Yesterday, my daughter came back from school and told me that they had a three-day holiday, and I was shocked to realize that it was another year of Dragon Boat Festival.
In previous years, the Dragon Boat Festival was spent at my mother's house, and every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Chinese New Year's Eve, I would buy a set of clothes for my parents, but since last year, I have not bought any more clothes, because there are two words - no money.
I went to my mother's house for dinner, and she could understand if I didn't give money, she would never have an opinion on me because I went back to my parents' house with no courtesy, and my parents all their lives wanted nothing more than to ask for a child to live and work in peace and contentment.
But this year, my parents are both in their hometown because of my grandfather's illness. My brother and sister are all here, and it stands to reason that I am the older sister, and I should have invited them to my house for dinner today.
But I only have a total of 139 yuan left in my hand, my husband has a week to get his salary, 139 yuan is the living expenses of our family of four for a week, if I use this money to buy vegetables and invite them to eat at home, then how will our family live in the next week?
I hesitated again and again and decided not to call it, they are all my relatives, and they should all understand me.
I'm very depressed, as the saying goes, a penny is hard to beat a hero, this is true at all, I really feel the sadness in it today.
Usually my sister and I are constantly on WeChat, never more than two days without contact, but yesterday I had no intention of sending WeChat.
In the evening, I made two dishes, a mustard egg soup, a fried beans, I stewed the bacon that my mother gave me in the refrigerator in a pressure cooker, and after the dishes were cooked, my husband, who had not eaten for a day, was interested, and went to the small shop to buy a bottle of beer and came back to drink.
I bathed my two children after eating, and my husband was still drinking, and the beer he bought actually won the lottery, and he went to redeem another bottle. I felt that the air was so oppressive, and I said that after eating, our family would ride a battery bike to the park, and my husband agreed.
As I was talking, my sister and brother came together, and before they got out of the car, they told me to let me go to her house for dinner during the Dragon Boat Festival. I excused myself a few words, but my sister didn't agree, and I finally agreed.
I was not very interested in the Dragon Boat Festival, I didn't get up until nine o'clock in the morning, my daughter got up early, told me about today's Dragon Boat Festival, I remembered again, I was going to cook the dumplings in the refrigerator for the children for breakfast, but now I actually got up late. My sister told me to go early today.
I hurriedly washed, after feeding my little daughter with milk powder, I cleaned the house, it was more than ten o'clock, when I went out, I felt that on a day like the holiday, I couldn't go to my sister's house empty-handed to eat, even if my sister understood my current financial difficulties, but it was hard to guarantee that my brother-in-law would not think that I didn't know how to be a sister, even if I brought some fruit, I couldn't be empty-handed.
I glanced at my WeChat balance of only 139 yuan again, and my heart began to shake again, and finally I went out empty-handed, my heart was so depressed that I didn't even have the money to buy fruit in my hand.
Later, when I passed by my brother's house, I found that my brother hadn't left, so I asked him if he wanted to go shopping, and he said he wanted to go, so I said, then you can bring me some too, and he promised to say yes.
I thought it would be rude to bring something with me, even though I was going to my sister's house.
I arrived at my sister's house, found that my sister had not started to cook, fortunately it was not too late, so I helped to cook together, and then my brother also bought fruit, he bought a total of 110 yuan, I gave him 50 yuan, I said I had no money, my brother smiled and said, don't give it if you don't have money, I said, no, if you don't give money, it means that I came to my sister's house to eat empty-handed, my brother said, then you can give it. Then he took the 50 yuan, and my balance became 89 yuan.
I helped to fry a few dishes together, and my sister started to stir-fry, she didn't fry the dishes well, and my sister's family was in charge of my brother-in-law. Before the dish was finished, my brother-in-law came back and he took my place.
I came back after eating, and the meal was awkward.