It's a heart-warming dream that lovers almost cannot have:
In the twelfth lunar month of winter, when the plague closed down the village, Liu Qiniang muddleheadedly married a man she didn't love and gave birth to a daughter. Within two years, she was kicked out.
Her husband's family doesn't tolerate her, her mother's family doesn't want her, so where can she go with her children?
Shen Yanhuai is a minor official who came to guard the plague village. It is said that he recently lost his wife and was demoted because he contradicted his boss due to the situation.
After breaking into the temple on a snowy night, he looked at the shivering Liu Qiniang and his daughter. His heart softened. He took off his cloak and wrapped Qiniang and them tightly: "Come with me first. The world is huge. Can you still make a way out?"
A way to survive? Liu Qiniang follows him!
But a man and a woman alone, under the eaves in front of the porch, with everyone talking, how could it be so easy to escape the judgment?
People's words were so frightening that Liu Qiniang had no choice but to move out of Shen Yanhuai's home and set up a small stall at the corner of the Yamen intersection, where she supported herself and her daughter on a bowl of wontons worth three cents each.
Shen Yanhuai came occasionally, sat down silently, ate a bowl, put down his money and left.
With so much money, he was obviously... Obviously worried about the well-being of their mother and daughter, and he had feelings in his heart!
Liu Qiniang picked up the silver ingot and chased after it, stuffing it back into his hand: "You gave me so much silver, can't you handle it yourself??"
Where would Shen Yanhuai be willing to accept it? She added while hesitating, "Well, I heard that you are going to the neighboring county to run an errand tomorrow. I will make some more dry food and treat it like you bought it. I will bring it to you after closing the stall, okay?"
The night was dark and raining, but Shen Yanhuai had been waiting for her, with red candles full of tears and people like silhouettes.
Everyone laughed at Liu Qiniang for being so shameless, a village woman who wanted to remarry an official widower with an oil bottle. This time she figured it out. It was others who said bad things, and she had to live a good life by herself. She didn't care - if Shen Yanhuai rescued her from the sea of suffering, she would rescue him from the prison of his heart.
She and him, they should be each other's ferry.
They should survive all the tribulations and finally become a couple.
Intention: Don't deceive yourself, don't give up on yourself
