Her name is Bai Wu, she looks ordinary and has a desolate heart.
Jinjiang Town in the 1970s was full of dilapidated and low-rise private houses.
Now she is rummaging through boxes and cabinets at home to find her admission letter, because her classmates just told her that her parents sold her admission letter for 2,000 yuan to the leader of her mother's workplace.
Bai Wu is the eldest in the family. She also has a younger sister and a younger brother. Because she has to look after her younger brother, who is six years younger, she did not go to school until she was 10 years old.
She has known since she was a child that if children of poor people want to have a future, they must study hard, get into a good school, and get out of this poor place.
So, in addition to doing housework at home, taking care of her younger siblings, and completing household chores, she worked hard alone at night to learn the knowledge she went to school during the day.
Bai Wu's father was an ordinary worker in the town, and her mother had no job before. When she was three years old, the town's primary school hired a substitute teacher. Her mother, Jiang Li, was a high school student in her third year of high school. After passing the exam, she became a substitute teacher in the town's primary school.
Whether it is an educated mother or an uneducated father who has trouble writing his own name, both of them are very patriarchal.
Bai Wu turned three years old and could handle the small shovel used to hoe coal at home, and she started working all her life.
Although Bai Wu's father was uneducated, he retired from the army and found a job in the town. He often came back drunk at night and would beat his wife and children when things went wrong. The boss, Bai Wu, of course became his punching bag.
All this broke out from the day Bai Wu's admission notice was sold...
