Because the little money she earned from working after school was not enough to cover the tuition and living expenses for her and her sister.
After dropping out of school, she worked odd jobs in a small town restaurant. After two years, she entrusted her eight-year-old sister to her uncle's house, packed up a few sets of worn-out clothes, and followed people from the same village on a train heading south.
She could barely pay for the tuition for elementary and junior high school by doing odd jobs in the small town, but if her sister wanted to go to secondary technical school, high school, or even college, it would be far from enough.
For the sake of her sister's future, a 17-year-old girl who had never even been to their small town came to a strange southern coastal city full of opportunities and dangers, carrying a faded denim bag.
It was only 1983 at that time, and it was the time when people were heading south to work. The train station was crowded with people, like a sea of people, and there were all kinds of people.
Fortunately, because she had an acquaintance from the same village to lead the way, she was not cheated as soon as she got off the train. She also did not encounter black-clad bag-snatching gangs, foot-stomping gangs, motorcycle-speeding gangs, etc. She got on a tricycle very smoothly and entered a small processing factory with her fellow villagers.
She had not received much education, nor had she seen much of the world. She did not know much and was not very courageous, but she knew one thing: as long as she worked harder, her sister's life at her uncle's house would be better, and she would have a better chance of going to a technical secondary school and living a good life.
With this kind of perseverance, she worked day and night in that small processing factory for a meager salary until the early 1990s.
Later, the small processing factory went bankrupt and she had to find another way out.
At this time, she was 24 years old and her sister was 16 years old and in the first year of high school.
The older sisters and aunts around her introduced her to potential partners and reminded her that she was not young anymore and should find a man to marry. However, her younger sister was just in the first year of high school and she would go to college after that. How could she have the time and energy to think about these things
In order to ensure that her sister can finish high school and then go to college smoothly, and to meet her sister's demands which are getting higher and higher, she keeps moving forward like a spinning top that never gets tired.
She had been cheated and deceived, lived in a small hotel shared by more than a dozen people, and also lived in a basement that was very damp when it rained and the floor was full of sticky insects. She had to eat a trowel every day and stretch her neck to get water directly from the faucet to drink.
In order to save two dollars for bus fare, she got up before dawn for a year, walked more than ten miles to work, and returned home under the moonlight at night, holding an iron rod tightly in her hand.
After going through enough hardships and being deceived enough times, people gradually become smarter. They know how to avoid scams, how to protect themselves, and how to use their brains to make money.
She followed the example of some people who had gone into business, buying goods from the wholesale market and starting to set up a street stall.
They sell whatever sells well and whatever is popular. In the morning, they sell it in front of the vegetable market. In the evening, they sell it at the night market. During the day, they push a tricycle and sell it everywhere.
As her money gradually increased, she wanted to have a home, a house of her own, even if it was small and shabby, just like everyone else who had been wandering around for several years.
The mud house at home collapsed after a heavy rain a long time ago. My younger sister has been attending boarding school since she started junior high school, and she often mentions that they don’t even have a decent house.
Because of these reasons, the original body started buying houses.
In 1993, a house with two bedrooms and a living room, about 67 square meters, located in an ordinary location, sold for around 40,000 yuan.