走出不幸的阴影（out of the unlucky shadow）
my family suffered a heavy lost in this robbery. not only all sales income, but also the past deposit had all disappeared!
the situation came to worse. that new year eve was the most miserable one we ever spent.
facing to such difficulty, my parents had no choice but to sell the useless shop with an extreme low price.
during those harsh days, they were helping and encouraging each other to overcome the endless difficulties. they had firmly set up a livelihood strategy: “no matter how much hardness, how less food would have; never sacrifice the opportunity for children’s education.”
in 1952, my family came to the edge of bankruptcy. at that very moment, my elder brother had graduated from the jiangxi medical institute. he became the first university student in our community and duly took over the family-support burden from my father who was physically and mentally exhausted then.
thanks to my parent’s farsighted strategy, my family had gotten over the most difficult time ever since.