What is written in the text "cloth shoes"

The story centers on the author's childhood. When the author was a child, his family was poor and he could not afford to buy warm shoes. So my mother has made cotton shoes in autumn. The author says it's warm to wear. But when I got to school, I was laughed at by my classmates. Said their family was too poor to buy warm shoes. The author was so angry that when she got home, she clamored for her mother to buy her warm shoes. Mother said to him, "What's the matter? Did the students laugh at you? Our family is so poor that we can afford cotton shoes! " The author bowed his head. This is what my mother said again: "In fact, poverty is not terrible, but poverty is terrible. On the surface, poverty can make money. But poverty can't save anything. " After listening to this sentence, the author firmly kept it in mind. I never blamed my mother again.

This story also reminds me that superficial affluence is a manifestation, and psychological affluence is the real affluence.