Chapter 1380: Chapter 1380: Bittersweet mories 5 Chapter 1380: Chapter 1380: Bittersweet mories 5 Feng Qingxue saw that the woman was disheveled and filthy, with bones like sticks, looking older than herself by appearance, but she knew she took better care of herself, and many who looked about the sa age were actually younger than she was, so she couldn’t quite determine the woman’s age, just felt pity for her. She rummaged through her handbag, took out a canning jar, and poured so water from her military canteen to give to her.
The limping woman was choking badly and, seeing the water, thanked her, took it, and drained it in one gulp.
“Thank you, thank you!” The limping woman returned the canning jar to Feng Qingxue, stuffing the last piece of coarse cornbread into her mouth, she was imnsely grateful to Qingxue, “Thank you, elder sister.”
Feng Qingxue squatted beside her, “What’s your na? Why are you out begging? Does nobody take care of you?”
In the countryside, it was sowhat easier to beg to get by, with nobody to intervene, while in the city, it was relatively stricter. Begging was seen to tarnish the nation’s image, and adults found begging were usually sent back to their hotowns after their background was checked.
A flash of fear crossed the limping woman’s eyes, “I escaped, escaping ans I can live, going back ans certain death.”
“What happened?” Feng Qingxue and the middle-aged woman asked in unison.
Tears stread down the limping woman’s face, as she choked up: “Ma’am, elder sister, my na is Liu Guixiang, I am twenty-eight years old, and my life has been so hard. But no matter how hard, I’m not afraid, it’s death that I fear! When I was sixteen or seventeen, my parents traded for fifty catties of dried sweet potatoes. The man I married was all right at first, but he changed after I had two daughters. He was obsessed with having a son and killed both girls. When I was pregnant with the third, he hung up and beat until I miscarried, it was a boy. After that, he treated a bit better because he wanted a son from , but then I had another girl, and he broke my leg, refused to treat it, which left crippled, and that girl starved to death too. He still wanted to beat , and I couldn’t take it anymore, so I escaped.”
Feng Qingxue frowned, and the middle-aged woman sighed, “Preferring sons to daughters causes such harm! Won can hold up half the sky; how can there still be people clinging to outdated feudal thinking? So where will you go now that you have escaped?”
Liu Guixiang murmured, “Anywhere is fine, at least I won’t have to suffer beatings.”
“What about your parents’ ho?” asked the middle-aged woman.
Feng Qingxue didn’t ask this question, knowing that since Liu Guixiang didn’t choose to go back to her parents, it ant they were not supportive, they wouldn’t welco her.
Indeed, Liu Guixiang answered: “When I was beaten beyond recognition, I went to my parents for help, but they turned a blind eye and even advised to go back and try to have a son, to live well with my husband. You don’t know how cold my heart was; I should have realized they wouldn’t have any rcy on , otherwise, they wouldn’t have sold for fifty catties of dried sweet potatoes. After I escaped, I never thought of going back to them, because they would surely send back.”
Having said that, she got up and bowed deeply to the middle-aged woman and Feng Qingxue, “I must go now, the further away, the better, so they can’t catch . Thank you for your kindness, good people will be rewarded, and you will surely have good karma!”
The middle-aged woman sighed and said nothing more.
Feng Qingxue thought for a mont, caught up with Liu Guixiang, and gave her ten yuan and a few kilos of Grain Tickets, “You can’t go on like this. Find a place with honest folk to settle down, say you ca out to beg because of famine from so mountain ravine, and you can’t rember where your hotown is. Also, give yourself a new na.”
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