Ali and Sarah, a brother and sister each with one shoe each, brushed their sneakers vigorously, their hands covered with soap.
Ali blew on the soap, and Sarah imitated his example. The brother and sister looked at each other and smiled. Sarah had an idea, put her soap-covered hand to her mouth, and blew a bubble into the soap.
Bubbles. Not to be outdone, Ali dipped in the soapy water and blew a bigger bubble. The brother and sister had a great time blowing one and I blew the other. Countless large and small bubbles carried the joy of their childhood.
Up to the sky...
Sometimes for them, happiness is so simple.
Ali dried the washed sneakers on the brick eaves of the house.
At this time, there was a knock on the door of the courtyard, and Ali walked over to open the door.
The little boy guarding the goal stood outside the door with a football under his arm: "Ali, let's go play ball."
Ali declined: "I'm busy."
Little boy: "Come on."
Ali: "No."
Little boy: "Just a moment."
Ali made an excuse: "My mother is sick."
"Forget it." The boy said, waving his hands impatiently and walking away. Looking at the back of his friend, Ali felt a little disappointed. He closed the door, sat down on the doorstep dejectedly, and stared at the wet man in dismay.
Sneakers dripping with water.
The camera switches to Ali and his family sitting cross-legged on the carpet, with the father holding the youngest child in his arms. Everyone is eating dinner and chatting happily.
Mom: "Ali also helped with all the housework my daughter did today."
Ali: "I bought bread and vegetables."
Sarah: "I swept the floor and washed the dishes."
Dad: "Good girl."
Ali turned his head and was attracted by a sneaker advertisement on TV, staring at it intently.
Dad added: "When I get a raise, I will buy you good things." He then turned to his wife and said, "You look much better..." Ali winked at his sister to signal her not to talk nonsense.
Dad: "After a few days of rest, if you don't climb the stairs, you will recover soon."
At this time, the TV screen suddenly disappeared, and snowflakes flashed on the screen. Ali couldn't help frowning, and Sarah pursed her lips unhappily.
After a while, the screen restored, but was replaced by images of lightning and thunder.
There was a thunderstorm outside the window.
Sarah was sitting in the dark wearing a headscarf, and her father's deafening snoring could be heard next to her. She glanced at her parents lying next to her, then turned to the other side, gently shook her brother, and whispered at the same time: "Ali!
Ali!”
After a long while, Ali raised his upper body, closed his eyes and asked drowsily: "What are you doing?"
Sarah: "If it rains, my sneakers will get wet. I dare not go out."
Ali struggled hard to raise his eyelids half-open, and they both looked out the window.
Quickly, Ali ran down the steps wearing a raincloth, took the wet sneakers from the brick platform, patted them a few times, and then leaned them against the steps under the porch.
Early the next morning, after the rain and the sky cleared, Sarah opened the door and walked down the steps. She knelt on the ground, picked up the white sneakers and looked at them, then stood up and put her feet in them.
People were coming and going on the street. Sarah raised her eyes and caught a glimpse of the small shoe shop on the roadside, and couldn't help walking over. She stood in front of the display window, looking at pairs of beautiful leather shoes, cloth shoes, and a pair of red lace-up patent leather shoes with bows.
She was deeply attracted. Then, she moved to the right side of the display window, and finally her eyes rested on a pair of white patent leather shoes that were the same style as the red shoes.
She wanted it very much, but she knew she couldn't afford it!
In the classroom, there was silence, and the students were working on the questions. The female teacher walked back and forth in the classroom, and finally stopped in front of the first row, pressing her hands on the desk.
Sarah looked a little worried. She stared at the watch on the teacher's wrist, trying to see the time clearly. The teacher moved his hands away for a while, and simply folded his arms for a while.
In desperation, Sarah took a look at the teacher's expression, then raised her hand and asked: "Excuse me, what time is it now?"
The female teacher raised her wrist and looked at her watch: "There is still time, keep writing."
Sarah had no choice but to put down her hands and continue answering the questions.
Everyone knows that Sarah is worried that it will be too late and her brother will be waiting in a hurry.
At the same time, in the doorway of the alley, Ali stood anxiously at the same place, subconsciously digging his fingers into the earthen wall next to him, constantly looking forward and backward.
Apparently he was waiting for Sarah to put her sneakers back on.
On the other side, Sarah quickly finished the test questions. She didn't even have time to put away her pen, so she picked up her schoolbag and walked to the teacher. She held the test paper in front of her chest and asked, "Can I go?"
The female teacher was puzzled: "You are leaving in such a hurry?"
Sarah didn't answer.
The teacher took the paper and glanced at it, then turned it over and looked at the back: "Go ahead."
Sarah ran forward quickly, turned a corner, and entered another street. On the street, a half-meter-wide drainage ditch ran through the center of the street, cutting the originally narrow road into two halves. Sarah wanted to
She bypassed a motorcycle parked in front and crossed to the other side of the ditch. Accidentally, her right shoe fell into the water and drifted down the river. She screamed and chased after her desperately, and in the ditch
They walked back and forth on both sides, and from time to time they got down and stretched out their hands to reach it. Unfortunately, the current was too fast, and Sarah was never able to reach it.
When they chased them to an aisle built with stone slabs, their sneakers were missing. Sarah ran to one end of the stone slab, knelt on the ground, stretched her neck and looked under the stone slab, but saw nothing. She ran to the other end again
, it turned out that the sneakers were entangled in weeds and other dirt in the water.
Sarah was so sad that she knelt on the ground, hugged a tree trunk next to her and cried helplessly.
The owner of a small shop on the roadside was placing goods outside the door. When he heard the crying, he rushed forward to help Sarah up and asked with concern: "Little sister, what's the matter?"
Sarah choked with sobs: "My shoe fell into the water and got stuck underneath."
The shopkeeper consoled him: "Don't cry, I'll get it back for you." He knelt on the stone slab, looked down, then stood up and took a wooden stick from the door of the shop. He stabbed it randomly into the water, and Sarah was suspicious.
Look up at him.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After a while, the waterway was cleared, and the sneakers were washed away along with weeds, rotten vegetables and other dirt.
"Hurry up!" the shopkeeper shouted to Sarah and chased him. Seeing a worker cleaning mud and dirt by the ditch in front of him, he hurriedly shouted: "Stop the shoes!" The man stopped the sneakers in time and fished them out with a shovel.
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Ali, who had been waiting for a long time, saw Sarah walking back uncharacteristically and asked angrily: "Where have you been?" Sarah ignored him and walked straight to the corner.
Ali asked: "Why are you late?"
Sarah took off her shoes without saying a word and threw them at her brother's feet.
Ali bent down and picked up the wet shoe: "Why is it wet?"
Sarah replied angrily: "I will never wear them again."
Ali asked loudly: "Why is it wet?"
"Fell into the ditch." Sarah said, tears streaming down her face.
Ali was reluctant: "How can I wear my shoes to school if they are wet?"
Sarah: "The shoes are too big for me."
Ali said angrily: "These shoes are very good."
Sarah retorted, with a slightly threatening tone: "It's all your fault that I lost my shoes. You need to find them back, or I'll tell Dad."
Ali got really angry: "I'm not afraid of being beaten. Dad won't have money until the end of the month. He has to borrow it."
After hearing what her brother said, Sarah was speechless. Ali took off his socks, put on his shoes, stood up, and added: "You have to be sensible."
Because his sister Sarah delayed changing her shoes, Ali ran to the teaching building panting.
Ali ran straight up the stairs, and just halfway up, he heard a yell from behind: "Wait!"
Ali was startled and stopped.
"Come down." The principal came up from behind him and asked sternly, "Where have you been? Why are you so late?"
Ali raised his hand and answered: "I live far away."
Principal: "Are you walking and playing at the same time? You were late yesterday too. If you do this again next time, you won't be allowed in."
Ali: "Yes."
The principal looked down at his shoes: "Why are your shoes wet?"
Ali lied: "I fell into the ditch."
Principal: "Then why are your pants not wet?"
Ali: "The water is very shallow."
The principal obviously didn't believe it: "Really?" He looked at Ali, pulled out the pair of socks from his trouser pocket, and waved them in front of his eyes, "Why aren't the socks wet?"
Ali had nothing to say.
The principal patted Ali on the shoulder with a wooden ruler: "Don't do it again next time, go back."
Ali: "Yes."
He came to the door of his class, opened the door and shouted: "Report."
The male teacher's voice: "Go back to your seat."
In the classroom, Ali's friend told him that he was going to play football with the Xia Ying team today, but Ali knew that he could not go because he only had one pair of sneakers, and he had to exchange them with his sister.
So he could only find an excuse saying that his mother was sick and couldn't go.
The teacher announced the results. Many students in the class had poor grades, but Ali and two other classmates had good grades.
They also received awards from their teachers.
After receiving the reward, Ali walked through the busy street, turned into an alley, and ran home happily. When he was far away, he saw Sarah coming towards him. Ali stopped and called her: "Sarah!"
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Sarah pretended not to hear and turned into another alley.
"Sarah, Sarah!" Ali ran a few steps to catch up and blocked her way: "I called you, why didn't you wait for me? Where are you going?"
Sarah held a large porcelain bowl, lowered her head and said coldly: "Return the bowl of stew to Coppola Kanan."
Ali: "Are you still angry with me?" He opened his schoolbag, took out a golden ballpoint pen, and raised it to his sister: "Isn't it great?"
Sarah said indifferently: "Where did it come from?"
Ali: "The prize given by the teacher is given to you."
Seeing Sarah's lukewarm look, Ali said sincerely: "Take it, take it."
Sarah was overjoyed: "Really give it to me?"
Ali: "Yes."
Sarah added flatteringly: "I didn't tell Mom."
Ali: "I know."
"I'll be right back." Sarah said happily and ran to return the bowl.
The relationship between the brother and sister makes people smile knowingly. Although they are poor, it does not hinder the brother-sister relationship between the brother and sister.
At some time before dinner, the family was busy each other. The father played with the radio, Ali sat next to him and read a book, and Sarah walked back and forth with her brother in her arms.
Mom was sitting by the stove cooking. She picked up a big bowl, scooped a few spoonfuls of hot soup from the pot, and then told her son: "Ali, bring me the tray."
Ali stood up and took a plate, and his mother put the big bowl on it: "Bring this bowl of soup to Kanan."
Ali walked down the steps, walked to the door of the house next door and knocked. An old man's voice came from inside: "Who is it?"
Ali replied: "It's me, Ali. I deliver soup to Kanan."
Old man: "Please come in."
Ali opened the door and walked in.
There were only an old couple in the house. The old lady was lying on the bed very ill, while the old man was sewing something beside the bed.
Ali: "Hello."
Old man: "Hello, Ali."
Ali knelt on the floor and took the soup from the tray to the carpet.
Old man: "Thank you. How is your father?"
Ali: "He's fine, thank you." After saying that, he planned to stand up and leave.
The old lady stretched out her hand and signaled him to wait a moment. Her head swayed for a long time before she finally spoke: "Ali, your mother is so kind." The old man seemed to suddenly remember something, and reached under the bed to dig out something.
Ali: "You're welcome."
Old lady: "How is your mother?"
Ali: "Okay, not bad."
Old lady: "Give her my regards."
"Okay." Ali stood up and was about to leave, but the old man reached out to stop him: "Ali, don't leave yet, wait a moment." Ali knelt on the ground again.
After a while, the old man grabbed a handful of things and handed them to Ali: "Take it."
Ali declined: "No need."
The old man thrust a handful of beans into Ali's hand: "Take it, God bless you. Say hello to your dad for me."
Ali's family is not wealthy, but he still does not forget to take care of the elderly neighbors. This quality has attracted the attention of many people.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In Sarah's school, the teacher was speaking above. Sarah looked around and touched the shoes on the feet of her classmates.
Female teacher: "I will conduct a home visit to make sure that everyone can study seriously at home and don't stay up late watching TV..."
Sarah jealously looked at the various shoes of various colors on their feet, and then looked down at the huge men's sneakers on her own feet. She felt even more ugly, so she tried her best to hide her feet behind the school bag on the ground.
Female teacher: "Set a time to rest and watch cartoons, and then sprint with all your strength. Ask your mother to review your homework with you to make sure there is nothing you don't understand."
Sarah looked further away and began to touch the shoes of other classmates. Suddenly, her eyes lit up and she saw a pair of very familiar shoes, with the feet running in tandem playfully.
The female teacher was still chattering: "You must cut your nails on time. Cut your nails every Friday. Then you will have clean nails on Saturday."
Sarah couldn't believe her eyes, she frowned and looked intently: Isn't this the pair of pink leather shoes she lost?!
Female teacher: "Why? Because nails can hide bacteria and you will get sick if you eat with your hands."
Sarah looked up at the girl from her shoes and saw her short stature, but couldn't see her face clearly.
At this moment, the female teacher finished her speech: "Okay, go back to the classroom. Follow the order, follow the order. First grade..." Sarah still didn't give up and stretched her neck to try to see the girl clearly.
She had no choice but to follow the team towards the teaching building.
The female teacher continued to direct: "Second, third, fourth, fifth grade..."
Apparently someone had worn Sarah's shoes! This scene made the audience curious, what will happen next?
