My child, I try my best to let you study, just to make you live a better life than me.

There is a street fruit stall in the center of the town. The couple has been selling fruit in the open air for decades. Occasionally they do not sell fruit when it rains or snows. The wife keeps the stall normally, and the husband helps to purchase goods and makes paper supplies for rural sacrifices at home. Spring and autumn are better, but in summer the sun is scorching and there is nowhere to hide. The cold wind howls in winter, making my face and hands chapped. The couple put on military coats, masks, hats, and scarves early. Although both of them were dressed like penguins and shivering from the cold, they still stood by the stall waiting for the odd customer. Because this is the main source of livelihood for the family. I watched their son grow up. He is white, clean, well-educated, and very good. First, I was admitted to the city\’s No. 1 High School, then to Suzhou University, and then continued to graduate school. After graduation, I was admitted to the Suzhou civil service. I am currently preparing to get married. My daughter-in-law is in a hospital in Suzhou. The couple spent their life savings to buy a house for their son in Suzhou for 2.3 million yuan, with a down payment of 750,000 yuan. The two-story Western-style building in my hometown in the countryside also spent more than 200,000 yuan to renovate. When chatting with the stall owner, her eyes narrowed with a smile, which was bitter yet sweet. I joked with her that she should stop working so hard in the wind and rain. Half a hundred people should pay attention to rest and learn to enjoy it properly. She smiled and replied cheerfully: \”I will endure hardship for another five years. When my son gets married and the debts are paid off, I will stop working.\” In fact, we all know that her five years are far away, and maybe she can really stop working. Even though she is working at a stall, she will definitely not be able to take any time off. She will definitely continue to help her son take care of her grandson and help with the housework. Because of the nature of rural people and the nature of most parents, unless they really have to, as long as their health allows, they will never wait for their children to provide for them in old age. At the end of the chat, she let out a long sigh: \”Teacher Erya, do you know, I have been selling fruit at a stall since I was 17 years old when I graduated from junior high school. I have been busy for most of my life, and this time I spent all my money! But , I am busy and happy!” Yes, I am busy and happy, because my son is motivated and the busier he is, the more energetic he becomes. Even though the body is tired, the mind is not tired. Because the days are getting brighter and brighter, and a better future is just around the corner. A friend, who is nearly fifty years old, first worked as a mason, and then accumulated experience and became a contractor. After contracting several projects of varying sizes, he made his first pot of gold in life. Whether you are a bricklayer or a contractor, you are exposed to the sun and dew all day long and sleep in the open air. Then he changed his career and invested in a small processing plant. Business is booming. But even on his busiest days when shipping and checking out, he would go to the city every night no matter how late he was to be with his son, who was in high school. Never skimp on investment in education. She is very hands-on with her son\’s daily education, and often exchanges educational experiences with us. She is not only considerate, but also attentive and patient in accompanying her son. Be lenient and strict at the same time, pampering but not doting. Because of the careful companionship and correct guidance of his parents, the child\’s academic performance has always been among the best, and he was finally admitted to Xiamen University. At the banquet for his son\’s college entrance examination, the father, who graduated from elementary school but is now the owner of a factory with about 200 people, cried with joy. In front of a group of relatives and friends, he said what he had wanted to say to his son for many years under the influence of wine: \”Son, I I have tried my best to cultivate you just to make you and meThe purpose of living a different life is to let you live a better life than me and not be as mechanical and low-level as me. Although I have come step by step from a mason to the present, I am not necessarily short of money, but you don’t know how much care I have to take in order to negotiate a business; how many nights I have to stay up day and night in order to rush a batch of goods; in order to win over customers, I have to be careful to accompany many smiling faces. Son, after you graduate from college and engage in a career of your own, you will at least have more dignity, leisure and freedom than me; at least you will live a more stable life than me; and your life will be easier than mine. \”Every happy event is worth a thousand cups. I got really drunk while drinking. Finally, I recounted the hardships and difficulties of starting a business along the way, the grievances and cold looks I suffered, and the persistence and suffering for so many years. Yes, Parents all over the world try their best to cultivate their children. Who doesn’t expect their children to have an easier, more refined, and easier life than themselves? Parents are farmers, and they hope that their children will leave the countryside and escape the days when their grandparents and fathers faced the loess and turned their backs to the sky. ; Those whose parents live in third- and fourth-tier cities expect their children to develop in broader metropolitan areas; those whose parents live in domestic metropolitan areas, if economic conditions permit, expect their children to go abroad, broaden their horizons, and accept more advanced international concepts and education. As people go to higher places, water flows to lower places. There is nothing wrong with that. Parents may be confined to a small place and live an unchanging life throughout their lives, but we hope that our children can change and be more capable of choosing what they want. Life is really not about parents comparing themselves to each other, nor is it really about parents using your success as a talking point to show off. The simplest wish of parents is: as long as you live a better life than me. All parents work hard throughout their lives to send their children away From now on, they will actually continue to live their original lives in the same place. Those who do small business will continue to do small business, and those who do bricklayers will continue to do bricklayers, because they have become accustomed to this way of life. The connections and life circles they have accumulated over the years, they Too stubborn to change. What\’s more, as long as their bodies allow, they will not follow their children and wait for their children to provide for them in old age. For the vast majority of Chinese parents, there is really not much expectation for their children to feed them back. If their children are successful and prosperous, The children live the life they can and want in their own city, while the parents will eventually die following their lifelong lifestyle. Their only hope is that their children will be healthy, safe, happy, self-reliant, contented, and have a career. Successful. Looking at it from another perspective, most parents who live a relatively free, relaxed and unfettered life in their old age do so because their children are promising, career-promoting, and their lives are stable. As Long Yingtai said: \”Child, I I ask you to study hard not because I want you to compare your grades with others. But because I hope you will have the right to choose in the future and choose work that is meaningful and has time, rather than being forced to make a living. When your work is meaningful in your heart, you will have a sense of accomplishment; when your work gives you time and does not deprive you of your life, you will have dignity. A sense of accomplishment and dignity, giving you happiness! \”I hope all the children in the world can understand. Parents are the most eager people of all people to hope that you live a better life than they do!