"Wei Zhu, are you transferring money to your mother again?"
"Hmm." The girl lowered her head slightly, and although she was smiling, there seemed to be some lingering sorrow between her brows.
The female voice that had just spoken up spoke up in her defense: "You said you just got your monthly salary and your mom called you saying the family needed money. You just graduated, how much money can you earn? After this transfer, there won't be much left for living expenses, right?"
Wei Zhu said softly, "The company provides meals and accommodation, so I don't usually need to spend much money."
"Where is there no need to spend money? Look at you, how many sets of clothes do you have throughout the year? You only exchange two pairs of shoes, let alone cosmetics, you only have one bottle of skincare cream. Don't you ever save any money for yourself? How can you live like a young person?"
“My dad passed away two years ago, and it wasn’t easy for my mom to support my brother’s education all by herself.”
"But you only keep five hundred for yourself each month, and transfer the remaining four thousand five hundred back. Can your brother really use that much in a month?"
“My mom said she would save up any extra money for me.”
Her colleague, friend, and roommate Yue Ting was furious at her words: "You actually believe what your mother says?! You have a younger brother, how could your mother possibly save money for you?"
"Yue Ting!" Wei Zhu was somewhat displeased to hear these words. "I know you mean well, but I know what I'm doing."
"You...sigh! I really don't know what to say to you. You're a college graduate, and instead of working in some high-end building, you come to work in our factory. And you don't even bother to dress up properly. You're good-looking and have a good personality, you're sure to find a high-quality man to marry. I'm warning you, don't be swayed by the little favors these young men in the factory are pursuing you. You deserve better."
"Yue Ting, don't flatter me. Although I am a college student, I only went to a second-tier university, and my major is just average. I might not earn as much as I do now if I worked in those high-rise buildings."
"But working in a factory means you can see your future from the beginning, there's no hope of promotion. If the boss gives you five thousand this year, you might still get the same salary a few years from now. Plus, there are hardly any holidays, and overtime is always unpaid."
Wei Zhu knew this perfectly well, but her family needed money. Working in her current factory provided room and board, and her salary was 5,000 yuan, which she received immediately. She had even worked for a company in a high-end building that offered 6,000 yuan, but she would have to rent her own place, cook for herself, and pay for social security and medical insurance. Rent in big cities was expensive, and after deducting these living expenses, she could barely save any money. And then there was her mother and younger brother…
Never mind, maybe things will be better after my younger brother graduates and starts working.
Yue Ting snorted: "I'm not satisfied with just a junior college degree, and you, a college graduate, are still so devoted. Once I finish my senior college, I'll definitely leave here. The wages outside may not be as high as in the factory, but the prospects are better."
Wei Zhu looked at Yue Ting with envy. She had heard Yue Ting say that she also had an older brother, and her family often asked her to send money. However, Yue Ting was stubborn and did not get along with her older brother and sister-in-law. She often paid lip service to her parents but disobeyed them. She didn't even go home for the New Year, and she spent all the money she saved on night school and buying clothes and shoes.
Sometimes she wanted to rebel like Yue Ting, but when she heard her mother complaining, she couldn't bring herself to do it. After all, her mother had supported her through college. Her mother used to be a housewife, and after her father passed away, how could she be left to fend for herself?
"Yue Ting, aren't you planning to go back this year again?"
"What are you going back for? To listen to them set me up on blind dates? Don't think I don't know what they're planning; they're just waiting to sell me off for a high dowry!" Yue Ting warned Wei Zhu. "I can't stop you from going back, but Wei Zhu, you're not allowed to go on blind dates and get married so casually, understand?"
Wei Zhu was stunned for a moment: "I don't think so. My mother has never mentioned such a thing to me."
Although she said that, her mother called her a couple of days ago and kept mentioning, intentionally or unintentionally, that a girl in the village who was her age got married during the National Day holiday and that the groom gave a dowry of 200,000 yuan. She said that the girl had only graduated from high school. She also mentioned that someone had met a boyfriend through an introduction and that the boyfriend's family had even solved the problem of his younger brother's job. The adults in the family didn't have to worry about anything. What did her mother mean by saying all this to her?
Wei Zhu felt heavy-hearted. If her mother really brought up setting her up on blind dates, she really didn't know what to do.
Deep down, she didn't want to marry so casually, but her mother had talked to her aunt about this before, saying that if the person introduced to her knew her background, she wouldn't be deceived by outsiders, and if she was mistreated, her family could always come to her aid.
"Wei Zhu, have you thought about what kind of person you want to marry in the future?" Yue Ting suddenly asked.
"No." Wei Zhu shook his head.
Yue Ting rolled over: "Did you have a boyfriend when you were in school?"
Wei Zhu shook her head again: "No."
She pursed her lips slightly, but a figure appeared in her mind. It was a senior she met at a bubble tea shop when she was working as a student. She could tell that the senior was interested in her, but she was too poor at that time, and the senior was also poor. Neither of them had time to date, so she kept that little feeling to herself.
After graduating, her senior visited her a few times, but after she graduated and changed her phone number, they lost contact completely, and she doesn't know how her senior is doing now.
"Huh?" Yue Ting looked disappointed. "If you don't date when you're in college, do you expect to have a pure and sweet romance after you start working? I dated when I was in vocational school, but the male classmates who were interested in me weren't very good, and we broke up with them decisively after the initial excitement wore off."
She sat up as she spoke: "I've thought about my future life. I must find someone with good financial conditions and no family burdens. Of course, I will also study and work hard so as not to hold my new family back. If I can't find someone, that's fine too. I'll just live well on my own with the money I earn from work."
Wei Zhu looked at her with admiration. Perhaps she would never be able to learn Yue Ting's carefree and independent spirit!
"Tingting, you are great. You will definitely live the life you want in the future."
"Don't look so envious, Wei Zhu. You have better natural advantages than me. If you want to, you can do it too."
Wei Zhu smiled and said, "I want to wait until my brother graduates from university before I think about changing jobs and finding a boyfriend."
"But your brother is only a freshman in college now. It will be three or four years before he graduates. Although you will be young then, you will not be as young as you are now. Besides, if you change jobs then, which good company will hire someone from a factory? In addition, you will be unmarried and childless at that time, and many companies will avoid this. If you find a boyfriend, you will not have money to dress up and go on dates, and people will look down on you."
Yue Ting really wanted to crack open her friend's head to see how stupid he could be.
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