Su Wei found it unbelievable. What kind of ridiculous rule was this? Was eating only one meal a day considered not being greedy? She asked, "Master, aren't you hungry eating only one meal a day?"

The nun said, "When I was at my parents' home, I had three meals a day. I was certainly hungry when I first entered the Buddhist order, but I got used to it over time. If you have nothing else to say, I'll take my leave now."

Li Yuzhu said, "Thank you, Master. Please go back now."

Nigu said "You're welcome," picked up her bowl and chopsticks, and left the room to go back inside.

After the nun left, Li Yuzhu said, "Sister-in-law, let's go to the main hall to offer incense to Guanyin Bodhisattva."

Su Wei said "okay," stood up, and walked out of the guest room with Li Yuzhu, heading towards the main hall.

The two entered the main hall, where nuns were meditating and chanting sutras in front of the statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva. They walked to the front and saw a long-haired girl meditating and chanting sutras. Her long black hair was tied up on her head. She might be a nun with her hair tied up in name, or she might be just here for a vacation like them.

A nun stood up and handed incense to the two of them.

Li Yuzhu and Su Wei took the incense from the nun, walked to the statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva, lit the incense with the flame of the candle, then bowed several times to the statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva with both hands, then put the incense into the incense burner and knelt on the ground to kowtow several times.

Just as the two women were about to leave the main hall, a girl suddenly burst in. She was about eighteen or nineteen years old, about 1.69 meters tall, with long hair that reached her waist. She was slender, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and was very beautiful.

She entered the main hall, tears welling in her eyes, and said, "Master, I want to become a nun. Please take me in."

The nun stood up, walked to the young woman, and put her hands together, saying, "Amitabha, benefactor, if you are seeking nuns due to heartbreak or other reasons, I cannot accept you, for you have wounds in your heart but no Buddha. If these are your reasons, please return."

The girl's eyes were filled with tears; it was easy for anyone to see that her decision to become a nun was not a natural or voluntary one. A girl like her wouldn't choose this path without extraordinary experiences.

Su Wei said, "Master, could the young lady stay in the same room with us tonight? Perhaps I can persuade her."

The girl said with tears in her eyes, "My mind is made up to become a nun, and you cannot persuade me otherwise."

“Amitabha Buddha, this humble nun can easily see what happened to you, benefactor. You and the two benefactors should go back and rest first, and think it over carefully tonight.” The nun said, glancing at the long-haired girl meditating and chanting on the ground, and continued, “If you insist on becoming a nun, then tomorrow you and this benefactor will be ordained.”

Li Yuzhu and Su Wei only then understood that the girl who was meditating and chanting sutras was waiting to be formally ordained as a nun the next day, and her beautiful hair would be shaved off by the nun.

The girl finally nodded and followed Li Yuzhu and the other person out of the main hall.

The three of them returned to the room, which had four beds, each fully equipped with bedding.

After the three sat down, Li Yuzhu asked, "Young lady, I have a feeling that a lot has happened to you. Can you tell me about it? Maybe I can help you."

The girl cried after hearing this, sobbing, "My parents shouldn't have had me."

Next, the girl told the two of them about her family affairs.

The girl's name is Xiaohan. She was born in the late 1970s and is nineteen years old this year.

After she could remember, her father worked in a coal mine in another city for many years.

Before she was ten years old, her family was doing alright. Her mother farmed every day, and her father worked to earn money and brought it home to her mother.

Later, her father suddenly stopped bringing money home and rarely came home to visit her and her mother.

Later, her mother took her to a coal mine in another city to find her father. Xiaohan never dreamed that her father would marry a woman at the coal mine.

My parents got married when my father was twenty and my mother was only seventeen. My mother was too young to get a marriage certificate back then.

The two often argued, so they never got a marriage certificate. The father's marriage to someone else outside the marriage did not count as bigamy, so the mother and father's marriage was illegal.

In a fit of rage, the mother threw her daughter Xiaohan to her father, then ran up the mountain and jumped off a cliff to her death.

Xiaohan held her mother's body and cried her heart out. Later, her father buried her mother at the foot of the cliff.

After her mother died, Xiaohan lived with her father. Her stepmother was also remarried and had a daughter who was a year younger than Xiaohan. After her father and stepmother got married, they had two more children. Her stepmother didn't like her at all and she was beaten and scolded by her stepmother every day.

Conversely, the daughter born to the stepmother and her ex-husband became the father's biological daughter, while the biological father became Xiaohan's stepfather, frequently abusing and beating her along with her stepmother.

There's a saying that goes, "If there's a stepmother, there's a stepfather," meaning that a father who marries a stepmother is more likely to listen to her slander and mistreat his children from his previous marriage, just like a heartless stepfather.

However, this statement is not literally what it means, but rather a sentimental understanding and a sense of reality. It mainly expresses the idea that if a stepmother exists in a person's life, the biological father will treat his biological children the same way as the stepmother.

Conversely, if it's the biological mother, it's a different story. If there's a biological mother, there's also a biological father. Generally, stepfathers listen to the mother and treat the children brought by their wives like their own children.

This fully demonstrates that most women are indeed inferior to men in this respect; generally, women are too narrow-minded and cannot tolerate their husbands' children from previous marriages.

A wife's children from her previous marriage can turn her husband into her biological father, while a husband's children from his previous marriage can turn him into a monster. He will follow his wife and abuse his biological children like a stepfather.

That's why there's a saying: "If there's a stepmother, there's a stepfather."

Many women say that being a stepmother is difficult, but it's not that being a stepmother is difficult; it's that their hearts aren't in the right place. If you treat your husband's children from his previous marriage like your own children, is being a stepmother still difficult?

If your husband can be a good stepfather, why can't you be a good stepmother? Have you truly treated your husband's children from his previous marriage and your own children equally? You should examine whether you have the right heart.

Xiaohan attended school for three years while living with her mother. Later, she went to live with her father and stepmother, who stopped letting her go to school. Her stepmother's family lived in the mountains and raised a few sheep. She was made to herd the sheep on the mountain every day. Now she is nineteen years old and can only write her own name. She knows where the toilet is when she goes out.

When Xiaohan was seventeen, she was frequently beaten by her father due to her stepmother's instigation. Later, her father actually listened to her stepmother and sold her to human traffickers.

The traffickers sold her to a rural mountain area thousands of miles away, where a seventeen-year-old girl married a man in his thirties.

Xiaohan resisted having sex with the man, but the man was a terrible person. He tied her up and beat her that night, and finally forced her to have sex with him as his "husband and wife".

A seventeen-year-old girl could hardly endure such physical torment. After the first time they had sex, she stopped refusing, so at least she wouldn't be beaten anymore.

But the thought of escaping never left her mind; she was unwilling to spend her life with such an inhuman man.

Xiaohan gave birth to a girl in the spring of her eighteenth year, and as a result, she was beaten by her husband during her postpartum period, who called her a slut who couldn't bear a son.