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At the weekend, my daughter’s class teacher sent a text message informing me: The school will hold a spring sports meeting next Monday. Students are asked to dress uniformly. Boys wear white shirts, black pants and black shoes, and girls wear school uniforms, skirts, white stockings and black shoes. ! My daughter has four or five pairs of sneakers, but none of them are black. Look at the pair of dark blue soft sneakers she recently wore. They seem to be just fine... After thinking about it, I decided to buy another pair. It won't be a problem. Spending money to buy a pair of shoes...

On Saturday, during my lunch break, I wanted to go to the pedestrian street a few kilometers away. When I saw that I didn’t have enough time, I went to the City God Temple behind my unit. , it only took ten minutes to buy two pairs of white stockings and a pair of discounted Crayon Shin-chan black sneakers. It’s so easy to get the preparations for the school sports day!

When I was buying these essential sports items for my children, an incident from my childhood slowly came to mind... When I was in the fourth grade of elementary school, in order to welcome the inter-school Children's Day joint performance, the school I started preparing early. During the program selection, I was selected as a member of the school chorus. This was such a proud thing for rural children who were extremely lacking in cultural and entertainment activities at that time. From then on, I actively participated in rehearsals every day, thinking wholeheartedly about singing well and bringing glory to the group... The happy time passed quickly. Soon, the teacher customized a set of performance clothes worth 100 yuan for each team member, and said, If you want to continue participating in the choir, you must wear uniform attire. I have been struggling with this matter. You must know that I was living in my aunt's house at the time. For my aunt's big family of three children, I was lucky to be able to go to school. Moreover, the rural economy was extremely depressed at that time. A candy cost only a few cents, and an intercity stamp cost only two cents. The salary of ordinary people was only a few hundred yuan, but a performance costume cost a hundred yuan. When we were young, the new clothes made every year before the Spring Festival only cost a few dozen yuan. This one hundred yuan can obviously make a new set of clothes for each of our four children. How can I open my mouth and ask my aunt for it? And even if I dare to ask for it, my aunt who is digging in the ground will never be tempted by a children's performance... What if I give up? Childish self-esteem seems to be stubborn and unwilling to be underestimated. I was struggling until my desire to join the choir finally prevailed, so one day during my break from school, I secretly took out a hundred-yuan bill from the few notes at the bottom of my aunt's box, and handed it to me uneasily. After school...

A few days later, when my aunt was packing the box, she suddenly discovered that a big bill was missing. She was confused and asked us sisters, who secretly took the money? In view of the obvious fact, I had to admit that it was me - I was the only one of several children in the family who participated in the Children's Day performance and wore new clothes on the day of the event. My aunt scolded me, which of course made me sad, but it also relieved my psychological pressure of guilt!

I still remember the performance outfit of a white top and a navy blue suspender skirt. It was only pampered by me on that specific Children's Day, and I never wore it again in the following days, not only to sympathize with the sisters' feelings and let everyone forget the wrong things I did; but also because of this set Clothes are a dazzling luxury product in rural life with poor material resources...

To this day, when I recall my previous life, I still can’t help but sigh silently. That was the fate of generations of people in China. Fortunately, our generation is relatively lucky and has caught up with the tide of social change. In today's rural areas, people generally lead a relatively rich life. I hope our children will no longer be constrained by material scarcity in their aspirations and ideals!