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Preface
I have a cousin I have hated since I was a child, and the reason why I hate it is because she is excellent in character and learning, and she has always been a talented girl praised by adults.
My cousin's parents didn't go to the United States with me, but they always opened their mouths to boast during family gatherings during the New Year's holidays.
Some time ago, on my aunt's 60th birthday, my cousin, who had been married to the United States for 7 years, finally returned to China.
According to my mother, my cousin cried with my aunt for several nights after she came back, saying that she never wanted to go back.
I couldn't help but prick up my gossip ears, how has my cousin been in the United States all these years, why did she suddenly say that she never wanted to go back?
Every day the American dream is shattered
Probably every child will meet such a "child next door" when they are growing up, and my cousin is such an existence for me.
In my eyes, the first half of her life was like walking on the ground, her grades were always among the best, although there were some mistakes in the college entrance examination, she was also successfully admitted to a 985, and she was not decadent in college, and after graduation, she successfully went to the United States for graduate school.
After that, my cousin came back except for a trip after graduating from graduate school, and the rest of the time stayed in the United States, even when she got married, she only took her uncle and aunt's family to the United States, and other relatives didn't shout.
My mom just didn't boast to me about my cousin from that time, saying that she really forgot her roots.
Almost everyone thinks that it is because the United States is so good that my cousin is happy.
As a result, the truth is not the same thing at all, in fact, my cousin's life in the United States is not very good, and she used to always report good news but not bad news.
After marrying in the United States for 7 years, my cousin finally came back, probably because she saw the scene of harmony at home, so she couldn't help crying for 3 days and 3 nights.
My mother came back from dinner and told us that my cousin was so pitiful, and that she was scared almost every day in the United States.
My cousin has been a good girl since she was a child, and her parents pick her up and drop her off school, and she stays at home to learn Xi on weekends, and writes extracurricular questions after school homework is finished.
She's really the kind of person who hasn't even had much contact with school gangsters, and later went to college, and she is also dedicated to her studies, and she hasn't seen much sinister people.
None of the relatives have really been to the United States, and when my cousin went to the United States to study, the domestic public knowledge basically boasted about how good the United States was.
No one told my cousin how chaotic the United States was, especially in the past few years, which have been even more turbulent.
She actually couldn't stand it for the first month she went there, at first she thought that the smell of those white people was too strong, and the occasional encounter with black people made the smell even more unbearable for her.
But she saw that no one around her raised objections, and she went to the United States mainly for her studies, so she never raised it, so she had to wear a mask herself.
What my cousin didn't expect was that wearing a mask abroad was also quite troublesome, and everyone thought she had a cold, and told her not to force herself to go to school and go back to rest.
My cousin was also embarrassed to say bluntly that it was because you were so smelly, and I had to take a break for a few days after I couldn't think of any other reason, and then I didn't dare to wear a mask at will.
The so-called long-term abalone does not smell its smell, and after staying for a long time, my cousin is also Xi to it.
Life at school was fine, but for financial reasons, my cousin had to work and study.
Finding a job is too difficult for my cousin, an overseas Chinese, and she also wants to learn from her classmates to work as a clerk in a restaurant or convenience store or something like that, but they don't accept it at all.
Basically, as soon as the boss who recruited the worker saw his cousin's appearance, he waved his hand and said no.
Later, it was not easy for a Chinese boss to see his cousin, so he hired her, and took a lot of care of her on weekdays.
The Chinese boss told her at the time that the United States was not as good as she imagined, and asked her to return to China as soon as she finished her studies.
However, my cousin didn't listen to this, because she was already with a white classmate at the time.
America is terrified every day
As someone else's child, my cousin has never been in early love, and she is deeply influenced by Chinese education, so she has a very clumsy nerdy temperament.
In general, this kind of person is not very popular in the United States, and my cousin was also isolated for a while when she first went.
But can't stand the radish and cabbage have their own love, there is really such a white man who appreciates his cousin's oriental qualities and has launched a fierce pursuit of this.
The Americans have always been very enthusiastic, and where the cousin was able to stop it, it soon fell.
When we first got together, it was still very sweet, and my cousin would always be teased not to want to, and as soon as the other party opened her mouth, she could promise anything.
For this boyfriend, my cousin did a lot of things that she had never done before, and was even willing to sacrifice her Xi study time for him to go to various parties with each other.
After slowly integrating into that group of Americans, my cousin was indeed much more cheerful than before, but trouble also followed.
According to my mother, my cousin often felt that someone was following her for a while, especially at night.
Although my cousin told her boyfriend about it, the other party also attached great importance to it, after all, some bad things often happen on that street.
My cousin was almost scared when she heard this, and she followed many people wherever she went.
My cousin also thought about taking a detour, but there were not many safe places in the United States.
But fortunately, most college students in the United States still want to learn Xi, so it is relatively not so dangerous, but sometimes there will be some fights.
And college students often gather to do some not very good things in order to relieve pressure, and my cousin's boyfriend has also been to that kind of party once or twice, and my cousin only found out after they broke up.
The cousin broke up because she was unwilling to follow her to open a room, and the two finally broke up after arguing several times.
She knew that Americans were more open-minded, but she always thought that since the two loved each other, maybe the other party would respect some of her ideas.
As a result, the reality is not at all what she imagined, whether it is the United States or her boyfriend, it is completely reversed.
After graduating from graduate school and breaking up with her cousin, she rents a house in a not-so-wealthy area of the United States, often having to endure harassment from her roommates.
She didn't dare to look for a job that was too late after work, or even to dry the quilt on the balcony, because once it was known where Asians lived, it was easy to be in danger.
There is social news every day, and my cousin doesn't want to go up one day.
Fortunately, all this was finally relieved after my cousin met a reliable man again and entered the marriage hall with him.
Every day that the United States is exhausted
Unlike what many people think, my cousin did not continue to work as a strong woman after marrying this man, but became a housewife.
My cousin-in-law is almost 10 years older than my cousin, and my ex-wife died unexpectedly, leaving behind two children, and my cousin became a mother before she gave birth.
Later, my cousin herself gave birth to three children for her cousin-in-law, and she had to take care of five children every day, and her life was quite tiring.
Because the family mainly relies on his cousin-in-law to work, his cousin does not dare to disobey him, let alone wantonly favor his own biological children.
Children in the United States are generally more "free" and often ignore the advice of their cousins, especially the two children of their ex-wife, who run out to play by themselves on weekends and can't find anyone at all.
During the epidemic, my cousin was even more troubled, and the children in the family were infected one after another, and the local medical system had long since collapsed.
Fortunately, my cousin-in-law was okay and had some resources in hand, so he still got some medicines and toilet paper for the family, so he didn't cause accidents to the youngest two children.
When I was in the United States, my cousin heard that the epidemic prevention measures in China were doing very well, and after returning to China in the past few days, she saw clean and tidy streets, and the people of the country lived in harmony.
My cousin collapsed all of a sudden, she said that she really didn't expect China to develop so fast, and if she could start over, she must not stay in the United States.
epilogue
Although the cousin cried and said that she wanted to come back, the aunt and the aunt were persuading her to endure for the sake of the child's future, after all, the educational resources in the United States are better.
My mother thought the same way, and I said that the current domestic educational resources are not necessarily worse than those in the United States, and my cousin may be better if she can bring her children back.
However, my mother has always refused to believe what I say, let alone my aunt.
Finally, when I drove my cousin to the airport, her eyes were still red, and when she got out of the car, she suddenly said to me, "I envy you." ”