For Chinese, having many children and grandchildren is definitely a good wish, who doesn't want to have a group of children and grandchildren around them when they are old, and enjoy the happiness of nature?
And for the Japanese guy Masashi, the prosperity of people is both a happiness and a burden.
At only 27 years old, he is already the head of a family of 11; dad of 4 children; Grandfather of 4 grandchildren.
The Japanese high-scoring variety show "Come on Poor People" came to Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture to interview this "super family" of 11 people.
Not only is the family thriving, but the family members are unexpectedly young, even the eldest mother, Rika, is only 39 years old this year.
So how did this family become the huge family it is today?
"Super Mom" Rika
39-year-old "super mother" Rika is the founder of this "super family", and her own experience is definitely bumpy.
When Rika graduated from high school at the age of 17, she was pregnant and gave birth to her eldest daughter, Yurina.
Over the next few years, Rika experienced two more failed marriages and had two children with her ex-husband. At the age of 28, Rika was already a single mother of three children.
After experiencing many emotional setbacks, Rika planned not to fall in love and get married in the future, and was determined to raise her three children well. But at this time, fate wonderfully allowed Rika to reunite with another destined person.
Masashi, who was 16 years old at the time, was still a high school student who was doing odd jobs at a gas station in order to earn pocket money, and since Rika often went there to refuel, the two met like this.
When the reporter asked why Jiang Zhi liked Rika, Jiang Zhi thought for a long time before replying embarrassedly: Once Rika took three children to refuel, and the three children were noisy in the back seat, and Rika felt troublesome so he turned back and reprimanded the three children.
Unexpectedly, this scene happened to be seen by Zhi Zhi, not only did he not feel that Rika was hot-tempered, but he felt that she was very charming like this. So he asked Rika for her contact information and pursued her tirelessly. Maybe this is "Lover's eyes out of Xi Shi".
The two look very husband and wife
After 5 years of long-distance love, 21-year-old Masashi and 33-year-old Rika finally married each other, and then Rika gave birth to a child for Masashi, that is, the second son of the big family, Takuyou.
Sho Shiben thought that becoming a father of 4 children at the age of 27 was already very dramatic, but what he didn't expect was that becoming a grandfather of 4 children at the age of 27 was his limit!
Yurina of the "Stepmother's Business"
"Parents are the best teachers for children", and children's growth is often taught by parents. In terms of marriage and family, Rika's education of Yurina is definitely not qualified.
Yurina, 21, is also a single mother of two.
As early as the age of 14, she was pregnant out of wedlock (the Japanese age of sexual consent is 13), which is also very dramatic. Mother Rika recalled that one day she was watching the popular TV series "14-year-old mother", when Yurina walked up to her and asked her: "What would you do if I became pregnant?" ”
Rika originally thought that her daughter was just joking, but she didn't expect that Yurina, who was only 14 years old and was only in her third year of junior high school, had been pregnant for a long time and truly experienced a "14-year-old mother"
Fortunately, Rika, who was also pregnant at the age of 16, did not blame her daughter too much, but encouraged her daughter to give birth to the child. Rika believes that as long as she has the help of the whole family, it is no problem to raise one more child.
In this way, with the support of her mother, 14-year-old Yunelli successfully gave birth to her eldest son, Hai Li, and became a single mother.
At the age of 19, Yunelli married again and gave birth to a second daughter, but then divorced again due to a relationship breakdown.
So 19-year-old Yunelli became a single mother of two children, and who the father of the two children really was became a mystery.
"Not to be left behind" Jiaduo
In fact, the unmarried pregnancy of the mother and eldest daughter gave the family a bad start. Rika was only 17 years old and her eldest son, Kata, who was still in high school, is now also a father of two children.
Jiaduo and his girlfriend Ah Cai have been in love since junior high school, and Ah Cai became pregnant when she was just in her first year of high school. Due to the influence of his mother and sister, Jado decided to give birth to the child. After negotiations between the two families, Jiaduo also decided to marry Ah Cai, and the two lived together.
Shortly after the birth of her first child, Ah Cai became pregnant again and gave birth to the youngest fourth in the family.
In this way, after three generations of relay, a large family of 11 people was born. And Jiang Zhi would never have imagined that at the age of 27, he would not only become a father of 4 children, but also become the grandfather of 4 grandchildren, and even have 11 pets!
Life is sweet and bitter
For a "super" family of 11 people, life has both the warmth of family gathering and a lot of troubles. Any small thing, multiplied by 11, can become a big problem.
The first is economic. This large family of 11, the family members are basically children, the eldest daughter and daughter-in-law are usually responsible for taking care of the housework, and the economy is basically supported by Shoshi and Rika.
Masashi is the pillar of the whole family, he is a truck driver, he leaves the door to work at 6 a.m. every day, and he earns 250,000 yen (about 12,700 yuan) a month.
In addition to taking care of the household, Rika also goes to the nearby motorcycle shop every day at 10 o'clock to do odd jobs to subsidize the family. You can earn 80,000 yen (about 4,000 yuan) a month
In addition to the income of the two people, they can also receive a government childcare subsidy of 45,000 yen (about 2,300 yuan) per month, and the whole family can earn 375,000 yen (about 19,000 yuan) per month
That may seem like a lot, but there's not much left after subtracting the expenses of 11 people.
For example, it costs a lot of money to eat for the whole family, and the amount of meat in the picture below is only enough for the family to eat two meals.
In addition to economic problems, there are also problems of living and living.
The whole family of 11 people, except for the eldest daughter Yurina and her two children who live in rented houses, the remaining 8 people live in a small "one-family building". And in addition to going back to sleep at night, the eldest daughter and the three also live with everyone on weekdays, and 11 people are crowded into a house, and the quality of life is not destined to be too good.
As the saying goes, "Seven-year-old and eight-year-old dogs are disgusted." Living with a group of extremely energetic children, the troubles and noise faced by adults can be imagined.
The worst thing is Jiang Zhi, who has become a grandson outside, and finally returned home from work, but he still has to play with a bunch of "real grandchildren". When asked by a reporter what he wanted to do most after work, Jiang Zhi could only smile bitterly, "I just want to sleep well."
There is warmth in life
Although there are many trivial troubles in life, living together as a family brings more warmth of mutual companionship and mutual support.
Seeing such a happy family, the program team decided to fulfill one of their wishes. And Jiang Zhi's wish is to take a family portrait of the whole family. Previously, due to various reasons, the whole family has not been able to take a family photo together, and they hope to take this opportunity to fulfill everyone's long-awaited wish.
But in fact, Sho Zhi also secretly left a careful machine, he wanted to take a set of wedding photos with Rika. When the two got married, due to their financial situation, the two had never taken wedding photos or held a formal wedding, and took this opportunity to decide to fulfill this wish.
So, when Masashi, who was dressed in a tuxedo dress, appeared in front of Rika, Rika's eyes were first surprised, and then quickly turned into surprise.
After dressing up, Masashi and Rika finally dressed each other in dresses and wedding dresses for the first time and appeared in front of everyone.
In a trance, the "couple" were a little overwhelmed, and they must have remembered the wedding that only existed in their imagination. But luckily, with the help of the program team, they were able to really achieve all this.
After taking wedding photos, the family stood together and finally took a long overdue, neat, and quite a lot of family photos.
Later, daughter Yunelli read out the letter written by the whole family to Rika and Masashi. In the letter, everyone sincerely thanked the two for their dedication to this big son. After reading the letter, the family was already in tears.
How should this family be evaluated?
They are irresponsible for feelings and marriage, marrying and having children at will;
And for the upbringing of children, they are responsible, although poor, but every child can feel the warmth of the family.
Although they have suffered from many outsiders' puzzlement, questioning and even abuse, they adhere to the credo of "family together will be happy" and live their own wonderful lives.
They deserve respect and blessing.