The Bitter Girl Selling Tofu

[Chronology + Women's Self-Redemption] In the midsummer of 1980, Qingshui Village on the Loess Plateau was as sweltering as a steamer. Eighteen-year-old Zhang Cuiguo pushed a dilapidated bicycle through the streets and alleys of the village. "Selling tofu -" Her voice was clear and gentle, tickling the hearts of the bachelors in the village like an oriole, but no one knew what kind of suffering was hidden behind this voice. When he was eight years old, both his parents fell off a loess cliff and died. The sick grandmother tearfully entrusted the siblings to Wang Tiegen and Li Gouzhen from the same village, and gave them away their land and property. Unexpectedly, before grandma's body was cold, the adoptive parents revealed their true colors - Li Gouzhen treated her like a cow and horse, and Wang Tiegen had a human face and an animal heart. Cuiguo thought about running away, but her twelve-year-old brother Zhang Qinglong was in school. He was the only root left in the world for his parents and grandma. She gritted her teeth and endured day by day. The only person who protects her is Wang Tianzhu, the biological son of her adoptive parents, who is learning the carpenter craft in the town. He regarded Cuiguo as his own sister, but once he left, there was no longer any protection in the family. On that day, a heavy rain was approaching. Cuiguo was selling tofu from a cart, but he was dragged into the dense sunflower field by Li Sanqiang, a bachelor in the village...