An old lady sells her own snacks at food stalls and night markets, and she shows up on time in crowded places all year round, whether it's windy or rainy.
The old lady's name is Li Xueying, and she is 67 years old. She had a son and a daughter, and her husband died early, and the children were raised by her. The son and daughter have been obedient and obedient since childhood, with excellent academic performance, both of them have always been good students in the top ten grades, they have stable jobs when they grow up, the daughter has settled in Hefei, and the son has also been admitted to the public institution. After Li Xueying retired, she also took a retirement salary of 596 yuan per month, and her life was quite moist. However, life has been smooth sailing, their lives have been difficult again and again, the daughter checked the body and found that she had cancer, and the son failed to speculate in stocks and owed a bunch of debts, which was undoubtedly a great blow to Li Xueying's family.
Li Xueying, who is nearly 70 years old, travels to various local departments in Suzhou every day to find her son Wang Kunpeng. My son has been away from home for seven years and has not heard from him.
Seven years ago, Wang Kunpeng saw that some people around him made a lot of money by speculating in stocks, he was talented, he thought that stock trading was an easy thing for him, and he also wanted to earn more money to better support his mother, so he learned to speculate in stocks. But in the end, the stock speculation failed, and it also owed more than 700,000 yuan to others before and after.
This sudden huge debt made the life of Li Xueying's family miserable, and Wang Kunpeng also lost his job in the public institution. Creditors who came to collect debts smashed the doors and furniture of their homes and even beat Wang Kunpeng on the head with iron chains on the street. After the accident, Wang Kunpeng became depressed and once tried to commit suicide by jumping into the river. Li Xueying had to stay by his son's side every day, and when he slept, he had to tie him up, afraid that his son would commit suicide again.
Seeing that his son had lost hope in life, and in order to prevent his son from being hurt again, Li Xueying asked his son to leave his hometown and first go to a place where no one could find him. And she, as a mother, decided to help her son pay off all his debts. However, more than seven hundred thousand is said to be able to repay, and her pension of a few hundred yuan per month will take a full hundred years to repay these accounts.
The law does not require parents to repay debts for adult children, and Li Xueying can completely not pay back for her son, but she loves her son and can't bear to see her son forced to a dead end. So she sold the family's two houses and got 238,000 yuan, and without a house to live in, she had to move to a utility room. Li Xueying's daughter also took out the 300,000 yuan she was going to buy a house to help her brother alleviate his urgent needs. Li Xueying also returned his insurance, so he got another 40,000 yuan. She sold everything she could sell in the house, but there was still more than 170,000 left. In order to pay off the debt as soon as possible, Li Xueying had to go out to work to earn money.
At that time, Li Xueying was more than sixty years old and could no longer do some heavy physical work. She first found a job in the hospital to care for plant patients, but because she did not have enough strength, she injured her fingers when she turned over for the vegetative person, resulting in a wound on her hand, and when it rained, her joints hurt and could not even be straightened. In the process of nursing patients, she fainted in the hospital, and no one ever dared to hire her as a nurse, and she lost her job.
Later, Li Xueying began to sell her own snacks at the night market. During the day, she makes nests, boils peanuts and salted duck eggs at home, and at night carries her burden to the most bustling streets to sell to pedestrians. Day after day, year after year, every night at 6:30 p.m., she didn't go home until three or four o'clock in the middle of the night.
She will always be seen in the streets of Suzhou's night market, and many food stall owners and regular customers have already known her, knowing that her situation is difficult, and good people will do their best. Li Xueying never raises prices, she makes the first five yuan three, sometimes meet well-meaning guests will give more money, but they are rejected by Li Xueying.
In places with many people, there are often cases of picking up money, and Li Xueying has never included these windfalls. Once she found a purse at the door of a food stall, and although it contained more than two thousand yuan in cash, she handed the wallet to the owner of the store without a penny.
Not only that, but she also volunteers at food stalls, exchanging her labor for daily food. In exchange for food, in fact, she asked the boss to give her the rest of the meals that the guests ate, and packed them home to eat, which could reduce the cost of eating and save a sum of money to pay off debts.
Her sincerity and hard work have touched many people around her, and various creditors have also been touched by her persistence. Some creditors voluntarily gave up on having her pay the high interest. She didn't dare to stop, because as soon as she stopped to work, she would think of her son. The daughter saw that her mother was working so hard and offered to take her mother to Hefei to live with her, but Li Xueying refused her daughter. Because when she asked her son to leave the house seven years ago, she made an agreement with her son that when the money was paid, the son would return home, and she would wait for his son to come home. Moreover, her daughter's health has not been good, and Li Xueying does not want to cause trouble for her daughter anymore. Later, after her uninterrupted earnings, she finally paid off her last debt after seven years. What bothered her was finally lifted, but her son still did not return.
Li Xueying has been inquiring about the whereabouts of her son for seven years, and finally one day she has a little gain. Through the annual investigation of the temporary residence permit of the hukou, it was found that the son had appeared in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. She hurried to Xuzhou to look for her son, but the result was still empty, and his son had already left Xuzhou.
Li Xueying did not know whether her son was doing well or not, and when he would return home. She had never complained to her son for so many years, and she helped him pay off his debts for nothing else, just to make his son look up early and be a man, and did not want the shadow of a failure to hang over him for a lifetime. I want my son to understand that no matter what difficulties he encounters, his home will always be a harbor to rely on. He is still young, there are still decades to go, do not give up life easily, get up from wherever he falls, and do not let those who care about him and wait for him hurt again.