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When I suffered from cataracts, I went to my niece's city for surgery, and she didn't reply to several messages to my niece, and she didn't come to visit me until I was discharged from the hospital.
When the people in the ward found out, they were upset with me, and said dissatisfiedly: "It's really a shameless that you have provided for her to study in college for four years."
I also complained a little in my heart, but I didn't expect my niece to send me a text message later, and my eyes were red after seeing the content.
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My name is Zhao Chunhua, I was born in 1975 in a poor rural family in the south, my family only has a thin field, but I have to support my brother and my two children, and life is tight.
Fortunately, although I am a girl, my parents are never partial, I will have what my brother has, and my brother treats me very well.
When I reached the age of studying, my parents also let me go to school, and told me to study hard and become a productive person when I grow up, which was very rare in the countryside at that time, after all, many girls in families were mixed with nine years of compulsory education, so they went out to work or married early.
I was also competitive, got a good score in the high school entrance examination, and was admitted to the best key high school in the town, but that year, there was an accident in my family.
At that time, it was the summer vacation after the college entrance examination, and my dad went to the town to buy something, but a family threw objects from a high altitude, which happened to hit my dad and smashed my dad directly into the hospital.
Because the injury was so severe, my dad died after failing to resuscitate him, and for us, it was no different from the sky falling.
After a gloomy summer vacation, school is about to start, and if my dad doesn't have an accident, then I will be in my first year of high school and my brother will be in my third year of high school. But my dad is gone, and the situation at home is not optimistic.
Although the perpetrator lost a sum of money, it was not enough for me and my brother to study together, and my mother was just an ordinary farmer, where could she afford two children.
So a few days before school started, my mother called me to my room and said to me with red eyes, "Girl, why don't you read it?"
Hearing this, my tears also fell, I didn't say anything, nodded and agreed, I knew this was the best choice, I went to work for my brother to study.
My mother told my brother about this, but he firmly disagreed, saying that he should have dropped out of school to work for me to study. I'll never forget what he said.
"Her grades are so good, she will definitely be better than me in the future, and how much money can a girl's family make, she wastes her youth by working hard, I am the eldest son in the family, and now I should support the family."
My mom couldn't resist her, so she finally agreed, and so I successfully entered high school, and my brother dropped out of school and left his hometown, and since then I have seen his face less and less, replaced by a letter to the family and a remittance.
In the letter, my brother would tell me to study hard, so that I don't have to feel pressure, that his job can be used for me to finish college, and that I just need to focus on the present.
The eldest brother is like a father, and I finally realized the meaning of this word, and my heart was filled with infinite gratitude to my brother.
After the college entrance examination, I was admitted to a university not far from home, and my brother took a rare leave to go home that day, and held a college banquet for me.
My brother generously paid my tuition fees and gave me a lot of living expenses, so that I could eat and drink well, learn to wear makeup and dress up, and enjoy my college life.
"I knew my sister was promising! Look! She's the first college student in the village!" My brother was drunk that day, and he showed off when he met everyone, but I watched this scene and my eyes were red.
Later, when I went to university, I didn't want to have fun, but studied hard and worked part-time to reduce the pressure on my brother as much as possible.
After graduating from university, I stayed in that city to develop, and during this time my brother also got married to a girl from the same village. I got married relatively late, at the age of 28.
A few years after we got married, my husband and I did not have children immediately, but on my brother's side, we soon had a daughter, perhaps out of gratitude to my brother, I loved this little niece very much, and almost treated her as my own daughter.
Time passed in a hurry, and my niece gradually grew up and became a slim girl, and she also inherited my brother's intelligence and was admitted to a key university.
However, at this critical juncture, something happened to my brother's family.
Their factory was on the verge of bankruptcy due to poor capital turnover, and I borrowed a sum of money from my brother, but it didn't help much. In the end, he couldn't afford my niece's college education.
At that time, my brother wanted to ask more people to borrow money, and when I found out, I told her that I would pay for my niece's tuition and living expenses for four years of college.
My brother didn't agree at first, because at that time my son and daughter were in junior high school, and it was also a time when I needed to spend money, and my family was not particularly wealthy, so he didn't want to put more pressure on me.
But under my repeated requests, my brother relented, and he didn't want his daughter to be admitted to university with great difficulty, but she couldn't afford to study because she didn't have tuition.
My niece later found out that I was the one who provided for her to go to college, and she came to thank me, and I didn't want to put too much pressure on her, so I told her about me and her dad.
"If it weren't for your father giving me the opportunity to study back then, I wouldn't be where I am today, so you don't have too much pressure, and you don't have to worry about repaying the money, just study hard."
My niece still thanked me several times, and she did well in college. I also kept my promise to provide her with four years of college, and I never skimped on her living expenses.
After graduating, my niece went to work, and my brother's family finally got better, but my brother's factory finally went bankrupt, and he owed a sum of money to work hard for several years to pay it off. Now that her daughter is independent, the family is finally on the right track.
Because of these things, my brother and I have always had a good relationship, and because the city is close, we will gather every New Year's holiday.
Some time ago, I felt uncomfortable in my eyes, and the examination found that it might be cataracts, I asked the people around me if there was a good hospital to treat this, and my niece recommended an eye hospital in her city.
I didn't know it well, so I found a day and went to my niece's city with my husband to see a doctor, and I didn't tell her in advance, and I sent a message to my niece after I arrived at the location.
But my niece didn't reply, and I didn't care, and I rested in the ward for two days after the operation, but I didn't expect my niece to still have no movement. My husband and I were very puzzled, thinking that even if we were busy with work, we wouldn't fail to come and see me!
It must be false to say that there are no complaints, and together with the patients in the ward, they are all upset for me, and I have a little fire in my heart, and I plan to go home from the hospital just like this, but I didn't expect the niece's message to come suddenly.
It was an apology letter, it turned out that my niece was now on a business trip with her boss, and she was busy when I messaged her, and she only glanced at it and didn't read the content seriously.
It wasn't until three days later, when she finally had a chance to catch her breath, that she went to see what I had sent her, and was surprised to find out that I had actually come to her city.
After the text message, my niece also transferred me 20,000 yuan and wrote a long apology, saying that it really wasn't intentional, and I hope I don't mind, she will definitely find another opportunity to go back to see me.
Seeing my niece look so scared, I was a little sad, it seems that I misunderstood her, I confiscated the money, I just asked her when she was on vacation, and we will get together again!
My niece immediately made an appointment with me for two days, hoping that I could have more fun in her city and go to her house first.
Two days later, my niece arrived, apologized to me again, and then took my wife and me to play in the city for a few days.
When I was leaving, my niece asked me to give me the 20,000 yuan again, saying that it was not only her apology, but also her gratitude, and she was very grateful to me for providing her with school.
If this friendship can be measured in money, then I don't know how much I owe my brother. After repeated pushbacks, my niece finally gave up.
Looking back on that time, although it was full of hardship, it was also a little warm.
This New Year, my brother and niece's family and I went back to our hometown for the New Year, and it was also a lively year.