Cuihua was a child bride that Granny Liu bought for three yuan. When Liu Wang joined the army, Granny Liu was worried that the family line would end, so she arranged for Cuihua to marry Liu Wang. The marriage was just a formality, a mere formality.
They didn't even hold a banquet.
She is Liu's wife.
After Liu Wang joined the army, she became pregnant. Granny Liu was overjoyed and her attitude towards her changed a lot. However, even after the child was born and she found out it was a girl, Granny Liu didn't even glance at her.
later--
She gave birth to three girls in a row, enduring a lot of hardship. She tried all sorts of folk remedies in order to have more children.
Cuihua stared intently at Liu Wang.
“It’s true that your Liu family bought me for three yuan, but Liu Wang, how have I treated your family for the past twenty years? I’ve served you and your daughter like a beast of burden, and what have I gotten in return? My daughters are wearing tattered clothes in the dead of winter. You earn a little over a hundred yuan a month, and you don’t even have enough money to buy clothes for your daughters? Liu Enci eats meat and drinks malted milk powder, but what have my daughters eaten?”
She stared intently at Liu Wang, "I want a divorce."
Liu Wang laughed in anger.
"Divorce? What do you have? You can't do anything. If it weren't for the Liu family giving you a meal, you'd be wandering somewhere right now. You want a divorce?" Liu Wang thought she'd lost her mind.
Cuihua recalled the time when Lu Xingxing was cursing, how she fiercely protected her daughter, no matter who the other party was, she was confident in protecting her daughter.
Liu Wang is right; she lacks confidence and doesn't even have an income.
She looked down at her cloth shoes that exposed her feet. These shoes were the ones that Granny Liu didn't want anymore. Her feet were bigger than Granny Liu's, so she cut a hole in the toe of the shoes to make them more comfortable to wear.
She understood what Liu Wang meant.
Ultimately, she was just a maid that Liu Wang's family bought for three yuan.
However, she gave birth to a son.
That son also disliked his mother.
"Even if I'm just a maid, you should still pay me wages." She suddenly stood up and stood firmly in front of her daughter. "Liu Wang, I've served you in your Liu family for over twenty years. I was bought by you when I was five. Even if it's just wages, you should give me a lot of money."
"After we get married, in your eyes, am I your wife or your maid?"
"I know you look down on me. You like cultured people, and you like Su Wenxia, but you can't help it. If you abandon me, your future will be ruined. Don't make yourself sound so noble."
"We're married, so half of your money belongs to me."
Liu Wang didn't even care about the pain in his head. What happened to Cuihua?
Little did he know that when Lu Xingxing raised his hand to slap Granny Liu, she stood not far away with her three daughters. All the anger she had been holding in her was released, and she realized that she could fight back.
No one ever taught her how to resist. Even the women in the family compound only advised her to send her mother-in-law away and that things would be fine once the children grew up. What else could she do but endure it?
She never imagined there could be another way to rebel, to not have to submit to fate. Even if she was a girl, her mother could stand in front of her and shield her from the wind and rain.
She had been a maid her whole life, and she couldn't let her daughter suffer the same fate.
"Stop making a fuss, Mother is injured. I'll have her give you five yuan later." Liu Wang realized that Cuihua had changed, but he couldn't let his marriage fall apart, otherwise his future would truly be over.
Today we have offended the Lu family, and Cuihua still needs to apologize to them.
Fires must not start in the backyard.
"not enough!"
"You filthy woman!" Granny Liu lunged at her, ready to strike.
Cuihua, with a strength she didn't know she possessed, suddenly flung the person away, causing their head to slam heavily onto the ground once more.
The person suddenly fainted.
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