Narrator: Ms. Li, a villager (Disclaimer: This article is not my own experience, it is based on the narrator's words)
A few years ago I met a boyfriend from the countryside who took out my father's accidental death benefit to start a business for the sake of our future. In the end, we saved a total of 500,000 yuan and prepared to buy a house of our own.
However, when I went to pay the deposit, I found that the money was gone. After repeated questioning, my boyfriend told me that he had secretly given the money to his brother.
I had a big quarrel with him, and he actually said to me: "My brother wants to get married, I can't leave him alone, and I owe him the 500,000 yuan!"
I was very annoyed and asked him to ask for the money back, but he refused, and I just said, "That's your brother, not my brother." If you don't want it, then go with him!"
My name is Li Li and I am 26 years old. Since he was a child, he lived in the countryside and lived with his father. When I was very young, my mother passed away unexpectedly.
My father was a coal miner, and because he was busy with work, there was no one to take care of me, and I could only eat one meal a day. Maybe I was worried about my health, but my father had no choice but to find me another stepmother.
My stepmother was not bad, my father didn't want me to go to school, but my stepmother insisted that I continue to go to school, she said to my father: "I was born in the countryside and was a girl, if I don't go to school, then I can only be trapped here for the rest of my life." ”
It was at my stepmother's insistence that my father agreed to let me go to school, and I was very grateful for her kindness and decided to repay her in the future.
I cherish this hard-won learning opportunity, so I have been working hard. In school, the grades are at the top every time.
Everyone thinks that I can get into a university and has great expectations for me. But what I didn't expect was that just a month before my college entrance examination, my father passed away unexpectedly.
I don't know exactly what happened at the time, but I do remember that it rained for a week. My father worked in a coal mine, which was very dangerous.
At that time, the stepmother said to the father, why don't you go first, but the father said that the boss would not let them take leave, and at the same time told the stepmother that he had been working in the coal mine for so many years, and if he had experience, he should not be fine.
Our family was very worried, but unexpectedly, there was an accident that day, and the coal mine collapsed. My father didn't run out and was crushed inside, and my stepmother and I were heartbroken.
A few days later, we took care of my father's funeral, and it was at this time that a group of people came to our house, said something to my stepmother with a sad face, and then took out a wad of money from his bosom and handed it to her, which was my father's accident pension.
My stepmother couldn't cry, and that night, she handed me the money again, saying that she was old and it was useless to take the money, so it was better to give it to me, saying that I would have more opportunities to use it in college in the future.
To be honest, my stepmother treated me well, even with such a large sum of money, she didn't want to take it alone, and I secretly swore in my heart that I must treat her well in the future.
Unfortunately, although she had high hopes for me and thought that I could go to university, because of my father's death, I was so sad that I ended up playing abnormally in the college entrance examination and had no chance to go to university. My stepmother has always comforted me, saying that there is no only way out of life to go to school, and it is a big deal to go out to work.
After graduating, I got on the train to the south and wanted to forge my own path in the big city. But reality gave me a blow to the head, because I didn't have any education, and at the same time, I didn't have any skills, so I went there to find a job and ran into walls everywhere.
I stayed for half a month in a row, and the daily expenses also made me feel very distressed, and finally I couldn't bear it anymore, so I found a job in a foot bath shop and did it first.
It was here that I met my other half, Li Tiankui. He is also a technician in this foot bath shop, and his skills are not bad, and many customers have asked him to serve.
When I first arrived, he was the one who took me. He was very considerate and knew that I didn't like to work night shifts, so he took the initiative to transfer shifts with me. After a period of communication, we developed feelings for each other and soon established a romantic relationship.
My boyfriend is from the countryside and has no education, so when I brought him home and asked my stepmother to check it, my stepmother was very disagreeable. She said to me: Although you are not my biological child, but for so many years, I have always regarded you as my own child, and I hope you live a happy life, so I don't want you to find a young man from the countryside.
"I know, Mom, I know how good you are to me, but I really love him!" I explained to my stepmother.
I talked to my stepmother for a long time that day, and when she saw that I was so persistent, she didn't say anything more, and finally agreed to our marriage.
We didn't have a wedding, we just got a license, and then we invited my mother and a few relatives to dinner at a noodle restaurant in the town, and we were married.
After that, we went to the big city to continue working, rented a house there, and continued to work as a foot bath shop. It didn't take long for me to conceive his child, and he was very happy and said that he must make a lot of money so that we can live a happy life.
At this time, I remembered the windfall pension that my father had left me, and I said to him, "If you really want to give us a safe and secure life, then you can start your own business." Working in a foot bath shop is not a good path, I have 100,000 yuan here, you take it, and when we save 500,000 yuan, we will buy a house. ”
He took the money, perhaps because he didn't expect me to suddenly take out such a sum of money, and he was very excited and said to me, "Wife, I will definitely not fail you." ”
We thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to open a restaurant, and since we decided to do it, we had to do it with a big ticket. We took out 80,000 yuan and rented a shop in a prime location in the city, focusing on Sichuan cuisine, accompanied by northern cuisine.
We are lucky, the business of the restaurant is very good, and we can make a profit of nearly 30,000 yuan a month by driving back and forth every day. In this way, we save money every day for three years.
Three years later, our son was two years old, and I thought that he would go to school anyway, and now that he has some savings, it would be better to buy a house near the primary school so that it will be easier to take the children to school in the future.
However, when I said my thoughts, my husband was very embarrassed, he said, "Why don't you wait a few more years?"
I didn't understand why, so I asked him why, and he told me that the house price is too expensive now and wait.
Although I was skeptical, I finally gave up on the idea without saying anything more. However, I still couldn't help but go to the sales office to see what the current house type was like.
As a result, I really fell in love with a house that day, and the price was not expensive, only 500,000 yuan for 150 square meters.
At that time, I called my husband and said that there was a house here, and now I only need to pay a deposit to make an appointment, and if I really don't need it in the end, I can also return it directly, which is a way to get the best of both worlds.
However, my husband refused to let me do anything, I was a little angry and puzzled, so I hung up the phone, but I still felt that I should give it a try, so I went to the staff to swipe the card.
I never thought that after the staff swiped my card, they would tell me that I didn't have a penny on my bank card at all. I was completely puzzled, there are hundreds of thousands of deposits on this card, why is there no money?
So he asked him to confirm it again, and the result was confirmed many times and the result was still the same, not a penny.
I was very angry, and immediately understood what was going on, no wonder my husband kept stopping me from buying a house, it turned out that the money was long gone.
I went home and had a big argument with him and asked him where the money was, and he told me that just a year ago, his brother was getting married, and his mother called him to urge him to send money home. He really had no choice, so he transferred the money in it, but what he never expected was that in the days that followed, his mother also asked him for money every now and then, saying that if he didn't want money, he would find a door to live here.
I didn't expect my husband's family to be like this, and I didn't expect my husband to actually give her money. It's a lie to say not to be angry, because the money was earned with my father's accidental death benefit as a starting bonus!
I said to him: "You hurry up and get our money back, it's not your money alone, not to mention that 500,000 yuan is not a small amount, your brother eats, drinks and has fun at home every day, doesn't seek advancement, doesn't even have a job, why do you think about you when you spend money?"
I never thought that my husband would be very helpless after hearing this, and at the same time he said to me angrily: "That's my brother, can I ignore him? What's more, my mother pulled me to the end, I don't listen to her, who do I listen to?"
I couldn't believe that this could be what he said, so I sneered and said to him, "If you think you're sorry for them, then you can follow your brother." ”
Looking at my son who was still sleeping on the bed, tears flowed from the corners of my eyes, and I said to him: "If you don't get this money back, then let's divorce, you don't have a little heart to care for your family, follow you, your son will only suffer, it's better to make a break as soon as possible." ”
My husband didn't seem to expect me to talk to him like this, and he was a little angry at the moment. We argued for a long time that day, and finally did not agree to a divorce, he asked me to calm down and I went back to the house. I heard him talk to his family on the phone and said, "Mom, give me back the money I gave you before, I don't want to sponsor my brother anymore." ”
Lying on the bed and thinking of those things with my husband in the past, I suddenly felt a little relieved in my heart, since he is willing to ask his brother for money, I don't want to embarrass him more, no matter whether the money can be returned or not, the life is still to live, and I already have a child with him, if I divorce rashly, it is not fair to the child.
In the end, we still couldn't get a divorce, and we didn't get the money back, but fortunately, the business in our store was not bad, and after that, I told my husband to take care of the money in the future, and he agreed.
After I got the money, his brother asked us for money again, and he never gave it to him again. My husband often said to me, "It's good that I gave you the money, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to save money!"