The seller of sugar gourds is Zhang Meimei, generous, confident and beautiful, she wears a high ponytail and treats every customer with a smile.

Zhang Meili is Zhang Mian's younger sister and Zhang Barber's younger sister.

Although Zhang Meili and Zhang Mian are sisters of the same father and mother, their personalities are diametrically opposed.

Zhang Meimei's husband always abused Zhang Meili for no reason, especially after drinking, he was even more powerful against Zhang Meimei.

The cold-blooded and ruthless husband once even acted rudely to Zhang Meili, who was pregnant, and Zhang Meili, who couldn't bear it anymore, chose to divorce after giving birth to a child.

At that time, not to mention the countryside, even in the city, few people chose to divorce.

Zhang Meili became the first woman in the village to dare to file for divorce.

When Zhang Meili officially filed for divorce from her husband for the first time, her husband's attitude was very arrogant, and he said to Zhang Mian frivolously:

"I see you're crazy, just like you, who will want you in this life except Lao Tzu?"

The husband had a proud expression, as if Zhang Meili couldn't live without him.

Zhang Meimei's attitude towards her husband has long been commonplace, and she continued calmly:

"No matter what you say, this marriage is divorced!"

Annoyed and angry, her husband slapped Zhang Meimei in the face and threatened viciously:

"Lao Tzu doesn't agree to leave, don't want to leave anyone, do you say divorce again, do you believe Lao Tzu will kill you?"

Zhang Meimei, who was convinced that her husband would really kill her, did not continue to plead, but she did not give up the idea of divorce.

Zhang's beautiful road to divorce is really full of twists and turns.

When talking to her husband to no avail, Zhang Meili turned to the cadres of the village brigade for help.

At first, Liu Yongqiang, the village head, and other village cadres did not agree to Zhang Meili's divorce request, and they were unwilling to seal Zhang Meili.

Zhang Meili ran to the village brigade many times without results, and the village brigade did not deal with it.

Every time Zhang Meili goes back after running the brigade, if her husband knows about it, she will be beaten.

Seeing that the village brigade did not have any intention of helping herself deal with the divorce, Zhang Meili took her daughter to the village brigade every day, regardless of wind or rain.

The village cadres couldn't stand it anymore because of the perseverance of Zhang Meili, so they called Zhang Meimei's husband to mediate.

The attitude of the village cadres has always been to let Zhang Meili not divorce for the sake of the children, and advised Zhang Meimei's husband not to do anything to Zhang Meili in the future.

Every time Zhang Meili returned home after mediation, she would be beaten by her husband.

Zhang Meili, who is bent on divorce, hints to herself every time she is beaten by her husband:

"I must climb out of this abyss, and it takes courage and pain to climb out of this abyss!"

She always soothes herself like this.

Once a person has made up his mind, he needs perseverance to persevere, and once he has perseverance, he can not be knocked down by any difficulties.

Zhang Meili is such a person.

After several mediations by the village brigade, Zhang Meili saw that her husband showed no signs of repentance, she was completely dead, and her desire for divorce became stronger.

She really couldn't think of a better way, so she began to take her daughter to the village chief's house every day, going from dawn to returning until dark.

No matter what others said about her, no matter how her husband abused her, she insisted on going to the village chief's house every day, she had only one purpose, to divorce her husband, she wanted to be free.

At that time, it was really too difficult for a woman to divorce.

Seeing Zhang Meili squatting in her home every day, the village chief's wife complained to the village chief:

"I have to work in front of the faces of a mother and daughter every day, when is it a head, I don't know what I think you found for your little wife!"

In the end, Huangtian lived up to his wishes, and under the pressure of the village chief's wife, the village chief finally knocked Zhang Meili into the chapter.

From the first time to the brigade to the final stamping, Zhang Meili experienced two long years of waiting and suffering.

After the brigade finished knocking the chapter, Zhang Meili couldn't wait to go to the police station to knock the chapter again.

The moment she got the seal from the police station, Zhang Meili felt that the shackles that had imprisoned her for many years were suddenly undone, and she was so relaxed and free that she could even breathe freely.

That day, she bought herself a new set of clothes in the city and went home wearing a bright smile on her face.

I don't know, I think she just got married!

The patriarchal husband was reluctant to take in his daughter, and after the divorce, Zhang Meili returned to her parents' house with her daughter.

After the divorce, Zhang Meili is often criticized by the villagers, saying behind her back:

"Zhang Meili is really a ruthless woman, she doesn't think about her daughter!"

"A woman with a drag oil bottle, who dares to ask for it?"

"This woman really doesn't keep women's morals!"

"This woman, I don't think anyone will want it in this life."

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After the divorce, Zhang Meili knew that her choice was correct, and often persuaded her sister Zhang Mian to divorce her mean brother-in-law Mr. Liu, but the traditional sister did not listen to her advice.

The conservative and stubborn brother Zhang Barber accused Zhang Meili of losing face to the Zhang family, and often sneered at Zhang Meili.

Barber Zhang's wife, Zhou Jinhua, disliked Zhang Meimei's mother and daughter for not working at home and eating white food, and said to Barber Zhang:

"What's the matter with the water spilled by the married daughter in her mother's house?"

In the end, the ruthless Zhang Barber and his wife kicked Zhang Meimei's mother and daughter, who had no fixed residence, out of their parents' house.

Zhang Meimei, who was kicked out by her brother, started a business selling sugar gourds in order to raise her daughter, and she was ingenious not only to make sugar gourds herself, but also to be a little sugar man, and every time she passed by her stall, she could see a group of people around.

There are also people in the village who admire her who say:

"Zhang Meili is really a bold woman, if only I had her guts!"

"The people in the village admire Zhang Meimei."

"What's wrong with Zhang Meili choosing her own happiness?"

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Indeed, Zhang Meili is an avant-garde woman.

In her unhappy marriage, she did not choose to swallow her anger, compromise, and shackles like her sister Zhang Mian, but chose to raise her eyebrows, choose to resist, and choose freedom.

There is a price to be paid for fighting for freedom, and Zhang Meimei's freedom is bought in exchange for her own life.

Ruoxi, who had a string of sugar gourds in his hand, and Silly Daddy showed a bright smile again.

The two of them, who were eating sugar gourds and shaking their heads, continued to swagger around the market, the posture of walking, the chic and comfortable state like the leaders of the inspection work.

People who don't care about the eyes of others can live in the present more easily, people who live in the moment can be free more easily, and people who are free can live in a chic and generous way.

Ruoxi and Silly Daddy are such people.

It wasn't until the exhausted two people remembered to go home.

On the way home, Ruoxi, who was tired and couldn't walk, clamored to be carried by a stupid daddy.

Ruoxi, who was lying on the back of the stupid daddy, happily shook her little feet back and forth, and she was naughty, and she also pulled the ears and hair of the silly daddy from time to time, and the silly daddy would give Xiao Ruoxi a response and pinch Ruoxi's little buttocks.

The happy two giggled for a long time.

Cheerful laughter filled the sky, on the river, on the paths, in the fields by the roadside, and throughout the village.

In the evening, after a rainstorm, the whole village is baptized clean and refreshing, and the fresh air is full of sweetness.

A few years ago, the same rainstorm, the same village that was baptized by the rainstorm was clean and refreshing, but the difference was that Ruoxi, who had just been born, was hungry and crying, resounding throughout the village.

Seeing Xiao Ruoxi crying heartbreakingly, the stupid daddy with distressed eyes hugged Xiao Ruoxi and his grandmother all over the village to find milk for Ruoxi in swaddling clothes.

Aunt Zhang's cow, Aunt Li's sheep, Uncle Liu's horse•••••

Silly Daddy and Grandma hold Ruoxi, who is hungry and waiting to be fed, every day and do not let go of any village household with milk, and the pitiful three people shuttle through the livestock sheds of each family every day.

Ruoxi's cry also shuttled through the whole village, as if she wanted to tell the whole village that I was hungry and I had no milk to drink.

On this day, it was drizzling outside, and the three of them came to the livestock shed of Accountant Sun's family.

The stupid daddy was squatting to milk the crying Ruoxi, and the grandmother was standing aside with the poor little Ruoxi in her swaddling clothes.

Accountant Sun, his wife, and Butcher Sun stood on the other side and munched melon seeds, and the three of them sprayed melon seed shells while snorting, spraying the spittle stars and melon seed shells on the stupid daddy's head.

I don't know if grandma is because of her hunchback and bad knees, or because she is humble, she hugged Ruoxi and stood aside with a grovel face.

Butcher Sun is Accountant Sun's elder brother, a pig killer, as lustful as Accountant Sun, and he is also very greedy when he is.

Sun Butcher has a fat head and big ears, and he knows that there is no lack of oil and water at a glance.

Every New Year's holiday, Butcher Sun would go to the villagers' homes to kill pigs.

It was a few days before the Chinese New Year, and Butcher Sun was in the courtyard of Teacher Liu's house.

Zhang Mian was boiling hot water, and she was busy with Sun Butcher.

Teacher Liu on the side commanded fingers, as if he would also kill pigs.

According to the rules of the village, the last person who kills the pig can take the pig's head or pig's trotters as a reward.

After the pig killing was done that day, Butcher Sun took away a pig's head.

Just as he was about to go back with the pig's head in one hand and the butcher's knife in the other, something suddenly fell out of his trouser leg.

Teacher Liu, who saw it, immediately stepped forward before he could speak.

Another lump fell out of the other trouser leg of Sun's butcher's knife.

When Mr. Liu, who approached, found that there were two lumps of pork on the ground, he pointed to Sun Butcher and sneered:

"You are really capable, I saw a cloud of flesh and blood in the distance and thought that you had given birth to a child like a woman, and you still had two children in your life!"

Zhang Mian was directly stunned, she looked at Butcher Sun and then at Teacher Liu, and didn't say anything.

Butcher Sun pretended to be stupid and smiled at Teacher Liu.

"Don't pretend to be stupid for me here, your problem is the same as a dog eating, you can't fix it!" Teacher Liu said sarcastically.

The calm Sun Butcher left in a hurry as if nothing had happened, and at a glance it was clear that this was not the first time he had done so.