"You are also the first person in Mantou Village to advocate equality between men and women, you are the first person who dares to file for divorce from a man, and you are the first person to change your life against your fate."

……

After the lecture, Tao Xiaoqi left Ni Linli behind, and before she could ask, Ni Linli burst into tears.

Crying with her for a while, Tao Xiaoqi began to be a little anxious, Lin Nanshan was still waiting for her outside, and she had no plans to speak.

"Do you want to go to my place, let's talk on the way?" Peach Xiaoqi proposed.

Ni Linli shook her head, "I have to go back, Chunchun is waiting for me at home." ”

"Chunchun?"

"My daughter."

"Oh." Peach Xiaoqi understood.

"What about your husband?"

The corners of Ni Linli's mouth twitched, "Leave." ”

Tao Xiaoqi actually compared it in her heart, when she got married, she was looking forward to the collapse of the bridge.

"Then why didn't you come home?" Tao Xiaoqi asked, I haven't seen her again in Mantou Village.

"How can a divorced woman have the face to go back." Ni Linli smiled bitterly.

"And where do you live?"

"Under the bridge in the southern suburbs." Ni Linli whispered.

Tao Xiaoqi gasped, "What about your child?" ”

"Live there, too, and when I come out today, I'll leave her to someone else to take care of her."

Tao Xiaoqi got up and left, taking a shawl, a coat, and a bag.

She cleaned up, and saw that Ni Linli was still sitting and didn't move, and was a little angry, "What are you doing there?" Let's go. ”

Ni Linli looked dazed, "Where are you going?" ”

"Go pick up your doll, you can live in Qiaodong, your daughter is still so young, how can you live?"

Ni Linli wanted to say that it was okay, there were companions there, and there were a lot of people. But before he said it, Tao Xiaoqi had already walked out.

She had to follow along.

Li Nanshan saw his daughter-in-law come out, got out of the car and opened the car door, only to find that there was someone behind her.

"Lin Li, you sit in front and show the way." Tao Xiaoqi opened the door of the front seat and let Ni Linli go up.

Li Nanshan was confused.

"Ni Linli, don't you know each other?"

"Ni Linli?" Li Nanshan read the name, "Know." ”

"She is divorced from her husband and now lives in Qiaodong, and she still has a doll with her, so let's go and pick someone up first." Tao Xiaoqi explained simply.

Li Nanshan understood and got into the car from the other side.

Ni Linli looked at the brand-new car in front of her and didn't get on it for a long time.

"Anything else?" Tao Xiaoqi asked.

"I know what you're going to do, Dr. Momo, I'm not here today to ask for help, I'm just here to listen to your lecture, and that's enough."

"So are you planning to take your child to be a flower child in the future and raise her by relying on Baijia Rice? Let her not be able to hold her head up for the rest of her life? ”

Ni Linli twisted the corners of her clothes, she didn't think so, but she seemed to do exactly that.

"I have a factory, I've been recruiting, you know, I can use someone else, I can use you, unless you want to get something for nothing, waiting for someone else to give you a handout."

"It's not like that, I didn't want to wait for someone to give me alms, I just need a little strength, I need the strength to live!" Ni Linli finally spoke.

"Then put away your tears and prove to me with your actions, the sweat that tears can do will definitely work."

Ni Linli finally got in the car.

When she arrived at the bridge cave and looked at the women and children sleeping in a row on the ground, Tao Xiaoqi seemed to understand what Ni Linli said.

It is full of women who have suffered domestic violence after marriage, and are not treated by their in-laws, they really can't bear it, and they dare not go back to their parents' homes, they have nowhere to go, no one to rely on them, and most of them have given birth to daughters, or have never had children.

Tao Xiaoqi thought that it was only Ni Linli who wanted to be rescued, but she didn't expect it to be a group of people.

She left, and before leaving, she left a message, "You wait here for me, and I will come back." ”

On the way, Tao Xiaoqi's head was running rapidly, and she was thinking about who to turn to for this.

"Civil Affairs Bureau." Li Nanshan said.

"Ah, isn't that the place to get a marriage license?" Tao Xiaoqi has the impression that the Civil Affairs Bureau is the place where she gets married.

"It's also a place for social assistance, and homeless people fall under their umbrella." Li Nanshan said.

"Then go to the Civil Affairs Bureau." Tao Xiaoqi said.

"It's late today, everyone is off work, let's go to work tomorrow, come back tomorrow."

said that he would come back tomorrow, but in the middle of the night, Li Nanshan received a call from his eldest brother and said that his mother was no longer good.

The news was like a bolt from the blue, and the couple drove back overnight.

When I got home, Mrs. Li really couldn't do it, so she hung with her last breath, and the doctor also invited her to come over, checked it, sighed, and asked the children and grandchildren who could come back to come back and have a look.

Li Nanshan's eyes were scarlet, he called out to his mother, and knelt straight in front of the bed.

Mrs. Li opened her mouth, her eyes widened, she just couldn't speak, and her expression was almost distorted.

"Mother, go ahead, Dad, we will take care of it, we will take care of the chickens, ducks and geese at home, you can give birth." The sister-in-law cried.

But Mrs. Li just couldn't swallow that breath, looked out of the door, and tears flowed out.

Li Nanshan suddenly realized something, "Did you call Nanqiu?" ”

"Hit, on the way back." The eldest brother replied.

Li Nanshan leaned in front of his mother, leaned in her ear and asked, "Mother, do you want Nanqiu?" ”

Mrs. Li didn't have the strength to nod, but she blinked her eyes violently.

Li Nanshan suppressed the grief in his heart and took out the phone, "I'll call Nanqiu now, you wait." ”

The phone was connected, Li Nanshan turned on the voice, and there was the sound of whirring wind, as well as the sound of the car's horn, and Li Nanqiu's crying came intermittently.

"Nanqiu, don't cry first, my mother wants to listen to you, you can talk to your mother again."

The cry over there was a little quieter, and then I heard a "mother" coming over.

Tao Xiaoqi noticed that the corners of her mother-in-law's eyes were raised, then the wrinkles on her forehead were flattened, then the corners of her mouth, and finally her entire face was relaxed.

Then she heard a room full of people crying, and she realized that her mother-in-law was gone.

Mrs. Li left, and the most relieved person before leaving was her daughter, which was very unexpected. When they were packing up their belongings, they took out five bright red sweaters from the bottom of Mrs. Li's box, brand new, as if they had never worn them.

"This is your mother for Nanqiu to weave, since the year she went out to study, one a year, and then Nanqiu got married, and your mother didn't weave anymore." Li Laohan said calmly, as if he was talking about a very ordinary thing.

Tao Xiaoqi felt that his father-in-law's soul was gone, and the thorns on his body were gone, and now he was like any ordinary old man, curled up in the corner with his back bent.

Mrs. Li got up at night, slipped on the soles of her feet, fell down, and never got up again.

Li Nanqiu arrived in the early morning of the next day, covered in dust and snow, when she and Liang Hengsheng arrived, Mrs. Li's mourning hall had already been arranged, and her mother had already changed her clothes and was lying peacefully on the bamboo bed in the courtyard, no longer screaming.

Li Nanqiu knelt in front of his mother, and no one could pull him up.

"Let her accompany your mother, you all go out to say hello, there are guests outside." Li Laohan said soberly.

He arranged for the third child to go shopping for vegetables, cigarettes and alcohol, arranged to pull the white cloth hemp rope, asked the eldest to invite the elders of the village to come over, and the eight immortals also invited him to come over, and asked the second child to ask the fortune teller Mr. Huang, to invite him to come to see the feng shui of the cemetery, and let the eldest and second daughter-in-law to call the women to help cook and make tea.

"Dad, go and take a break, let's come here." Li Nanshan looked at his father like this, and felt painful.

Li Laohan waved his hand, "Where can you sleep, you haven't experienced so many things." ”

"We can ask the old people in the village, you go and lie down, you didn't close your eyes all night last night, and I will wake you up when my uncle's family arrives."

"Out of the way, your uncles should be here too." After the old man finished speaking, he took out a pot of tobacco and stuffed it, lit the fire, took a puff of it, and instantly became more energetic.

Li Nanshan told his daughter-in-law and little sister to look at his father, and he went to get busy.

Tao Xiaoqi looked at her father-in-law so calm and energetic, and always felt that it was not a good thing.