Grandma Zhou spent four thousand yuan getting her grandson Zhou Bi an urban household registration.
She said the Zhou family had been poor for four or five generations, and that Zhou Bi would put an end to their poverty and move to the city to earn a living from the state.
But she had always been stingy, unwilling to buy even a pound of pork for her two granddaughters at New Year. Where had she gotten the money?
Zhou Mo told her older sister, Zhou Qiang, "Mom and Dad sent back the money for you to go to vocational school and get a job placement after graduation!"
Zhou Qiang raised a huge fuss and smashed up the whole house.
But Grandma Zhou curled her lip. "Making a scene won't help! Your mom and dad have been in the city for years. They say they're working, but who knows if they're just avoiding their responsibilities? You girls were abandoned by your parents, and I've raised you from the age of seven or eight to fifteen or sixteen. Isn't that worth four thousand yuan? If you want to study, have your mom send more money! If she can't, the son of the Li family in the east village has his eye on you and is willing to pay a bride price of six thousand six hundred yuan!"
Zhou Qiang cried until her eyes were swollen and red. Zhou Mo quietly packed her things and left that very night!
Zhou Qiang didn't dare go. What if human traffickers abducted her?
Zhou Mo said firmly, "We'll go to the city and find Mom and Dad. Even if we can't go to school, working is better than staying in the village."
In her previous life, her tuition money was stolen, her sister was driven to despair, and that beautiful girl was left permanently disabled.
Zhou Mo regretted countless times that things had turned out this way, wishing none of it had ever happened.
She closed her eyes, then opened them, only to find herself back at fourteen.
This time, she wouldn't worry about anything else. She'd take her sister and their schoolbags and go to the city.
The city was big enough to make room for a family.
Theme: Hard work can make life better.
