It is said that every family has its own difficulty in reciting sutras. I think it is particularly difficult for our family to recite sutras?
My family is in a rural area in Northeast China. My parents farm at home, and my father has to work in a nearby brick factory during the off-season. When we were in junior high school, our grandparents passed away one after another. When they were alive, our grandparents were in poor health. They took medicine and had injections from time to time, and the family owed a lot of foreign debt. In my second year of high school, I told my parents that I would not go to school anymore and that I would go out to work. It was too difficult to support two students at home. After I dropped out of school, I followed the villagers to work in a factory in other provinces. I didn't earn much at first, but it was enough to live on. Later, when my salary increased, I would go back home if I had enough living expenses every month.
A year later, my younger brother failed the college entrance examination and worked outside for two years, where he met his wife. When I got married, I asked for a bride price of 50,000 yuan and a new house. Just two years after the family recovered, they owed a debt of over 100,000 yuan, which took three or four years to pay off. During this period, my parents urged me to get married, but I refused. My father fainted while working at a construction site. He was sent to the hospital for a heart attack and needed a heart bypass surgery. Otherwise, it would be dangerous to do it again. The surgery fee was more than 100,000 yuan, but my family only had 70,000 to 80,000 yuan. I borrowed tens of thousands yuan from relatives and still had a shortfall of more than 30,000 yuan. My brother asked his wife how much money she had left at home to give out, but his wife disagreed and said she had no money. The two of them wanted to divorce because of the money issue. In order to raise the money for the surgery as soon as possible, I worked overtime for two consecutive months and was so exhausted that when I was crossing the road, I was hit by an oncoming car and was knocked out.
Purpose: You must live a wonderful life