Parents naturally want to fulfill their daughter's wishes, especially if their children want to go further and study abroad, parents must support them even more. For this reason, they spend most of their savings to let their daughters study abroad.
For this reason, they are a little strained, and this is because as teachers, apart from their legal income, they have no chance to make extra money. Especially after the private economy was allowed to develop, many people started to start their own businesses, and there were suddenly more and more wealthy people.
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Teachers' salaries, which originally seemed very good, are not that high after such a comparison. Some teachers feel uncomfortable when they see that people who buy tea eggs earn more than them.
It’s really uncomfortable for them who have received more education to live worse than those who studied less. There was once a saying: There is a golden house in the book. Why don’t they feel it?
Don't forget that teachers are called gardeners and have many spiritual honors, but when facing reality, they are also the most ordinary people and will encounter many problems in real life.
Naturally, there will also be the problem of not having enough money. When people are compared with each other, they will feel a sense of disparity. If they are quick, they will go to the sea to make money.
Of course, someone who is a teacher will not sell tea eggs. First of all, don’t think that there are admission standards for tea eggs. Those who are not good at cooking will naturally not be able to go.
As intellectuals who want to make money, they naturally don't want to pick on other people's advice. They have to do what they are familiar with. In addition, everyone wants to find someone to help them with their homework, so they hold cram schools privately to make money.
The money comes in faster.
It can be said that this way of making extra money is very suitable for people who were originally engaged in this industry. People who have become wealthy have also begun to pay attention to education, and they have quickly made profits by opening cram schools.
This also means that the scale of cram schools needs to be expanded. Once the scale is large, it will be necessary to recruit people, especially tutors, and the best candidates are on-the-job teachers in primary and secondary schools.
Because these teachers do not need to be trained again, they can basically start classes as soon as they are invited. I believe that some teachers will be willing to work part-time during the holidays.
Not everyone is suitable for business. This requires talent, and it also depends on the right time, place, and people, because someone once invited the couple to join.
After receiving the invitation, the two of them were really tempted and wanted to work part-time in this kind of cram school in order to make money, because being able to earn two salaries a month was very good and the financial pressure was greatly reduced.
But when the two wanted to work part-time, they hesitated. After looking at the teaching hours, they found that there was not enough time. If they went to a training class part-time, they would have to prepare lessons specifically and study how to improve students' exam-taking abilities.
People's energy is limited, and it is impossible to cover everything. They may not be able to take care of the students in the original school, and I am afraid that they will give even less time to their daughter, which is somewhat inappropriate.
After thinking about it for a while, the couple ended up not going to any cram school. Later, when they became head teachers, they found that they really didn't have the energy to do any part-time jobs. Because they had high school students to send, they didn't have time to do tutoring.
The couple felt a little heartbroken when they gave up the invitation because they felt that their financial resources were too shallow, and even though they were working in school, they felt that the gap between rich and poor was increasing.
And after much deliberation, they have not figured out how to make a fortune. In fact, there are ways to make a fortune in criminal law, but naturally they dare not touch the law and do not dare to do it at all.
There are only two channels for increasing legitimate money: increasing revenue and reducing expenditure. However, they found that they had no talent for business or investment, and there was no way to increase revenue. The only way was to think about how to reduce expenditure.
The target of saving money does not include the daughter. This is because as a couple, they know very well how the children get along with each other. They will compare with each other intentionally or unintentionally in their daily life, and comparison has always been a normal state of life.
For example, in the early years, too many people were completely unable to eat enough. They either substituted vegetables for meals or were often hungry. For this reason, they went to bed early to rest and did as little activity as possible to reduce consumption.
Families that can eat eggs and braised pork every once in a while are the objects of everyone's envy. Children of such families have an easier time getting married, and comparisons are very common in life.
Children will also be in somewhat similar situations in school. For example, everyone has it, but if only a few or one classmate doesn't have it, those who don't have it will be somewhat ostracized.
Even teachers can't completely stop this kind of exclusive behavior among students, because teachers can't always follow their classmates, and classmates will say they have no common language with those classmates.
As teachers, they are very aware of the problems. Indeed, they can help their daughters not care too much about other people's opinions, but they also know that it feels bad to be excluded.
Therefore, the couple strives to keep their daughter’s consumption at basically the same level as other classmates. It cannot be higher because the family’s financial conditions are not up to it, and it cannot be lower.
He even gritted his teeth and gave his daughter some big expenses, so as not to let her be the worst among her classmates in terms of daily consumption, which attracted ridicule from some people.
As parents, they cannot be harsh on their daughters and try hard to let their daughters live a normal life in school in order to maintain their daughter's self-esteem.
The couple themselves live a very simple life. When everyone else is changing modes of transportation, they still ride bicycles in and out, or take buses, and try not to take taxis in order to save money.
I have always used the most popular ones when it comes to food and clothing. I have never pursued any famous brands, especially luxury brands from abroad. Not to mention daily use, I know psychologically that it is impossible.
Although I have never bought one, I still know that those big brands, whether they are clothing, bags, watches, jewelry, etc., are all super premium products that are simply unaffordable.
Of course, even if she could afford it, she would not buy it as a wife because she felt heartbroken when she looked at the prices. Those prices were too unacceptable to her and she would drink northwest wind after buying it.
Spending tens of thousands of yuan to buy a luxury bag? I really don’t dare. To put it bluntly, she was very surprised when she heard the price. Such an expensive thing? Just listen to it. If you buy it, you will be very distressed.
As a diligent and frugal housekeeper, she is very clear about her family's thoughts: even spending hundreds of yuan to buy a bag is too expensive, let alone the consumer price of tens of thousands, which is really unaffordable.
In addition to the expensive price, it is also because as a teacher she has to carry a big bag so that she can put down all kinds of materials. Even if she is given such a delicate and expensive big-name bag, she will not be able to use it.
Because the area inside is too small, it can't hold the things a teacher carries on her back. For her, the bag is mainly functional, not a decoration, let alone a show-off prop.
Of course, real users of big-name bags will say: This kind of bag is supposed to hold less things, at most it can hold some keys and mobile phones. How can it still fit a roll of papers?
?????In fact, there is nothing wrong with this statement. They belong to different consumer groups. They are two completely different types of people and have completely different ways of using bags.
As a result, they basically have nothing in common when buying bags. One wants the brand, the other wants practicality, and there is no comparison at all.
From their completely different standpoints, neither of them is wrong. Of course, they may dislike each other, or they may have their own ideas and don't care about what others think.
In short, they have to calculate and calculate every money they spend on themselves, trying to be both decent and cheap. If they can't have both, they can only be decent.
Two people worked in a middle school. Although there was no building, the school's salary was also increasing, so their colleagues began to switch to faster transportation methods, such as cars, but the couple never thought about buying one.
A car.
It’s not that I haven’t thought about buying a cheaper car, because having a car will be very convenient, and it will be easier when it’s windy or rainy. As a man, I like to drive more.
But before the two people wanted to buy it, they had to make some calculations: If they want to buy a car, they must first spend a sum of money as the purchase price. After they get the car, they will find that the price of the car keeps falling. The car is a fixed asset.
Depreciation is required every day.
Once you buy it, it doesn't mean it's done. You still have to spend money: gas, taxes, insurance, license plates, etc. When the two of you calculate it, it feels like it's too much.
In the eyes of his daughter, Grandet gave up the idea of buying a car when he saw how much money it would cost, so he decided to use a bicycle instead! It was completely green and environmentally friendly.
The original owner's grandfather and his wife saved money bit by bit like this, because although they bought a house, their daughter was still studying and getting married, so they had to save money bit by bit.
Therefore, most of the money they could use was their savings. It can be said that they used the whole family's efforts to send their daughter to study abroad. For this reason, the couple lived very simply.
When you have money, you don't spend all of it, but use part of it as savings. This is the idea of ordinary people to be prepared for danger in times of peace, and it is precisely because of this that they have money to support their daughters to study abroad.
You must know that many people studying abroad cannot come up with a sum of money, including their families, and many of them take loans to study. For this reason, they have to repay the loans for more than ten years after graduation.
It can be said that as parents, they worked really hard and gave their daughter everything they could. However, they never received her daughter's recognition or understanding, and they did not leave a message when she left.
After getting these information from the information, the original owner felt a little sorry for the grandfather and his wife. What the biological mother did not want was exactly what she, as a daughter, wanted to get. There is a saying to describe it: A is honey, B is arsenic.
At the same time, she had to admit that her biological mother was very lucky: she had a pair of parents who cared about her very much before marriage and were willing to spend money for her, and the husband she found was quite good. You must know that many women who immigrated through marriage encountered domestic violence.
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There are even some people who use their status just for fun and have no intention of getting married formally at all. Some people even regard marriage as a business, collecting money once they get married, and specializing in immigration business.
So the original owner had to think that his mother was lucky. Instead of meeting those kinds of people, she met her father. Even though her mother was very rebellious later on, she never thought of dumping her wife.
The original owner still remembers his biological father. He was actually a very witty person. He kept a very good figure because he always paid attention to exercise. This also made his biological mother fall in love with that man at first sight and follow him away.
Of course, if you look at it from the woman's perspective, her biological father is not always a very good husband. After all, he still wandered around after marriage, and the two of them became more of each other's companions later on.
If they had ever been in love, the love hormones between them had long since disappeared. It was more because of their two daughters that they had not separated.
The original owner didn't know what to say to the two old people when he thought of this, but Ling Xiao didn't say anything because it was the original owner's family matter, but Ling Xiao wanted to ask what the biological mother thought?
At first, her parents worked hard to make money and neglected her as a daughter in life, which caused her to become rebellious in high school and marry a foreigner after receiving higher education.
In other words, she always felt that her parents were incompetent as parents. So how did she become a mother when she became a mother? Did she do a good job?
Her attitude towards her two daughters is completely different and completely unequal. She even treats her eldest daughter like an enemy and is not as good as her parents. So she still has the nerve to blame her parents?
But because she was already dead, it was impossible to pursue her further. Even because of the original owner, Ling Xiao was unwilling to mention it. Some people just had too little kinship.
The two old men were a little surprised to see the original owner. Speaking of which, they had been retired for ten years and had not been class teachers for even longer. Therefore, most of the students who came to see them were middle-aged.
This person was obviously not middle-aged, and he couldn't be more than twenty years old. He was a bit too young, and he was really handsome. The smile on this child's face made them feel warm in their hearts.
As they are much older, they can feel each other's kindness. At this moment, they can't remember whether they have taught this child before, but for some reason they feel that this little girl is familiar.
What was going on? At this moment, they had another thought: Maybe they had taught too many students, and they couldn't remember it, but they still had some impressions, so they felt familiar? That's not right! They were at the wrong age.
Or is it possible that the children of the daughter's former friends were ordered to visit them? Because they have met her mother, so they feel a little familiar.
Hey! The two old men thought about this at the same time and felt a little depressed. It would be great if the child was kind-hearted. Kind-hearted people will not suddenly disappear, ah! It’s better not to think about it anymore. Without a daughter, the two old men supported each other.
Life.
As for Nannan? Both of them felt a little stuffy in their hearts and couldn't think about it anymore. Thinking about it too much was a kind of pain. They had no idea how she was doing after all these years.
Although they were somewhat neglectful of their daughters when they were parents, they definitely gave everything they could give, and they could not give more because they did not have the ability.