It turns out that some people can indeed starve themselves to the point where they are unable to move.

Ye Yun just poked it lightly.

Luo Xiujuan fell down immediately.

In the end, Ye Yun hurriedly helped her up and fed her a bowl of noodle tea.

After drinking a bowl of noodle tea, Luo Xiujuan leaned against the head of the kang to rest for a while and finally recovered some strength. She propped herself up and got off the kang, standing properly by the head of the kang, guarding her son, holding her son's hand, and looking at Ye Yun with tears in her withered eyes with great gratitude.

"Thank you, sister. The bedding on your bed was soiled by us mother and daughter. I will wash it for you later..."

That's not necessary.

Given her current physical condition, she would probably faint before the sheets even enter the water.

"Where are you and your son going? My place is small and I can't keep you here for too long. Which village are you from?" Ye Yun asked Luo Xiujuan to sit down and looked at her calmly.

Nowadays, there are actually quite a few beggars.

After the reform and land distribution, everyone no longer ate collective meals, which meant that the government no longer intervened in the affairs of ordinary people's families.

Whether a person can have food to eat depends entirely on the person who is the head of the family.

This rule also leads to the situation that when disputes arise in some families, the weaker party will be taken advantage of. The simplest and most brutal way is to deprive them of food, or to be kicked out of the house, leaving them without a house or land, and having to wander and beg for a living.

The biggest victims are women.

When they get married, their husband's family no longer has their land, and the land left in their parents' home will not be divided up to provide food for them as a married woman. If they have a conflict or fall out with their husband's family, the most direct way for their husband's family to control them is to not give them food.

In this situation, they either starve or leave home and beg for food to survive.

This is also the reason why most daughters-in-law are controlled by their mothers-in-law and dare not talk back.

What is the most important thing these days?

Filling your stomach is the most important thing.

People in the mountains don’t have much ambition. They don’t even know what ambition is. For them, life is worth it as long as they can fill their stomachs every day, stay alive, and die of old age.

Is Luo Xiujuan also one of these?

However, Luo Xiujuan shook her head with tears in her eyes and said softly, "I don't know either. I don't know where I'm going..."

"I just remember that I walked for a very long time and climbed over many mountains. My home is very far away from here..."

She was kicked out of her home.

Not her husband's family, but her own home.

She got pregnant before marriage, and her parents were angry at her behavior and wanted to kick her out of the house. However, her eldest sister-in-law had been unable to give birth to a child for three years after she got married, so her parents let her keep the child.

Her eldest brother and sister-in-law were very concerned about the baby in her belly, so after the baby was born, she handed the baby over to her eldest brother and sister-in-law with confidence.

But the good times didn’t last long.

But within half a year, the eldest sister-in-law also became pregnant. After their child was born, he turned around and returned her child to her.

She is happy of course.

The child can call her mom now.

But she was also worried. She was no longer useful and was afraid that her parents would kick her and the child out of the house like they had done before. What's more, her sister-in-law was not a good person. As early as the birth of the child, she began to vaguely dislike having her as an extra mouth to feed in the family.

It was fine at first.

She was very understanding and afraid of being disliked by her parents, brother and sister-in-law, so she took care of all the laundry and cooking, and also rushed to do the work in the fields, hoping that her parents, brother and sister-in-law would continue to love her child.

But as my sister-in-law's children grew up, the family gradually became unable to make ends meet, her brother and sister-in-law became more and more dissatisfied with her, and the two children often had frictions. Even though her child was always the one who was beaten, my sister-in-law was still dissatisfied. Finally, her son's finger was bitten by my sister-in-law's son again, and her son had to push my sister-in-law's son in pain. My sister-in-law was furious and drove her out of the house with bad words.

She has no choice.

When her sister-in-law kicked her out of the house, she showed no mercy at all and made public the fact that she was pregnant before marriage. The whole village knew about it.

My sister-in-law was so happy and looking forward to having a son, but he turned out to be a bastard.

She, who had always claimed to be grateful to her sister-in-law, has now turned into a shameless bitch.

No village was willing to take them in.

Those without land are called vagrants, those without houses are called hooligans. As a hooligan, what else can she do except taking her son to beg for food everywhere?

Fortunately, she didn't eat much.

The child also has a small appetite.

There are wild fruits in the mountains, and there is spring water when she is thirsty. A steamed bun she can get will make her happy for a long time.

Later, the weather turned cold.

The child is sick.

Wild fruits could not cure her illness, spring water could not quench her thirst, she could not get food, and ended up here...

"So where do you want to go?"

When Ye Yun learned about her past, she did not comment and only asked about her future.

Luo Xiujuan was silent. She lowered her head and thought for a long time before she said, "I don't know. I still don't know where I want to go. Maybe... I want to go to the provincial capital, but I don't know the way. I walked for a long time with my children and climbed over several mountains, but I still couldn't see the shadow of the provincial capital."

Ye Yun was stunned. "Provincial capital?"

Luo Xiujuan nodded, and with a trace of loneliness, she looked at the sleeping child and sighed, "I think, I should go find the child's father..."

Ye Yun's expression changed slightly.

"Why is the child's father in the provincial capital?"

"His father was an educated youth sent to the countryside."

"So five years ago, when the educated youth began to return to the city in large numbers, his father abandoned you and your son and left?"

"How do you know?"

Luo Xiujuan looked up in surprise, staring at her blankly with astonished eyes.

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