Yuxian blew the dim kerosene lamp, took off her clothes, and got into the bed, afraid that her mother would see the unseemly scars on her body. The mother seemed to notice the intention of her actions, and got up from the other end of the kang, and struck a match with a "boom", and the kerosene lamp lit up the room with a column of black smoke and yellow flames.

The mother lifted the quilt she was covering, and with an "ouch" sound, she hugged her body, which was in pain all over her body, and cried. On her body and legs, there were dark blue and purple bruises and coagulated wounds left by Qinwa's fist, and there were marks on her father that had just been whipped with a leather rope, oozing blood. She was the flesh that fell from her mother's body, and her mother felt sorry for her own flesh and bones, and cried very sadly.

Yuxian didn't want to shed tears, the pain was unbearable! All the flesh that had been whipped by fists or leather ropes, as soon as he was next to the mattress, he wanted to turn over in pain, and he turned over, but the pain was still too much to support the weight of the body. But she didn't cry. She was frightened by the sudden knock on the door that night, and everything that happened after that seemed to be in a dream, until her grandfather clumsily inserted a large, rusty steel needle from under the base of his nose into his teeth, and she returned from the other world to the small farm yard that she felt was no longer so nostalgic. Now, the mother's chest clings to her fat arms, tears streaming down her neck. She didn't want to hear anything more from her mother. She wanted to lie quietly, to think quietly, what she was going to do. In the new house where she lived with Qinwa for nearly half a year, she couldn't think calmly, and always watched the fist as hard as an iron block to smash over, and even when he fell asleep at night, he was so angry that he would suddenly jump up, uncover the quilt, and wake her up from her dream. Now, her father Wu San beat and scolded in front of Qinwa, saving face for himself. The punishment she should have suffered was over, and she wanted to think quietly, what to do next?

"Alas...... Hey, hey, hey, hey......" The mother sobbed in a low voice, her chest trembling. She gave birth to this daughter, raised her with milk to grow teeth, and chewed on the hard and astringent cornmeal buns like adults. Although she and Wu San both love their daughters, they have no habitual support. From an early age, she taught her daughter not to play with male dolls, and when she grew up, she taught her daughter to do needlework and talk about all the customs and family customs that a woman should follow. When she and Wu San decided to marry their daughter to the son of an adobe guest at the courtesy price of three stones of wheat (the highest price at that time), she began to teach her daughter how to serve her in-laws, especially in a family without a mother-in-law, how to talk to her grandfather, serve food, pour urinals, how to serve her husband, how to get along with the elders of the next-door neighbors, and even, how to deal with the indispensable jokes and banters of the brothers of the same generation...... At home and abroad, inside and outside the house, internal and external affairs, she told them, and more than once. "It's wrong to teach the girl not to have a mother. "She taught it, and Yuxian did it. After Yuxian got married, she went back to her parents' house several times, and she interrogated them all and was very satisfied. The news from acquaintances in Kangjia Village also fully proves that the new daughter-in-law of the adobe Hakka family is a virtuous and good daughter-in-law. However, how did you do it, all of a sudden, such a worst ugly thing appeared...... After the mother finished shedding tears, she counted them down: "You know how to wake up the baby, why do you jump into the mud and pit by yourself?"

Yuxian lay beside his mother, and said in his heart, I have died once, do you still want to use any regret medicine to cure your illness?

"Why don't you tell me about going to school in winter?" The mother went to the bottom of the matter, "You are a woman, what do you do when you go to school? You can recognize two words, you can eat, you can wear clothes? People have said since ancient times, the theater school is a place to teach children to learn blindness...... You've made a name for yourself in winter school!"

She remained silent. She needs to think for herself, no one else understands her mood and situation.

"When it was time for you to get married, I asked your aunt to inquire in Kangjia Village, and said that Qinwa's father and son are good people. The old man is good, he won't be able to pass away in ten years or eight years, and he will pass away, all of which are your and Qinwa's belongings. Qinwa is honest and diligent, and family affairs are not up to you? In this new society, you are not afraid of evil ghosts, and you love honest farmers. What are you not satisfied with? Hu Chengjing?" The mother began to change from a tone of distress for her daughter to a reprimand, "Man! He looks good, and he can be eaten? When I was with your father, I always saw that he had a bad temperament, and he was irritable for a while, and laughed for a while. After a long time, I figured out that your father has a good heart, and he doesn't gamble indiscriminately, and he works hard for the poor. I think this person is very good! Baby, you are dazzled, listen to your mother, the world affairs of your mother are ......."

She did not distinguish or promise, and lay quietly.

"Raise it in our house for ten days and a half months, go home happily, compensate your grandfather, and say good things to Qinwa. The mother said, "In the future, An Ansheng will live a life, and a year has passed, and it will be fine." People's hearts are made of flesh!"

The mother stopped talking and sighed, and it was a long time before she snored.

Yuxian got up gently and moved to sleep on the other side of the kang.

It was dark and quiet, and the wind was rattling the leaves in the backyard.

When she was carried blindfolded to a strange place, carried into a strange new house by a strange woman, and removed the blush cloth, she saw for the first time the strange man with whom she was going to spend the rest of her life. Her heart was beating, but not excited. This is an ordinary-looking man. It's not good-looking, it's not ugly, but it's not too high. After a few months of married life, she saw that he was neither smart nor stupid. She wasn't very happy with him, but she wasn't sad either. is neither grateful nor hateful to the parents who found her such a son-in-law. Like an ordinary wheat in a wheat field, he was not a few trees that stood sporadically above all the wheat, nor was he a few dwarf ears sandwiched between the dense barley. He was as ordinary as the many rural youths in Kangjia Village and Wuzhuang. She will also live with Qinwa like the daughters-in-law of many ordinary young people. Since ancient times, it has been like this, the elders and the ordinary generation have been married like this, matched together like this, slept on a kang like this, and had children......

When she saw Teacher Yang for the first time, she was amazed. There are men in the world who are so well-dressed and clean! How can their teeth be so white! They know so many things! Not at all like the young men of the country who are together, except for talking about the crops, that is, talking vulgar sour words between men and women. Teacher Yang's round head with civilized hair contains many new things that Yuxian has never heard of! The Soviet Union used iron oxen to plow the land, use machines to cut wheat, and steam buns and roll noodles. He was always smiling, smiling, smiling, always smiling when he spoke, and he seemed to be laughing when he sang.

She had no evil intentions toward him. She didn't dare to imagine how such an elegant and civilized person could have "meaning" to her, a country woman? When she first felt his unusual gaze, when he grabbed her handwritten word "flip" and turned over, she didn't dare to think about it. Until he even pinched her fingers when he took the rice bowl, she only thought that he was unintentional, until he put his arms around her waist, and she instantly united these things together. She did not refuse, for the sudden arrival of pleasure that she could not even think of made her faint.

"I love you, sister......"

As he said this, he pressed his lips to hers. The voice was so heart-wrenching that she trembled, and instinctively hooked her hand with the stone bracelet over his shoulder.

She had never heard a man call her sister so affectionately, and no one had ever said the word "love". Qinwa only said things like "I'm good to you", and never called her "sister". The fingers of Qinwa's caress of her body were so stiff. Teacher Yang......

She took Qinwa's fist and gritted her teeth and endured it. She was his woman, and he deserved to hit her. Her father beat her, but she gritted her teeth and endured it, she disgraced him and his mother, and she deserved to beat her. However, although she was covered in bruises and red spots, she could no longer connect herself with Qinwa. She was beaten for her amiable Teacher Yang, and she had no tears to shed.

If she can divorce Qinwa and marry Teacher Yang, she will not consider losing face or being ashamed. The marriage law was shouted everywhere in the villages, and the general black letters propagating the marriage law were written on the street walls of the houses in the crop yards, and in many villages there were legends of divorces between men and women who had been arranged marriages. Once she and Teacher Yang are officially married, then who are afraid of laughing at what? If she can't marry Teacher Yang and continue to be husband and wife with Qinwa, then she will have to carry a black pot that she can't see people for the rest of her life.

She had to find a way to meet Teacher Yang again, and then she went to the township to file for divorce. Now I can't go to winter school anymore, and it's too difficult to meet Teacher Yang, but I have to meet him. Otherwise, she may not be able to do it, what should she do?

It is impossible to find an opportunity to meet Teacher Yang in Kangjia Village. In his mother's house, he is much freer than under the supervision of Ah Gong and Qinwa. Teacher Yang is a teacher at the central primary school in the administrative village, and in Mulberry Town, the sooner the better, to find an excuse to go to the town......