"Twenty yuan?" Zhou Lanfang felt a pang of distress. That was half her husband's monthly salary. No wonder people say high school is costly—it truly is! Our monthly expenses at home don't even reach ten yuan, yet Siyu's schooling costs us ten to twenty yuan a month.
This month, I've already given Siyu ten yuan, and adding another twenty makes it thirty. And that twenty yuan is just for study materials, not even living expenses.
So, by this calculation, Siyu needs at least forty yuan as a base this month. My husband's meager salary is just gone in an instant.
I haven't dared tell my husband about giving Siyu so much money each month. Whenever he asks, I say seven or eight yuan. Over time, my little stash of private savings has proven nowhere near enough to cover the shortfall.
