Zhou Xiaoyun’s Happy Life

Chapter 1 The Ordinary Life of Ordinary People

Zhou Xiaoyun has been sitting there motionless for two hours.

 In front of him was an ordinary mirror, and a face that could be described as pretty was printed in the mirror.

 This face has some spots, and there are a few crow's feet at the corners of the eyes. Thinking back to when I was a girl, although I couldn't say that I was very beautiful, I was still cute and fair. Nowadays, the liveliness of youth is gone forever, leaving only the vicissitudes and desolation tortured by life. She looked at herself in the mirror and sighed deeply.

Twenty-eight! Twenty-eight! Twenty-eight! …

These words kept swirling in her mind, lingering until later, buzzing. She felt her head start to hurt again, and she reached out and rubbed her temples.

I didn’t expect that when I was irritable, my head would get more and more painful when I rubbed it. In a fit of anger, I waved my hand in the air, but I didn’t pay attention to a "bang" and broke the teacup on the edge of the table. The tea cup fell to pieces on the wooden floor. Some of the hot tea spilled on the floor, and more of it spilled on her legs. It's hot summer now. She is wearing a floral dress, and her legs are suddenly red. She cried out in pain, limped to the sink, squeezed some cold water into a towel, and applied it to her legs.

 After resting for a while, I felt better. I went to get a broom and dustpan to sweep up the debris on the floor, and then took a mop to **** up the water on the floor. After finishing the work, I finally breathed a sigh of relief. I looked at my phone again and saw it was already five o'clock. I secretly screamed something bad, I have to go pick up the kids.

She hurried out, got on her electric bike, and hurriedly went to the kindergarten to pick up her daughter.

Thinking of her daughter, Zhou Xiaoyun finally put aside her bad mood all day and began to relax.

 The daughter’s nickname is Niuniu, and her given name is Li Xintian. She is lively and cute. She is six years old this year and is already in senior class. Now I am studying in a private kindergarten in the county, and I will go to elementary school in the second half of the year.

Zhou Xiaoyun has to deliver her child to the kindergarten at 7:30 every morning and pick her up at 4:30 in the afternoon. It's too late today. I don't know how much the teacher's face will look like when I get there. Thinking of this, Zhou Xiaoyun began to feel upset again.

 In fact, formal kindergartens are better, not only full-time care, but also with better food. When my daughter is growing, how can the lunch she eats in the kindergarten meet the needs of her physical development?

When Niuniu was just three years old, Zhou Xiaoyun asked around for a kindergarten with good facilities, teachers, and good food. There were several good kindergartens in the city, but the tuition was too expensive. He earns 500 a month. He works hard in the factory for a month and even works overtime, but only earns 1,230. My husband, Li Tianyu, works as an individual and does some small business, and the monthly income is sometimes more and sometimes less. He also likes to go out to eat, drink and have fun, and what he brings home is only a pitiful amount, which is not expected at all.

 Excluding the rent of 300 yuan per month, water, electricity and gas, 200 yuan, firewood, rice, oil and salt, and the human connections, how can there be enough to send my daughter to a good kindergarten?

　　Later, I had to find a nearby private kindergarten, and the money for lunch and snacks in the morning and afternoon was only 200 per month. But Zhou Xiaoyun felt sad when he thought that he couldn't even afford a better kindergarten for his daughter.

When Zhou Xiaoyun arrived at the class, it was already 5:10. There are only a few children in the class who are not picked up. Niu Niu stood pitifully at the door waiting for her. I couldn't help but secretly hate myself. I have survived all kinds of life. I am twenty-eight years old, can I still be a teenage girl? If it weren’t for the sorrowful spring and autumn at home, why would I be late in picking up the child?

Zhou Xiaoyun picked up Niuniu carefully with a smile on her face, pretending not to see the teacher's impatience, and mentally warned herself that she must not be late next time.

Niu Niu was very happy to see her mother. She chirped like a little bird: "Mom, I'm hungry. I want to eat the fish you cooked."

Zhou Xiaoyun's tired heart suddenly lifted up, and he responded with a smile. I took my daughter to the market and bought Niuniu's favorite fish and meat to make Li Tianyu's favorite braised pork.

By the time everything was done and the food was on the table, it was already seven o'clock.

The rented room and living room, although not big, were neatly tidied up by the skillful Zhou Xiaoyun.

There is nothing valuable at home, except for a 25-inch Panda color TV I bought when I got married, and an old-fashioned two-tube washing machine. He was reluctant to buy air conditioners and refrigerators. Zhou Xiaoyun only wanted to save some money to buy a house in the city, so he saved all expenses as much as possible.

Adhering to the principle of never wasting and never spending a penny more, there are only a few big things in the house. There are not many pieces of furniture, including a large bed, a small bed for a child, and a four-door wardrobe. A dining table and some stools. Shoe racks are also bargains bought at wholesale markets.

 Zhou Xiaoyun does not only go to work and take care of her children every day, but also cleans the house.

 This small rented house has put her countless efforts into it. Zhou Xiaoyun himself used cheap floral cloth to make curtains, tablecloths, and TV covers. The washing machine was also covered with blue floral cloth. The floor was cleanly mopped. There are also little dolls made by her skillful hands on the table, which she made in the toy factory and secretly brought home.

The table is now set with braised pork and sweet and sour fish, a plate of cold cucumbers, three bowls of rice, and a large bowl of seaweed and egg soup.

 Just waiting for her husband Li Tianyu to come back.

 (End of this chapter)