An 80-Year-Old Daughter Makes a Living by Collecting Waste to Support Her 100-Year-Old Mother
Story Introduction
Walking more than ten hours a day, not truly cooking for ten years... In the mind of 82-year-old Mrs. Xia Shuqing, there is no concept of "enjoying one's twilight years."
She has to get out of the house before dawn and return home late at night, constantly moving between piles of garbage and trash bins - because she must use the meager income from collecting waste to buy rice and salt, to support herself and her 103-year-old mother.
Monthly Income Less Than $15
"6 kilograms (of waste paper), 9 yuan and 6 jiao." Receiving the money from the boss, Xia Shuqing felt somewhat disappointed.
Yesterday, in a bungalow at No. 4 Village of Gaojiaping Electric Power Plant in Huangjueping Street, Jiulongpo District. The white-haired Xia Shuqing spent the whole morning flattening the waste newspapers piled high in the room, neatly arranging them, and carefully tying them with a red rope. "These..."