In Liuhe Village in the 1970s, Shen Cuiping was the second eldest girl in the family.
There is an elder sister above and a younger sister below. The parents are eager for a son, and they gave birth to three daughters in a row before getting the baby bump Shen Yaozu. Ever since she could walk, she had been the one lighting the fire in front of the stove, feeding the pigsty, gathering grass in the fields, and kneading the entire family's clothes. The eldest sister is squeamish and doesn't like to work, and the younger sister is smart and lazy. Shen Cuiping is the only one who was born to work.
But God gave her an alluring figure - her waist was as thin as a wicker, her chest was so bulging that the buttons of her floral blouse almost burst open, and her butt was as round as a millstone. The old women in the village called her "funny" behind her back, and the young people couldn't walk when they saw her.
When she was twenty-one, her parents promised her to Liu Tiejun from Liujiazhuang next door in order to collect a gift for their younger brother. Liu Tiejun is not a bad man, but he is a chauvinist who clings tightly to the little money in his waistband for fear that his wife will support her parents' family.
After marrying into the Liu family, I found out that my mother-in-law, Zhang Guilan, was also a victim of patriarchal preference. However, the hard life did not make her compassionate, but instead made her full of bad feelings. The eldest sister-in-law, Liu Zhaodi, and the younger sister-in-law, Liu Laidi, are not economical lamps. They took all the anger they suffered from their parents' family on their new daughter-in-law, Shen Cuiping.
But who is Shen Cuiping? Growing up being beaten and scolded, what kind of hardships have you never experienced? Her mother-in-law scolded her, but she didn't say a word and turned around and overturned the dining table. When her eldest sister-in-law squeezed her, she smiled and replied, "Sister, were you treated like this in your husband's house back then?" She choked and turned blue and white on her face.
