Mengyu continued: "Even the girl from the landlord's family has to be fed, but I often go hungry in the Jiang family, and they can always find excuses not to let me eat.
Zhang Shuiyu, a classmate from Class 38, often gave me food when she saw me starving. Aunt Zhang, a five-guarantee household in the village, also gave me some food from time to time. Despite this, I still often went hungry. At that time, I often
Starved to the point of becoming sallow and skinny.
Everything I said is true, you can investigate
Therefore, it is not entirely correct to say that Jiang Huaiyu’s parents raised me. If I were a daughter of the Jiang family, then I should not be treated like this. If I were a girl, I should be paid for my work, but in fact, I
There is no treatment like a daughter, not even the treatment of a girl. I started working in the Jiang family when I was five years old and have been working for eleven years now, but I have never received a penny in wages."
Everyone has begun to hate Jiang's parents.
"Thirdly, classmate Cai Yingdi said that Jiang Huaiyu's parents provided for me to study, which is not true.
My classmate Jiang Huaiyu started studying at the age of seven, but when I was ten years old, I was still not allowed to study. I found the captain of the production team. In order not to create new illiterates and affect the reputation of the village, the captain made the decision and allowed me to go to school. However,
"
When Mengyu said this, she looked at the classmates: "Which of you has studied with your own money since childhood?"
All the students looked at me and I looked at you, but no one dared to admit that I earned money by myself.
Mengyu said: "You have lived with your biological parents since childhood, and you don't know how hard it is for me not to live with my parents.
Yes, Jiang Huaiyu’s parents agreed to my study, but they put forward a condition that the housework at home must continue to be done well, and they are not responsible for the tuition and miscellaneous expenses of studying!”
“I picked up nylon and sold it for 30 cents a pound, I picked up scrap iron and sold it for 3 cents a pound, and I also collected herbs and sold them.
Every autumn, I go to pick those kind of sugar jars and sell them to the buying station. I can get ten cents per catty. My hands and feet are bleeding from the thorns of the sugar jars. But I am always very happy, because
, if I pick twenty or thirty kilograms, I can earn two or three yuan.
I had to earn money by collecting rags to support my education, and I had to do all the housework I had to do. Therefore, I got up before dawn every day, went to beg for vegetables, and picked up rags by the way.
I ran back to cook before half past o'clock, and then went to school after eating.
I didn't go home to eat at noon, because noon is the best time for me to pick up rags.
When I get home from school in the afternoon, I have to pick up a bamboo rake to rake pine leaves to use as firewood. I rely on the pine leaves I rake for cooking at home. When I rake the pine leaves, I pick up some rags.
I would go home after dark and cook dinner for the whole family. If I came back late and my brothers and sisters were hungry, I would be beaten and scolded, and even not allowed to eat.
I could barely support myself by relying on the rags I picked up by begging for pig vegetables in the morning, raking pine needles after school, and picking up rags during my noon break.
In order to pay less tuition, I had no choice but to study hard and skip grades. So, I started studying at the age of ten and reached the second year of high school at the age of sixteen."
None of the classmates thought that Jiang Mengyu's life would end like this. In comparison, they were really happy.
Cai Yingdi couldn't believe it: "Is what you said true? Why do I feel like I am listening to the story of a little girl from a landlord's family in the old society?"
Mengyu glanced at Cai Yingdi coldly: "These things can be found out with a little investigation in our village. All the classmates in our village know this. I don't have to lie.
Therefore, classmate Cai Yingdi, I don’t admit that Jiang Huaiyu’s parents provided for me to go to high school.”