After discussing the plan, He Miaomiao stood up and left.
Xue Ling saw her off personally and kept chatting outside the garage.
He Miaomiao suddenly remembered something and asked: "Mr. Xue, why haven't you seen Xue Heng recently?
Did he quit like you?"
"No."
Xue Ling smiled slightly and explained: "He has some personal matters to deal with at home recently. Most of the matters are handled by his subordinates and he doesn't go to the branch very often."
He Miaomiao suddenly nodded and smiled: "No wonder... He was not there the last two times I went to the branch to handle tax returns."
"My uncle and aunt are old and not in good health."
Xue Ling sighed and whispered: "He is a filial son. He doesn't want to leave all the responsibilities to the caregivers, so he insists on staying at home to help take care of the elderly."
He Miaomiao smiled helplessly: "At our age, there are old people on top and young people on the bottom. They are all burdens that we cannot get rid of.
My mother got Alzheimer's disease last year, and I'm far away in the imperial capital. I can't do anything except send them money every now and then."
Xue Ling's eyes moved slightly and said: "As a child, you should do your best."
"I don't want to contribute."
He Miaomiao gave an obscure smile and explained: "My office here has a lot of things going on every day, and I really can't get away from it.
I told them that I can contribute money, but I will not contribute.
I have lost contact with my parents back home for many years.
My brother and sister-in-law come to me from time to time, and each time they ask me to borrow money.
Apart from money, I don’t seem to have anything to do with my hometown.”
Xue Ling was slightly surprised and asked in a low voice: "Why is this happening?
I never heard you say that."
"Don't dare to expose your family's ugliness."
He Miaomiao smiled bitterly: "My hometown is in the countryside, I am the second oldest child in the family, and I have a younger sister.
My parents, who favor boys over girls, only wanted to support my brother in studying. Who knew that my brother was a poor student and couldn't learn no matter how hard he studied?
I got good grades in school, but my parents didn't want me to study more, so they asked me to go work in the city to make money after I graduated from junior high school.
I insisted on going to high school, but my parents refused to pay my tuition and forced me to drop out.
I could only work in a factory during the winter and summer vacations, working overtime day and night to earn myself tuition and living expenses.
My parents were very angry, but they couldn't do anything about me. They scolded me and drove me away.
Later, I successfully entered college. I thought my parents would be happy and proud of me... but they only gave me a scolding!"
At this point, she sighed: "They say, what can a girl do by reading so many books? In the future, she will still have to marry someone from her husband's family.
They asked me not to go to college and wanted me to work in the city to help make money to build a house for my family.
My brother doesn't make much money from his part-time job. They both work at home and farm. I don't know how long it will take to save money to build a house.
My sister's academic performance was poor and she didn't go to junior high school, so she went to work as an assembly line worker in a shoe factory in the city.
I refused and insisted on going to college, so my parents threatened me not to go back after I left home."
"I was so angry that I took the admission notice, packed a few clothes and left the house.
When I walked to the entrance of the village, my sister chased me out. She cried and gave me a few hundred yuan, saying she had secretly saved it.
My sister and I held our heads and cried. After crying, I took a bus to the city where the university is located in advance and worked as a worker in a fast food restaurant and as a cleaner in a shopping mall. I could only sleep three hours a day and had to run around and work the rest of the time.
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"The registration day finally came, and I advanced half a month's salary with the owner of the fast food restaurant, and finally got enough money to pay the tuition.
I completed my college work-study program. I never went home during the winter and summer vacations. I kept applying to live on campus. I worked outside during the day and returned to the campus dormitory to live at night.
My family never looked for me, and my parents even told relatives and friends that I had died outside.
Except for the occasional phone call from my sister, I almost lost contact with my family."
"Later I graduated and worked hard to make money, almost desperately trying to exchange money.
I work hard enough, so I can stand out among my peers and quickly make a name for myself.
Not long after, I received a call from my sister, saying that she was married, arranged by her parents, to a wealthy family in the next village.
She cried and told me that her husband's family was not good to her and she was having a hard time.
I encouraged her to divorce and asked her to come to the city to find me.
Unfortunately, my parents found out and scolded her severely and told her to sever ties with me."
"I couldn't wait for my sister's call, so I hurried to see her and found that she was pregnant and her husband's family refused to let her go.
My identity as a lawyer frightened the whole family. Her husband promised me that he would treat her well and change his mind in the future.
My sister was so grateful to me that she held my hand and said she would take me home.
At that moment, the word home was so unfamiliar to me... I left the tens of thousands of dollars I had saved to my sister, and then hurried back to the city by car."
Xue Ling heard her eyes turn red and murmured: "I must be very tired walking all the way alone."
"Very tired."
He Miaomiao smiled bitterly: "But I have no choice, I can only hold on, because there is nothing behind me, only me.
In those few years, I worked hard and took any job that could make money.
Later, people in the circle called me the ‘Desperate Sanniang’.
My parents didn't know where to find out and heard that I had made a lot of money, so they asked my sister to come to me and ask for money, and told me that I must spend a sum of money to help our family build a new house.
They also said that they gave birth to and raised me until I was a teenager, and this kindness must be returned to them... I withdrew 300,000 yuan to them in one breath with tears in my eyes, and completely severed ties with them."
"Later I heard from my sister that they used my money to build a three-story building.
My brother married his wife the next year and lived a fairly stable life.
My parents never mentioned me, only that I died outside.
In the past few years, they had been sick from time to time. Every time he got sick, my brother would ask my sister to contact me and ask me to help pay for the medical expenses.
My sister-in-law heard that I was doing well in the imperial capital, and asked me to buy a car for my brother, and also asked me to send money home to support my parents.
I refused, saying that 300,000 yuan had repaid the debt of giving birth to me and had nothing to do with my family anymore."
“My ex-husband and I had different views, and we finally broke up and divorced peacefully. At first, we shared the custody of our children.
During those days, I worked hard to numb myself, and at the same time I had to take care of my children. I was tired both mentally and physically, and almost fell down due to depression.
But for the sake of my children, I gritted my teeth and crawled out step by step.
My business is getting bigger and bigger, and I am making more and more money.
Later, I heard from my sister that my old father was ill in bed and could no longer work.
After all, he was the father who gave me life. I couldn't bear it, so I secretly sent a sum of money to my sister to take him to see a doctor.
Unexpectedly, his illness was too serious and there was no way to treat him, so he died soon."
"My mother was hit hard and has been in a daze. She often has to spend money to see a doctor.
My brother and sister-in-law call from time to time to borrow money. I try my best to satisfy them and give them as much as they want.
I am a mother, and I know how hard it is to carry a child for ten months, and how difficult it is to raise a child into adulthood.
No matter how bad the relationship is, she is my biological mother after all, the person who gave birth to me and raised me for more than ten years.
I can't support her in her old age, I can't contribute, I can only insist on providing money."