Because he told his father that the school required fees, several hundred dollars, for school uniforms and sports meets.
For an average family or a child in the city, this amount of money might be just enough to go out for a meal, but for his family, it was a huge sum of money that they had to save even for electricity bills.
This amount of money is a lot for a family, and we need to save it in all aspects, including the daily electricity bill.
For the poor, everything they do is to save money.
As for the hard work and grievances, I can only swallow them and everything will be fine.
Although you may not be able to find a job in the city for the time being, you can get the food you want from the trash can, and you can also wait for opportunities and have the opportunity to make money, unlike in my hometown.
Even if the electricity bill is only a few dozen dollars a month, we still have to save and save, and are reluctant to use even a little more, because there are too few places to make money.
And there are too many places to spend money.
Who would want to be so frugal? Isn't there another way?
The wealthy children in the school all take extra classes after school and hire famous teachers to tutor them. The cost of tutoring is much higher than the family’s annual income.
Xiaoshan never dared to have extravagant hopes, so he could only rely on himself to study hard and persevere, so that his body was always overloaded and not in good condition.
He contracted hepatitis B while he was in school, but he kept putting it off. Later, after he started studying and working, the disease caused him a lot of pain and he even lost several good jobs because he was reluctant to spend money on treatment.
I always think like my parents back home. When I’m sick, I keep putting it off and putting it off. When I can’t put it off any longer, I spend some money on treatment, but it only treats the symptoms and not the root cause, and the situation gets worse and worse.
He was fired from his last job after people found out he had hepatitis B. His boss was very angry about this and kicked him out without him getting any salary. Because it is difficult for a person with hepatitis B, which is contagious, to work in a restaurant, even if he is just doing odd jobs, and even if he is very careful to protect others and himself.
This is a very serious matter for the restaurant. The boss even asked all the staff to get a check-up because he was afraid that someone would be infected with hepatitis B. If the cost was really counted on Xiaoshan, it would be a huge sum of money for him.
Xiaoshan was very depressed. He knew that he had concealed his hepatitis B condition, but after a check-up in the hospital, the doctor said that he was no longer contagious. He needed money for treatment, so he had to go to work and earn money.
But in the end he didn't get his salary, he was still short of money, and he had to continue looking for a job.
Although I have an academic degree, my work over the years has not been related to my major, and I have not had any outstanding performance. I am timid and cowardly, and I am taciturn and do not please my leaders and colleagues.
Xiaoshan lived with low self-esteem, and no colleague was willing to help him find a job, nor did he have any friends willing to help him at the critical moment.
As for his original classmates, they no longer have any contact with him because they all think he is too stingy. After all these years of being together, it was always other classmates who treated others, but he never treated others in return.
And it’s fine to pack up the leftovers every time you entertain guests, but what does it mean to ask for some cigarettes and alcohol to be packed up and taken away?
Although his classmates didn't say anything, they were very unhappy in their hearts, so gradually no one wanted to invite him out to play.
As time went on, Xiaoshan completely cut off contact with those classmates, and his performance got worse and worse.
He has ended up in this state now, living in a basement and eating food from trash cans. If he doesn't have the money to pay the 500 yuan rent a month, he will probably have to live under a bridge or at a train station. It will be even harder to find a job then!
Xiaoshan sighed and heard voices outside. It seemed that an old woman in her forties or fifties from next door had brought her boyfriend back again. Alas, I heard that this woman had no pension and used to be a nanny. After living with the male owner, she was kicked out by the other person's children after the male owner died.
Later, the old woman often sighed and said that she was stupid. She worked hard and accompanied the man for five years, but in the end she got nothing. She didn't even have a job as a nanny or a place to stay, so she was kicked out.
The old woman's child also had a hard life. In another city, she had different boyfriends in order to support herself. Anyway, this woman's husband had died, so she was just trying to make a living!
Xiaoshan was lying on the bed and heard the squeaking sound of the bed coming from the next room, which had poor sound insulation.
Those who rent houses here are the lowest class of people in the city, and they all live a particularly difficult life.
There is also a couple with two children who live next door to him. Because it is a basement, it is very humid and the room is very small. The children of that family have no place to play and they all stay in the basement looking at their cell phones. The children are not very old, but their eyesight is already poor.
There were four people in that family, and the man made some money by washing cars for other people. Their life was the same as his. He had seen them picking up discarded cabbage sticks on the street several times.
But when the male owner of this family met him, he would greet him with a smile and look very happy. He would also talk to Xiaoshan, saying that in their hometown middle school, he could not get into high school every year, let alone college.
They live a hard life, the place they live in is not good and the food is not good either, but if his two children are lucky enough to study here, they will definitely have the opportunity to go to high school and then college in the future.
As long as he graduates from college, he will be a hundred times better than him who can only wash cars for others!
When he said this, there was light and hope in the man's eyes. Xiaoshan also believed that he was right. Although he came from the countryside, he was almost the only one among his friends who had walked out of the mountains.
But his vision and habits make him incompatible with the city. I wish I was like the family next door when I was a child.
Maybe he wouldn't encounter so many difficulties in his life, and wouldn't think like a poor rural person.
And in his mind, there is another big reason why he wants to stay in this city even if he has to beg for food.
That was when he was in his teens, something happened in his family that he would never forget for the rest of his life.
The longer he stayed in the city, the more afraid he was to go back, and the less he wanted to go back.
Because he was worried that once he went back, he would be like his parents, never able to leave the small mountain village and never be able to come to the big city again.
Because that winter, grandpa was seriously ill and had a severe cough. At first, it was just a cold and fever, but later it got worse and the high fever wouldn't go away. Dad was very worried and wanted to go to the hospital! ?
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