Yang Xiaohua, a Woman with Crutches

Era+No system+Not a cool article+Miscellaneous woman On a thunderstorm night in 1970, Yang Xiaohua dragged her disabled body and was born in a barren cave dwelling in Luliang Mountain. Her birth was a mistake, her disability a sin. When she was fifteen years old, she was married to Yu Tiegen from Yujiagou for the price of two donkeys. She endured the fists and kicks of her husband, the humiliation of her brother-in-law, and the abuse of her sister-in-law, but she still struggled to guard the glimmer of motherhood in the process of giving birth to three sons. She cultivated on her knees, crawled to carry water, exchanged money for embroidery with her left hands, secretly learned to read by the stove, and used a fire stick to draw the vast map in her heart on the loess. Time passed like a knife, and the three sons grew up and flew to the world outside the mountains, leaving her to grow old in the same place. On a rainy night in 2019, seventy-year-old Yang Xiaohua passed away quietly after sorting out the traces of her life. On the day of the burial, the eldest son was numb, the second son was absent, and the youngest son was lost. Only the buckwheat flowers on the mountain ridge were as white as funeral paper money.