When Lin Weichuan came here, she was sixteen years old and her family was too poor to open the pot.
The second brother was seriously ill, so my father squatted on the doorstep and smoked dry cigarettes all night. When it was almost dawn, he said: "Li Yapo came to town and said that the General's Mansion was buying girls."
My mother knelt on the ground and kowtowed, her forehead bleeding.
"Dad, Mom," she said, "I'm going."
When I pressed my fingerprints on the deed of betrayal, my hands were shaking. Twelve taels of silver in exchange for a life. My mother sewed five copper plates into the corners of her clothes and whispered, "Just in case... Just in case it is useful."
When the door of the house closed behind her, she heard her mother shout "Da Ya", which was as light as smoke and dispersed as soon as she blew it.
She didn't look back.
On the day she entered the house, she thought: I want to buy myself back.
Later she actually bought it. For ten taels of silver, the flames licked the deed paper and burned it cleanly.
Later, the general fell in love with her and said he could give her a title. The prince bowed his head and said that he could use his country as a retainer.
She stood among them, her sleeves filled with wind.
She thought of Su Wanru from Qiuwu Courtyard, the third girl from the General's Mansion, who was the master, but who was also deducted monthly money, arranged marriages, and used as a bargaining chip. The difference between a gorgeous cage and a crude cage is only fifty steps and a hundred steps.
Purpose: Women should be independent and independent, not dependent on anyone.