As the saying goes, wealth is not exposed, which means that it is good to know that you have money, and don't show off your wealth, because no matter what era, showing off your wealth will bring you a lot of unnecessary trouble.
65-year-old Uncle Jiang has been retired for several years, and his monthly pension has risen to 10,000 yuan. Before leaving, his daughter also told him not to tell everyone about his real pension, and if others asked, they said that the pension was only 3,000 yuan.
My name is Jiang Libin, 65 years old this year, my hometown is Hunan, when I was a child, my family was poor, my family has more brothers and sisters, I am the second in the family, and our family's income depends on the crops planted by my parents to survive.
Since I was a child, because I was fed up with the poverty of my family, I knew that if I wanted to get rid of this kind of hard life, I had to go to school hard, so I secretly vowed in my heart since I was a child that I must study hard and be admitted to a good university in the future and get ahead.
Originally, the family conditions were not good, there were many brothers and sisters, and my parents could not afford to send our children to school, so they only left the opportunity to go to high school for me and my younger brother, and my two older sisters and older brother dropped out of school after only going to junior high school.
Of course, I did not live up to my parents' expectations of me, after graduating from high school, I was admitted to a prestigious university, becoming a role model in the eyes of the parents of the whole village, and later after graduating from university, I was admitted to the civil service.
Not only that, I worked in the field, but also married a wife from other places, and after getting married and having children, I took my parents to the city to enjoy happiness, my parents have never been out of the countryside in their lives, and the first time they took them to the city, they were happy like children, and they felt very fresh when they saw everything.
Although my parents lived in the city with me for a few years, my parents still went back to their hometown in the countryside, because they felt that it was more comfortable to live in the countryside when they were old, and it was too noisy to live in the city for the elderly.
After my parents went back, I would go back to my hometown every year to visit them, and I would go back to live for a while during the Chinese New Year, but after my parents passed away, I went back less often.
My wife and I have been married for many years and have only given birth to one daughter, and our relationship is very good, and I don't look at her because my wife only gave me one daughter.
Our daughter is also very sensible and married closer, so she comes back once a week.
I always thought that I would live with my wife in the city until I grew old, but when I was 63 years old, my wife fell ill and died, leaving me to live alone.
After my wife left, my life alone was very difficult, but fortunately, my daughter moved here for half a year and enlightened me every day, so that I could slowly get out of those sad days and start a new life again.
But since my daughter moved away, I was very bored every day, and it was not interesting to eat alone, my daughter saw me like this and wanted me to find a new wife, but I refused, I said; I don't look for it when I'm old, and I'm lazy to run in my feelings, not to mention that in my opinion, the elderly can't live together for a long time, and most of them are separated for a long time, so I don't want to go to that troubled water.
In the past two years, in addition to watching TV every day, I watched those young aunts dancing in the square, although it was more boring, but it was better than watching TV every day at home! At least it doesn't hurt your eyes.
I don't know if it's because of the loss of my wife, or because I'm getting older, I miss my childhood more and more, and I often think of those things in the countryside when I was a child when I was alone in a daze.
In this way, I had a plan in my heart, I decided to go back to my hometown in the countryside to live, I think living in the countryside will not be as boring as living now! I still have some soil in my hometown, and I can also grow some vegetables to pass the time.
I told my daughter about the idea of going back to my hometown, and my daughter was very opposed, and she didn't worry about me alone, but I felt very bored living alone in this huge city, and my daughter said, don't you still have me?
I said yes, but my son-in-law is also an only child, and every time I go to your house for dinner with my mother's father-in-law, I always feel very awkward when I go to your house for Chinese New Year.
Later, I told my daughter how lonely I had been in the past two years, and my daughter agreed to let me go back to my hometown.
The old house of the family has not been lived in for a long time, so I asked my eldest brother to ask someone to renovate the house for me in advance, because the house is relatively narrow, and the renovation cost about 20,000 yuan, I want to wait until I get home to replace the old cabinets and tables that can't be used.
And this house in the city, I gave it to my daughter, saying that if someone rents it, they can rent it, and it doesn't matter if they can't rent it out and it's empty.
On the first day I went back, my daughter bought me something to eat in the car, and she also told me one more thing, my daughter said; Dad, has your current pension risen to 10,000 yuan a month, I said yes.
My daughter said, don't say that you have a pension of 10,000 a month after you go back to your hometown, no one can say it, if others ask, say 3,000 yuan a month, just enough for your own expenses for a month.
I asked my daughter; Why! My daughter didn't explain, just let me be obedient and do it, and you will naturally understand when you go home for a while.
Since my daughter didn't say it, I didn't need to break the casserole and ask to the end, but I also obeyed my daughter's words.
Sure enough, as soon as I got home, I replaced the old furniture and broken electrical appliances in my house, and the old people in the village who were about the same age as me came to my house to catch up with me.
Seeing that I changed so many electrical appliances at one time, the most asked questions they asked were whether I had a pension and how much was the pension per month? Especially my neighbor, Aunt Li, asked as soon as she came up, **I heard that you are a retired civil servant, and your pension should be very high!
I say; How can there be, although I am a retired civil servant, but the level is low, so the pension is not high, Aunt Li has been chasing me and asking, I remembered what my daughter said, and then told Aunt Li that my pension is 3000 yuan a month, and I will cover my own expenses for a month, which is not the money for replacing household appliances and furniture or my daughter gave me.
When Aunt Li and a few other old people heard that my pension was only so much, they instantly showed a different smile on their faces.
Then they comforted me and said that 3,000 a month's pension was enough for me to spend.
In fact, when I first came home, I didn't understand why my daughter explained why I couldn't expose my wealth, until one day a month later, I went to the town to collect daily necessities, and met my classmate, his family and I lived not far away, he was from the village next door to us, and we often went home together after school when we were children.
My old classmates told me that I had time to play with him, and he now lives in the town, and I remember hearing that he was in the countryside a few years ago, so why did he come to live in the town again.
The old classmate sighed and said, hey, don't mention it, you and I were role models in the village, out of college, just because I was good when I was young, and now the pension is more than 8,000 pensions per month, since I returned to the countryside, everyone knows that my pension is high, either this person today asks me to borrow money, or tomorrow that person asks me to borrow money, the threshold of our family is about to be broken, and they borrow money to borrow a hundred, a thousand yuan, the kind that does not pay an IOU, when they borrow money, they say that they will pay it back next month, But when I asked them, they kept delaying, and they haven't paid it back to me until now, and I have lived in my hometown for three years, and I have lent out 50,000 yuan before and after You say that I am old, if they refuse to pay back this money, isn't it equivalent to a waste?
I asked the old classmates, so you came here to retire to avoid them, and the old classmates said, isn't it!
My old classmates also told me, don't let everyone know that you have a high pension, and don't borrow money easily, otherwise, once there will be a second time, if you don't borrow, others will say that you are stingy, and in the end it will be your fault.
After listening to the words of my old classmates, I instantly understood, it turned out that my daughter told me not to let me say that the real pension was to protect myself, and it also saved me a lot of trouble.