She was "sold" into a domestic violence marriage by a 300-yuan gift, and it took forty years. On the winter night of 2023, Li Zhaodi froze to death in front of a sewing stall in a village in the city, still clutching a cloth ticket she had saved in 1983.
When I opened my eyes, I was transported back to the autumn of 1983, the night before the engagement party.
In the main room, my parents were negotiating with the matchmaker: three hundred yuan to build a house for my brother and get a wife.
This time, she broke off the engagement on the spot, changed her name to Li Zhiqiu, and entered the county town carrying a sewing machine on her back.
Fake collar, self-employed license, going south to Guangzhou, clothing factory, subscription certificate, setting up factory in Shenzhen... She can recite every gust of wind in the next forty years.
Everyone is waiting to see how the woman whose engagement was broken off will live.
She used a sewing machine, stitch by stitch, to sew out the richest man in the county.
I paid off the red woolen coat I owed myself in my previous life.
