Since Lao Zhao and his wife got married, they have come to the city from the countryside to work hard.

Before getting married, Lao Zhao learned a craft of making cakes and cakes from a teacher. When they arrived in the city, they rented a store next to the farmers' market to do pastry business.

Lao Zhao's pastry shop has never stopped since it opened. Now more than 20 years have passed, and the couple are still trying to run the pastry shop every day.

Middle-aged people have a heavy burden on their shoulders and are overwhelmed. When I opened my eyes in the morning, my family's dependent eyes were always with me. In order to make a living, for the support of children, for the support of the elderly, they are desperate to persist and have no regrets.

Usually, Lao Zhao is busy making cakes, peach cakes, tea cakes, sesame candy and other cakes in the back room, and the hostess warmly greets the guests in front of the store.

The cakes they make are really crisp and delicious. Except the essential ingredients, they never add fancy ingredients, just like their husband and wife's personality, they are really refreshing, simple and kind, and have an innate fragrance.

In addition to customized birthday cakes, simple cakes are usually made of simple ingredients, eggs with flour and appropriate amount of sugar, and other cakes are basically processed with such ingredients.

Processed cakes, tea cakes, peach cakes, sesame candy and other cakes are neatly placed in stainless steel plates. Looking at round cakes and tea cakes in Chengcheng Huang, as well as small pieces of sesame candy and peanut crisp, is very pleasing to the eye.

Although this kind of cake is not as delicate and beautiful as the cream cake decorated with dark red cherries or strawberries in the baking room, it can be seen at a glance that there are more eggs and less powder. Take a bite, sweet and soft, full of mellow egg flavor, with endless aftertaste.

Because of its good quality and low price, the people who patronize the pastry shop are all nearby residents and repeat customers. Occasionally come to the pastry shop, either weigh a bag of cakes or bring a little sesame sugar peanut cake to relieve your hunger when you leave.

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The couple have a son and a daughter. My daughter graduated from college and has already joined the work. My son went on studying after graduating from college.

When they are satisfied, they will always sigh helplessly: other people's children have been spoiled and cared for by grandparents and parents since childhood. Because of opening a shop, our children followed us all the way.

The old people at home have no time to help them with their children, so the couple have to take them with them. Children must go to school when they grow up. They can't send their children to and from school, so they have to let their son go to school ahead of time and let their two-year-old daughter drive their younger brother to and from school.

For more than 20 years, the couple got up at five o'clock every day, prepared breakfast for their children and hurried to the store. When they left home, a pair of children were still sleeping.

It's getting dark, and the couple have to prepare cakes for sale the next day in the store and take care of sporadic guests. It's always a little business. Whether it is cold winter or hot summer, I close the door after ten o'clock every day and never go home early.

In this way, the husband and wife spend every day in Dai Yue, and they are busy day after day without seeing the sun at both ends.

Every night when the couple dragged their tired bodies home, a pair of children had fallen asleep. Children are afraid that their parents who come back late forget to sign their homework, so they put a small bench at the door every night, put the written homework on the small bench, turn to the page to sign, and remember to put a pencil in the homework.

Every night, as soon as I enter the door, I see two children's homework neatly placed on the small bench. The couple's tired bodies felt relaxed, but at the moment when they signed the pen, they felt guilty and mixed feelings.

One afternoon after school, an acquaintance suddenly ran to the store in a panic and shouted: Your son was knocked down by a bicycle! Frightened, the couple dropped their work and ran straight to the road opposite the store, picked up their injured little son and ran to the hospital.

Fortunately, my son's health is not serious. Until now, Lao Zhao's wife talked about the scar on her son's forehead, and she still felt distressed and blamed herself.

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Smart and sensible children have added endless motivation to Lao Zhao and his wife. No matter how hard and tired, I insist on opening a shop, always thinking about making more money and saving enough money for my children to study all the way.

In the college entrance examination that year, my son was admitted to a 2 1 1 university. Happy and excited, the whole family decided to take the opportunity to send their son to school and have a good time in the city where his son studied. Unfortunately, when school starts, the pastry shop is facing demolition, and the business season is coming in the second half of the year. The couple should be busy looking for a new store to move and put down their previous arrangements.

Last year, my son was admitted to graduate school, and the couple privately planned to take a trip when they sent their son to school. But after careful calculation, my son has to pay 30 thousand yuan for tuition, and the travel expenses of a family of four have to be more than 10 thousand. The couple hesitated after touching the money in their pockets, and finally had to give up the plan again.

When my son came home on holiday, an education and training institution next to the pastry shop invited him to help him with his lessons. The daily salary was 150 yuan. The son disagreed, silently went in and out of the store to take care of the business and took time off to review his lessons.

The couple hope that their son will go home to take the civil service exam after graduation. The son told his parents what he thought. He doesn't want to go back to his hometown, and he doesn't want to take the civil service exam, because there is no big industrial base in his hometown and the commercial economy is underdeveloped. He wants to continue to study PhD to improve himself, and then go to economically developed areas to develop and work hard with his own strength, so that he can be filial with his parents who have been tired for most of his life.

As parents, suffering is enjoyment, sacrifice is satisfaction and dedication is gain.

Every time the couple talk about their children, they look gratified. The bread here contains parents' deep thoughts and concerns about their children who are away from home.

Husband and wife always talk about their children with satisfaction, and this satisfaction turns into infinite power, which makes them stop tirelessly day after day like a gyro.