Su Wanqing survived her seventeenth year through the alcoholism of Leng Kangtou and her stepfather.
Her mother died early in childbirth, so she became a free long-term worker in the family: feeding pigs and washing clothes, pulling in twin siblings, eating scraps and wearing old clothes, walking on thin ice every day. She was most afraid of her stepfather being drunk late at night - his turbid and sticky eyes were always spinning around her plump figure, like a poisonous snake that made her breathless.
On the 20th of the twelfth lunar month, her stepfather was burdened with gambling debts, so he turned around and priced her at fifty yuan, which was given to the evil god Li Weiguo, who was shocked when the whole commune heard about it.
The man is a retired scout with a three-inch scar across his face. Rumor has it that he killed his fiancée, and even the toughest thorn in the quarry's legs went weak when he saw him. Everyone guessed that Su Wanqing would not live for more than half a year after her marriage. She was also clutching the scissors and prepared to fight to the death.
But no one knew that the rough man holding a pickaxe to hold down the entire mountain would clumsily give her warm red hands when he came home and pile all the fine grains into her bowl. When her stepfather came to act, he would kick down the courtyard door and protect her behind him in a hoarse voice: "My wife, is it your turn to bully her?"
She avoided him and was afraid of him, but gradually discovered that this forced marriage that everyone avoided was actually her own salvation that he had been planning for half a year.
