Her father sold her to a forty-year-old lame man for eight hundred yuan.
Gu Nian climbed over the wall and ran away.
Twenty-two-year-old Chen Yishan is poor and bored.
Aunt Wang next door is planning to sell her to Shanxi. A second-rate man comes to visit her and is frivolous. Her father comes to rob her with a buyer. Chen Yishan always stood in front of her, holding the hammer.
He said, "If you don't want to leave, just stay and work. I'll provide for your food."
There was no bride price, no wedding, just a crumpled marriage certificate. He didn't know how to love someone. He only knew how to lay the kang for her with the best cotton-padded jacket, take her to escape with the money he had saved for half a year, and hold up the red-hot iron in front of the person who despised her.