Child Bride in the Beggar

From the moment they step into their husband's house, they have to do laundry, cook, and serve their parents-in-law. Even eating hot meals depends on their appearance - as if they came to this world to work as free maids for their husband's family. During the famine of 1937, there was no news from Fuying's anti-Japanese father. Fuying's mother remarried the regiment leader to survive. Fuying's mother believes that the family cannot live without a man, and her daughter will always get married. So Fuying's mother took Fuying's brother Fucai away. 16-Year-old Fuying was left in an empty village. Aunt Wang stole the life-saving food sent by her mother and left her to starve to death. In order to survive, Fuying fled to the begging ditch, sold herself to the Sun family, a declining landlord, as a child bride, and worshiped a rooster. Her husband, Sun Youcai, is four years younger than her and is a sickly scholar. In the past six years, she worked as a cow and a horse to support the Sun family and took good care of the family's daily life. She went to the dock to carry goods and farm in the fields, supporting the family's expenses with her blood and sweat, while Sun Youcai was at home reciting poems and making comments. Not only did he rely on her with peace of mind, he also thought she was vulgar and dull and ridiculed her all day long. In the small courtyard that was not burned by the war, Fuying stayed with her indifferent husband and dilapidated home, and worked hard to raise their five children. Is this "living" in exchange for one's life worth it?