Fifty-one-year-old Shen Ruowei was lying in the ward with late-stage gastric cancer. Her 27-year-old daughter Zhao Qing handed over the last hospitalization bill for her and asked only one sentence:
"Mom, why didn't you get a divorce back then?"
In 1998, 23-year-old Shen Ruowei actually discovered that her husband Zhao Jianguo owed 30,000 yuan in loan sharking due to gambling. But she only has a junior high school education and doesn't know how to divide debts or where to go about getting a divorce. Her parents advised her to endure it, and the Zhao family promised on their knees that they would change, so she swallowed those words.
Later, it was the creditor who kicked in the door, the sewing machine was sold, and the daughter grew up amidst the sound of debt collection; it was also her life that was pushed by the times amidst the assembly line, illness, and unfinished money.
When she opened her eyes again, she went back to the morning when the gambling debt note first appeared.
This time, she decided to divorce.
But she also knew: as long as she got out of this marriage, Zhao Qing in her previous life would no longer be born along the same path.
Shen Ruowei does not have a system, nor does he have the ability to suddenly have a lawyer, accountant and boss. She will not be able to read the registration form, will add the wrong account, will believe "will sell it later", and will agree to work overtime for others when she is afraid of losing money.
She could only start with forty-six yuan, an old pedal sewing machine, and a borrowed room in the north.
She had to alter trousers, mend work clothes, catch up on school uniforms, and repair wedding dresses; she was returned goods, had her money deducted, was owed wages, and also hurt the people who really helped her because of her eagerness. Every time you stand up, there is a specific cost.
Once again, it's not about knowing how to win in advance.
But he was finally willing to ask a question before pressing his fingerprints:
Whose debt is this? Whose money? Who agreed?
