Narrator: Cher
Yesterday was the weekend, early in the morning, I was still dreaming under the covers, and my phone was buzzing next to it.
It's disturbing to dream early in the morning, who's so annoying, I'm still thinking about it in my mouth.
I really didn't want to take it, but it kept ringing.
I reluctantly picked up my phone and saw that it was my mother calling, and I wondered, shouldn't my mother be cooking breakfast at this time?
I turned on my phone hands-free: Mom, why are you looking for me so early?, haven't woken up yet?
Unexpectedly, my mother's crying voice came from the other end of the phone, and when I heard my mother crying, the thought that flashed through my mind was that something must have happened at home.
I started to panic and slammed into my bed.
Me: Mom, what's going on, why are you crying?
My mother said, "Xue'er, do you still have any money in your hand?" Lend another 3,000 to your mother! I have no choice, my mother just wants you and your brother and the two children, and my mother begs you.
I probably already know what made my mom so wronged.
My brother, who is 2 years older than me, has the impression that my brother is very nice and excellent since I was a child.
When I was a child, my family lived in the mountains, which can be said to be a poor and remote country, and my parents were honest farmers, and my father was not in good health and could not do heavy work, so he couldn't earn a lot of money.
Therefore, they have a heavy burden of supporting two children to go to school.
My brother was 15 years old and had just entered the first year of junior high school, and I was in the fifth grade.
My brother also excelled in Xi, but I was not inferior to him in any way.
One night, my father suddenly said, "There is no money in the family, so you two brothers and sisters will discuss who will continue to go to school, and the one who will not go to school will help work at home."
When I heard my father's words, my brother and I looked at each other, because we were both eager to continue to learn more and Xi more knowledge and give ourselves the opportunity to get out of the mountains.
I didn't want to do farm work at home, so I cried and said to my father: Dad, let's not skip school, we will be serious, you can let my brother and I continue to study!
The father looked at his brother with distressed eyes, but the brother ran into his bedroom without any expression, and closed the door with a bang.
The next morning, my brother opened the door of the house with red eyes and came out, and he said to his father: Dad, let my sister go to school, I am a man, and I have the strength to help you work.
Dad smiled but didn't say a word, in fact, I knew he was very uncomfortable.
In this way, my brother was dropped out of school and stayed at home.
Time flies quickly, and three years have passed in a flash.
My brother was 18 years old, and one day, the eldest brother in the village said to my father: Your son is not too young, but you can't let him follow in your footsteps, you have to let him go out to the big city to break through, and learning a skill is better than being a farmer for a lifetime.
My father felt that Brother Wang's words were very reasonable, so he asked Brother Wang to lead my brother out of the mountains and into the bustling city to work as an apprentice in a factory.
My brother went out to work, and I miss him very much, and I look forward to him coming home every Chinese New Year.
But my brother called and said (at that time, there was only a landline) that if he didn't go home for the New Year, he could work overtime to earn more money.
Every few months, my brother would send home one or two hundred yuan.
I'm going to high school, and my brother said that he is now a technician, and his salary is okay, so he wants to take me to a big city to study, and the conditions are good, and he can provide for me to go to school.
I was ecstatic.
I followed my brother to the big city, and when I first entered the city, I was very rustic and didn't adapt to it at all.
Fortunately, my brother taught me a lot.
My brother worked hard to earn money, I studied hard, and occasionally called my parents to report that I was safe.
My brother supported me from high school until I graduated from college.
After graduating, I left my brother and went to work in another city.
Shortly after leaving, my brother told me that he was in love. However, the other party's parents don't seem to approve of them being together, because they dislike their brother for being too poor.
A year later, for unknown reasons, my brother resigned from his place of work and returned to his hometown. When he came home, his whole person changed, and he became much older.
I asked him what about my sister-in-law, and he said no. Then I asked him about my sister-in-law, and he wouldn't answer me.
In this way, my brother stayed at home for a long time, and he didn't go to work, and he lived a messy life all day.
Not long ago, a few people suddenly came to my door and asked my parents for money. Then my parents found out that my brother owed tens of thousands of dollars to others because of gambling.
My parents didn't have so much money, so they had to ask me to borrow it, and I transferred 50,000 yuan to them to pay it back first.
This time, I knew that my brother must be in debt again. That's why my mom is so sad.
I turned on the speakerphone, and my conversation with my mom was also overheard by my husband.
My husband and I don't have much savings, we borrowed 50,000 yuan last time, and now we have 20,000 yuan left in our hands. We still have children to feed.
My mother asked me for 3000 this time, I didn't agree, my husband said otherwise to borrow it again, you see that my mother is so sad, this time I won't borrow it in the future.
But I firmly disagree, because I can't get used to my brother's problem, and I plan to go back to my hometown in the next few days.
I've got to make my brother go back to the old brother.
I rejected my mother, but my husband said I was ruthless, am I really ruthless? I don't think so.
#Documenting My Life#