As Cheng Yue listened to her aunt, it seemed that her aunt had a lot of grievances with Nuo, but those grievances were ones that Cheng Yue couldn't understand.
"Auntie, why do you compare yourself to others?"
Cheng Yue looked at her aunt blankly, "You are someone we all envy."
Cheng Yue didn't quite understand. You see, her aunt was someone everyone in the village envied. She was able to leave the mountains, see the outside world, and even go to university. How amazing was that?
"What?" Cheng Xue scoffed, her eyes filled with disdain. "What's the use of your envy?"
She used to think she was very capable and that it was great that people envied her, but what good was that?
“You can’t compare yourself to others. You should look at the villagers. The aunties who are your age are all married and have children. Their daily lives consist of farming their small plot of land in the village. They take care of their children, their homes, and their fields. They are all very envious when they talk about you.”
If it weren't for Grandma, would you have been able to get out of here? Would you be in the same situation?
Cheng Yue understood perfectly. Every time those aunties passed by their house, they would ask, "Has your aunt come back yet?"
They longed for their aunt to return, to see what she looked like, and to hear about the world outside the mountains. The farthest they had ever traveled was the road to the county town.
This is because the steel frame staircase has now been built. In the future, there will be a steel frame road next to the iron chain. Sections of steel frames will appear on the cliff, and there will also be a road next to it, but it will take a very long time.
Cheng Xue fell silent. She used to think she was very capable. Leaving this place, taking a bus for the first time was novel, taking a train for the first time was exciting, going to another place for the first time, and seeing such a big school for the first time.
Everyone in the village, township, and county said she was amazing and had brought them honor. She flew away from here with the tuition and living expenses borrowed by her mother.
She only realized how vast the world was when she went there. Other people spent many times more money than she did in a month. They ate better, used better things, and dressed better than her. She began to feel inferior and started to want more.
She also began to resent her mother, resenting that she hadn't provided her with a good life.
If other people's mothers can do it, why can't she?
She never imagined that in such a remote mountain village, their daily livelihood depended on potatoes grown in the fields.
Did she ever think about how much work her mother had to do to afford to send her to school?
If it were truly a case of favoring sons over daughters, would she still be able to go to school? She should have married and had children early, living the same life as other girls in the village.
There is no other possibility that building highways would bring them unexpected wealth.
To put it bluntly, what can someone who is illiterate and has no experience do when they go out to work?
I earn a meager salary each month, probably only a few hundred yuan.
Cheng Xue forgot how grateful she was to her mother for letting her leave the mountains, forgot that she once said she would do her best to repay these mountains. Without this place, without her mother, could she have left?
Will we still be able to see that prosperity?
"Auntie, you said that Grandma didn't give you a good life, but she gave you everything she could!"
She is a great mother. If you want to compare yourself to others, you should work hard yourself instead of complaining about your grandmother here!
I know you don't like what I'm saying, but even without Grandma, you'd still be here, living your mundane life in these mountains you despise.
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