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Lin Haiyin: Today is the day when Dad receives his salary

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Lin Haiyin: Today is the day when Dad receives his salary

Today is a good day – Dad gets paid.

I say it's a good day because everyone in the family has a desperate wish to live up to today.

In the morning, my mother went to buy vegetables, just stepped out of the door and stepped back, looked at the beautiful calendar on the wall and asked: "What is the number of today?" ”

"Number 1!" My eldest brother and I replied in unison – we were particularly alert about this day. Mom listened, nodded her head in understanding, and left.

In the early afternoon, my eldest brother and I both came back earlier, and my mother seemed to be earlier than us, and she had already cooked a full table of good dishes waiting for my father.

Penniless but able to serve a table full of good dishes, is the mother's skill. In class, we read the verse "Mud He Sells Wine and Pulls Out The Golden Noodles", which describes a virtuous wife who takes the gold noodles from her head and exchanges the wine for her husband to invite guests.

But Mom's virtuousness didn't stop there, and I knew that her last gold ring had been exchanged for money to treat Her Father's illness last year.

I mean, she has a good knack for credit, and of course, she's not the kind of woman who doesn't calculate how to keep her debts high, and she has the courage today to owe a table on credit because she's confident that she'll be able to pay it off soon.

Think about it, what day is it?

The car bell rang 3 times, which was the signal for Dad to come home. I rushed out to open the door, the eldest brother carefully pushed the car for dad, and the little sister quickly took Dad's big leather bag - today we are very attentive to Dad!

The big black leather bag was so heavy that the little sister couldn't carry it, and she shouted: "Daddy is so wide, the leather bag is so heavy, how much money is in it?" ”

We all laughed lightly as we listened. We know Dad won't have money in his bag, but it's always exciting to mention money on this good day.

I knew Dad's yellow kraft paper pay bag, and on this day, he always took it out of the upper left pocket of his Nakayama suit and handed it to His Mother as soon as he got home.

But today Dad didn't, and Dad, as if he were all right, sat down at the table as usual on his main seat.

During the meal, I looked back several times at the Zhongshan suit hanging on the nails on the wall, and the upper left pocket seemed to be bulging, and it seemed not to be drumming.

I hope that the nail is not firm and Daddy's clothes are falling, so I can hurry up and pick it up and see what is actually going on in that pocket. Now we are eating sullenly, and it is almost breathless!

I believed that I was not the only one who could not hold my breath, but none of us would ask My Father about his salary.

Dad's appetite is really good today, when the third bowl of rice is served, the mother who can't hold his breath finally spoke: "You see today's beef tongue is not badly burned, right?" ”

"Quite good!" Dad smacked his lips and nodded.

Mom said, "Today's beef tongue is only 15 yuan, not expensive." But I haven't given the money yet! ”

The technique of mom speaking is amazing! Our teacher taught the writing method when talking about "point questions", and my mother must have written well when she was in school, and she knew how to "point questions" to attract my father's attention.

Sure enough, when Dad heard Mom say this, he seemed to remember something important.

Lin Haiyin: Today is the day when Dad receives his salary
Lin Haiyin: Today is the day when Dad receives his salary

He immediately got up, took the brown paper bag from the upper left pocket of the Zhongshan suit hanging from the nail, placed it in front of his mother at the dinner table, and said, "Oh, the salary has been paid." ”

Our gaze immediately shifted from braised beef tongue to the paper bag.

The above items are written very clearly, what is the book, the clothing fee, the family allowance, the position is added to the la... There are many famous halls, adding up to a total of 376.56 yuan, or that old market! Dad is recommended to be the 6th grade, the official worship section chief.

Our family is the most democratic. While opening the pay bag, the mother asked the eldest brother, "What do you say you want to buy?" ”

The eldest brother listened, his face glowed with excitement, and two big slaps rubbed: "A box of instruments, about 150 pieces, always borrow from classmates in geometry class, people are unwilling; sneakers should also be bought, 36 pieces of pullback 40; and, there is..." The big brother can't remember, and he is anxious to touch his head, "Well, also, the hair should be straightened, three pieces and five." ”

"What about you?" Mom turned to me.

"Me? A fountain pen, dad promised, admitted to high school to give me, Parker 21 is good, as long as more than 90 pieces; when it is cold, the school rules to make black coats, about 70 yuan; and the school donates to the labor army, at least 5 pieces. I finished in one breath and waited for it to fall.

Mom didn't say anything, she put the pay bag upside down, and all 376.56 yuan poured out. She made a showdown distribution, counting them one by one, and said, "This is the butcher shop, this is the small shop, this is the electricity lamp fee, the water fee, this is the reporting fee, this is the household tax, this is..."

Seeing that the salary had gone by more than half, she still counted 3 small tickets to the eldest brother: "Oh, the money for the haircut, take it." ”

He drew another red ticket and gave it to me: "This is your school donation of 5 yuan." ”

My mother saw that my eldest brother and I were still staring at a small pile of tickets in her hand, and added: "The rest to buy, wait until next month!" ”

Mom turned to Dad again, And Dad was concentrating on picking the flesh between his teeth, and Mom shook the ticket in her hand and said to Dad, "I can't pull out your teeth this month, right?" ”

Dad hurriedly said, "It doesn't matter, you can still insist!" Still able to persevere! ”

Mom was just about to put away the money and tickets when she suddenly saw a little girl sitting silently at the table.

"By the way, and you, what are you going to buy?" Mom asked the little sister.

The little sister did not hesitate to hold out one of her index fingers and said, "A dime, Mom, go with the lottery!" ”

Lin Haiyin: Today is the day when Dad receives his salary

Mom smiled, and a brass coin was immediately handed to the little sister--today only the little sister fulfilled all her wishes.

I suddenly felt bored, and folded the red ticket into a butterfly and put it in the pocket of my uniform. Dad also stood up and said, "Looking forward to it, there is news that the treatment will be adjusted!" He pulled the word "and" long and heavy.

Putting on the Zhongshan suit, Dad made another conclusion: "I think that there were four major lows in Peiping back then: squeezing the tram, eating salty salt, fourth-class kilns, and civil servants." Ha! ”

And just like that, our good days have passed again!

Lin Haiyin: Today is the day when Dad receives his salary

Lin Haiyin, source: Reader Magazine, No. 2, 2018, original title "Good Day".

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