ghost lights

In summer, at the hottest time at noon, all households shut their doors, spread a mat on the ground, and shake a fan to enjoy the cool. Two seven-year-old children stood on the side of a house, leaning against the wall, looking Hastily, looking left and right, sweating all over his face.

"I'll show you the wind, you go and come back quickly." One of them said to Li Tang, he looked around, ready to remind his partner to leave if there was any trouble.

Li Tang swiftly turned over the wall into the house, found the location of the bedroom familiarly, opened a drawer on the third floor of the cabinet, and turned the inside upside down.

"Strange, it was put here last time, why is it gone?" Li Tang muttered in a low voice, the family's dog was standing at his feet, watching him rummaging through boxes and boxes.

"found it!"

In less than 10 minutes, Li Tang finally found the location of the money from the closet, and quietly took away one dollar among one hundred, fifty, twenty, ten, one yuan.

After doing all this well, he packed the things in the same way as before, so that no one could see the traces of being turned over, and he quietly climbed out of the wall.

The dog squatted in the corner, watching the disappearing figure of its little master, it also wanted to go out, but it couldn't get over the wall.

This dog was brought back from a friend's house by Li Hua, and it has successfully lived here for a year. After experiencing the painful experience of the previous four dogs, it survived tenaciously.

"How is it? How much did you get this time?" Another little boy saw Li Tang's figure and excitedly came to catch him.

"There is only one piece. I dare not take the big one. My mother will beat me, and she may not know if I take the small one." Li Tang replied with a confused face. He didn't understand why his friend asked him to steal money from the family, but As soon as he thought that he could buy cool popsicles and fragrant spicy sticks, he compromised.

"It's another one yuan." The boy was a little upset, but quickly cheered up again, "Just one yuan, let's go, let's go shopping."

Li Tang and the boy ran from the south of the village to the north of the village, sweating profusely and panting, and finally reached the canteen.

In fact, there is a canteen near Li Tang’s house, but if Li Tang is shopping there, the woman at the canteen will tell his mother that he spent money today, and his mother will definitely be suspicious, so the two of them ran so far, so that His mother would never know about the money he stole.

But after all, Li Tang underestimated his mother's memory, and his mother found out that one dollar was missing that night. The poor Li Tang was fined to kneel on the washboard, and his mother stood in front of him and interrogated him about the whereabouts of the money.

"Who told you to steal the money?"

"Xiao Jin." Li Tang tremblingly betrayed his accomplice.

"What about the money?"

"spent."

"Why don't you steal from theirs, but from ours?"

"do not know."

It was only when Li Tang noticed this problem that Xiao Jin had never stolen money from their family, but always let him steal money from his own family, and gave Xiao Jin half of the points, which seemed not a good deal.

"If you don't know, just kneel to me. Next time you try to steal money, I'll break your leg!"

The woman was in a hurry. This was not the first time that Li Tang had stolen money. She had turned a blind eye to the previous few times. Anyway, the money she stole was not much, and she deliberately changed the place where the money was hidden. , but every time he can be found by this little bastard, his nose is as sensitive as a dog, the woman couldn't bear it anymore, and finally punished Li Tang, stealing needles when he was young, and stealing gold when he was old, so he couldn't encourage his bad habits.

Li Tang was indeed frightened, with tears streaming down his face, and the father who was sitting at the door picking cotton couldn't hear his son crying so badly, so he came in and dragged him up, and pulled him to his side to help him pick cotton.

"If you help me pick cotton, even if you work, you have to be paid for the work. You stole one dollar from your mother, and the salary is also one dollar. It's just a debt repayment." The gentle and honest words of his father made Li Tang start again. Energetic, he wiped away his tears, and started picking cotton desperately, and he was reluctant to leave when it was time for dinner, wanting to pick all the cotton.

Even an adult would have to pick that big push of cotton for several days, how could it be finished in one day, so under his father's half dragging and half dragging, Li Tang had to temporarily put down his work and go to eat.

Later, Xiao Jin encouraged Li Tang to steal money again, but Li Tang directly refused, he didn't want to owe other people's debts, God knows how much cotton he picked to pay off the debts, and his hands were worn out several layers of skin.

Later, Li Tang came up with a very good idea, which can have money to spend without being in debt.He discussed it with his mother, and he helped with housework, and each housework cost [-] cents.The son has a heart, and he no longer steals money. Being a mother is very happy, and there are a lot of chores in the house. She used to do it. It is rare for someone to share it for her, so she agreed.

Later, it became a habit for Li Tang to do housework. As he grew older, a dime of income was nothing to him, and the contract of earning money by doing housework basically disappeared, but the housework was still done.

However, Li Tang's dream of making money did not die because of this, he found another way to make a living, picking up trash.That year, Li Tang was 12 years old. People could often see him in the village with a plastic bag in one hand and a stick in the other, picking things up near the village's garbage dumps and houses under construction.

The things Li Tang picks up are very miscellaneous, such as plastic bottles, iron wire and iron blocks, glass bottles, cans, and copper wires. Among them, copper wires are the most expensive, but they are also the rarest. Li Tang even smashed the landline phones that he didn’t use at home. He removed the tiny copper wire inside. Although the phone was no longer used, his mother still felt a little distressed after knowing that the phone had been smashed.

The trash collectors are very diligent, and Litang is also diligent in picking up trash. Every time he goes to and from school, he sees something that can be sold on the roadside, and he will pick it up and put it in his schoolbag. He sells it every Friday. The tattered days can usually be sold for about ten yuan, which is already a lot of income for him, and the pocket money of his friends is only five yuan a week at most.

By the time Li Tang gave up picking up trash, he had already saved 800 yuan. His mother always wanted to keep it for him, but Li Tang refused to agree, and he thought he could save it.

But in the end the money was gone.It was his junior high school classmate who was cheated for two hundred. This was guessed by Li Shang, but the facts should be similar.

The rest of Qian Litang was used to buy a learning machine, and he studied diligently at home every weekend. No wonder Li Tang was finally admitted to the first high school. It turned out that he did not rest on weekends, but was making up lessons.

Li Tang doesn't like to owe money and favors to others, probably because of the shadow in his heart caused by this incident.