Today I received an unexpected **, which was called by Xiaoou, a classmate in junior high school. We started as classmates in our second year of junior high school, and her father, a Navy officer, came to us because of his work. Gull had gone to live with her parents in the island force, but unfortunately, her mother died of illness when she was eleven years old.
Faced with the dilemma of raising the little gull alone, the father considered various ways, but finally chose to return to his hometown and start over with the little gull. After returning to his hometown, he lived with his grandparents. The father later restarted the family and had a stepmother and a stepsister who was a year younger than the little one.
Xiaoou's growth environment has undergone a transformation from rural to military to urban, which is not easy for a young child. When she first arrived in our class, she seemed a little timid and did not dare to communicate with her classmates. I lived close to her, so my teacher asked me to care more about her, and we became good friends.
Although Xiaoou lags behind other students in her studies, her essays are at the top of her class and are often used as model essays by teachers. Her essays often involve family and affection, especially her relationship with her stepmother and stepsister, which has deeply touched many people.
The little gull is very beautiful, tall, fair-skinned, and delicate. She was always a standout at school.
When she was in the third year of junior high school, it was rumored that she had a close relationship with a young man in society, and even suspected that they were a couple. But I don't know anything about it. It is said that the teacher also reported the incident to her parents, but the parents denied it.
Although our interactions gradually decreased, I still maintained my care and blessings for the little gull.
After the high school entrance examination, she was not admitted to high school. I heard that she then moved to a farmer's house near the county seat and moved in with a young man. The man was an orphan and was brought up by his grandmother.
According to people familiar with the family, the man was often involved in fights and had poor character. Xiaoou is with him, perhaps blinded by his rhetoric, or it may be out of mutual resonance. Although Xiaoou's stepmother treats her well, she is not biological after all, and there is inevitably a gap between the two.
Xiaoou made such a choice, which must have caused displeasure among his parents, but they did not break them up in the end. Xiaoou gave birth to a son when he was just eighteen years old.
Life is already difficult, and after having children, he is in financial difficulties, and the man has not had a stable job. Not only did he not make any money, but he also had a short temper, often quarreled, and even beat people.
When their son was half a year old, Xiaoou's stepmother arranged for her to be placed in the county guest house through connections. At that time, there were no hotels in the county, and the guest houses only received people with status. It was there that the little gull ushered in a turning point in his life.
During the summer vacation of my junior year, I came across a gull on the street. She was so radiant! She was wearing a pale yellow cheongsam, her hair was combed high, and her face was lightly makeup, no longer having the childishness of her girlhood, but a little more mature charm.
We had a brief conversation, and then she hurried away, meeting the rest of her junior high school classmates. Later, a classmate said to me, "Did you see that? Her cheongsam is custom-made and imported from Shanghai! We're the only one here! ”
I could feel that my classmates were both envious and disapproving of her. They told me that the little gull is doing well now! Not long ago, she followed a rich and powerful man. Some say it's **, some say it's rich. We don't know exactly who it is. But when she wanted to break up with her previous boyfriend and ran into trouble, a ** solved the problem.
Xiaoou and the rural man lived together illegally, and later she worked, so she proposed to break up. The man not only disagreed, but also hid the child and went to the guest house several times to find trouble. The dispute lasted for more than two months and is said to have almost caused the gull to lose his job. But the mysterious person called ** to some people, and the matter was quickly resolved.
Later, I came to work in the South and lost contact with many of my classmates back home. It wasn't until we had WeChat and someone set up a WeChat group that we got back in touch.
That night, I was added as a friend by the little gull. She boasted to me about the shares she had gained from investing in iron ore in her hometown, with annual dividends of hundreds of thousands, or even nearly a million.
She has quit her job to buy a villa near Beijing's airport. Her son did not study well, so she arranged for him to join the army and serve in Beijing.
Xiaoou told me that she now has a stable income and no longer plans to start a family. She plans to wait for her son to retire, and if she can get a Beijing hukou, then everything will fall into place.
She says her current social circle is made up of wealthy women. Spending time with them every day exposed her to lifestyles and luxuries that were previously unimaginable in the county.
Listening to her relaxed narration, I couldn't help but feel a little lonely in my heart.
I began to wonder if I should envy her or despise her. I spent more than ten years studying hard, but I couldn't live a luxurious life as easily as she did. Is this the so-called "study is not as good as marriage"? But she didn't marry into a wealthy family! Perhaps, it was her appearance that helped her turn her fortune around?
Since then, our communication has become less and less. I'm busy with work and taking care of my kids. And she is immersed in social life with her rich friends.
Today, I received her **, and when I saw the unfamiliar number, I hesitated for a while, but I still took it.
She told me some more shocking news – she had a daughter, who is now nine years old. The girl's father was her boyfriend in Beijing, and although she had planned to leave her daughter's hukou in Beijing, it was ultimately unsuccessful.
Her boyfriend is handsome but lacks ability, and in the few years he has been dating her, he has cheated her out of a lot of money.
After the breakup, she found out that she was pregnant and wanted to have an abortion. But due to her son's insistence, she finally decided to keep the child because he wanted to have a younger sister as a companion.
Her purpose was for me to help introduce a Hong Kong man to move her daughter's hukou to Hong Kong under the guise of a fake marriage and then get a divorce. I was taken aback by such a request, and I didn't know how to help her.
She told me that she had asked her friends in her circle for help, and they all suggested that she find a foreigner. Moreover, there are also such examples in her social circle, finding a foreigner to have a child, and then breaking up.
But she didn't want to find a foreigner, and she didn't want to leave her son. Her son is about to get married, and he has a Beijing hukou, so the children will be able to settle in Beijing in the future. Her only worry now is her daughter's hukou problem, her daughter has no problem in junior high school in Beijing, but not in high school.
She hopes to find a solution so that her daughter's hukou can be properly arranged.
After hanging up**, I kept thinking about the story of the little gull. Before writing this article, I had doubts about whether she could be considered successful in life. However, in any case, judging from some people's values of "laughing at poverty and not prostitution", she may be the most comfortable person among our junior high school classmates.
However, deep down, I still feel disdain for such people. Although I have to admit that they may be living a more free and easy life.