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Chapter 1623 Trivial but Interesting

From the short passage above, we can see that a pair of shoes is just a trivial thing for many people, but for this family, for Ali and his sister, it is something extremely important.

Sarah began to believe it when she saw her brother's expression: "Are the shoes really gone?"

Ali said nervously, "Don't tell Mom, I'll find it."

Sarah became even more anxious: "Then how am I going to school tomorrow?" After saying that, she pouted and tears welled up in her eyes.

Ali quickly persuaded her, "Don't cry, I will look for it right away and I will definitely find it."

Sarah wiped her tears and said, "But you've looked everywhere."

Ali said quickly: "I haven't searched them all yet."

After saying that, he started to walk out. As soon as he reached the door, he turned around and told his sister, "Please, don't tell mom."

The camera turned and Ali ran down the stairs in two steps, put on his shoes, and ran out when he saw his mother working with her back to him. His mother heard the noise and shouted at his back, "Ali, where are you going? Come and help me collect the carpets. Ali!"

Ali ignored him and ran out.

Behind him he could still hear his mother's voice calling out, "Ali, Ali, where are you going?"

He ran out along the alley, through a doorway, and came to a small open space where a group of boys were playing football.

The little boy guarding the goal saw Ali running over and hurriedly shouted, "Ali, we are playing against the Xia Ying team tomorrow."

Ali stopped for a moment, then turned and continued running.

"Where are you going?" The boy guarding the gate wanted to chase him, but then he remembered that he was guarding the gate and quickly returned to his original position.

Ali ran all the way to the opposite side of the street from the vegetable store. He gradually slowed down his pace and looked forward. Then he took two quick steps and hid behind a cart piled with wooden crates and other waste, with half of his head exposed to observe the opposite side.

Across the alley was the vegetable shop that Ali had visited earlier. The owner was greeting a male customer. After the customer left, he began to pick up the vegetable leaves on the counter with his back to the door.

Ali seized the opportunity, bent down and ran to the place where he had originally put his shoes, opened the wooden box and searched carefully.

The shop owner came out holding a pile of rotten vegetable leaves and saw Ali. He couldn't help but yelling, "What are you doing here again? Didn't I tell you to go away?" Ali was so scared that he turned around and ran away.

The owner of the vegetable shop stood there and cursed: "How annoying!"

Ali ran to the busy street, and in front of him was the mosque. He slowed down and politely greeted an acquaintance who was busy outside the mosque: "Hello, Osoy."

Osoy responded, “Hello.”

Ali walked straight to the water pipe next to the temple and drank a few sips of cold water. Osoy asked casually, "Are you going home?"

Ali: “Yes.”

"Wait, help me." Osoi turned back and went into the temple. After a moment, he took out a white cloth bag: "This is the candy for the memorial service. Please ask your father to cut it into pieces."

Ali took it listlessly and replied, "Okay."

Osoy: "Here you go."

Meanwhile, at Ali's home, Ali's father used a hammer to smash large candies into finger-sized pieces. He had obviously heard Ali's mother's description of what happened during the day, and he was furious: "Don't worry about the landlord. Dealing with him is my job. Why are you arguing with him?"

The mother was half lying on the carpet, leaning against the quilt, looking at her husband at a loss.

"I'm going to teach him a lesson, break his neck! I'm going to make him behave himself." The father became more and more angry. He simply put down his work and yelled at his wife with gestures: "Why don't you listen to me? Didn't the doctor tell you not to do anything and not to get angry? Why are you still washing those things? The carpet is very heavy when it gets wet."

When he got angry, he turned his attention to little Ali: "Why didn't you help your mother when she asked you?"

Ali was so frightened by his father's anger that he didn't even dare to breathe.

The father continued to scold his wife and children, making a series of complaints: "You have to be patient, I will come back to take care of everything. What is your duty at home? Apart from eating and sleeping, just playing? You are not a child anymore, you are 9 years old. When I was 9 years old, I could already help my parents with things. Why are you making me angry? You are a fool, don't you understand?" Ali's tears were swirling in his eyes, and finally he couldn't stop his tears from falling "plop, plop".

The father's shouting woke up the sleeping baby. The mother coaxed the child and took the opportunity to whisper to her husband, "Okay, don't be angry."

My father seemed to have calmed down a lot, and he continued to do his work, but he still muttered, "They always make me angry."

Sarah was collecting the clothes that her mother had hung out to dry during the day, one by one. When she came to the steps and was about to go into the house, she suddenly saw several pairs of shoes piled haphazardly under the steps. She was stunned for a moment, and then angrily threw her slippers on her brother's broken sneakers.

In the room, Sarah came in silently with clothes in her arms and threw them on the pile of bedding in the corner. Her brother was still crying and coughing.

Sarah took her books from the low cabinet and knelt on the carpet next to her brother, ready to do her homework.

The mother coaxed the baby beside her, saying irritably and worriedly: "I don't understand why the baby is uncomfortable all day long."

Then he told his daughter, "Sarah, pour your dad some tea." She felt a little uncomfortable, so she put her arms over her head and leaned back.

Sarah obediently stood up, took the teapot from the stove behind her, filled a cup of tea, put it on the tray and brought it to her father.

Dad: “Thank you.”

Sarah squatted down to help her father pick up the candies scattered on the side.

Dad said, "I pour tea for people at work all day, but Sarah's tea is the best." He patted the sugar residue on his hands, took the cup, and found that there was no sugar: "Sarah, you didn't bring the sugar bowl."

Sarah pointed to the pile of candy in front of her and said, "There's candy here."

Dad: “This is the candy from the mosque. They gave it to us because they trust us.”

Mom: "Get some sugar out of the jar."

Dad: "Why, we're out of candy?"

Mom: "I took the coupon to the grocery store, but the candy wasn't in stock yet."

Dad: "Don't worry about him. He doesn't care about current affairs. He sells when he's happy. Give me the coupon first. I'll go to the company's welfare center to buy it."

Mom: “Under the rug.”

At this time, the baby started crying again.

Mom: “Oh, what’s wrong?”

Sarah helped her father gather the candy together again, and then returned to her original place. She did not do her homework, but turned to the blank page of the notebook and wrote something, while muttering in a low voice: "Ali, without shoes, how can I go to school tomorrow?"

Her voice was interrupted by her mother's voice: "You will go to the company welfare club tomorrow."

Sarah realized that her mother was talking to her father and was not paying attention to her, so she breathed a sigh of relief, opened the notebook and handed it to Ali, then pretended to read.

Mom: "We're out of nutritional milk too, buy some while you can."

Dad: “No problem.”

Ali looked at the notebook, then looked up at his sister, who was also staring at him with a frown. He looked at his parents again and found that they were only busy chatting and didn't pay attention to what was happening here.

Dad: "Aga's wife has a herniated disc. Eating sugar will make it worse. You have to learn to adapt to this disease."

Mom: "What do you want from me? Do nothing all day?"

Dad: "The doctor said it can't work."

Mom: "Kanan's sister had surgery and is doing fine."

Ali finished writing and handed the notebook back to Sarah.

Dad: “Don’t even mention surgery…”

After seeing this, Sarah pouted, frowned, and glared at Ali with dissatisfaction.

Dad: “…I don’t want you to become disabled.”

Sarah wrote again: "Ali you are outrageous you lost my shoe."

Ali glanced at his sister while keeping an eye on his parents from time to time.

Sarah then added, "I'm going to tell Dad."

Dad seemed to notice something and glanced at them from time to time. Sarah quickly pretended to read a book, while Ali pretended to do his homework to hide it from Dad.

Sarah took the notebook her brother had written and read quickly and quietly, "Sarah, we'll both get beaten. He won't have money to buy you new shoes."

Over there, the parents' conversation was still going on, and over here, the notebook was still being passed between the siblings.

Sarah wrote: "So what do I do?"

Ali replied: "You can wear my sneakers, and I will go to school when you go home."

Sarah refused sternly: "No."

Ali concluded by writing: "Please."

Sarah took the notebook and looked at it, her fingers scratching the pencil tip but not putting pen to paper. It was obvious that she had softened her heart.

At this moment, Ali took the opportunity to put a newly sharpened pencil on his sister's notebook: "Here you go."

Sarah hesitated for a moment, holding the pencil tip, and the tip slowly slipped off. She held the new pencil and couldn't let it go.

Although this paragraph is trivial, it is not boring. On the contrary, it not only explains the situation of this family, but also explains that because the mother is ill and cannot go to work, the whole family relies on the father to earn money to survive.

Therefore, a pair of sneakers is extremely important to them.

Although Ali's father was from a poor family and had a sick wife, he still had his own principles in life. The candy was right in front of him, but he didn't take it because it didn't belong to him.

This is an extremely precious quality. It can be said that the kind of person this father is can be seen just from a small thing.

Outside Ali's house, the door opened and Sarah, wearing a school uniform and carrying a school bag, walked out quietly, walked down the carpeted steps, and stopped at the last section. She reluctantly took her brother's white sneakers and put them on, then walked down the steps. However, the shoes were much bigger than her feet and did not fit her feet at all, so Sarah had to walk out in her slippers.

She opened the door and looked out into the street. The alley was empty except for an old man who collected scraps and exchanged them for goods, walking past the end of the alley shouting, "Exchange for salt, dry bread for salt, plastic bags, old slippers for salt."

Sarah's face was still covered with tears. She made sure that no one was around before she walked out the door.

Outside the school gate, Sarah walked dejectedly. She stopped at the alley, looked down at her shoes, and then looked up at the school across the street.

At the school gate, students were rushing into the school in groups of two or three, and no one noticed her. Sarah then quickly crossed the small road and entered the school gate.

Sarah's class is taking a long jump class. The camera passes over the students' feet wearing a variety of shoes. Some wear sneakers, some wear leather shoes, and some wear sandals.

Sarah, who was standing in the front row, dodged backwards with her feet in worn-out sneakers.

The female physical education teacher: "Next. Nilofa. Ferris." The students who were called walked out of the line one by one and jumped over the horizontal line on the ground.

The female physical education teacher kept shouting, "Next one..." The children competed with each other, jumping farther than the other.

When it was the turn of a child wearing leather shoes to jump, she tripped and fell to the ground, and the children started to scream and shout.

"Are you okay?" The teacher hurried forward to help her up, brushed off the dust on her body, and put her arm around her shoulders: "Don't leave yet. Children, the problem with Phyllis's dancing is her shoes."

Sarah hid behind her classmates. The teacher continued, "Sneakers are very important. Unfortunately, some of you didn't wear them, but some of you did." When Sarah heard this, a smile appeared on her face and she moved her feet forward.

Female teacher: "Okay, next one. Bahari, it's your turn."

On the other side, Ali was standing in a doorway not far from home, carrying his schoolbag and wearing slippers. He would turn his head from time to time to see if anyone he knew was passing by.

Apparently he's waiting for his sister Sarah to return the sneakers!
The girls swarmed out of the school gate, walking in groups of two or three, chatting and laughing. Sarah rushed out from among them, crossed the alley across the school, went to the busy street, and then turned into one alley after another, running forward quickly.

Ali looked at the alley entrance eagerly, and had to pay attention to the movements behind him from time to time. After a while, Sarah's figure finally appeared at the end of the alley. Ali was so anxious that he whispered, "Hurry up!"

When his sister came over, Ali couldn't help but ask her angrily, "Why are you late?"

Sarah argued, "No way. I ran back."

Ali didn't have time to argue with her, and urged her: "Take off your sneakers quickly, I'm going to be late." He exchanged shoes with his sister and ran forward with his head down. Sarah watched him run away, then turned around and walked home.

Ali ran through the alleys, onto the busy streets, and rushed towards the school without stopping.

Outside the boys' school that Ali attended, he stopped at the school gate, carefully pushed the half-closed door open a crack, and secretly looked inside.

The campus was empty, and he finally felt relieved and ran boldly towards the teaching building.

Inside the teaching building, the principal came out of his office near the door holding a wooden ruler and walked towards the end of the corridor. Suddenly, he heard heavy footsteps behind him. When he turned around, Ali had already run up the stairs and turned to the second floor. The principal shook his head helplessly.

Inside Ali's yard. Sarah was sitting by the sink washing dishes. The door to the yard opened with a bang, and Ali walked in listlessly. He squatted down and drank a few sips of water from the faucet, then sat down on the sink.

Sarah asked with concern: "Did you get to school on time?"

Ali: "I'm late, you need to come back early."

Sarah: "I came right after class."

Ali asked tentatively, "You didn't tell your mother?"

Sarah: "I promised you I wouldn't tell." She put the washed dishes aside, lowered her head, and accidentally saw her brother's sneakers covered with mud. She complained unhappily: "The sneakers are so dirty, so embarrassing, I don't want to wear them anymore."

Ali: “Don’t make excuses.”

Sarah said seriously: "It's true, it's so dirty."

Ali smiled mischievously: "Then let's wash it." Then he threw a handful of fish food into the pool behind him. Several goldfish in the water quickly gathered around.

(End of this chapter)