[Comprehensive Korean Drama] "Core" Life

Xu Yingmei followed Xin Ai's advice, and went to the teacher when she was bullied at school, and stayed with Xin Ai outside school, so her campus life became stable.Her father, Xu Chengzhu, had been drunk at home for more than three months, and the family ran out of ammunition and food. If he did not make money, he and his daughter would starve to death.In desperation, he could only go out to work.It's just that he didn't earn much at first, and he could barely support his family, but most of them were let him buy wine, and the rest were thrown to Yingmei for living expenses, so when he went to Cui's house to buy food and wine, he was always on credit, and if he didn't come to the door Asking for it, I can't think of paying it back.

No matter how carefully Yingmei budgets and uses frugally, the living expenses are still not enough.Ask Xu Chengzhu for money, and when he is in a good mood, he can ask for some money, but most of them won't get money except for being scolded or even beaten, so they can only go hungry.This situation was later discovered by Xin Ai, who took her to her own home.At Cui's house, although there are leftovers, Yingmei can still fill her stomach.Therefore, although the days were difficult, Yingmei survived stumbling.

On Saturday night, the Cui family and Yingmei were busy until three o'clock in the middle of the night before seeing off the guests.After tidying up, Shun Ren heated up the remaining miso soup, refilled some kimchi, brought it to the table, and called everyone to eat.Shun Ren saw Yingmei working hard at the dinner table, and said in a low voice: "Hey, girl, if you are exhausted, don't come to our house. I didn't ask you to help me with work. You asked for it yourself." Help. How much work can you do with your age, don't come next time."

After hearing this, Xin Ai hurriedly said: "Mom, what are you talking about?" She looked at Yingmei, worried that Yingmei would be angry.

Yingmei winked playfully at Xin Ai, smiled and said to Shun Ren: "Don't worry, Aunt Shun Ren, I'm fine. I know Aunt Shun Ren cares about me, but I'm really fine. I'm the same age as Xin Ai, But my birthday is three months earlier than hers, she's fine, and I'm even finer." She could feel Shun Ren's concern hidden behind his harsh words.

After getting along with Shun Ren these days, Yingmei has realized that Shun Ren is actually a kind-hearted person.When she was found by Xin Ai and was hungry for a few days, when she was dragged to Cui's house, she was obediently cooking porridge for her.She knew the situation of Cui's family. In daily life, Shun Ren could save as much as possible, almost to the point of being stingy, but that's how it was, when she went to Cui's house for dinner, Shun Ren never expressed any words or deeds of dislike.It was she who didn't want to eat free food at Cui's house, so she volunteered to help.The reason why Shun Ren said that just now was more because he was worried that she would be exhausted, so he prevented her from helping in a disguised form.

Hearing this, Shun Ren looked at his daughter sitting next to Yingmei, and said nothing.After dinner, Cui Yingxiong sent Yingmei home.Good night's sleep.Because the business of the restaurant was light in the morning, Xinai took a long sleep and woke up almost noon. She went to the kitchen to make some food by herself, and then went back to the house to open the "Hundred Years of Korea—" borrowed from the library in the town. ——Life and Culture", turn to the previously marked place and continue reading.

After lunch, I went on to prepare for the restaurant.Xinai went to the wall flower and the back of the house to pick the vegetables she grew.In the first few years of planting, the harvest was not good, and it was not enough for the family.But this year I don’t know why, it seems to be thick and thin. Beans, cucumbers, gourds, ... are full of seedlings and tendrils, which are so heavy that they almost fall to the ground. If you don’t pick them for a few days, they will become a big basket. This year’s vegetable money has saved a lot. .

Shun Ren saw Xin Ai coming back with a big basket of beans, and said worriedly: "I haven't used up what I picked two days ago, why did I pick so much again? I can't finish eating, and I put it away for a long time. That's terrible." What should I do? How about going to the village to see if there is any demand and sell it?"

Xin Ai didn't think there was anything to worry about at all, and said directly: "What's so difficult about it? Can't you just dry the sun-dried vegetables? Sell what you sell, and eat the sun-dried vegetables in winter, wouldn't it save a lot of vegetables?" money."

"Dried vegetables? Then how do you eat them? Everyone eats fresh vegetables, because fresh vegetables are nutritious. The nutrition of dried vegetables is lost, who will eat them?" Shun Ren disagreed with Xin Ai's proposal.

Xin Ai just thinks Shun Ren's words are funny, people who take kimchi as an indispensable food for three meals a day, can't accept dried vegetables?Are dried vegetables less nutritious than pickled foods? "If no one eats it, we will eat it ourselves. Now is the season when vegetables are on the market. Even if we sell them, how much can we sell them for? Treat them well and save them for winter. How expensive are vegetables at that time, mom, you Do the math, inside and out, how much money can this save on food?"

Xin Ai, who knew how to persuade Shun Ren to agree, directly played the trump card of "economy".Sure enough, Shun Ren made some calculations in his mind, and after thinking about it, he no longer objected, and let Xin Ai make troubles.Of course, one of the reasons is that these dishes were made by myself without spending money, otherwise, if she was asked to spend money to buy vegetables and cook them, she would not agree.

Xin Ai had been busy all afternoon, and then she was busy. She was so tired that her back hurt and she lay down in the house to rest.Cui Yingxiong returned home happily, ran into the house, took out two sweaty Korean coins from his pocket, and dangled them in front of Xin Ai.As soon as Xinai stretched out her hand, she pulled it into her hand, saw the amount of the currency on it, and exclaimed: "2 yuan?"

"Where did this come from?" Xin Ai suppressed her doubts and asked quickly.

Cui Yingxiong sat across from Xin Ai, and proudly said: "Today's tip from the guest."

Xin Ai took a deep breath, relieved, and returned it to Cui Yingxiong: "Well, return it to you, keep it."

Cui Yingxiong took it, only took one, and handed the remaining one to her, "Well, we are half of each other. This is yours, you keep it."

Xin Ai took it with some hesitation, thought for a while, and said, "Don't you want to give it to mom?"

"No, you can put it away. My salary for this month is about to be paid, and I will hand it over to my mother later." Cui Yingxiong obviously had already figured out how to deal with it when he got the money.Cui Yingxiong's salary at the beach is only 5000 yuan, but his salary at the resort hotel is [-] yuan.Of course, he couldn't keep all the money and not hand it over like before.

Cui Yingxiong fell on the floor, looked at the ceiling, and said faintly: "Xin Ai, you don't know, you don't know how much I have been shocked in the resort hotel these days. People living there have no life at all. It’s beyond your imagination. I used to think that if I could have fresh meals at home every day, and occasionally I could buy something delicious with money and buy it back immediately. That kind of life was a life that I couldn’t even dream of. But entering After entering the resort hotel, I discovered that there is another kind of people in this world who live another kind of life.”

Turning his head, looking at Xin Ai, he continued: "2 yuan will scare you, but this is just a tip that someone gave me casually. The debts owed by our family make us breathless. Living frugally, thinking about saving money to pay off debts. But the money is nothing to the people who live there.”

Seeing Cui Yingxiong's shocked appearance, Xin Ai fell silent.She couldn't help thinking of a joke that said that in ancient times, a farmer couple chatted while farming, imagining the life of the emperor and queen. The farmer thought that the hoe used by the emperor and queen should be a golden hoe for farming, and the peasant woman thought that the loom and shuttle used by the queen for weaving Probably made of gold too.

Cui Yingxiong stood up, made a cheering gesture, and said loudly: "Xinai, do you know? Our village represents poverty in the eyes of outsiders. Except for Xu Yingmei's family, no one who moved out of the village moved back. In order not to receive more strange eyes in the future, I will work hard, I hope, we can move out of the village in the future." He set a goal for himself.

Xin Ai was deeply touched by Cui Yingxiong's words.Because of the existence of stewed dishes, the family’s economy has improved, because she discovered the stewed dishes. In addition, Shun Ren loves her more than Cui Yingxiong, so Shun Ren bought her a new schoolbag and a pair of bags when she was in school. new shoes.When she entered school, Xin Ai wore a new school uniform, new shoes, and carried a new schoolbag. If she didn't tell her, since she just entered school and everyone is unfamiliar with each other, who would know that her family is in trouble?But when she was asked about her family’s place of residence by her classmates, the classmates who got the answer immediately alienated her, looked at her with contempt, and pointed at her behind her back, wasn’t it because of the village’s “famous reputation”? .

Having a correct goal is definitely a good thing for Cui Yingxiong. In this case, Xin Ai is happy to see it succeed.She stood up, took Cui Yingxiong's hand, and echoed loudly: "Okay, let's work hard together."

Time goes by inadvertently, spring goes and autumn comes, and winter arrives in a blink of an eye.There is no hot bento place in school, so lunch at noon is eaten cold.In summer, Xinai can make do with cold food, but in winter, she can't accept cold food.

Since working in a resort hotel, Cui Yingxiong gave her a lot of money intermittently, and Xin Ai saved it. With the money, she bought a thermos bucket, used it to hold soup every day, and took it to school.The thermal insulation bucket has a good heat preservation effect. The soup is still hot at noon, so use it to make rice.Because when Xin Ai bought a thermos, she specially bought a large one, so Cui Yingxiong, Liu Junhe, and Xu Yingmei who ate with her all benefited.

Liu Junhe, as the representative of the chemistry class, kept the key to the chemistry laboratory.Because of the weather, the place for the four of them to have dinner was changed from outdoor to the chemical laboratory.When Xin Ai was waiting for Xu Yingmei in the first class with a bento and thermos, she saw that she was sullen when she came out, and asked why, only to find out that it was because of Yin Enxi again.

Yin Enxi is a little girl, as far as Xinai understands, she is not a bad person, but she is spoiled by her family, and she is a little ignorant of the world.For example, this time, Xu Yingmei's class organized a winter camp. Yin Enxi felt that Xu Yingmei's family was in trouble, so she reported to the teacher that she wanted to help Xu Yingmei, and she would bear all the expenses of Xu Yingmei's winter camp.Yin Enxi's actions immediately won the praise of teachers and classmates, but at that time Xu Yingmei had to bear the embarrassment and thanked her in public to express her gratitude.In fairness, Yin Enxi is kind, but Xinai believes that no matter who is being helped, I am afraid that they will not thank her from the heart.

Xu Yingmei and Xinai complained about their grievances: "She wants to do good deeds, and no one will stop her, but can she be a different person, instead of always stepping on my reputation to be a good person? This happens every time, and now the impression I give in class In addition to being poor, you are poor.” Therefore, isolation is inevitable.

Xin Ai smiled dryly, not knowing what to say.Once again, I was glad that Yin Enxi was not assigned to her when she entered the class.It would be too much for her to have such a "kind" classmate who was praised by both teachers and classmates.

The author has something to say: Sometimes the kindness that one thinks will not be appreciated by others.