My mother is a rural woman with a low level of education. She worked and set up a stall to support her fiancé's studies. They later got married and had children. Later, the man filed for a divorce on the pretext that they had no common language and their personalities were incompatible.
In fact, these are just excuses of the man. The real reason is that in order to climb up the social ladder, the man hooked up with a rich girl, so he abandoned his wife and a pair of children, and left behind a son who could carry on the family line.
The mother took her daughter away and returned to her hometown. She used the little money given to her to buy a small house in the county town and continued to make a living by selling things on the street to support her daughter's schooling.
Later, when the original body was in the second semester of her sophomore year in college, her mother died of a sudden illness. In fact, her mother had been ill for a long time and had always been feeling uncomfortable in her liver area, but she was afraid of spending money so she endured it and didn't see a doctor.
Later, the original person dropped out of school and left home to work in the south. He met Gu Hualei and gradually became more cheerful.
Gu Hualei has a good family background, ability, good looks, and he is also well-mannered and considerate to her. Finding such a boyfriend was something she never dreamed of.
Of course, agreeing to date him was not without some thoughts of taking shortcuts, and it was not without vanity.
She is a person who has lived a hard life.
In her memory, ever since she was old enough to understand, she has been helping her mother set up stalls. Sometimes she pushed a cart to sell breakfast cakes, sometimes she set up a stall in the vegetable market to sell vegetables, sometimes she sold socks, scarves and small accessories, and sometimes she sold all kinds of clothes.
When selling breakfast and vegetables, even in the cold winter, they would set out before dawn, otherwise they would not be able to get a good position.
When selling clothes, socks and accessories, they sometimes push their carts from one street to another, and then in the evening they pay some stall fees and set up their stall in the night market. They will not leave until the early morning when others have closed their stalls and gone home.
She has been very sensible since she was young. Although other children often scolded her as a fatherless wild child and sometimes threw stones at her, although her classmates disliked her and never played with her, and although her mother often vented her anger on her because of life's unsatisfactory situations and was extremely strict with her in her studies, she never really felt any resentment.
She longed for a better life and she tried very hard to change her status quo. However, before she graduated from college and only reached the second semester of her second year, her mother suddenly died.
When she got the news, she felt like the sky had fallen on her.
The doctor told her that her mother should have had various symptoms of discomfort long before the onset of the disease, such as frequent difficulty breathing and pain in the chest, and later she should have also had symptoms of coughing up blood, but her mother did not take it seriously. Or, she knew it very well but just didn't want to spend money, so she kept putting it off.
Because it was delayed for too long, and her mother's health had deteriorated particularly quickly due to years of overwork, she became seriously ill all of a sudden.
The original body didn't even see her for the last time.
What made her heartbroken and regretful was that a month before her mother passed away, she had a big fight with her mother because she wanted to go out to work and support herself by studying and working part-time.
This quarrel caused her to not call home for a month.
I thought this was just a normal cold war. After all, the mother and daughter had a cold war for several months over what major to choose.