Chapter 735: Money is the foundation of a person
At first, Aunt Wang had to endure it for the sake of her two children. Later, when her daughter went to junior high school, many girls in the town had already gone to high school, and some even got into college.
Her husband supports his daughter's education because the bride price for a girl with an education is higher.
As for her son, she was not worried. Her husband's family treated their only boy as a treasure. Moreover, her son was taught by his grandparents to not be close to Aunt Wang, and he looked down on his mother just like his father.
Aunt Wang sighed again, "Alas, I endured it like this until my daughter started boarding school in junior high school. I couldn't stand it anymore, so I ran away secretly."
When Aunt Wang ran out, she only had a few dozen yuan and her ID card on her. She was carrying a worn travel bag filled with a few sets of clothes and walking aimlessly.
At first she didn't know where to go, but then she remembered that people said people traveled long distances by train, so she bought some steamed buns and took them with her. She went to the train station, hopped on a freight train, and arrived in City T in a daze.
"Auntie Wang, it turns out that going to T City to work was a random choice for you!" I was shocked. How could this be possible?
Aunt Wang smiled. "Yeah, at that time I had no idea where I was going. I thought, anywhere is better than home, so wherever I go is fine. I have hands and feet, so as long as I work hard, I will definitely not starve to death."
After arriving in City T, she went to each small restaurant near the train station, asking if anyone needed a dishwasher or odd job, but no restaurant was willing to keep her.
After staying under the bridge for two days, she finally met a kind older sister on the third day. Feeling sorry for her, she found her a job as a live-in nanny. It was her first time as a nanny, and she took the job of taking care of a paralyzed elderly man.
It is easy to find a nanny to look after children, but it is very difficult to find a nanny to take care of paralyzed elderly people. If the salary is not high, the nanny is unwilling to take such a job.
"I was also lucky. There happened to be a family that couldn't find a nanny to take care of their elderly. The main reason was that the family was not well-off. The three children didn't live in T City and couldn't afford a high salary. No one was willing to take the old lady back home to take care of her. Then they agreed that each family would pay 1,000 yuan, half for the nanny and the old lady's living expenses, and the other half for the nanny's salary. No one wanted to do this job.
But I agreed as soon as I heard it, and I promised them that I would take good care of the elderly.
It's just serving people, which is much easier than the work I have to do at home.
My husband's monthly income at the time was only over 1,000 yuan, and I didn't have to worry about food and accommodation in this job, so I felt very content.
I still remember the day when I got my first salary. I cried secretly in my room at night. It was the first time in my life that I had so much money. You know, I never had more than one hundred yuan on me before.
When I buy groceries at my in-laws' house, my mother-in-law gives me ten yuan every morning, and I have to report it when I get home. I've never seen so much money in my life."
When Aunt Wang said this, she couldn't help wiping away her tears!
It’s too difficult! What can you buy with ten yuan? I still have to pay for it. I would cry too!
I said with emotion: "Auntie Wang, it's a good thing you met a good person, otherwise you wouldn't know what to do in this unfamiliar place."
"Yes," Aunt Wang nodded. "If it weren't for Sister Dong, I would have starved to death on the road. How could I get such a good thing with free food and shelter and a salary?"
After receiving her first month's salary, Aunt Wang called her daughter's school and finally got in touch with her daughter.
Her daughter told her that her father went to the school to ask her about Aunt Wang's whereabouts. The girl said she didn't know, but her father didn't believe that Aunt Wang would be willing to give up her daughter. In order to force her to tell him the whereabouts of her mother, he cut off the girl's living expenses.
Aunt Wang smiled and said, "Now that I think about it, he only gives his daughter 150 yuan a month. The child lives frugally at school and doesn't even want to buy sanitary napkins.
I had just arrived in T City at that time and didn't know anything. I was so anxious that I cried when I heard my daughter say that. I didn't know whether it was safe to send the money back.
It was also Sister Dong who told me that I should let my daughter take her ID card to the bank to apply for a card, and I would just go to the bank to transfer money to her every month.
I told her that I could give her 300 yuan a month so that she could eat better, and if she could get into high school, I could continue to support her studies.
Mengmeng, you don’t know how great it feels to be able to earn money to support my daughter. This money is really a person’s confidence.”
Aunt Wang had a confident smile on her face, and I nodded in agreement.
A large part of the confidence that my mother and I had in facing each other came from the zeros in our bank account balances.
"I worked as a nanny in that family for nearly two years. Although the old lady couldn't move, she was mentally clear and loved to chat. My relationship with her became better and better.
At the time, I thought, if I took good care of the old lady, she would live longer and I wouldn’t be unemployed. But unfortunately, the old lady passed away within three years.”
When Aunt Wang mentioned the old lady, she shook her head with some sadness. "A few days before she passed away, she gave me the 20,000 yuan she had saved, saying it was for my daughter's college tuition."
As she spoke, Aunt Wang started to cry, "Mengmeng, you said she couldn't even move, so why are you still thinking about my daughter's schooling?"
She talked to herself, wiped her tears for a while, and a gentle look appeared on her face again, "My daughter is very hardworking and was admitted to the best high school in our county.
Her father didn't want her to continue going to school, fearing that she would run away after graduating like me, and then his hope of exchanging his daughter for a dowry would be in vain.
She told her teacher about the situation at home and said that if she went back, her father would no longer let her study, so she went to her teacher's house during the holidays.
After the college entrance examination, my daughter asked me which school I wanted her to apply to. I asked her to apply to a school in T City. Any school would be fine, as long as she could get out of that place.
When Aunt Wang mentioned her daughter, she couldn't stop smiling. She suddenly asked me mysteriously, "Mengmeng, guess which school she got into?"
"Nanjing University?" Nanjing University is the most famous university in T City, and it is the first university that comes to my mind.
Aunt Wang smiled and shook her head. "You guessed wrong," she said proudly. "My daughter wants to be a police officer. She got into the Public Security College."
This really surprised me. "Public Security College? Aunt Wang, your daughter is amazing! That's a very difficult school to get into!"
It’s not that the school has high score requirements, but in addition to grades, applicants also have to participate in political investigations, physical examinations, physical fitness tests and interviews, and they have to pass each one.
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