Knorr is a schoolboy and his home is an ordinary Middle Class Singaporean family. Both father and mother were employees of the company. On this day, the mischievous Knorr was called a parent by the teacher.
Knorr was punished by the teacher
The teacher called to inform Knorr's mother to come to school, and the mother on the phone looked embarrassed, after all, she had a big belly and did not dare to ask the boss for leave, but she still came to school for the sake of the child.
Mom's face was grim
Mom came home exhausted, because of the economic downturn, her company has been laying off employees, she kept typing colleagues' dismissal letters during this time, she was worried that she would be fired one day.
So she decided to hire someone for her family to take care of Knorr specifically. In this way, the Filipino maid Terri came to this family.
Filipino Terry
The next day, Knorr's mother showed Terri a housework, fearing that Terry would steal something and run away, so she took her passport. Asked what color the cup Terri liked, Terri said she liked red, but she put the red back and gave her the green one.
After Terri arrived, Knorr held his breath. Originally, he had been following his grandfather, but he had recently passed away. Plus there were only two rooms in the house, and his mother let him and Terri share the same room.
This makes Knorr hate Terry and starts teasing her. He didn't let her pick her up from school, hated her hair, framed her in the supermarket, and shut her out.
Disgusted with Terry
Don't let him pick himself up from school
Don't eat with her
Lock her out the door
But Terri is not a soft persimmon, and she also warns Knorr that she just wants to work hard to make money and not create these troubles for her.
Terri isn't a bully either
On this day, Knorr ran out to ride again, only to be hit by a car and fractured his arm, so he could only rely on Terry.
Knorr was hit by a car
She bathed Knorr and began picking him up from school and listening to music with one of the headphones. The relationship between the two slowly eased and became closer. After Grandpa's death, Terry was the closest person to Knorr.
Knorr twisted and embarrassed
"Do you think I haven't seen it?" I've seen bigger ones."
And the seemingly peaceful life is actually turbulent. The financial crisis of 1995 swept across Asia.
Jiale Dad lost a lot of money in stock trading, and his job was not saved. In order to make a living, he had to work as a security guard in a factory, and he became more reticent. Just smoke one by one in the corridor at night. Only Terri stumbled upon it by accident and was told not to tell mrs.
Dad lost his job and had to work as a security guard
Smoking in the hallway was bumped into by Terry
Jiale's mother looked at her increasingly decadent husband, and she had no choice. She seemed to have been drained of her spirits.
That day she came across a leaflet with someone who taught everyone to build faith. "Hope lies in herself" Nothing at this time could give her more strength than this sentence. She seemed to see hope and dragged her big belly to class. I also bought a lot of books and tapes. Cheer yourself up every day.
"Hope lies in yourself"
Spiritual teacher
Even so, they still have to insist on packing more red envelopes when they go to relatives' houses to visit their mothers.
When Terri went downstairs to take out the garbage, she saw a person jumping off the building to commit suicide, and in horror, she touched her wrist. There was a deep scar there.
Terri touched the scar on her wrist
Sink into contemplation
She also once walked a desperate road, her husband was addicted to alcohol. After leaving him, the child was fostered in a relative's house, and she could only ensure the child's life by working hard to send money home. On this day, the relative's phone call asked for money again, and Terri had no way.
Relatives want money again
A fellow villager who works as a maid at a neighbor's house told her that she could take advantage of her day off to work at Lucky Square. Terri decided to give it a try, changed into the old clothes given by Knorr's mother and secretly wiped her lipstick to become a hairdresser in Lucky Square.
A fellow countryman who works at a neighbor's house
Terri decided to try her luck
Her fellow countrymen at the barbershop told her that she could come out more often than not having a little sleeping pills for her, and Terri was also a mother, and she couldn't do that to Knorr anyway. During this time, she has long established a deep relationship with Knorr.
Terri couldn't do anything to hurt Knorr
She was like his mom, sister, and seemed like his girlfriend.
On the way to visit Grandpa Knorr's grave, the car broke down, Knorr's father let Knorr and Terry push the cart, and her mother was pulled behind because of her mobility problems, she watched the three people cooperate, as if they were the family.
On this day, Knorr fought with his classmates because of his classmates laughing at Terry, and sure enough, he was called a parent again, and it was Terry who rushed over. Mom then arrives, and Knorr mom finally gets angry with Terri when she comes out of the teacher's office. I'm the you're not!
Terri came to school first
I'm the, you're not!
Being punished by the school for spanking, Terry rushed to the school first to pick him up and give him medicine. When I was with Terry, Knorr was a well-behaved and sensible child. Because Terri accompanied him to take care of him and listened to him.
Terri medicates Knorr
Knorr's parents couldn't take care of themselves. The dialogue with Knorr is basically a lesson and a command, how to make this stubborn child obedient?
The roof leaked during the overnight rain, and Jiale's father went to the warehouse one day to inspect, accidentally fell, and several baskets of eggs were all overturned on him. And so his job as a security guard was gone.
Dad lost his job again
Knorr's mother saw in the news that the spiritual teacher who shouted "hope lies in myself" turned out to be a liar. She was still sitting on the bed with a mask on her face, and she heard her husband say, "Stupid people are fooled," "Am I not stupid?"
Mom found out she had been cheated
Both husband and wife were dumbfounded, and one of the two people lost their jobs and the other was cheated of money. And the family is about to have a child.
The husband and wife were all dumbfounded
Knorr took out all the money to buy the lottery ticket, he has been paying attention to the lottery plan of this lottery for a long time, and his calculation has helped the teacher win the jackpot. This time, however, he did not win the lottery himself.
Knorr rushed to buy the big lotto
On the surface, Knorr, who looks mischievous, has long seen the anxiety of his parents, and he knows that money can solve the problems at home and make his parents happy. It's just that he is a child after all, powerless to change the family's predicament.
Knowing that they had run out of money to hire Terri, the couple gave her her her passport and wages to take her to the airport. Terri found a lipstick in her bag that she had stolen.
Give Terri lipstick
Knorr was silent all the way but cut a section of Terri's hair as she left. When he was left in the car he finally shed tears of heartache. His childhood also ended at this moment.
Knorr didn't let Terri get out of the car
Smelling Terri's hair, Knorr cried sadly
At the end of the story, Knorr's younger brother was born, and the family finally had a smiley face again, and the child seemed to have a new hope in this family.
A new hope has arrived
After reading this story, people feel that life is a chicken feather. Everyone has his difficulties. My personal favorite is the role of mom, and I can see in the story that she is a strong and kind person, but life makes her hard. The suffering of adults is difficult to express, and we don't seem to care. It's just that this kind of stretching appears at any time to knock you out to let you know the difficulty of life.
That's probably why I don't like Zhong Meimei, even though he's smart. What was the one thing he said the adults were all thinking about? Where can I get some money? He was clever enough to grasp the lifeblood of an adult, but in a tone of ridicule and ridicule, he said the dilemma of an adult.