A small world in a “small dining table”

Zhang Dongmei is my high school classmate. She runs a children’s clothing store next to the supermarket.

In early 2014, her children’s clothing store closed, but she was not sad, because she lost to Jack Ma. Second, she always open a Courier network, also by the light of Jack Ma, business is getting better and better.

To take care of my son who is going to school, and to find something to do for myself. The couple decided to open a “small dining table”.

Bought a few used bunk beds, new refrigerators, rice cookers, iron POTS, etc. There was only one bed near the window, not an upper one. One is safety, two is noon, the sun can shine into the room.

Chef and night watch master Hao is husband brother-in-law’s brother-in-law, this year sixty-one two years old, just retired from a company workers canteen, wife died, and his son a family of three crowded in a room of less than 60 square meters, have been thinking of moving out. The caretaker, Auntie Liu, is her husband’s cousin. She is in her thirties and has a loud voice.

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At the end of August, Zhang Dongmei took her son to attend the freshman registration and distributed advertisements for the small dining table in her class. She also said that her son would eat and live at the small dining table at noon.

In the next two days, many parents with their children came to Zhang dongmei’s “small dining table” and ordered nine boys and five girls to pay 400 yuan per person per month, including school transfers to the small dining table and a lunch at noon. Before leaving, Zhang Dongmei and Liu Auntie also held each child to watch several times.

First and second graders leave school at 10:50. Just after 10 o ‘clock every day, within 200 meters on both sides of the school gate, all the cars are parked, leaving only two lanes to and from. By 10:40, the school was packed with hundreds of parents and more than 30 small dining-table aunts holding wooden signs. There was a great uproar all around.

As soon as school was over, all hell broke loose.

As the crowd gathered, school security guards ran to and fro, repeating over their loudspeakers, “Which small dining table is the wrong one for the children? Come back!” “Somebody else’s parents have been looking for the headmaster, will call the police soon!” “Ah! The parents all smoke less, too choke!” …

From the school to the small dining table, only more than 200 meters away. But because the pavement was also full of cars and there was an intersection with no traffic lights, the journey often lasted more than 20 minutes.

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There were two children in the small dining table. Zhang Dongmei was very impressed.

The girl, Xiao Yu, is six years old and has just grown to one meter, like a petite doll. Every day when sleeping at noon, the arms should hold a white stuffed bear. The appetite is also the smallest, Liu auntie privately said, Xiaoyu’s appetite is like a sparrow.

Every morning, Xiaoyu is father sent to school directly by electric car. I can see that Xiaoyu’s father is a very optimistic man. He hums every day and every time he says goodbye, he will say, “Goodbye, my daughter, my father loves you!” The voice was gentle enough to be heard by the parents around. At 6 o ‘clock in the afternoon, the father will pick up his daughter on time, a small dining table, will mercilessly kiss her one mouthful, and then hold her on the electric car.

One afternoon when the temperature dropped sharply, the father took off his coat and put it on his daughter before he left the house. Every Friday afternoon, mom and dad would come together to pick up drizzle. All the way laughing and laughing, happy family.

Compared with Xiaoyu, Xiaoqiang is the oldest, the tallest and the most daring child at the small dining table. His parents do business, every day to seven or eight o ‘clock in the evening, just drive to pick him up, and then Jack Bauer would simply have dinner at the small table.

From the school to the small dining table, only more than 200 meters away. From the school to the small dining table, only more than 200 meters away.

In April 2015, Xiao Yu’s father looked even happier as he picked up and dropped off his daughter. Xiao Yu often laughed and laughed during her siesta.

One day, she secretly told Zhang dongmei that her father had made a lot of money in the stock market, “He bought me a toy every week!”

In May, The father of light rain began to take a taxi to pick up his daughter every day, from time to time at noon to take her daughter outside the restaurant to eat a big meal, make light rain back yawn.

After several reminders from Zhang Dongmei, Xiaoyu’s father stopped taking his daughter out to dinner. Later, he also bought several cases of Chou-heung apples, sent to the small dining table. At that time, chou-heung apples cost twelve yuan a jin. Once, Xiao Yu told Zhang dongmei that in a few months his father would buy a car so that he would not have to suffer from the cold on the road in winter. Zhang Dongmei was very happy to hear that.

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In those crazy days, even Auntie Liu began to stare at the stock market quotation with her mobile phone on the way to and from her children. Several times I ran into a telephone pole laughing. The children almost had an accident when they were crossing the road. The zhang Dongmei of gas is scolding liu Auntie a meal.

But before long, to the end of June, Xiaoyu’s father and Aunt Liu’s face is not very good.

Jack Bauer is still the same, in the small dining table rampage.

That semester, xiaoqiang began to frequently and the class, even the students in the small table fight, Zhang Dongmei asked him the reason, he said his grades are not good, affecting the whole class evaluation, the students called him a big fool, but also made up a jingle “one two three four five, fight tigers up the mountain. The tiger does not eat, only eat big fool!”

Make little rumors your kids can understand, like “Jack Bauer stole the telephone pole home!” “Small strong mix with leg car, think racketeer!”

No matter what Zhang Dongmei said to the children, it was of no use. Later, Aunt Liu simply directly appointed xiaoqiang as a small table to assist the administrator. Although is a “temporary worker”, but small strong speech tone is obvious coarse, the vision that the children sees him is different also. At least fights don’t happen again.

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In September 2015, the children entered the second grade. The cost of the small dining table rose to 450 yuan per person per month.

When Xiao Yu’s parents came to pick up their daughter on Friday, they often started quarreling. From a small argument to a big argument, his face is full of wind and rain. Later on, their faces looked like they had been caught in a sudden sandstorm. They walked together with their heads bowed and neither of them said a word. This flying sand, even Liu Auntie can see clearly.

In November, just like the weather, two people’s faces began to be covered with smog, one in front, one behind, no longer walk side by side.

Once, Xiao Yu hugged Zhang Dongmei sadly and said, “Aunt Zhang, I know my parents are going to get divorced. My mother blamed my father for losing money in the stock market and lost a lot of money. It’s my fault. I shouldn’t have asked daddy for toys.” Zhang dongmei had to hug her tightly. “I don’t blame you, nor your parents.”

That time of the stock market crash, Liu Aunt restless, peeled potatoes several times to cut the finger blood dripping. Zhang Dongmei did not have the heart to yell at her.

Since the beginning of school in March 2016, I have never seen Xiaoyu’s father again. Xiaoyu’s mother picks him up from school every day. Sometimes Zhang Dongmei also felt very strange, a living person is like dew, can not say not to come.

One day in the middle of June, just before 6 p.m., Xiaoyu’s mother made a phone call to Zhang Dongmei, saying that she was very busy these days and her boyfriend would pick up Xiaoyu. Zhang Dongmei was stunned.

After a while, a fat white man in a suit drove up. Fat gave zhang Dongmei the mobile phone, again with the mother xiaoyu call to confirm, let xiaoyu out quickly. Xiao Yu carries a big schoolbag and dawdles, looking reluctant and unwilling.

The fat man seemed impatient and caught the little rain. The little bear fell out of his arms when the little rain staggered. Xiao Yu shouts: “Little bear, my little bear dropped!” The fat man was more annoyed and said: “What a small broken thing! I’ll get you a nice one. Come on, I’ve got work to do.” Xiao Yu cried loudly, “That’s what my father bought for me!”

At this moment, master Hao, who had been silent all along, suddenly shouted, “It seems that he is not the real father, but a bastard!” Fat man nu, “you say who be son of a bitch, you be a son of a bitch!” Master Hao did not say a word, but came out with two kitchen knives. Fat man, run and scold.

From that day on, no matter how late, Xiaoyu’s mother will come to pick up her daughter.

It’s June. The exam is coming. The children were obviously tired. After school in the afternoon, when they arrived at the small dining table, they had no time to take a drink of water, so they all bent over the table and wrote their homework. On average, they had to write until ten o ‘clock in the evening every day. Parents are also tired because children finish their homework and parents have to check, mark and sign it.

The teachers were tired, and So was Zhang Dongmei. More and more children go to school when they are sick, and they have to be urged to take medicine at noon every day. More important is, opposite unit ground floor, opened a small dining table again.

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In September 2016, the children entered the third grade and grew taller. There were four classes in the morning, and the time after school was half past eleven. They began to write with pens. The cost of small dining tables has also been raised by 50 yuan, 500 yuan per person per month.

One day noon in the middle of November, Xiaoqiang father suddenly called Zhang Dongmei, said xiaoqiang mother fell ill, want to go to Beijing hospital to do an operation, begged Zhang Dongmei let Xiaoqiang in the evening at the small table and Grandpa Hao do a companion, the cost is calculated separately, estimate a month they came back.

Zhang Dongmei wanted to refuse, but she could not bear to say so, so she agreed.

At the end of November, while picking up her daughter, Xiao Yu’s mother, carrying xiao Yu on her back, cried and told Zhang Dongmei that she had just changed her job and the new company required her to go to its headquarters in Hangzhou for training for a month. Xiaoyu’s grandpa and grandma are both sick. She wants to let the light rain at night live in the small dining table, and xiaoqiang and Grandpa hao do a companion, she must come back at the end of December.

Zhang Dongmei still wanted to refuse, but Xiaoyu suddenly ran in and hugged her waist tightly. Her heart softened, and she agreed.

At around 10 PM on December 3, Zhang Dongmei and her husband were watching TV at home in the South second Ring Road when she suddenly received a phone call from Xiaoyu’s mother in Hangzhou. Xiaoyu mother with crying sound let her go to a small table, “as if something had happened!”

A small world in a “small dining table”
Zhang dongmei and her husband’s heart suddenly jumped into their throat, the couple quickly drove to the small dining table, before leaving, her husband deliberately brought a wooden stick.

Pushing open the door, the room reeked of wine, and Master Hao bowed his head in the drawing-room. Xiao Qiang ran out of the bathroom, said light rain is still inside. Zhang Dongmei held Xiao Yu tightly. The child shook like a branch in a strong wind and cried like a trapped bee, holding her little bear tightly in her hands.

Small strong rob to say, evening the grandson of hao grandpa comes to him to want money, two people quarrelled 1. When his grandson ran away, Grandpa Hao began to drink. He and Xiao Yu advised Grandpa Hao to drink less. Grandpa Hao said, “You two are so good. My grandson, who was not good enough for me, was also good when he was a child. Every night before he went to bed, he would ask me to give him a hug and kiss him before he went to bed.”

“He just gave me a kiss. Then I will kiss Xiaoyu. xiao Yu can not let him kiss, said her mother repeatedly asked her, in addition to her mother, Aunt Zhang, who can not kiss her. Grandpa Hao was so angry that he slapped Xiao Yu in the face. Frightened, we hid in the bathroom and locked the door behind us. Xiao Yu called her mother.”

Zhang Dongmei breathed a long sigh of relief and said amitabha.

Her husband looked at master Hao, who had woken up from the wine, and said, “Brother In-law, don’t say any more. Take a rest tomorrow. When the mother comes back, apologize. Then we can talk about it. We’re dainty about people, aren’t we?”

Grandpa Hao said nothing.

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Since December, Zhang dongmei’s three family members have also been living at small dining tables at night. Every Friday, her husband sends his son to his grandparents.

The children became more and more difficult to manage. At lunch, they urged to eat roadside malatang, said the opposite small table let eat, “sometimes also eat spicy dry tofu.”

When sleeping at noon, they strongly request to play mobile phone games, said the opposite of the small dining table to play.

After picking up in the afternoon, a few children copy each other’s homework, Zhang Dongmei criticized them, the children on the other side of the small table aunt also help to write a composition.

That day, our two families had dinner together, zhang Dongmei’s husband said that a few days ago, the owner of the small dining table across from him to drink, said that if later we developed, do not want to take the children, we will rent the house to them, rent is certainly higher than others. “Zhang Dongmei, what do you think?”

Zhang Dongmei said nothing for a long time.

When we looked back, we saw that she had fallen asleep with her head down. She was snoring more loudly than ever.