For three hundred yuan as a bride price, my parents pushed me into the quagmire with their own hands.
In the 1980s, Jiang Shiyue married into the Li family and worked hard every day. However, she still faced difficulties from her mother-in-law. Her husband, Li Dong, was lazy and suspicious, and after going out to work, he found someone else.
She begged to no avail, and her parents' family refused to take her in. When she fell ill, she couldn't even afford the money to buy medicine.
Fortunately, she learned how to embroider, which was her only way out.
Under the kerosene lamp, she embroidered every night to save money. She decisively filed for divorce and left home.
He went to the market and learned how to make a living by setting up a stall, and slowly started a rural embroidery workshop, making money with the poor women in the village.