Chapter 300: Whoever is Poor is Rich
Who is poor and who is rich, Zhang Baotong 2016.8.23
In a small town in the east of England, two sisters lived. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Their parents died very young, leaving them with only two dilapidated houses. The sisters had no means of subsistence, so they relied on the help of relatives to make a living.
Sister Lou is a very sensible girl, she is three to four years older than her sister Susan. Not only does she have to think about her own life, but she also has to take care of her sister. It can be said that the two of them have been relying on each other for their lives.
Lucy is not only very sensible, but also very intelligent. She studied hard and got excellent grades, but for the sake of her and her sister's life, she had to earn a living on her own as soon as she graduated from middle school. At this time, she was only sixteen years old. A sixteen-year-old girl is in the blooming season of her youth and is enjoying the best time of her life. However, Lucy cannot, she not only has to fend for herself, but also take care of her sister. Therefore, she must take on the heavy responsibility of life. The children of the poor are always hardworking, simple and frugal, dreaming of one day living in a big house with a lot of money.
For this reason, Lucy began to set up a haberdashery stall in front of her house after finishing middle school. She gets up early and is greedy for night, keeps stalls to buy goods, is not idle all day, and has to calculate accounts and money at night, and never gives herself a day off. And Lucy is also very thrifty, budget-conscious, and never spends a penny more for herself, so she wears very cheap and very old clothes, and eats the cheapest and coarsest meals. Because she wants to build a big house in the future and save a lot of money for her old age.
Because of her sister's care, her sister Susan has never worried about life. She is beautiful, cheerful, likes to be idle and lively, singing and dancing with her classmates and friends all day long, and playing in the mountains and rivers. As for whether there is food to eat at home and whether there is money to spend, it seems that it is not something for her to consider. The purpose and meaning of her life is how to have fun and feel happy on this day. She never seemed to think about how to live her life in the future.
Lucy stayed in front of the stall in front of the door all day, no matter whether it was windy or snowy, sunny or rainy, she never rested. In this way, she worked for three or two years in a row, and finally had some money in her hands, so she built a small shop in front of her house, moved her business to the store, and operated many more projects than in the past.
My younger sister Susan still goes out all day to find classmates and friends to sing and dance and play in the mountains and rivers, and she doesn't care about her sister's business and busyness at all. And the older sister felt that her younger sister was still in school, and she didn't expect her to help her, because she felt that she could still be busy alone. What she really hopes is that her sister can study hard, and after graduation, she will have some success and live better than herself. However, my sister didn't study hard, and before graduating from middle school, she followed a boyfriend who played the saxophone around to go on tour. Although she didn't want her sister to be so carefree, she ran freely and freely, not thinking about her future life at all. However, she is just an older sister, and she can't do anything else except take care of her food and her residence. Because Susan has her own way of life.
Susan was away from home all year round, sometimes for years at a time, and she didn't even hear from her. Lucy was alone and busy in her little shop. Because the business is getting better and better, Lucy is getting busier and busier, and sometimes she is so busy that she doesn't even have time to eat, eat a loaf of bread, drink a bottle of drink, and pass the meal. Then she wondered how nice it would be for Susan to be around, and how she wished her sister could help her run the business. However, my sister wrote that she had gone to Europe with her boyfriend and was touring around the world.
Although Lucy is not as beautiful as her sister, she is also good-looking, and has a gentle temperament, shrewd and capable, and should be the kind of girl that boys like. However, because of the continuous expansion of the business and the sheer busyness, Lucy has no time to think about love and marriage, or even go out to meet her boyfriend or go out on a date with him. So, before I knew it, I missed the good time to talk about marriage. By the time she had turned her small shop into a big one, she was already in her early thirties, and she looked a little old because of the busyness of her adult years, and she still wore the very cheap and old clothes, as if she had kept up with her age at a young age. So, there has never been a young man who has ever pursued her and fallen in love with her. And she only stays in her own store all day long, and rarely even goes to the city not far from the town. Therefore, it is difficult to reach the man she loves.
Her shop was already large, but in order to save money, she insisted on refusing to hire someone to help, because she would have to pay for it. Therefore, she was busy all day by herself, often until late at night before she could sleep. When she went to bed at night, she always wondered what was going on with her sister, because she didn't have to worry about it herself, and she had enough money to live a prosperous life in the future. But what about my sister, because she will grow old in the end, and then she will not be able to walk, and she will not be able to go out on tour. What should she live on then?
In this way, she lived alone for many more years. When she was fifty years old, she felt that she was too old to do anything, so she sold her big shop, built a small three-story building, and lived alone and quietly.
However, a few years later, her sister Susan returned. Because her boyfriend fell ill and died on the way to the tour. At this time, my sister was also old and empty-handed. She had nowhere else to go but to go back to her sister. The sisters were reunited after many years of separation. This made Lucy very happy, because with her sister by her side, she no longer felt so lonely.
My sister has a cheerful personality and talks and laughs, and every day she has to tell her some experiences and stories about her touring around the world. The stories are exotic and romantic, colourful and captivating. Those experiences were so legendary that she was fascinated, longed for, and envied. In the past, she was always worried about how her sister would live in the future, but she never thought that her sister would have such a rich and beautiful life and experience. And these life experiences related to love and romance are something she has never had. Because she has been busy earning money for the future of her life almost all her life. Now she has realized her dream, lives in a spacious building, and has enough money to live out. However, her life and experience are so poor and pale that there is nothing to envy and recall. Thinking like this, she felt a sour feeling in her heart: if time could be turned back, she would also devote herself to the desirable love and romantic life like her sister. (To be continued.) )