My roommate is from rural Nanyang, Henan. He is still a student, but he supports the whole family. Experience Museum December 05, 2019 Sometimes he says he has something to do and won’t go to the cafeteria with us, but we find that he pays for himself

Peanuts cost 60 cents, and the inferior rice cost 15 cents. I ate alone while chewing slowly, looking very lonely.

One of my roommates is from rural Nanyang, Henan Province. He is the fourth of six children in his family, with three brothers and two sisters.

When he entered the school in 2002, his roommate only brought 1,000 yuan, and the tuition was 4,140 yuan, which he had no money to pay.

Upon admission, there were two national scholarship places in the class. The first prize of 12,000 yuan was given to a girl, and the second prize of 8,000 yuan was given to him.

Relying on this 8,000 yuan to start, the roommate maintained his life in college for four years.

I wake up in the morning and memorize vocabulary words, and go to self-study in the evening. I listen carefully to every class, and do my homework and notes very seriously.

He also worked two part-time jobs, a work-study program, sweeping garbage on campus every noon and afternoon, earning a monthly salary of 150 yuan, and working as a student assistant in the courtyard, earning a monthly salary of 200 yuan.

In addition, he works as a tutor outside five days a week and has an excellent reputation.

In the end, he graduated as an outstanding graduate, received many scholarships, and earned a lot of money. He gave all the money to his family and paid off his student loans.

He also helped his family build a new house, provided bride price for his two brothers, helped them find wives, and helped one sister save enough for college tuition.

Behind all this is his hard work.

When we go to eat after class, he has to clean up the trash first and do work-study work.

Sometimes he says he has something to do and doesn't go to the cafeteria with us, but we find him buying a portion of peanuts costing 60 cents and the inferior rice costing 15 cents each, and eating slowly by himself.

It looks lonely.

After my roommate finished tutoring, he returned to the dormitory very late. He was afraid that it would affect our rest, so he used the quilt to cover the light while studying.

In his sophomore year, he consciously learned things he would use after working such as PPT, in order to increase his internship opportunities and help him find a job.

If I couldn't afford to order a newspaper, I would collect the China Daily that others had read, look up the words and excerpt them word for word.

As a tutor, he gets along very well with his students' parents. When the students' parents buy him new clothes, he sends them home. His face is always full of joy when he comes out of the post office.

In that impoverished village, where each person had only four quarters of land, he was the hope of his family of eight.

He is still a student, but he supports the whole family.

After graduation, he found a job and first bought a small house in Kunshan, then moved to Jiading, and later to the city.

While doing my formal job, I am also working as a part-time tutor.

While everyone was complaining about housing prices, he quietly made money, starting with a small house in the suburbs, and gradually gave his girlfriend a home of her own in Shanghai.

A few years ago, he had settled in Shanghai according to the points policy.

At the tenth anniversary party of graduation the year before last, there were many girls in our class, and I allowed them to bring their children and their families.

We all drank too much, but he was the only one, with a child on his shoulders and two children in his arms, helping his classmates watch the children all night.

The other students were drinking, and he was preventing the children from getting into danger by crawling around, drilling around, and running around.

He's a great guy.

Born in a rural area, he used his down-to-earth and progressive attitude to change his own destiny and provided firm protection to his family.

I also want to give thumbs up to my other roommates, especially the one in Shanghai.

His family is very rich, but in order to take care of the psychological feelings of this roommate from Henan, we all ate a set meal of 1.6 yuan for four years in college, ate hot dry noodles for 1 yuan, vegetarian noodles for 60 cents, and saved up money to eat at Fallen Street once a week.

At the night market, you can eat a self-service hot pot for 16 yuan once a month.

We were so hungry that we "supported the wall to get in" and were so strong that we "supported the wall to get out". We shouted slogans to dig out the hard ice cream in the store and laughed heartily.

Everyone is happy, even poor people are really happy.

During those years more than ten years ago, there were no class barriers, no comparisons, no jealousy or discrimination between the roommates in our dormitory who had millions of dollars and the roommates who were penniless. What we had was a truly pure and simple relationship between classmates.

Thanks also to my school.

Our school has never blindly expanded enrollment. When I entered school, I saw many poor students. I actually saw some carrying a sack of change, five or ten yuan to pay tuition. A sack of money plus one yuan was not enough.