[Comprehensive Korean Drama] "Core" Life

When Xin Ai woke up early in the morning, Shun Ren had already gone to the morning market to buy vegetables, while Cui Yingxiong was still sleeping, Xin Ai crept up and walked into the kitchen.After washing, Xinai turned on the rice cooker, broke up the leftovers with a spoon, added a little water to it, plugged in the power, and heated up.While waiting for the meal to heat up, Xin Ai took chopsticks and picked suitable materials from the leftovers left over from the restaurant yesterday.

Thinking of her own thoughts about the bed and the house, and looking at the leftovers in front of her, Xin Ai suddenly felt that her thoughts were so far away, what kind of bed and house, and being able to stop eating leftovers is the most important issue at present.Who knows if the customers who come and go in the store have infectious diseases?All the money in the family is used to pay off the debts, and there is no insurance at all. If you accidentally get sick, it will be another burden on the family. ...

Cui Xinai sighed softly, pulling back the wandering thoughts.Loan sharks are people who wander on the fringes of society. These people are extremely vicious and want money. If they can't pay back the money on time, it is not impossible to ruin their families!Under the current circumstances, being able to save more money is the top priority. Health and hygiene issues can only be put on the back burner. If you have a headache, you can’t think about it so much!

When the rice is hot, Xinai puts the rice on the bamboo slips that have already been flattened on the chopping board, flattens it with a rice spoon, cuts the picked leftovers and sprinkles them on top, rolls the bamboo slips, presses them with both hands, and shapes them. Cut into slices with a knife and rolled a layer of crushed peanuts on top.Putting the prepared rice balls into Cui Yingxiong's lunch box, Xinai let out a sigh of relief.After pondering for a while, with a bench under her feet, she took a chopstick and inserted a pig's heart out of the marinated meat jar, cut it in half, and put it in a bento box.

"Suck short (Xin Ai)!" Cui Yingxiong, who was brushing his teeth, saw Xin Ai's behavior, and with a toothbrush in his mouth, his mouth was full of toothpaste foam, and he yelled vaguely: "Small ashes! (Mom will be angry!) Gray Emma's! (Will be scolded!)"

Xin Ai covered the lunch box, turned her head and smiled at Cui Yingxiong, "It's okay, don't worry. If mom is angry, just scold me. Brother, you wash up and eat. I'll iron your school uniform first, and I'll wait for you After dinner, I should iron it here too." Xin Ai went into the house and found the bulky electric iron iron from the relief station from the top cabinet, and began to put it back on for Cui Yingxiong yesterday and washed it off. After a night, it was already dry The dry school uniform was ironed, and the ironed boards of the clothes were neat. Xin Ai hung them on a hanger to wait for Cui Yingxiong to finish eating.

Cui Yingxiong finished his meal, changed his clothes, greeted Xin Ai, packed his bento, and left home with his schoolbag on his back.Xin Ai looked at Cui Yingxiong wearing some ankle-hanging pants, sighed softly, and it was short again.This time I really want to order a new school uniform, which is another expense.

All schools in South Korea have implemented a unified and mandatory school uniform policy since the early 80s.Today, Korean school uniforms have participated in commercial competition in the market as a category of ready-made clothing, leading the trend of the school uniform market.School uniforms began to form their own style, gradually branded.Among schools with similar teaching levels, students will choose this school because the uniforms of this school are more beautiful than those of that school. Therefore, in order to attract students, the school will regard the uniform as an important selling point.

There is only one school in the area where Xin Ai and the others live, and there is no competition for students, but in order to attract children from wealthy families living nearby to enroll, the school uniforms are very high-end, and of course the price is not cheap.Because children grow up fast, they often won’t be able to wear the right clothes this year until next year. So when Cui Yingxiong entered school, in order to save money for ordering school uniforms year after year, he wanted to let Cui Yingxiong wear them for a few more years. Shun Ren ordered Cui Yingxiong's clothes to be two sizes too big, and only ordered a school uniform.

After the school uniform was brought back, Cui Yingxiong was wearing fat and big.Seeing that Shun Ren didn't care about it and didn't care about it, Xinai sighed, not caring whether it would arouse Shun Ren's suspicion, she tucked back the long part with her small hand that barely held the needle, fat After a short while, I worked all night to help Cui Yingxiong change the fit.

Shun Ren didn't make a fuss about Xin Ai being able to change clothes at such a young age, but felt that Xin Ai was superfluous.In the past, Cui Yingxiong's clothes were bought too big, but he didn't change them. He just wore them like that, and it didn't matter much.After Xin Ai heard this, she smiled wryly in her heart.Perhaps the hardships of life have wiped out Shun Ren's delicate thoughts as a woman. The only thing on her mind is to make money and pay off her debts.For her, as long as the two children are healthy and fine, even if there are other weird things, as long as it doesn't hurt the family, it doesn't matter.Xin Ai is delighted that Shun Ren accepts the irrationality of her body.But for Shun Ren's rough nerves, Xin Ai didn't know what to say.Forget it, let her check for the things that Shun Ren can't consider.

The Cui family is poor, and their backbone and self-esteem are meaningless in the face of poverty, but this does not mean that there is no bottom line.It's like she can accept going to the relief station to see "garbage", but she can't accept "food that comes from you".From a certain point of view, the school is a small society, and many social phenomena have refraction surfaces in it.According to what Xin Ai learned, the situation in Korean schools is very complicated. In this case, it is always a good thing to help Cui Yingxiong reduce some pressure and watch with special meaning.

Although it is said that primary and secondary schools in South Korea are compulsory education and tuition fees are free, this does not mean that going to school is really free.Renovation and renovation of school teaching buildings, replacement of desks, purchase of new teaching equipment, purchase of new books in the library, funds for student association activities, hiring better teachers for teaching, etc., all of these require money, and the state allocation is not enough , every parent of a student is required to support the school's education, and thank the teacher for educating the students to make a donation.This method of replacing tuition fees with donations is allowed by national policies.

The state education funding for schools is fixed.If the school's software and hardware want to be improved, more donations are needed.The status of a student’s family can be seen from the donation of the donation fee, because the donation fee of ten poor people is not as good as that of a rich person, so the school will inevitably be biased towards the children of those donors. Who cares about the interests of poor students!

In South Korea, under normal circumstances, every festival, parents will give gifts to their children's teachers, which not only expresses the meaning of "respecting teachers and valuing education", but also hopes that teachers can take more care of their children.Although the South Korean government later introduced measures to prohibit the parents of students from delivering red envelopes and valuable gifts to teachers, just as corruption cannot be eradicated, the government's measures cannot prevent parents of students from giving gifts to teachers.

Based on the financial situation of the Cui family, when Cui Yingxiong started school, he paid the donation fee according to the minimum standard. As for the extra expenses such as giving gifts to teachers, treating classmates to meals, and celebrating classmates’ birthdays, it is not like ordering school uniforms. Like the donation fee, it is a mandatory requirement and must be paid, so Shun Ren, who is eager to save every penny, will not give Cui Yingxiong this money.Cui Yingxiong and Xin Ai have grown up since they were young, and the frugal Shun Ren has never given them a penny of pocket money.

It is said that the world of children is simple, and social systems, morals and ethics, laws and regulations are useless in front of this simplicity, and it is exactly like this, this simplicity hurts people more directly, more sharply, and more unscrupulously.In the village, everyone is poor, even if they despise, ridicule, come and go, that's all.But at school, the world has become bigger. The gap between the rich and the poor, the hatred of the rich, the mentality of contempt for the poor, coupled with the bias of the school and teachers, are enough to treat Cui Yingxiong correctly before he has formed correct values. The world, destroy him when looking at everything around him.

The poor family environment, the irritable mother, the ridicule and contempt of the people around, the strange eyes of the teachers and classmates... the living conditions are so bad, in order to prevent Cui Yingxiong from going astray, Xin Ai will be with Cui Yingxiong every day. I cheered him up over and over again in front of him, and took the trouble to instill this thought in him: Families like theirs have no funds, no connections, no shortcuts to take, and the only way to get rid of the poor fate that people look down upon is to study This is the way to go.

Despite the poor conditions, Xin Ai still tried her best to reduce the place where Cui Yingxiong was ridiculed.Between a dirty kid and a clean kid, people obviously prefer the latter.So every day, when Cui Yingxiong came back from school, Xin Ai would remind him to change his school uniform before going to help in the restaurant, so as not to get oily and unable to wash it off.After that, wash the school uniform, hang it in the shade to dry, and then iron it before Cui Yingxiong goes to school in the morning, so that he can go to school clean and tidy.

It was Shun Ren's first time tidying up Cui Yingxiong's lunch box. He poured all kinds of leftovers together without tidying up at all. It was a messy hodgepodge.Bring such a bento, Qing is waiting to be laughed at.Xin Ai took over the job on her own, and never let Shun Ren do it again.In order to make the bento taste better and look better, fried rice and rice balls are the two most common bento items Cui Yingxiong brings.

Shun Ren doesn't give pocket money, so he earns it himself.At first, Xinai didn't understand the situation, and wanted to pick up garbage and sell it for money, but later learned that all garbage countries in South Korea recycle uniformly, so this idea was "killed".Later, knowing that there was a sea nearby, I wanted to go to catch the sea, collect sea goods and sell them, but was ridiculed by Cui Yingxiong again, because the development of offshore farming and bathing beaches does not allow people to go here to catch the sea. ...

Before Xin Ai came up with an idea suitable for Cui Yingxiong and her to make money, Cui Yingxiong found a job by himself.Hwajinpo Beach is a very well-known tourist destination in Korea, full of tourists, not too far from Cui's house.Because Cui Yingxiong was born tall, he was two years older than his actual age. He concealed his age and went to the person in charge of the beach, asking him to work here on weekends, picking up garbage left by tourists on the beach.At Cui Yingxiong's sincere request, he even knelt down to tell the family's hardships, and said that because he was a child, he only needed half of the wages, and finally obtained the consent of the person in charge.

For Cui Yingxiong to go to work at a young age, Shunyi was firmly opposed at first, but no matter how Shunren beat him, Cui Yingxiong made up his mind and refused to give up.Shun Ren had no choice but to let it go, but many times, in the middle of the night, Xin Ai could hear Shun Ren's low, suppressed crying.As a mother, she should have given the best to her child, and sheltered her child from the wind and rain outside, so that the child can grow up without worry, but she can't give anything, and let the child taste the hardships of life prematurely, which has to be said It was her failure as a mother.No matter how rough Shun Ren's nerves are, she is still a mother and still loves her children. This makes her feel sad, but in the face of this situation, she has no choice but to accept it silently.But since then, Shun Ren has rarely lost his temper and scolded Cui Yingxiong, let alone beat him. He just worked silently and silently swallowed all the pain and suffering that life gave her.

The money Cui Yingxiong earned from part-time jobs was not handed over to Shun Ren, but saved by himself, but he never reached out to Shun Ren for the stationery expenses he used after going to school.During spring outings, camping, autumn outings and sports games organized by the school, Cui Yingxiong finally no longer just eats other people's food or just watches. He also has money to buy snacks and can treat others to eat.When Cui Yingxiong took the snacks specially reserved for Xin Ai and told her that he used the money he earned to buy people to eat, his demeanor and those sparkling eyes made Xin Ai, who claims to be mature, also fell in love. A sour, just feel that tears are about to come out of my eyes.

Poverty is a different kind of wealth. If it is not overwhelmed by it, it will in turn urge children to grow faster and make them more mature and sensible.Under Xin Ai's attention, Cui Yingxiong did not grow into a punk who gave up his studies and only knew how to fight and fight all day long, but grew into a responsible little man.Life is still difficult for the Cui family, but Xinai feels that she has seen a glimmer of light.

The author has something to say: South Korea is a very strange country. It is deeply influenced by Japan and the United States, and it has low self-esteem and arrogance.