Chen Ziang is in her thirties this year. She is fair-skinned and beautiful. For a person in her thirties, her skin is as smooth as a bullet. She has no spots on her face. She occasionally has laugh lines at the corners of her eyes and two small dimples when she smiles. She is standing in Zhongguancun

In front of a building, looking out at the brightly lit familiar yet unfamiliar street.

Seventeen years ago, when she was twenty-two years old, in her prime and invincible with youth, she went north alone, hoping to become a Beipiao tribe, but the reality was cruel.

She was good at nothing. She stayed in the capital for less than a month. She lost all her savings and couldn't find a job. In the end, she didn't even have money for a hotel. Standing on an unfamiliar street, Chen Ziang burst into tears.

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She was unwilling to give in. She wanted to have good looks, but she had no knowledge. After graduating from high school, it was extremely difficult for her to find a job in the capital, even as a hotel waiter.

It's not that she doesn't want to go to school, it's that her family conditions don't allow her to go to school.

The past flashes before my eyes like a movie, how is that beautiful woman doing now?

What happened to the person who once changed her life on the streets of Beijing?

Chen Ziang was born in a small mountain village with endless mountains as far as the eye can see. When she was young, she often looked at the floating clouds and imagined the outside world.

She hopes to go out one day, but she doesn't want to get married and have children like the girls in her hometown.

Girls in rural areas get married very early. Chen Ziang has eight brothers and sisters in his family, and she is the youngest.

Parents only think about having more children, the more children the better, but they don’t think about how hard it is to raise children.

My parents didn't read many books. My father could only recognize the names of the Zhang family, and my mother didn't even know her own name. They also suffered from not studying, so they must let their children study.

Working at sunrise and resting at sunset, my father and mother were bent over from exhaustion, supporting their eight sisters in school. The eldest sister graduated from the Teachers College and taught in an elementary school.

The second brother studied archeology and traveled around all day, often missing people. Later he married a girl from the provincial capital, so the second brother settled in the provincial capital, breaking away from his rural household registration and becoming a city dweller.

The third sister passed the police academy and is now working as a police officer and a coach in the county town! Later she has been living in Quancheng, getting married and having children, and her husband is also a civil servant, with average conditions.

The fourth sister studied accounting and worked in an accounting firm. After hard work, she became the financial director of an organization, and she even holds great economic power!

The fifth sister is beautiful, but when she was young, she neglected her job. She fell in love secretly when she was in school and eloped with a man. Later, after hard work, the fifth sister is now the boss of a supermarket chain!

Brother Six went out to work, and his whereabouts were unknown until many years later, when they recognized each other. However, things have changed and Brother Six has changed a lot!

The sixth brother's job is similar to that of the third sister, but one is overt and the other is covert!

Chen Ziang is often proud of having a third sister and a sixth brother!

The seventh brother didn't like to go to school, so his father raised money to let the seventh brother learn to drive, and he finally found a skill to make a living. Now, together with Chen Zi'ang, the business is getting bigger and bigger.

When Chen Ziang was a boy, his brothers and sisters had already been settled. Although Chen Ziang was excellent in both morals and academics, his father and mother were old and unable to support her tuition. Besides, the seventh brother married the seventh sister-in-law and spent a lot of money on the family.

The family basically had no savings, and the family situation changed after the seventh sister-in-law came back.

The seventh sister-in-law was the baby bride arranged by the father for the seventh brother. Originally, the seventh brother was not interested in the seventh sister-in-law. The seventh sister-in-law did not read many books and graduated from elementary school. Not long after they married, the seventh brother went out to work, leaving the seventh sister-in-law alone to guard the empty room. The seventh sister-in-law had a bad temper.

No, I often lose face.

Mom and dad coaxed her carefully, and finally Sister-in-law Seven told her the truth at home, which made Chen Ziang miserable. Originally, Chen Ziang was the youngest baby bump in the family, but now he has become someone he doesn't want to see.

Because tuition is also a big expense. My parents are older and it is not easy to make money. Occasionally, Brother Qi will send some money back. The elders all have their own families and their lives are also very different. Whenever Chen Ziang needs tuition,

The seventh sister-in-law was not very happy.

His parents were getting older year by year. When Chen Ziang went to high school, they could no longer afford Chen Ziang's tuition. With the arrival of their little nephew, the family's life became even more difficult.

A few days before Chen Ziang left for school, Sister-in-law Qi would say: "Why do girls study so many books? Aren't they going to have to get married and have children by then?"

Neither father nor mother said anything.

"Mom and Dad, I said it would be good for Zi'ang to go to junior high school. The conditions are not good now. Why don't you go home and help me?"

"She is already in high school now. At least let her finish high school, right?" Mom couldn't help but say in the end.

"Then I don't have much money now, and my family still has to live."

"Don't say anything anymore. I'll take Ziang to get a loan."

My mother took Chen Ziang to a credit union for a loan. After two days of traveling, she got a loan of 200 yuan.

The tuition is 60 yuan, and you also have to pay for food, which is 30 yuan per semester. You also have to bring your own firewood. It is too far away from home and there is no firewood. So I can only spend 10 yuan to buy wood from a nearby farmer's house.

The remaining money Zi Ang has to pay for the next semester's tuition and one year's living expenses.

Chen Ziang held the two-, five-, and ten-dollar bills she had received from the loan and looked at the end of the mountain. The world there must be wonderful. She must go out and see it. She must be admitted to university, even if she studies with a loan!

Chen Ziang went to a key high school in the city as she wished. She thought life in high school was wonderful!

However, due to family conditions, she often had one meal but not the next.

At that time, what we ate was thin corn mush. Better-off families would have steamed buns as dry food, and medium-sized families would have corn buns, along with sauerkraut or pickled vegetables.

Each meal requires 2 taels of meal stamps, and the 2 taels of meal stamps are a porcelain bowl filled with slurry.

The third sister is in the city, her family conditions are not very good, and her salary is only a dozen yuan.

Living with his mother-in-law, Chen Ziang went to school in the city. Sometimes when Chen Ziang went to his third sister's house, the third sister would secretly give him some food or pocket money.

In this way, Zi'ang often had one meal but no one. Today he would eat at this classmate's house and he would go to another classmate's house tomorrow. In this way, Zi'ang attended the first year of high school and didn't even pay tuition for the first half of the second year of high school.

The annual loan payment has not been paid yet.

Chen Ziang simply didn't go home during the summer vacation. He worked in the city and earned 40 yuan. He paid part of the tuition, but he still lacked living expenses. Ziang could no longer stay in school, so he went to a house rented by a classmate Xia Yan.

Xia Yan squeezed into a bed, and the accommodation environment outside was very loose and not as strict as the school. Zi Ang often sat with Xia Yan by the river outside the city for half the night.

What does Chen Ziang have to eat today? Things that fly in the sky, things that swim in the water, and things that run on the ground.

Thinking of the past, Chen Ziang was very grateful for the current society. Without good policies, how could she, a rural girl, stand on the top of a building in Zhongguancun?

And she missed the person who had helped her more and more.
Chapter completed!