Grandma Sun wants to move out and live on her own.
Hesitantly, she made excuses for moving out, saying, "Your house is on the fifth floor, climbing stairs is too tiring, and I don't know how to press the elevator buttons."
I don't want to cause trouble for others.
They have government-issued pensions plus a monthly rural minimum living allowance of 120 yuan.
If you're frugal, it'll be enough.
Before Sun Lifang could speak, Zhou Xinya objected.
"No, Grandma, don't go—"
As she spoke, Zhou Xinya reached out to take Grandma Sun's hand.
She didn't understand why her great-grandmother was leaving all of a sudden, and before she could even say two words, her tears started streaming down her face.
"Grandma needs to earn money," Grandma Sun said, turning to coax the little girl from the passenger seat. "We need to earn money to buy Yaya yummy treats, okay?"
"I don't want anything delicious." Zhou Xinya's nose was red and her voice was muffled. "Mom can buy it, Grandma doesn't need to buy it."
Grandma Sun felt like her heart was being pierced by needles, and could only watch as her great-granddaughter cried until her voice became hoarse.
“I can’t not go, Grandma has to go and earn money.” She didn’t want to just sit around and do nothing.
I'll be back in a couple of days.
Her response was Zhou Xinya crying her heart out.
"Alright, alright, Ya Ya, your great-grandmother's baby, great-grandmother won't leave, won't leave."
As soon as they arrived home, Grandma Sun unbuckled her seatbelt and hugged Zhou Xinya, saying, "Don't cry, sweetie, okay—"
It was quite a hassle.
Sun Lifang looked at her quietly.
Isn't this exactly how children feel when their parents go out to work in the countryside?
"Then what should we do?" Grandma Sun wiped away Zhou Xinya's tears with her palm and coaxed, "How about I take you with me?"
This was obviously a joke, but it sounded incredibly familiar to Sun Lifang.
Once upon a time, Grandma Sun said the same thing to her.
Grandma never asked her son for money in her entire life; she would never ask for anything as long as she could move around.
She didn't want it, so her son wouldn't give it to her.
She raised her son for so many years, saving money to help him get married, build a house, have children, and even help him raise his daughter.
My father didn't spend a single penny.
This is something Sun Lifang doesn't understand: why did she want to have a son?
What is the significance of having a son?
Do you enjoy giving that much?
Your son has been exploiting you since birth. You've been sacrificing your own comfort to raise him. Now that you can finally enjoy life, you're trying to "build a monument" for yourself, morally blackmailing yourself first.
Women always set extremely high moral standards for themselves.
Sun Lifang discovered that the older generation in rural areas even compare themselves to each other, with the one who earns more making their son look good.
There are many elderly people in their seventies and eighties working in the fields.
why is that?
Who placed this "curse" on women?
I curse them to toil their whole lives, never to rest until they die.
It all started the moment their son was born. They dedicated themselves to his education, marriage, having children, and buying him a house. What's even more outrageous is that they took it all for granted.
It is one's own obligation.
In order to support her granddaughter, but her son wouldn't give her any money, Grandma Sun had no choice but to go out and find work.
She knew how to sew clothes, and coincidentally, there was work available in the neighboring village.
Little Sun Lifang cried and wouldn't let her go, so Grandma Sun coaxed her granddaughter, "Grandma will be back in a couple of days and will buy you some delicious food..."
The small workshop where I worked was very, very far from home; it took me from dawn till dusk to walk there.
Sun Lifang remembers this.
Because she missed her grandmother so much, one early morning when no one was looking, she headed in the direction Grandma Sun had left...
Thinking of this, Sun Lifang took a deep breath.
She never expected that her nearly seventy-year-old grandmother would still be like this.
This kind of thinking can't be changed, right?
"Who told you to find her a house? Did you ask me first?"
Sun Lifang looked at Li Zhi and said coldly, "You speak."
"I..." The proprietress looked unwell. After thinking for a moment, Li Zhi didn't know how to start the conversation.
"It was Xiao Li I asked, so don't blame him."
Grandma Sun argued, "I just can't stay idle. We've lived our whole lives, and women hold up half the sky. It's not like I can't move. I'll work as long as I can."
“You—” Sun Lifang was so angry that she couldn’t speak.
Grandma Sun lived through the era of reform and opening up, but is this how the saying "women hold up half the sky" is understood?
Unable to communicate with Grandma Sun, Sun Lifang simply took out her phone and said, "Fine, if you won't tell me, I'll call and ask."
When she saw that she was about to call Zhou Yunshi, Grandma Sun became anxious.
She rushed up and grabbed the phone, saying, "Don't bother Xiao Zhou, we've already agreed on everything."
It was agreed upon again?
Sun Lifang couldn't understand her grandmother. They were clearly grandmother and granddaughter, but in her grandmother's eyes, Zhou Yunshi was the backbone and the one who made the decisions.
"If there's anything else I don't know, let me tell you all at once."
Seeing this, Grandma Sun knew she couldn't hide it any longer, so she had no choice but to confess and be lenient. "Xiao Zhou asked someone in her hometown to get a certificate for the child. She has no relatives left, so if she's going to register the child, she should register the child under someone else's name."
It's not about having more children than allowed, it's about abandoning them. These two labels make all the difference.
Abandoned babies need to be adopted by welfare institutions, but where are there welfare institutions in rural areas?
Zhou Yunshi used some tricks to get the child a separate household registration.
According to Article 16 of the Civil Code, for children whose parents have both died, grandparents are the first choice for adoption.
Grandma Sun insisted on registering the child under her own name.
"You need proof of income to raise children now. I'm 63 this year, and Xiao Zhou got me a labor contract."
In Haicheng, some jobs don't allow people to retire until they are 65.
Now that things have come to this, there's no point in saying anything.
What can you do about an elderly person's excessive frugality and diligence?
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