She's Worth Less Than Rice

Name: She's Worth Less Than Rice
Author: Little Pear Blossom O

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by Little Pear Blossom O (小梨花O)

Status: Completed
Length: 384k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Period Fiction
Updated: 2mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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That year, in exchange for a sack of millet, Yu Xiaofeng's parents promised her to the simple-minded son of the Liu family in the neighboring village. It was a rural village in northern China during the famine years of the last century. The stove was taller than she was. In the bitter winter, she smashed ice to wash clothes, her hands covered in chilblains that festered with pus. She didn't dare cry aloud. At seventeen, she was made to share a bed with Dazhu. He knew nothing, and tied her to a chair with hemp rope for the entire night. Over the next twenty years, she gave birth six times, and four children survived. She fed them with milk mixed with blood, used the three yuan she earned from selling her hair to buy medicine for her son, and wielded a chipped sickle to demand justice for her daughter, who had been driven to jump from a building. She didn't cry when her mother-in-law's awl pierced her thigh. But when Zhaodi, limping, asked, “Mother, does it hurt?” she wept. With her life, she taught her four children one thing: You can live on your knees, but you mustn't die on them. Before she died, she hid a slip of paper in a small wooden box. In crooked handwriting, it bore the only sentence she ever learned to write: “I love my children.” A marriage crushed by its times, and a mother who blossomed amid the mud. Have tissues ready before you turn the first page.

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