When Jinxiu came through, the original owner was wearing a red hijab and waiting to be worshiped - she was sold by her own mother to a lame old bachelor in his forties from the next village for three hundred yuan.
The suona playing outside the door sounded like mourning. The original owner cried all night and accepted his fate, but she couldn't accept it.
In front of the whole village, she tore off her hijab, broke off the engagement, and threw the 300 yuan gift back in her mother's face: "Whoever receives the money will marry you. If you like Zhao Laosi, marry yourself."
Carrying the seven and eighty-five yuan saved by the original owner and an unfinished embroidery of "Birds Paying Attention to the Phoenix", she walked out of the courtyard gate without looking back.
When I arrived in the county town, I sold embroidery products, set up street stalls, rented old bungalows, and opened embroidery workshops. Relying on her ancestral embroidery skills and her background as a fashion designer in her previous life, she managed to pull herself out of poverty. Lu Chen, the aloof technician from the state-owned factory next door, said "passing by" and ran to her embroidery workshop every two days. Today I have a button that fell off and I need to mend it. Tomorrow the factory work clothes need to be changed. The day after tomorrow, I just come to the door with two kilograms of ribs: "Comrade Chen Jinxiu, I will give you my salary, can you take care of my meal?"
The embroidery workshop grew bigger and bigger, the widow Aunt Liu came, the best friend Cuilan who was domestically abused came, and the desperate girls and wives in the village came. From an old bungalow to the Jinxiu Clothing Cooperative, from a county stall to winning first prize at a provincial exhibition, and finally standing on the stage of foreign cultural exchanges, behind her stood an entire army of women who had been led out of the quagmire by her.
Throughout her life, she went from exchanging relatives and escaping marriage to getting a beautiful body, with countless stitches and nights in between. But every stitch is worth it, and every thread is embroidered with light.
The days are still long, and she has plenty of time to make the whole family and the whole village rich, stitch by stitch.
