On the wedding day, she was carried into Pei's house through the back door. Her husband died of illness within a few days.
Pei Yan wrote a letter for his brother to release his wife, and she was supposed to take it and leave. But she had nowhere to go - her parents had already moved away after accepting the bride price. She stayed to take care of her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, and survived in the county town on a bowl of bean curd.
He had been fighting at the border for five years. Every time he received a letter from her, he turned over it and saw the light on the paper. The letter started from "It's safe at home" to "Soak in water and eat, don't chew it dry." He didn't know that it meant missing him, he only knew that after the war he wanted to go home and eat a bowl of hot tofu pudding she made.
It wasn't until Xiucai proposed marriage that he blocked her in the kitchen, his voice trembling: "You want to get married? Why don't you try marrying me."
She didn't know that five years ago when he wrote the letter to let his wife go, he made a mistake - the ink on the back of the paper was smeared, revealing the word "stay". He didn't say it, the paper said it for him.
From the wife-releasing letter to the wife-marriage letter, they walked for five years.
Reader comments
Not like a novel, like telling a story. Simple, plain, old repetitive writing style. I can finish it.
Not like a novel, like telling a story. Simple, plain, old repetitive writing style. I can finish it.
Very interesting, recommended reading