sister Chen, with disbelief written all over her face.

In her opinion, it's fine that such a beautiful little girl has never been in a relationship. It's impossible for her to not have been chased since she was a child.

But the fact is that Yu Ling has never been chased by anyone, let alone by any goblin in this world.

In her cognition, feelings are the tragedy of her mother's life, the twists and turns in TV dramas that are so bizarre that people can't figure it out. something to look forward to.

When Sister Chen saw her, she couldn't help asking her: "You are such an adult, if you don't want to fall in love, you must have some desires?" "

Desires?" Yu Ling's eyes were blank.

"That's right, it's something I really want, or something I really want to do."

Yu Ling thought about it seriously, and said, "I owe a lot of money to someone, and I have to make money to pay it back."

Sister Chen: "A lot of things are How much?"

Yu Ling: "More than three thousand."

Sister Chen: "Fortunately, not much, I thought it was a big sum."

Yu Ling: "No, I just bought some things with someone else's money That's all."

Sister Chen: "Oh? Are you in a hurry? Male or female?"

Yu Ling: "Not in a hurry, female."

Yu Ling didn't know why. The curiosity in Sister Chen's eyes disappeared without a trace.

After a brief silence, there was still no customer in the store. Sister Chen couldn't hold back, so she muttered something else in a low voice.

Yu Ling listened carefully, giving a few or two responses from time to time.

Although she was not interested in the things that Sister Chen was saying, she still heard some key words in these random thoughts.

Sister Chen said that today is the winter solstice. According to human customs, you always have to eat the same rice balls or mutton.

At the moment of changing shifts in the afternoon, Yu Ling changed her clothes, braved the cold winter wind, and ran quickly towards the big supermarket not far away.

It was past six o'clock in the evening when Yu Ling returned home.

She stomped her trembling feet, spitting out the cold air from the outside, and in the plastic bag in her hand were cheap mutton and haggis left over from the supermarket, as well as a white radish - which was used before. I bought it with the daily salary of the probationary period, and the salary for this month has not yet been received.

Yu Ling turned on the fan heater in the living room, trying to let the small house warm up.

After rubbing her little hands, she ran into the kitchen to cook rice, and followed the most familiar method in her memory, put the mutton and radish she bought into the pot and stewed.

When Zhong Chuyun came back, the whole house was filled with the smell of fried haggis.

Standing at the door of her house, she was holding a bag of quick-frozen glutinous rice balls bought from the small supermarket downstairs, and her eyes were somewhat surprised.

"The meal is not ready yet! You need to be hungry for a while!"

Yu Ling's voice came from the kitchen.

Zhong Chuyun bent her eyebrows and shook her head, put on her slippers, stood at the door of the kitchen and looked at Yu Ling's busy back for a while, then turned and went into the bedroom to change the coat that was blown cold by the wind.

Back to the kitchen to help Yu Ling fight.

The mutton soup that night was not very fragrant because it was not stewed for a long time.

But in any case, this winter solstice is warm.

After eleven o'clock in the evening, Zhong Chuyun cooked two more bowls of glutinous rice balls in the kitchen, brought them into the living room, squatted with Yu Ling by the tea table, and had a sweet supper.

After eating glutinous rice balls, Yu Ling half-lyed on the sofa and asked contentedly and curiously, "Why do you eat mutton and glutinous rice balls during the winter solstice?" "I don't know, it's a human

custom, and it's different in every place." Zhong Chuyun said, "I used to live in another city, where people ate dumplings during the winter solstice.

After these years, they have become glutinous rice balls or mutton."

Zhong Chuyun nodded, and said lightly: "There are many festivals every year, and different festivals have different ways of celebrating and eating different things."

After hearing this, Yu Ling looked at the chandelier in the living room with a glimmer of light in her eyes.

"Does it happen every year? It's amazing." She sighed softly, "Human beings know how to live well."

How do human beings do it? There are so many special little days throughout the year.

The goblin can't remember these things, even the so-called birthday, they only remember a rough month, and it may not be so leisurely to live it once in tens or hundreds of years.

Zhong Chuyun looked at the commercials on TV that were so familiar that he could memorize them, and said in a deep voice: "Perhaps because of the short lifespan, there are many more things that I want to remember than goblins." Yu Ling thought for a while, and felt

that It made sense, so she sighed again: "It's amazing."

After a short silence, Zhong Chuyun looked at Yu Ling for a long time, and suddenly asked in a flat tone: "Do you like this?"

Yu Ling thought for a while, pursed her lips and nodded nodded.

In this place, people will not be looked down upon because of the inherent disadvantages of weaker races in cultivation, nor will they lose the qualification to raise their heads and speak well because of their low cultivation.

She thought it was good to live like this.

I can go to bed early when I work in the morning shift, and sleep late when I work in the evening shift.

If she came back early, Zhong Chuyun would accompany her to have dinner and watch TV for a while.

If she comes back very late, no matter what time she arrives late, Zhong Chuyun will keep the living room light for her.

This place might not really be equal, but it was one of the best places she had ever been to.

As a cotton flower that is easy to be satisfied, how can you not like such a simple and fulfilling little life?

"Mutton is delicious, and glutinous rice balls are also delicious." Yu Ling said, closed her eyes and took a deep breath, and raised the corners of her lips, "I like it very much." "That's good."

Zhong Chuyun said, He raised his hand to touch Yu Ling's head.

The girl next to her stood up in an instant, jumped into the bathroom in a few steps, and soaked her feet in the water.

***

It was the third day after the winter solstice, and she got her first official salary after the probationary period.

Unknowingly, it has been a month since Yu Ling became a regular.

Basic salary, full attendance, plus all the commissions that have been messed up this month, the total is 16000.

Because she didn't have a mobile phone or a bank card, she got a handful of red notes sealed in an envelope.

The little demon in the mountains had never seen so much money. He put it in the pocket of his down jacket and touched it from time to time, as if afraid of losing it, and his mood improved all day long.

"The salary has been paid, how do you plan to use it?" Sister Chen asked her.

Yu Ling didn't even think about it, and responded directly: "I don't have any plans, just pay back the money first."

Sister Chen pursed her lips and said, "Didn't you say that you are not in a hurry? There is no interest, so keep some for yourself and divide it into three parts." Pay it back in a month."

Yu Ling said seriously: "Although people say there is no rush, I still want to pay back the money quickly."

Sister Chen said again: "You little girl, you came out to work at such a young age, and you worked hard. You don't spend any of the money you earn for a month? You don't have anything you want?"

Facing this question, Yu Ling thought about it for a while.

In the end, she thought it made sense and nodded, and thoughtfully said: "Indeed."

That day, it was a night shift.

Yu Ling took a break during dinner time and went to the supermarket.

When she returned home late at night, the girl held a rectangular hard-shell cardboard box in her thin arms.

What was contained in the carton was a layered thermal vegetable cover worth 194 yuan.

Yu Ling lightly pressed the envelope containing fourteen hundred yuan on the coffee table in the living room.

Then, she squatted by the open door with scissors, carefully disassembled the carton, threw it away, and then gently put the heat-insulating vegetable cover into the kitchen.

Yu Ling heard from Sister Chen that this thing can keep cooked meals warm for a long time.

When Sister Chen was on the night shift, she would cook and stir-fry the rice ahead of time, and then put it in this thermal cover, so that her husband and children could have hot meals when they got home.

Yu Ling has been wanting to buy it for a long time, but she has been short of money, unable to afford this, and afraid that the cheap one will not work well, so she put it on hold for so long.

Now she gritted her teeth and bought things, and finally she could cook for Zhong Chuyun before going to work.

Thinking of this, she was very happy.

This kind of happiness is like adding a bed that belongs to her in the bedroom, as if the things she bought in debt are stuffed into the wardrobe and the drawer under the bed.

She found that she gradually didn't want to leave here.

But she is not Zhong Chuyun's sister-in-law after all, Zhong Chuyun has no reason to take her in for the rest of her life.

Therefore, she likes to stuff her little things into this small home, as if as long as there are enough things that really belong to her in this home, she will never be driven away by Zhong Chuyun.

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