Many times he told her to quit her job to take care of her family, but she didn’t listen. She also does not require a luxury car or a good bag to show off to her colleagues. When she needed to go out with him, she never appeared gorgeous.
Every day, she still rides a motorbike she bought for nearly a decade, wearing simple clothes to school. She also tries to teach overtime to increase her income. Many people say that she is “happy not knowing the way”.
Then just last year, the company of Mr. Tuan and his group of close friends went bankrupt. I heard that a friend in the group lost tens of billions of billions of dollars in gambling, then fraudulently took all of the brothers’ capital and bought a ghost project.
| When falling into failure and losing all their assets, many wives turn away from their husbands (illustration) |
The day he came home in a drunken stupor, Lan was waiting for him at the door with a strange calm, as if nothing had happened. The car and the big house were confiscated by the bank. But thanks to her still regularly taking care of cleaning for the old house on the first piece of land that they established, just a few days later, they were able to move in.
For a long time, she used the money he gave following each land sale, saying she went to beauty salons, or shopping for herself to buy tuition packages and insurance for her children.
All her salary and overtime for the past ten years are also collected in a savings book. This amount was not enough for Mr. Tuan to get up immediately, but it did help the family not to fall into extreme poverty.
Returning to the old house, every day, people still see Ms. Lan driving her old motorbike to the school to teach. With the money they saved, they opened a hardware store at home. We went to the store to play with him, sometimes joking that he “escaped death”, then he did not hide his admiration and gratitude to his wife.
Duy (Hanoi)
