bayedsolid Chapter 56 Memories
Chapter 56 Memories
Ms. Leopard looked at her eldest son, who was eating with his head down, seemingly oblivious to what he was doing, and promptly tapped him with an ancestral rice spoon.
"Eat your food while I'm still talking," Ms. Leopard's authoritative words silenced Zhengfeng...
"Yes~" Zhengfeng replied in a dejected low voice.
"Zhengfeng! What have you been collecting lately?" The optimistic father couldn't bear to see his child looking so downcast, so he quickly changed the subject.
"Perhaps everyone still remembers!"
"News has arrived in a remote little town in Germany..."
"My brother has been buying lottery tickets lately, Olympic lottery tickets."
When Jung-bong started talking about his interests, he got excited and went off-topic, so Jung-hwan had to summarize and make things clear.
But this directly led to Ms. Leopard banging her heirloom soup spoon around...
"Ouch!" Zhengfeng rubbed his head where he had been hit and muttered softly:
"Mom, I'll only buy one a month..."
"Ouch~~" Zhengfeng dodged the spoon attack.
"Mom! It's only 500 yuan each!"
"Ouch!!" Zhengfeng covered his head, only his eyes showing. He had been knocked numb by Ms. Leopard's heirloom soup spoon...
"Is 500 yuan a small amount? 500 yuan can buy three coal briquettes!" Ms. Leopard is indeed a good wife and a good mother; she is truly thrifty.
"They're having a lottery draw right now~" Jung-hwan quietly changed the subject as he watched his older brother get a beating from their mother.
"Who will win the first prize?" the host's voice came from the television.
Ms. Leopard didn't believe these lottery tickets could win. Seeing her son glued to the tickets instead of eating, she snatched them away and put them aside. When Zhengfeng tried to take them, she threatened him with a soup spoon, instantly scaring him into retracting his outstretched hand...
"I'll eat after I finish watching this~~" Zhengfeng tried to struggle, but was glared at by Ms. Leopard and immediately lowered his head to eat, though he still kept glancing at the TV.
"Now we'll start drawing the group that will win the first prize~~"
"Today's draw is for group 4~, and the first number is 10~"
"The second number drawn from the fourth group is 2. Okay, now the third number drawn is 3..."
While eating, Ms. Leopard heard the lottery numbers being announced on TV and subconsciously glanced at the lottery ticket. Looking at it, she forgot to chew her food, her eyes fixed on the TV, and the soup spoon in her hand trembled in mid-air.
"Next is the tens digit, and the tens digit is 6!"
Upon hearing the sound, Zhengfeng blinked hard, thinking he had misread it. He had gotten all the numbers right up to the top, and was only missing the last single digit!
Zhengfeng's father forgot to eat the pickled beans he was holding with his chopsticks, as the whole family was glued to the TV.
"The last one is a single digit~"
"Could it be 3?" Zhengfeng's father asked himself with a mixture of doubt and anticipation.
"It's 3! There are 4 sets of first prizes today!"
Zhengfeng's father could no longer pick up the pickled bean with his chopsticks, and there was no joyful cheer. Everyone was stunned until someone walked in through the door, finally breaking the silence.
"My mom asked me to bring over the groceries!" As soon as the salamander came in with the plate of vegetables, the whole family was unusually silent, leaving the salamander completely bewildered.
"Dong-ryong! We're moving!" Jung-hwan said to the dollfish, something that left Jung-hwan completely baffled.
At this moment, Ms. Leopard and Zhengfeng's father finally calmed down. Zhengfeng's father rolled up his clothes, covered his face, and cried bitterly.
Ms. Leopard put down her ancestral soup spoon, reached out and grabbed Zhengfeng's hand, hugged him, and burst into tears.
The family finally hugged each other and cried bitterly.
Only Liu Donglong, the giant salamander, stood there bewildered, holding the dish, completely unable to understand what had happened...
However, in the end, Jung-hwan reached out and pulled her over for a hug...
......
"Haha~~"
With these three dishes, the past vividly reappeared before Zhengfeng's father's eyes. He looked at his two children eating with their chopsticks and his wife eating with a soup spoon, and he couldn't help but laugh. He wasn't laughing at them, but at himself.
My wife spends money lavishly because she's had enough of hardship and doesn't want to continue living a frugal life even when she has money.
Having had enough of the hard times, I don't want to go back to the past, so I try to save as much as possible in everything.
His wife was right, he was right, and the children were right. His responsibility made him always remember to bring happiness to this family, and he dared not let the slightest sign of anything destroy this hard-won happiness.
Ms. Leopard simply wanted her husband and children to live a happy and privileged life as wealthy people, and she wanted to make up for everything they had lacked in the past.
She had experienced poverty and knew the hardship of being broke, yet she persevered even then. However, she also knew how to fully enjoy life once she had money. After all, her first half of life had been tough enough; she had always been that optimistic and kind older sister in the alley!
This applies to others, and even more so to one's own people...
......
November 1988...
"Deok-sun! You're going to be late for school, come out now!"
"understood!"
Deok-sun answered, then immediately ran over, sat on the steps, and put on her shoes to get ready for school.
"I'm going to school!" Deok-sun called out into the house before heading out.
At this moment, at Sunwoo's house, Sunwoo looked at the beautifully fried eggs his mother had made and contentedly picked up a piece with his chopsticks and put it in his mouth. Before he could even chew for the third time, a piece of egg skin, as expected, pulled him back to reality from his reverie.
"Hey~~"
"So salty~~"
Just as he remembered, this is the taste of his mother's cooking!
Looking at the eggs in front of him, Sunwoo, true to his reputation as a filial son, picked up a large piece and ate it in one bite...
Since we're going to eat anyway, it's better to end it quickly than suffer for a long time. Sunwoo understands the ways of survival...
After chewing a few bites of egg, Sunwoo took a large sheet of tickets (middle school and high school bus tickets) and a craft knife and started cutting them up. The tickets that had just been issued were still attached together.
He carefully cut each sheet according to its dimensions.
At Jung-hwan's house, Jung-hwan was sitting on the table flipping through a comic book. The contents were vaguely visible; it was the familiar anime "Dragon Ball."
As he flipped through the pages, Zheng Huan carefully folded each train ticket, scratched it with his fingernail to create a mark, and then tore the ticket out along that mark. He was engrossed in "tearing up tickets" while reading his novel.
Unlike Sunwoo, Jung-hwan tore each ticket to the correct shape, resulting in exactly the required number. Sunwoo, on the other hand, used a craft knife and ruler to cut the tickets to size, managing to produce two extra tickets compared to Jung-hwan...
Sunwoo is so sensible, it breaks my heart...
Sunwoo's house~
"I'm going to school!" Sunwoo shouted, then put on his shoes and went out.
Jung-hwan's house~
"I'm going to school~" Jung-hwan called out as he prepared to leave.