But the world is unpredictable, there are always some old people, because the old partner passed away, or earlier divorced, the old life, can only live alone.
If their sons and daughters have gone to faraway places to start their own businesses and become rich, there is no one in the city where the old people are who can really be relied on.
Wishes are always good, but reality is not.
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My second aunt, sixty-eight years old, retired from teaching.
As early as twenty years ago, the second aunt divorced. Her ex-husband was lazy and had character problems, and had no responsibility for the family.
Because she was worried that her stepfather wouldn't be good enough for her children, she didn't plan to remarry and raised her two children on her own. Now, her son is working in Guangzhou and her daughter, who is married in Sichuan, works as an accountant for a company in Chengdu.
While she is in good health, she feels uncomfortable and lonely when she faces the empty house every day.
In order to kill time, she learned to cross-stitch, framed her own "works" and mailed them to her children. At first, the children did not think it was necessary, but later, they fell in love with cross-stitch, and often bought some raw materials for their second aunt to "process".
The second aunt tries to make some specialties from her hometown for the holidays, so that her children can find the memories of their childhood.
One day, the second aunt went to the street and found that some parents were looking for a house suitable for accompanying students. She was struck by the idea that her family had a large house with three rooms that had been empty, so she should be able to rent them out.
Through an intermediary, two "uninvited guests" - a high school student and his mother, who was accompanying the student - came to the second aunt's house.
Because of the cheap rent she charges and the free fruit and snacks she often provides, the tenants have been uninterrupted, all of whom are parents or teenage students accompanying their children.
With young people in the house, the second aunt no longer has to worry about things like not being able to understand her cell phone or not having someone to carry the gas tank. The fireworks in the house, too, have become more vigorous.