After Falling into the Yellow River, I Became a Pain in the Family

In the rural areas of northern Shaanxi in the early 1960s, Li Qiucao's life began with a massive postpartum hemorrhage and was shrouded in misery. The strong mother-in-law is like a cold shackle, trapping her in heavy labor and endless grievances; the cowardly husband has no responsibility in front of his mother and allows his wife to bear the weight of life alone. She pinned her hopes on her son and lived frugally for half her life, just so that her son could have a decent life when he got married. When her son got married, she thought her hard life was over, but fate showed its ferocious fangs again - at the age of sixty, the diagnosis of late-stage gastric cancer was like an invitation to death. In order not to drag her son down, she swallowed the pain of illness alone and used her last strength to cook a reunion dinner for the whole family. In that meal, there was her deep love for her family and her helpless compromise with her fate. The next day, she put on her neatest clothes and walked to the Yellow River Bridge. The rolling water of the Yellow River is a witness to her bitter life. She jumped in and composed a silent tragedy with her life. Her husband, however, has always been immersed in his mother-in-law's world and knows nothing about her despair. Qiucao left, taking away all the pain and unwillingness. Her story is the epitome of the tragic fate of rural women of that era, causing ripples of sadness in the long river of history, making people sigh at her experience.