Chapter 4: Decorating
Clean the ceilings?
I'm looking at the top of it as I'm standing at the highest foot of the portable staircase. Then, I was looking around to see if it was actually as what she had told.
Well... I was checked those. But... Where was the spiderweb's trace?
It was completely clean. I wonder...
If I'm telling my mom now that I did not find anything. Then she will complain as she would say,
"YOUR EYES ARE BIG ENOUGH YET YOU DIDNT SEE THOSE?"
Well... Not going to lie that it was a fact that my eyes were pretty big. Unlike typical Chinese who have slanted eyes. Not for racism purposes. But that was legit stuff.
I want to say it. But... Will she accept it? Hmm...
Never mind. I decided to pretend as if I'm really found it.
So. I decided to start the cleaning from the top right which was pretty easy to reach as I was using the broom that had the stick of the broom being extended by my mother.
I'm moving the stick gently which a voice of "Srak! Srak!" could be heard clearly. Then, I'm faking the way I'm cleaning the spiderwebs by spinning the broom as it was really there.
Plop!
Wait, what?
I am really seeing those? Those spiderwebs that wriggling around the broom.
Yes... It was. It was there!
I'm seeing it being wrapped around the broom.
"Hehe. As I told you, yes?" She smirked at me while she was moving the light objects around to avoid the spiderweb's remains being dropped there.
I'm conceding my own defeat. Sigh...
I decided to move the broom left and right again, gently.
Srak!!
Srak!!
Srak!!
Damn. My eyes were full in the dust. Sometimes, I'm sneezing as well thanks to the dust which led my mom to offer me the mask as she said,
"Wore a mask, Wandi. You kept sneezing."
Yes... I did sneezes a lot. But. I have to be wary on myself as well. Mask alone was not useful at all if I'm not doing it cautiously.
So. I decided to move the broom gently as I'm moving at the left and right...
Then top and bottom...
After that, going to the left and right...
I was starting to understand what does "Huo Dao Lao, Xie Dao Lao" means. I was young enough to learn something better. But my mom, she was about to close at her seventy years old, and yet, she could grasp things as fast as me. I must not be lost against her in the learning curve aspect.
gotta improving myself more, more, and more. This time, I can't see the traces of spiderweb. Then I'm going to be able to see it next time just like how my aunt had wished for me last year,
"Xue Ye Jin Bu*"
I'm pulling the broom down to my hands as I managed to clean the ceilings out from the spiderweb's trace.
Then. I give it to my mom by handing the broomstick to her.
She accepted it as I had sent the broomstick's head to my mom's side. And she accepted it as I told her,
"I have cleaned the ceilings!"
"Good, Wandi. Now, I think we might need to go to the plaza. Are you joining in?"
I'm looking at my mother who was seemed to be nice. I wonder... What she had hid in her sleeves...
But wait...
If I'm noticing her smile. It was not a smile that I should trust! Damn! I know what she wanted me to do.
"I know it, Mom."
She chucked when I stated so. Yes, I'm not guessing it wrongly. She had said it!
Damn.
I told her that I won't need it. But why she insisting??
She was replying to me simply,
"Buying clothes online was not even reliable at all. Remember what your sister told you?"
Ergh. I have no much money in my pocket. And please. Don't offer me a loan. The loan is forbidden or else, I will get trapped in there for eternity.
As I'm trying to persuade myself to believe her for this part. I asked her,
"But buying clothes from the offline shop is hella expensive. Why didn't you consider my earnings first before we are deciding to go there since I have to save a lot of money for my stuff?"
She shrugged her shoulder and then, she replied to me,
"Just follow me. I will handle the rest. Get yourself well dressed before we are getting out to the plaza. Let's wrap up and proceed with those cleanings after we are done finding clothes at the plaza."
Since she had said so. Then I have no more reason to reject. To be fair, I have to go to my computer soon to release my draft on the platform. But, never mind. They should be understood that we are on the Chinese new year season now.
So, without any delay. I decided to wrap up things by folding the portable staircase straight. And then, I'm bringing it without allowing my mother to grab it since it was pretty heavy for an elder. But for me the one who always brings my laptop everywhere. It was not a thing to be worried about most at all.
I'm going out from my house to place the staircase at the usual place where my dad had usually placed his hardware for his usual work when he was in prime age.
But... He was retired since I was sixteen years old.
His health was declining year by year. Even in the last year, hyperglycemia had struck him. However, I believe that he could pass that easily with proper food control! Yes. It was controllable.
As I have finished wrapping up things with my mom who had moved the second-handed newspaper that was used for covering the furniture from the clouds of dust that originated from the ceilings, I went to the bathroom to have a shower.
However, when I was about to enter the bathroom, my mother stopped me in a hurried stance as she said,
"Hold on!! Nature call!"
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hartpeler
hartpeler *学业 进步, which means "Wish you to study/learn better." or... if we try to say it in a "cool kids" language. It means that it was basically to wish you to be git gud in the study.
Huo Dao Lao Xue Dao Lao ( 活到老，学到老 ) means to remind you to keep learning, even it means that you have aged alot.
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