[Comprehensive] The Hundred Stories of Qingxingdeng

Chapter 26

After opening the express delivery, what Gu Mengmeng saw was a pair of red embroidered shoes.

Very delicate workmanship, extremely beautiful embroidery.Even though it is no longer popular to wear this kind of shoes in this era, as long as women see it, they will be moved by its beauty.

When Gu Mengmeng saw this pair of shoes for the first time, she was a little puzzled.

Why would Dad send her such a pair of shoes by courier?

She took the pair of shoes out of the box and looked at them carefully in her hands, when a picture suddenly popped into her mind.

It was a memory from a long, long time ago. If it wasn't for the pair of embroidered shoes, Gu Mengmeng wouldn't be able to remember that episode, but now the picture from so many years ago clearly emerged in her mind.

About seven or eight years ago, her father was not as rich as later, and he worked hard every day for the company he had just founded.

At that time, Papa Gu was really busy. He was so busy that he had less than four hours of rest every day. Even a small business inside had to be negotiated by himself; at that time, Gu's father didn't have any extra time for Gu Mengmeng.

Every time Gu Mengmeng sees his father, he is tired and even frustrated.

Even if Papa Gu later becomes an enviable success and entrepreneur, he doesn't have to worry about a single business, and the money he passes on is at least a million dollars.But at the beginning, even an order of less than 120 yuan required him to use [-]% of his efforts and sweat to fight for it.Before he achieved success, he experienced countless failures.

Most entrepreneurs fall down on these initial failures. For various reasons, they finally gave up on this bumpy road-not that they are not good, not that they do not work hard, they are just unlucky Or it was really too painful and exhausting, so that he could no longer hold on—but because of his hard work, stubbornness, talent, and the correct path he found out through failure, plus a little bit of luck, he walked down, and he succeeded. up.

And when he was at the lowest point in his life, Gu Mengmeng still remembered that day when he saw his father who was secretly crying.

——With his mother on his back, the father who sat alone in the corner and cried secretly.

At that time, Gu Mengmeng was still too young, she didn't know why her father was so sad, like a towering tree that was about to fall and could no longer withstand the storm.

She was too young to understand anything, but she knew how fragile her father was at that time.She looked at such a father quietly for a long time, and finally mustered up the courage to walk over, and then asked, "Dad, why are you so sad?"

For the sudden appearance of Gu Mengmeng, Gu's father was surprised.He hurriedly straightened his bent waist, wiped away all the tears, opened his mouth to support his smile, and kept his choked throat from changing his tone, "Mengmeng, aren't you sleeping? Why didn't you call Dad when you woke up? "Papa Gu picked up Gu Mengmeng, let her sit in his arms, and wiped the wet face with his sleeve as if inadvertently.

Gu Mengmeng looked at Papa Gu, lowered her head, took out her beautiful little handkerchief, and wiped Papa's face seriously.

Papa Gu stopped all his movements at that time. He watched his daughter seriously wipe the moisture off her face, as if she was doing something very important.After wiping, Gu Mengmeng checked to make sure it was done before she said, "Is Dad sad?"

"...Dad...Dad is not sad..." In front of his daughter, Gu's father is always a mountain that can shelter him from wind and rain. No matter how painful he is outside, he will not tell his daughter about it.So he smiled, no matter how painful he was, he would always smile in front of his daughter.

Gu Mengmeng looked at Papa Gu again for a long time, and then sighed like an adult, "Hey... If Papa is sad, you must tell Mengmeng, Mengmeng is Papa's caring little padded jacket~" Gu Mengmeng said Dad usually said it, but now Gu Mengmeng told her father.

Gu's father laughed when he heard it, hugged Gu Mengmeng and nodded, "Yes, Mengmeng is Dad's caring little padded jacket!"

Seeing her father smiling, Gu Mengmeng was also much happier. She even raised her hand and said, "It's Wednesday, and there are two days before Dad can go to the zoo with Mengmeng, right? Dad no You can miss the appointment~”

Thinking of his current situation, Gu's father didn't know how to speak, but when Mengmeng looked at him, he finally said, "Dad, try not to miss the appointment." If you can't really do it, you can't do it casually in front of your children. Guaranteed, this is Papa Gu's principle.

But Gu Mengmeng was already very happy when she heard Gu's father's words, and then she pestered Gu's father to talk all the time, talking and talking, and finally talked about what gift Gu Mengmeng wanted recently.

The little Gu Mengmeng nodded after thinking seriously, "I want sister Xiuniang's embroidered shoes."

The elder sister Xiuniang that Gu Mengmeng was talking about was a character in a popular TV series at that time.

It is a modern TV series, the content explores the ideological liberation and free love of young people in the new era, and praises the beauty of love with the ups and downs of the hero and heroine's experiences and unrestrained and brave behaviors.Xiuniang’s elder sister is a supporting role, the child bride-in-law bought by the male protagonist’s parents, although he got along well when he was young, but the male protagonist who has grown up and accepted the thinking of the new era does not like Xiuniang, especially because of her identity and parents’ Forced to hate her and stay away from her.

During the period when the male protagonist left and met the female protagonist, many changes happened in his family. Xiu Niang suffered many unfair treatment and painful experiences in order to save the family, but the family was finally reborn. A prosperous family has become a single family, only the hero's sick mother and the embroidered mother are left.

Xiu Niang was originally a child bride who grew up accepting traditional ideas, but seeing her sick and weak "mother", she finally stood up and went out, trying her best to earn money to buy medicine to improve her life.

She was knocked down once, twice, three times, but she got up again and again.

She wants to find the male lead, her "husband" in name, but she doesn't know where the male lead is, what he's doing, and where to find him, so she can only rely on herself.

At last……

Xiuniang didn't die in love with the hero—in fact, she only regarded the hero as her younger brother—but died under feudal oppression.

Her "mother" was eventually pissed off by the bully, and she was driven to death by the bully.

She was knocked down so many times, but stood up again and again, until finally she finally lost all motivation to work hard and didn't know where to go.She put on the wedding dress embroidered for herself, red embroidered shoes, and a red hijab, and walked into the wide river step by step...

Xiu Niang died like this.

This TV series was watched by Gu Mengmeng with her mother.

Most of the time, Gu Mengmeng was playing with her own toys, while Gu's mother was staring at the TV.When seeing Xiu Niang die, Gu's mother cried until her eyes were swollen.

Gu Mengmeng didn't understand those high-level ideological discussions on TV, nor did she understand why a tragic figure like Xiu Niang would die in that way in the end.But Gu Mengmeng still likes Xiuniang, she likes Xiuniang's perseverance to stand up again no matter how painful it is.

In this way, Gu Mengmeng thought of her father, and Xiu Niang was as brave as her father. Although she would always meet bad people and be hurt, she could always overcome difficulties with her own efforts.

Even though Gu Mengmeng was too young at that time to explain many things clearly, and even though Gu's father didn't have much time to accompany her at that time, little Gu Mengmeng had a lot of things in her heart.

Because I like my father, I like sister Xiuniang.And the reason why Xiuniang's elder sister is called Xiuniang is because she is a good female celebrity, and her embroidery work is famous all over the world. The birds she embroiders come alive, and the flowers she embroiders compete with each other.

The picture of Xiu Niang wearing a wedding dress before her death was even more beautiful. Even the little Gu Mengmeng couldn't take her eyes off that dress, thinking that she would also want such a beautiful dress when she grows up.

When Gu's father asked Gu Mengmeng what she wanted, her first thought was this wedding dress.

But Gu Mengmeng pursed her mouth and thought seriously, it's not easy for Dad to make money, and Mom said that the clothes are very expensive, so she needs a pair of shoes, okay?

So Gu Mengmeng told Papa Gu that she wanted a pair of embroidered shoes, red embroidered shoes... sister Xiuniang's embroidered shoes.

Papa Gu asked strangely: "Why do you want embroidered shoes?" Don't ordinary little girls like cute dolls or candies?

Gu Mengmeng told Papa Gu her thoughts, especially emphasizing that Sister Xiuniang is very brave and can always overcome difficulties, "Just like Papa!" When Gu Mengmeng said this, the eyes of Gu Mengmeng It is full of admiration, "My dad is the best! No one can beat dad!"

Gu Mengmeng never knew how much courage and motivation her words brought to Gu's father. After the conversation with little Gu Mengmeng, Gu's father organized himself again, and then stepped over the difficulties and challenges step by step. Overcoming obstacles, finding the right path to success and becoming the later successful entrepreneur.

Those embroidered shoes were forgotten for various reasons, until this time Papa Gu failed again - he went bankrupt.

The frustration brought about by bankruptcy can crush a person. It means not only the loss of wealth, but also one's social status, reputation, "best friends" who turned away, and the dreaded "wall collapse". Everyone pushed", everything that seemed to make people feel the warmth and coldness of the world overnight happened in a short period of time.

Papa Gu felt as if he had returned to the lowest point of his life again. He was so frustrated that he seemed to lose the courage to live. He was like a ghost, and even his wife and daughter dared not face it.

He was afraid of seeing disappointed eyes and hearing hateful words.

Like a coward he began to run away from the world.

But later he thought of the conversation with the little Gu Mengmeng that day, and then he personally went to find the best embroiderer in Jiangnan, and embroidered a pair of beautiful red embroidered shoes...

He wanted to give this late gift to Mengmeng, and he wanted to tell Mengmeng that his father was still the one who would not be defeated.

Daddy will stand up again...

Dad will always be a mountain you can rely on...

He went back ahead of time before the pair of shoes were made, and he couldn't wait to get back to his wife and daughter...

As a result, things are unpredictable.