Eighty-Five Years of an Ordinary Person

I was born with five fewer bones than normal. My mother said that I was too heavy and crushed her life. At the age of eighty-five, I made a will: "After my death, I will not be buried in the Zhang family's ancestral grave." It wasn't until that night that she finally told the truth - that year, my mother-in-law secretly ate ten bags of life-saving food from my family, and I personally overturned their dining table! My brother-in-law kicked me, my father-in-law tried to beat me, but my husband stayed silent. I held my breath and went to the county seat to abort the eight-month-old male fetus. Later, the son I gave birth to cried day and night, and everyone said I had suffered retribution. Only I know that this is not retribution. This is a woman who is fighting an unyielding battle against fate with her flesh and blood. ——My name is Ye Jinbo, and this is the story of my bones and my mother.