A female classmate standing aside asked: "She is your mother. Aren't you sad that she died?"
Bai Mei shook her head and said righteously: "You are wrong, she is not my mother, she is my enemy, the enemy of all of us! I have no family ties with this kind of person."
After she finished speaking, someone immediately applauded: "Well said!"
"It's so well said. There is no family affection between the enemy and ourselves." Others also praised him.
Someone praised him and said: "Comrade Bai Mei is really able to emerge from the mud without getting stained. He has lived in such a dirty big dye vat since he was a child, and yet he can still have such an advanced and selfless spirit. It is worth learning from all of us."
Amidst the applause, Bai Mei said: "My aunt, like my mother, is a cancer in society. I think we should find a time to eradicate her cancer too!"
"Okay, when are we going to eradicate the cancer?"
"The day after tomorrow? How about it? Everyone has to go to school for a meeting tomorrow and the day after tomorrow to discuss the results of our battle during this period. We can only postpone it until the day after tomorrow."
"Okay, let's decide on the day after tomorrow!"
In the Su family, Bai Xing got up earlier than everyone else and was washing rice and cooking porridge in the kitchen alone.
Bai Lu got up for the second time, and as soon as she walked into the kitchen, she was surprised: "Myolie, why are you wearing an apron to cook?"
"I'm cooking potato porridge, aunt, just wait and eat." Bai Xing said while scraping the potato skin.
"You have never done such rough work before, be careful not to cut your hands..."
"Auntie, haven't you ever done menial work since you were a child? Don't you have to do so many things now? No one is born to work. I don't have a family now. I don't want to eat and drink for free and be hated by others. Just let me
Please help with some work."
Last night, Bai Xing hid under the quilt and cried for a long time.
She is a very proud person.
When I was in school, my grades were always first in my year.
She originally thought that after the college entrance examination next year, she would be admitted to university and then go abroad for further study.
She never expected that everything would change overnight. She lost her home and didn't dare to go to school anymore.
She cried until the end, thinking that she could not be knocked down, and her mother was counting on her to provide for her in old age, so she had to cheer up.
Unlike Bai Mei, who was upright and confident when she lived in the Su family, Bai Xing felt like she was dependent on others in the Su family.
My aunt is kind enough to keep such a troublesome person in her home, but is my uncle willing?
My uncle would definitely not be happy. No one would be happy to take in a troublesome person! There were also her cousins and cousins. They didn't say anything, but that didn't mean they could accept her living here.
If she leaves the Su family, Bai Xing is sure that she will be caught on the street, just like her mother...
This is her only place to live, and she can only live there if she becomes a useful person to this family.
Bai Xing made up her mind and started working early in the morning. After cutting the potatoes, she poured them into the pot.
"Auntie, please see if I have added enough water? Do you want to add more?"
Bai Lu walked up and took a look at the porridge in the pot, shook her head and said, "No, this is just right."
After saying that, she was a little surprised, "Your mother said you couldn't do any work, but I think you did a pretty good job."
"Making porridge is a very simple matter. Just wash the rice and add water. No matter how complicated it is, I won't know how to do it. But I can learn it. In the future, auntie, you will call me when you cook. When I learn how to do it, I can do things like cooking.
Do it for me?"
"Myolie, you don't have to do this, I promised your mother to take care of you..."
Bai Xing shook her head and said: "I am already seventeen years old. I am not a child. I don't need anyone to take care of me. I am very grateful that my aunt is willing to take me in. I just don't want to be a useless person."
"Don't talk about yourself like that. When it's not so chaotic outside, you can continue to go to school."
While they were talking, Su Jianmin and his children had already gotten up, and each took turns going to the bathroom to brush their teeth and wash their faces.
Su Jianmin held Jinbao and helped her wash her face and brush her teeth with tooth powder.
When everyone sat down around the dining table, breakfast in the kitchen was already ready.
At the dinner table, Bai Xing, who has always been a big eater, ate very little. She said she wanted to lose weight.
Noticing that Su Xiaosi and Su Xiaowu's clothes were all patched, she said: "Auntie, after dinner, can you sort out the old clothes that everyone can't wear? I want to see it."
"Old clothes?" Although she was confused, Bai Lu nodded, "Okay."
Su Nanbing thought that this cousin of the Bai family was going to start acting like a monster. Unexpectedly, she picked up an old cotton trousers and said, "If you cut off this part of these trousers and take them apart, you can change them into a vest and this sweater."
It can be taken apart and made into a pair of woolen trousers.”
Jinbao gets new clothes every year, but because she grows so fast, she can no longer wear many of them.
Bai Xing held up a piece of clothing and said, "This can be made into a pillow or blanket."
"It's simple, can you do it?" Su Nanbing asked.
"Yes, my favorite thing to play with is the sewing machine. In the past, when I was too tired from studying, I wanted to free my mind, so I took apart the clothes and redid them into other styles."
Su Xiaosi said: "We don't have a sewing machine at home."
"Speaking of sewing machines..." Su Jianmin seemed to have an unexpected thought and said, "Last year I won an advanced employee award, and the factory rewarded me with a sewing ticket."
"Ah? Why haven't you said anything about this?" Bai Lu asked.
Su Jianmin explained: "The factory didn't reward me with a sewing machine, it just rewarded me with a ticket. Why am I telling you? A sewing machine costs more than 200. What's the use of just having a ticket? If you don't have money, it's the same."
I can’t afford it.”
"Dad," Jinbao gently tugged on her father's clothes, "we now have money to buy a sewing machine."
When others heard what Jin Bao said, they remembered that the money they had taken from Xu Fengjiao had not been used yet.
A sewing machine is a very practical thing. Bai Lu has always wanted to have one. She looked at her husband and said, "If I have a sewing machine at home, I don't have to spend money to find a tailor to make clothes. I can make clothes for my children myself."
"With the sewing machine, I can help my aunt," Bai Xing said. "These old clothes can also be put to good use and turned into treasures. Xiaosi and Xiaowu's clothes are too shabby, especially Xiaowu's clothes.
It’s all patches…”
Su Xiaosi smiled and said: "This dress belongs to my third brother! Then I wore it again, and finally gave it to my fifth brother."
Unexpectedly, she would notice the clothes of the fourth and fifth brothers. Jinbao had a better impression of Bai Xing, thinking that she was different from her third sister. She was difficult to get along with on the surface, but in fact she was very considerate.
"Okay, then I'll buy a sewing machine and come back after I get off work in the afternoon!"
After hearing what Dad said, the children were very happy, and Bai Lu was also very happy, "I'll go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some cloth..."
"I'll go," Su Nanbing said, "There's still chaos outside. Mom, don't go out."
"How can you, a young man, pick out cloth? In addition to making clothes for you, I also want to make a dress for Xing'er. She can't always wear my old clothes. I have to make her a new dress."
Bai Xing said hurriedly: "Aunt, no need, I can just wear old clothes."
"No, no, a little girl your age should dress nicer..."
Before his mother could finish, Jinbao said, "Mom, shall my second brother and I go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy cloth? I know how to choose."