The Eighties’ Little Widow

Yao Qingyi got married. The old blacksmith in Lotus Village was poor and unsophisticated, and old enough to be her father! Yao Qingyi trembled with fear. Then, in the blink of an eye, her new husband died on their wedding bed, and she became the most famous young widow for miles around. Some called her a jinx, while others said she would run off sooner or later... But how could she bear to let the old blacksmith’s eight-year-old brother and sister go hungry? “I’m not leaving. I wouldn’t leave even if I died!” She took up farming and started a livestock farm, and soon her life was flourishing. But she was still young. She couldn’t spend her whole life as a widow... Yet whenever she glanced at her capable brother-in-law, who was close to her in age, all the love words on her tongue died away. It was so hard. Back then, they really had matched the wrong couple...