Kids back then were so innocent, unlike kids today who often date multiple people simultaneously and keep multiple backups. From the moment they started dating, Hu Xi was convinced Zhang Xiaoli was his wife and treated her incredibly well. He'd eat his fill in the cafeteria every morning, skipping lunch and dinner to save money for Zhang Xiaoli. Over the course of an entire semester, Hu Xi starved himself and lost over ten pounds.
Back in the 1990s, people's body fat wasn't as high as it would be decades later, so there weren't many obese people. So even if Hu Xi was as thin as a stick, it wouldn't have been noticeable. His family saw Hu Xi gradually losing weight and assumed it was due to his hard work and his desire to grow taller. No one imagined the real reason was that he was starving himself to save money on food for his girlfriend.
After two years of starvation, they finally made it to junior high school. Hu Xi's appetite, from the chronically irregular meals and the lack of adequate food he needed to grow, had begun to deteriorate. His stomach felt burning as soon as it was empty. His mental state was also off, and he seemed to be sweating and panicking.
Although both of them eventually got into high school, Zhang Xiaoli had to drop out because her family simply couldn't afford to support her. After two days of consideration, the love-struck Hu Xi decided not to go to high school and earn money to support Zhang Xiaoli's education. At first, Zhang Xiaoli disagreed, insisting on earning money herself. Eventually, Hu Xi went out to do odd jobs without telling him, earning only about ten yuan in more than half a month. When Hu Xi gave Zhang Xiaoli the money, she agreed to let him work and not go to school.
In this way, Hu Xi started his own way of making money. In one summer, he not only earned enough money to pay for Zhang Xiaoli's high school tuition, but also gave her an additional 15 yuan for food.
In fact, Hu Ximan could go to school without earning money at this time, but the bad thing was that Zhang Xiaoli gave her the ten yuan meal allowance that Hu Xi had given her to her family. When school started, Hu Xi came to take Zhang Xiaoli to school, and asked about the meal expenses, he found out that Zhang Xiaoli had given all the meal money to her family without keeping a single cent.
Originally, Hu Xi planned to register for school when he sent Zhang Xiaoli to school. But now, after giving the high school tuition in his pocket to Zhang Xiaoli, Hu Xi has no money to go to school himself.
Hu Xi, a love-sick young man, was young and naive, and didn't see the true nature of the situation. He also thought Zhang Xiaoli was a very sensible girl, knowing that her family was not well off and leaving her money to them. How old was he at the time? He didn't understand the troubles of supporting his brother or taking care of his parents' family. He naively believed that Zhang Xiaoli was a good girl, and for her, Hu Xi worked day and night. Later, he met a gangster, and Hu Xi helped this gangster with some things, and gradually became popular. After being exposed to the money-making society, Hu Xi could no longer go back to school.
Her thinking, vision and pattern of development no longer met the requirements for going back to school. So, during Zhang Xiaoli's three years in high school, Hu Xi worked in business for three years. By the time she graduated from high school, Hu Xi already had two companies in Guangzhou.
Now Hu Xi not only supports his own parents and Zhang Xiaoli, but also Zhang Xiaoli's entire family. At first, Hu Xi didn't pay much attention to Zhang Xiaoli's family. No matter what, he wasn't so low as to take the initiative to go to Zhang Xiaoli's family and ask for support. It was Zhang Xiaoli's mother who came to Hu Xi herself.
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