賣房送女兒留學 她卻嫁給老外不回來!
A 61-year-old father who said sending his daughter to study abroad in the United States was "the worst decision of his life" is making the rounds on Chinese social media.
"一名61歲的父親將女兒送到美國讀書，卻成爲他這輩子最錯誤的決定"這一話題正在中國的社交媒體上流傳開來。Zhang Yong told the Guangzhou Daily last Tuesday that his daughter, Zhang Li, traveled to the U.S. 10 years ago to pursue a degree at an unnamed American university. She eventually married an American man and never returned to her hometown.
上週二，張勇向《廣州日報》透露，他的女兒張莉10年前去了美國某大學攻讀學位。最後她嫁給了一個美國人，再也沒有回過家鄉。Zhang, a retiree who used to work in an electronic parts factory, said he has sacrificed ton of things for his daughter's education, selling his 110-square-meter house and moved to a smaller apartment to save up money for the over 300,000 yuan annual tuition.
張勇是一名家電配件廠的退休工人，爲了供女兒上學，他犧牲了很多。爲了給女兒湊出每年30多萬的學費，他賣掉了110平米的房子，搬到了小房子裏。
At first, he and his family were so proud that Zhang Li got accepted to a great school, but Zhang Yong now says he is concerned nobody will care for him and his 60-year-old wife, Zhu Jing, in their old age.
張莉能夠被這麼好的學校錄取，張勇一家人起初都爲她感到驕傲。但是現在，張勇卻擔心老了之後沒有人照顧他和他60多歲的妻子朱靜。
When they said goodbye at the airport a decade ago, Zhu said she set strict rules for their daughter: Do not find a foreign boyfriend, don't become a single mother or get in a relationship with her teachers.
十年前在機場分別的時候，朱靜還給女兒制訂了幾條規定：不準找外國人當男友，不能當未婚媽媽，不能和學校的老師搞師生戀。She also used to call her daughter three times a day, but Zhang Li hardly speaks to her family anymore.
朱靜曾經每天給女兒打三個電話，但現在張莉很少和家裏人通電話了。"We haven't been in contact with her for two weeks," said Zhang.
張勇說道：“我們已經兩週沒有聯繫過了。”Since last Thursday, hashtags on the topic have been viewed more than 20 million times and counting on China's social media site Weibo, with many netizens debating the value of leaving the country to study overseas, according to Sixth Tone.
據《第六聲》報道，自上週四以來，這一話題在中國社交媒體微博上的點擊量超過了2000萬次，許多網友們就出國留學的價值展開了激烈的討論。"If you're talented enough, you should first pay back the money your parents spent on you before you pursue your own dreams," one user commented. "Making your parents responsible for paying for you to be happy is just selfish."
一位網友評論道：“有足夠的能力之後，你應該先把父母花在你身上的錢還給他們，再去追求自己的夢想。讓父母爲你的幸福花錢太自私了。”Another wrote: "Did the parents even consult the daughter about how she wanted it to be paid for? What's the problem now that she has found her own happiness and doesn't want to come back? If the parents just wanted some money-earning machine to take care of them in their old age, then that's just too bloody disgusting."
另一位網友則寫道：“父母有問過女兒會以什麼方式回報他們的付出嗎？現在的問題是她已經找到自己的幸福了，不想回來又怎麼了？如果父母只是把女兒當作掙錢的工具，等老了來照顧他們，那也未免太令人厭惡了。”
