I don't know what other places were like in the 1990s. I know what my own village was like. It was poor and troubled. Lin Xiaoman got married in 1995. She was only 19 years old. The husband is a mama's boy, but the mother-in-law favors the younger son. Lin Xiaoman, with a foreign surname, is like an outsider. The parents are all different, but fortunately Lin Xiaoman grows up very quickly.
