Chapter 258.
“Makoto, now that you’ve not only found a rich man, but he also loves you so much, there’s no need to work anymore!” Uehara Tomomi said in a casual conversation while drinking alone.
“Occasionally, I’ll still do an hourly job. It’s natural for someone like me, who’s used to laboring, to be idle.” Natsui Makoto said truthfully.
Uehara Tomomi was stunned and said, “No way!”
“What’s the problem? I’ve seen quite a few women with big bellies still working.” Natsui Makoto said without going deeper to understand what she meant.
“Others are short of money, so they have to work. You’re not short of money, so why do you have to do that? You think it’s easy to raise a child and have a child!
Only children from poor families like mine are not valued, it’s your business to mix well and it’s your business to mix poorly.
People who are parents just need to feed you and clothe you and have a place to live and that’s pretty much considered doing their job. Even with such low standards, they haven’t quite done it.
Nowadays, you have to buy all kinds of books on baby care, listen to special fetal music for the baby inside your belly every day, and talk to him.
The meals must also be scientific and nutritious, and there must be a meal menu specially formulated by a senior nutritionist for your body type and specific situation.
In addition, you have to contact a famous private maternal and child health center, so that you can go there regularly to learn how to be a mother, all kinds of precautions, bathing the baby and so on.
You also need to establish a relationship with the moms and dads who are in the same private hospital, so that you can exchange ideas and gather information about the education of your future child.
Upper class kids are raised at the age of two or three. The children of poor families will be completely free-range, stupidly only know no purpose to play.
Not only that, but you also have to plan what path your son will take and what path your daughter will take. There has to be a clear plan for every year and every stage to get to the top of what tier.
It’s not over until your child goes from kindergarten to a prestigious university. After he graduates from college and comes out to work, you’ll still have all sorts of things to continue worrying about.” Tomomi Uehara spoke eloquently.
Natsui Makoto was completely dumbfounded when she didn’t hear it. One had never thought about some of these things. All she could think of was to be a little more careful with her food than in the past, walk a little slower, and so on.
When the time came, she would lie down in the hospital to give birth and that would be the end of it. Although it was her first time to give birth, she didn’t have any fear or nervousness at all, but rather looked forward to it.
“How do you know so much?” Natsui Makoto asked curiously.
“My ideal since I was a child was that I wanted to become a baby sitter. However, it’s often hard to realize even the smallest ideals of children from poor families.
I studied until I graduated from junior high school and started working in society. It’s not that I didn’t want to go to high school, but my family’s financial situation didn’t allow it at all.
I didn’t even go to high school, how can I go to college? Besides, you have to have money to study this kind of related college majors! On top of that, you have to live, right?
It can be said that everything needs money. Without money, it’s impossible to survive in the real world.” Tomomi Uehara shook her head and sighed.
She paused for a moment, tilted her head back, picked up the wine glass on the table and drank it clean, and then added, “You’re lucky to be completely out of the sea of misery.
I still have to struggle desperately to live in the sea of bitterness. To live, I feel that it is to simply live. Living without hope.
What kind of society is Japan? A class society. From the day we are born, we greatly determine the course of our lives for the next several decades or even hundreds of years.
You only have to pay a little attention to the children around you to understand this. The children of wealthy families first enter a prestigious kindergarten, then work their way up to a prestigious elementary school, a prestigious middle school, a high school, and a university.
Finally, they enter a big company and become a full member of the company. Children who make it through this process are regarded as internal students, i.e., real gold. On the other hand, those who come from a commoner’s background and work their way up to a prestigious university are referred to as external students or gold plated.
Don’t think that the two would be the same, not at all. Even if you are in the same class and the same major, there will be an essential deviation when it comes to employment.
Don’t think that big companies only look at your college success, good grades, and so on, but they also value your family origin, and background.
There are some requirements that can be said on the surface, and there are some requirements that are not said on the surface, but are examined in secret.
Otherwise, how can there be more than 5,000 listed companies in Japan with a lifespan of more than 100 years? There are 3,000 companies that are more than two hundred years old. The intertwining of interests under this countertop, you take care of me, I take care of you, and how could the care for each other be something that someone like me would see with their own eyes?”
Natsui Makoto was shocked. Although she herself hadn’t seen the other party for a long time, she hadn’t expected her to have changed so much. She believed that something important had happened to Tomomi Uehara.
Natsui Makoto clearly cut through the aura of decadence and complete resignation from the other party, even if she couldn’t say she was cynical about this current friend under her eyes.
“I don’t think too much, I just want my child to be happy in the future.” Natsui Makoto said innocently.
“Human society is inherently weak and strong. Happy? No money, happy my ass! It’s just poor joy.” Uehara Tomomi couldn’t help but blurt out.
Natsui Makoto looked at her with a face full of shock, not knowing what to do for a moment. It wasn’t as if she herself had never been poor, even if she was poorer, she had never appeared like this kind of appearance that the other party was currently exuding.
“I’m sorry, Makoto. Did I scare you?” Uehara Tomomi hurriedly apologized.
“Tomomi, my seeing you today made me feel that you already possessed a not-so-small amount of hostility in you. What exactly happened?” Natsui Makoto said with concern.
“It’s probably because I’m unemployed again, so it’s negatively affecting my current mood. I’m sorry, Makoto. I didn’t mean to target you at all. This society is just too unfair.” Uehara Tomomi said with much emotion.
Natsui Makoto smiled and waved her hand to show that she didn’t mind. She said with a big smile, “Anything else you want to eat or drink, feel free to order. Tonight, I’ll treat you.”
“Thanks. It’s good that you were able to come out tonight to keep me company and listen to me whine.” Uehara Tomomi’s face was trying hard to squeeze out a smile and said.
Natsui Makoto encouraged, “The difficulty is only temporary. It will always pass. You’re only in your early twenties, so you’ll definitely slowly get better in the future so that you can get everything you want.”