The woman was silent, she also knew that because of the rapid rise in housing prices in the past year, many landlords around her had raised their rents, and it was only a matter of time before Uncle Wang would increase the price, but it happened to be at this point in her most difficult time.

"I'll tell you in advance, just so that you have time to think about it, our rent is paid once a quarter, and by the end of this month, we will pay the next quarter's rent, a total of 7,800 yuan," Uncle Wang continued to say on the phone.

An increase of three hundred dollars per month means that there will be nearly a thousand dollars more in a quarter, and the woman feels like her heart has been beaten by a heavy object, and she instantly feels like she is out of breath.

"Hey, are you still there?" Uncle Wang didn't hear a response, and asked suspiciously.

"Uncle Wang, I know, please give me three days to think about it," the woman replied in a normal tone, forcing herself to breathe.

Uncle Wang finally said a word, waited for her news, and hung up the phone. The woman looked at the dishes and chopsticks in the sink that had not been washed, and her heart suddenly became extremely depressed, she could have pleaded with Uncle Wang, reduced the increased rent from three hundred to two hundred, and even told him the news of her husband's death, so as to win a trace of sympathy from the old man's heart, but the woman did not do so. Perhaps out of stubbornness in her heart, the woman wants to prove that she can hold up the family alone.

Life still has to go on, the woman quickly washed the remaining dishes and chopsticks, and when she walked to the living room, she found that Haohao hadn't finished dinner yet. The woman was really angry, she felt that her son seemed to have become more disobedient than before, and he would not understand the hard work of a single mother at all.

"Haohao, if you don't finish these meals in ten minutes, I'll confiscate all your toys," the woman yelled.

Haohao seemed to be really scared, he put down the electric car in his hand and sat down next to the dining table obediently. The woman saw Haohao with his head down, and his face looked like he was admitting his mistake, and a hard heart quickly melted. She touched the lunch box, the food inside was already cold, and the woman poured the unfinished part into a porcelain bowl, and put it in the microwave to heat it for a while before bringing it back to Haohao.

Hao Hao scooped a spoon and put it in his mouth, no longer just holding it as before, but chewing it seriously. The woman's heart flowed with some warmth, she realized that she might have to rely on her son in the future, although Haohao was young, but it was all her spiritual support, and it was also her hope to continue to live.

The woman touched Haohao's head and said in a soft tone, "Good, this is my good son." ”

The woman cleaned up the scattered toys on the ground a little, and then sat on the sofa with a limp body, from getting up in the morning until now she had a chance to catch her breath, she just wanted to close her eyes and squint for a while, and what Uncle Wang said made her sleepy all of a sudden.

At once, she had to pay 7,800 yuan, as well as monthly management fees, water and electricity bills, and the total was estimated to be more than 9,000 yuan, and the woman hurriedly opened her mobile phone bank and found that all the deposits in the account were more than 5,000 yuan.

When her husband was alive, the woman had always been a shopping guide in the supermarket, and she didn't have any concept of money and didn't know how to invest, so her own salary was basically just used to meet daily expenses, and the rest of the places that cost a lot of money were taken care of by the husband.

The husband has a good working ability and is more pragmatic, he never spends money indiscriminately, and once he has savings, he will buy some low-risk funds and wealth management products, so they still have some savings.

But the pragmatic husband has a shortcoming that women can't accept, that is, foolishness. The husband was the youngest son in the family, and he had several older siblings, but he was the only one of these siblings who went to university, according to his parents, because the family was too poor to provide for one.

So when her husband stayed in a first-tier city to work after graduating from college, he was very grateful to his parents, and had already revealed to women that he would support his parents alone in their later years.

The woman is not an unreasonable person, she has also been to the countryside where her husband was born, and knows that it is not easy to produce a college student in such a barren place, and his brothers and sisters do not even have the opportunity to study and go to college at all, so the woman is also acquiesced to the fact that her husband has to take on the responsibility of providing for the elderly.

But what made her speechless was that since her husband revealed to the family that his income was more than 10,000 yuan, her parents-in-law almost regarded his youngest son as a cash cow. Although their bodies are still very strong, they are no longer willing to work in the fields, and they ask their husbands to give them 1,000 yuan a month for living expenses, believing that this is what they deserve to train a college student.

The woman has no complaints about this, after all, a thousand yuan is not a big number, and her parents-in-law can live well in the countryside with this thousand yuan. But the more things got out of control, the husband's brother and sister would ask him for help whenever they encountered any difficulties, what sister-in-law accidentally fell and injured himself, the boss of the place where my brother worked ran away, and the ancestral hall in my hometown was going to be renovated...

All of this is all about money at the end of the day, and in their opinion, they have lost the right to go to college, so it is only natural that the money should be paid by the husband. The husband still had the same idea as his older brothers and sisters, and even after quarrels with women, the family's savings were remitted one after another.

It wasn't until last month that my parents-in-law called again and said that they wanted to build a house on the foundation of their hometown, hoping to build a six-story building so that each of these sons and daughters could get a floor. The total budget for building the house is 500,000 yuan, and the parents-in-law hope that the younger son can contribute 400,000 yuan, and the other 100,000 yuan will be made up by his older brothers and sisters.

The woman almost exploded when she heard this, 400,000 yuan is all the savings of the couple who have worked so far, and they originally planned to find a way to scrape together some money at the end of the year, barely reaching the threshold of a down payment for buying a house in a first-tier city. After all, Haohao is about to go to elementary school, and the woman hopes that her son can go to a slightly better school, even if it is far away from the city.

Her parents-in-law thought that they would have to provide for the elderly, and that their husband would take the lead as their inheritance to their son and daughter, did they think that the couple had worked hard in the first-tier cities for so long, and they didn't even have a place to stay, and their grandchildren had to go to expensive private kindergartens.

The woman had a resolute negative attitude towards this matter, and even used divorce as a threat, and the husband also verbally promised not to send money to his parents to build a house, but it was not until the husband died and checked his bank account that the woman knew that the family's savings of 400,000 yuan had already been secretly transferred away by the husband.

Looking at her bank account, the woman finds herself facing a very real problem, money. Whether you can sustain it alone or not depends not on whether you are strong enough, but whether you can ensure the basic life of the family.

The woman thought about it again, she felt that she had no other way, found her mother-in-law's phone number in the address book, and pressed the dial button.