(1)
It's getting colder and colder, Yang Ligai's son is playing outside at night, but he can't get to the car home. Because of the close distance between the two points, Yang Ren placed orders at Didi one after another, but no one was willing to take them.
"It's hard to come out to play with you, it's so troublesome." Yang Ren babbled. Yang Yitong was always afraid of him and didn't dare to answer, so he led him all the way home.
Yang Ren has a bad temper and is often impatient. He doesn't know what trivial things or words can make him angry, so at home, even though his grandparents doted on Yang Yitong, he didn't dare to provoke his father.
Even though he said so, Yang Ren didn't really think the child was troublesome in his heart. Seeing his son clasped his hand tightly, shaking a little from the cold, he was still very distressed. He hugged him in his arms and hugged him tightly. Yes, maybe a little warmer.
After walking for a while, Yang Ren began to pant a little. After all, he was carrying his son and not cotton. He was embarrassed to show his lack of physical strength, so he had to speed up his pace.
"Dad!" Yang Yitong in his arms suddenly stretched out his small hand and pointed to the side of the road.
Looking down his son's hand, Yang Ren didn't think there was anything special. There was a man squatting on the ground and setting up a stall. Through the illumination of the small emergency lights next to him, he could see that there were many little dolls on the stall.
"You're a little boy, and you still like dolls?" Yang Ren asked his son, not knowing what to be excited about seeing dolls.
"It's Aisu." The child pointed at the small shadow beside the man who set up the stall with sharp eyes.
(2)
At first, Yang Ren didn't quite believe the child's words. How could Ai Su come out and set up a stall on such a cold night.
But as he got closer, Yang Ren saw that the man who set up the stall was really a stubborn old man, and the little girl squatting next to him, wrapped tightly in an adult down jacket, was Ai Su.
Yang Ren put his son on the ground, and then walked over quickly, the old man raised his head, saw Yang Ren, nodded slightly, and the expression of honor and shame was really similar to Xu Yao.
"Father, why are you here so late?" Yang Ren felt a little distressed when he looked at Ai Su, who was wrapped like a zongzi.
The old man was talking and didn't know how to speak properly.
Yang Ren didn't want to embarrass him, so he looked at the delicate dolls on the ground, picked them up, looked at them again, and said, "It's so beautiful, how do you sell them?"
The old man said, "Ten dollars each."
Each of those dolls is different in color, and the workmanship is very fine. They don't look like cheap and shoddy products. Ten yuan a piece is inevitably much cheaper than imagined.
"What's the purchase price? Isn't it too much of a loss?" Yang Ren asked. Yang Yitong squatted on the side, picked up each doll and touched it, he couldn't put it down.
(3)
"My son made it himself, there is no purchase price." The old man said.
Yang Ren was really surprised and picked up one of the dolls again. It was only the size of a human hand, but it was extremely cute. Each doll had a mushroom head and a string of colorful beads on its head, which finally reminded Yang Ren that they met before. At the time, Xu Yao was stringing beads.
Turning the doll over and over, Yang Ren did not find any traces of hand-stitching on the doll. Those hidden lines were like the production line in a factory. Set of good workmanship for sewing.
He thought about it, and he went to the old man's house by accident before, and he didn't think that they were living a hard life. Why did the old man not only set up a street stall, but also bring his granddaughter with him. Yang Ren was not happy, and asked the old man how he brought the child out when he was so cold.
The old man shook his head and said slowly: "Xu Yao has bad ears, I don't trust him to take care of the child alone."
"Where's the child's mother?" Yang Ren finally couldn't hold back the question.
The old man was silent for a while before saying, "Our family consists of three of our grandparents."
Yang Ren sighed in his heart, he could imagine what a mess a home without a woman would be like, because his home was almost like this. But he wasn't particularly sad. He didn't know how such a little bit of joy came out.
The time was getting late and the temperature was dropping even more. The old man finally had to pack up and go home.
"Hey." Yang Ren held down the old man's hand, "Wait a minute, my son likes it too, let him choose one."
Yang Ren originally wanted to say that he bought it all, but he knew that this stubborn old man would turn his face on the spot, and he could sympathize with some people, but neither Xu Yao nor his father were that kind of people.
(4)
In fact, Yang Yitong had already chosen what he liked, and he kept it in his hand and never put it down.
Yang Ren stood up and looked for his wallet from his trouser pocket, but the old man held his hand: "Give it to him."
"Don't, you are not rich either." Yang Ren found the most common words that would not hurt the old man while paying for it.
The old man smiled and shook his head: "My family is not short of this money, my retirement payment is enough for the three of us to live. Xu Yao has nothing to do every day now, and being able to sell his little craftsmanship also makes him feel that there is some value. "
Yang Ren nodded vigorously, and he finally understood the old man's intention, and finally calmed down when he heard him say that the family was not short of money.
After packing up the stall, the old man carried a schoolbag in his left hand and Aisu in his right hand, chatting with Yang Ren as he walked.
"Master, are your hands better?" Yang Ren cared about him.
"Okay." The old man said happily.
Yang Ren thought about it and finally brought up Xu Yao: "Xu Yao, what are you doing at home now?"
The old man sighed softly and said, "What else can he do, there's not much he can do."
The author has something to say:
After I finished writing, I found out that Dr. Xu did not appear, hahaha