Twenty-eight years ago on a cold winter morning, my father and I were selling our own apples in the market. In order to occupy a good position, we arrived at the market before dawn. I was still shaking when I wore two cotton jackets, and the two piles of big and red apples in front of me were also wrapped in some ice chips. In the cold, I stood on the ground with my left foot and my right foot for nearly three hours, and the number of talents in the market gradually increased.
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people who went to the market saw our apples, which were bright and tempting. When asked about the price, it was 40 cents per pound, which was much cheaper than other companies of the same size. They bent down to choose apples. My father and I were also busy taking plastic bags and filling apples for people, calling them apples. It was still very cold, but we were very busy.
At this time, a homeless man crawled into the crowd and was standing in front of our apple stall. He was sitting on a homemade small pulley truck. His right leg seemed to be festering, and he was wrapped in layers of thick dirty gauze, which emitted a foul smell. People dispersed a little. His right hand reached towards his father, with his palm facing upwards. This was an obvious way to ask for money. His father took out two yuan from his bag and gave it to him. He didn't answer, looked straight at his father and said, "Five dollars." Dad said, "How many apples do we sell to earn 5 dollars!" He refused to listen, and his hand still stretched forward. A few people who wanted to buy apples left our stall and went to another house. Dad didn't want to delay selling apples. He knew that the prime time for selling apples was only two hours a day. If the market could not be sold, it would be dispersed. We still had to take it home. He had no choice but to take five yuan from his bag and give it to him. He took it, put it in his pocket, and took the car forward with his hands. He stopped at the stall in front of me, and reached out to me. "We are from a family. This is my daughter. Look, she is still young." Dad said hurriedly. I had never seen this situation before and was so scared that I hid behind my father. "You sell apples but you still lack the money? How many stalls are needed." He didn't raise his eyelids.
This beggar is too arrogant! My dad gave him enough money for several days! In order to support our four siblings to go to school, our parents contracted ten acres of orchards, and the contract fee alone cost several thousand yuan every year. It was sold to apple wholesalers faster, but in order to sell it for a few more money, my father only slept for four or five hours a day during the winter vacation, blowing in the cold wind every day. In addition to paying the contract fee and the tuition fee for the four of us, the family basically has no money left. There is also the food, clothing and medical expenses of our whole family, and our grandma's medical expenses. Our lives are so tight.
Dad looked embarrassed. As the pillar of the family, he knew the difficulties of using money best. That time, in order to buy me Huodan Pills for treating rhinitis and , he rode a bicycle for 60 or 70 miles to the county town, and was reluctant to spend 3 yuan to take the minibus back and forth. For this 10 yuan, I can also buy a pair of good imitation leather shoes in the shopping mall opposite. I have been envious of it for a long time.
Seeing that his father did not move, the beggar lifted his smelly right leg and put it on our apple stall. How many people who want to buy apples want to leave? My father was helpless and took out another five yuan to him. The man took the money, put it in his pocket, raised his hand, "Isn't it done long ago?" He drew the ground with his hands and slid towards another stall.
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I was very angry and depressed, thinking that my father gave him money. Dad said, "We can't afford to offend such people, and we can't delay selling apples." I think so, and greeted customers with Dad.
When the sun was going westward, we finally sold out the apples. I straightened my sore waist and came to me right away and said, "Daughter, look, that's the man who asked us for money just now." I looked in the direction she pointed. A man was riding a new bicycle slowly from east to west. His hair was clean and neat, wearing a down jacket that few people wore at the time, shiny leather shoes, and humming songs in his mouth.
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"How can this be the same as the beggar? Although it looks very similar, isn't that person's leg injured? Besides, this person is so generous." I whispered in disbelief.
"You little girl doesn't know that his injuries change places every day. Today's leg injury, tomorrow's foot injury, and the day after tomorrow may be injured in the head." The man rode away, the aunt said.
I was so surprised that I couldn't speak.
"You don't know? He has built two-story Western-style building with this, not far from the south." The aunt pointed to the looming building and said.
"Ah" I was completely shocked.
The aunt said that the man was a local snake, a rogue, the locals were afraid of him, and outsiders did not know the inside story. So he became a rich man over time.
Later, I heard that he was caught by the police while cheating and went in.
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