Introduction to "The Widowed Sister-in-Law"
Twenty-four-year-old Su Guilan lost her husband after three years of marriage. Childless, she had countless opportunities to remarry and enjoy happiness, but because of her late husband's entrustment on his deathbed, she chose to stay alone in the mountains, guarding her thirteen-year-old brother-in-law Chen Huaimin through eighteen years of bitter cold. In order to support her brother-in-law's studies, she braved rumors and criticism from the whole village, walked on ice and crossed mountains in the cold winter to deliver food, climbed dangerous cliffs alone to collect medicines, fell from a mountain and suffered an old chest injury that was irreversible, and could not bear to take medicine for treatment.
The young Huai Min once deliberately alienated and treated him coldly out of vanity, but Su Guilan was always gentle and tolerant, never showing any resentment. After Huai Min was admitted to a key university, established a career in the provincial capital and bought a house, she was determined to take her to the city for her elderly care and medical treatment, but Su Guilan did not want to drag him down and stuck to her hometown and refused to leave. She fell off a cliff during a heavy rainstorm, and the old disease caused by eighteen years of hard work completely broke out. After three days and nights of rescue, she finally passed away. Among the relics were the bankbooks she had saved over the years and left for Huai Min to get married, and the red paper that had never been opened to propose marriage, which revealed the tenderness and loneliness she had hidden for half her life. The story uses the regret of being separated by life and death to describe the tenacity of a lower-class sister-in-law to keep her promise and keep her word, and to describe a long and heavy love that is difficult to repay in a lifetime under the prejudice of the world.
Purpose: A promise worth a thousand pieces of gold