My name is Li Jinhua, and I’m a rich woman.
Cough cough cough, everyone says that choice is more important than hard work, and I am the one who makes the right choice every time.
When I was a child, there was a severe drought in my hometown, and there was almost no harvest. Life was so hard.
The remaining food at home was not enough for the family to eat, and the village began to organize a famine escape. My parents asked me to choose, whether to stay at home with my grandparents, or to go south with them to escape the famine.
I didn't want to stay at home because I wouldn't have enough to eat even at home. The remaining food would definitely be left for my younger brother. If I didn't have enough to eat and had to work every day, I felt that I would definitely not be able to survive.
So I chose to go south with them to escape the famine.
The first place we went to was Zhejiang Province. We heard that it was relatively close and also on the coast, with plenty of fish and shrimp to eat. We would definitely not be hungry again after going there.
While fleeing from famine, my parents placed all their love for their children on me alone. By the time we arrived in Zhejiang Province, my mother's health had deteriorated.
Because of the drought, there was no food in Zhejiang Province. My parents and I received some relief food in Zhejiang Province but were persuaded to leave.
My father thought Zhejiang Province was much better than our hometown, so he wanted to give me to a Zhejiang man as a child bride. At least this way I wouldn't have to suffer anymore and tighten my belt, and they could also settle down in Zhejiang Province under the name of being in-laws.
But the child of the family that came to my father was born with a cripple, and his legs were as thin as a stick, and my father disliked him very much.
My parents loved me very much at that time, so they would never force me. My father said to me, "My daughter, I don't like you. Do you like me? If you don't like me either, we won't stay here. Your mother and I will support our old bones and send you to a place where you will have enough food and drink."
"Dad, why else would you say you're my dad? I don't like you either, let's keep going."
I didn’t know at that time that my mother was already dying, but even if my father knew that my mother would not live long, he would definitely choose to leave.
He didn't want to hand my life over to a man who couldn't take responsibility for me, and my mother thought so too.
So she dragged her injured body and continued walking with us.
"My daughter, I heard that the neighboring province is a major grain-producing province. If we go there, there will definitely be land that can accommodate us." My father was very optimistic. He always felt that a girl like me, who was not bad-looking, could work, and had a big butt, would be popular no matter where I went.
My mother didn't walk with us to Gan Province in the end. She was still talking and laughing with us on the morning of her departure. She didn't eat anything at noon and just left without saying goodbye. She leaned against a tree stump by the roadside. My father and I thought she was asleep.
Who knew she would leave like that, without saying a word. There was still a smile on her face when she left, as if she saw me living a good life in Gan Province.
I left crying. My father and I didn't have the strength to bury my mother, so we could only cover her in the dry grass on the roadside.
My father said at the time: "This is good, maybe your mother can save passers-by, which can be regarded as accumulating merit for you. My daughter will definitely live a better and better life in the second half of her life."
I didn't understand what this sentence meant at the time. I just knew that my father said that my mother could still do good things and be good to me after her death. I was in a very good mood at the time. When I followed my father to Gan Province, I became that lively and cheerful little girl again.
The policies in Gan Province at that time were not perfect. My father and I wandered through several cities. The only good thing was that there was really no shortage of food here, and many people were willing to give us a ride after we finished our work for them.
The reason why I was taken in by Xi County was because the county magistrate at that time was a person who particularly liked to meddle in other people's affairs. I was very hungry at the time, and the line leader was wearing a pair of green pants. I mistook the pants for grass leaves on the roadside and pounced on them and bit them.
So he brought my father and I back to Xi County. He asked me what kind of place I wanted to live in. I said as long as I could have food to eat, it would be fine. I didn’t want to go hungry anymore.
He was amused by me and said that the commune with the best food in Xi County was Heping Commune, where there was no need to worry about food, but it was very far from the county seat and close to the depths of the mountains.
It is said that it has already bordered Fujian Province.
Of course my father and I had no objections. We finally found a place that would take us in, so we naturally ran over with many thanks.
I always thought my father was in good health. At least he wouldn't die suddenly like my mother.
But I seemed to have been wrong. My father worked very hard in those years and tried his best to earn work points. The work he did was obviously enough for him and I to live a good life, but he just made sure I had enough food and clothes.
As for himself, he will deal with it if he can, and will only invest a little bit in himself if he really can't deal with it.
One time I heard him say to the team leader: "My body has been broken for a long time, just like her mother. I don't know how long I can hold on. I just want to hold on until she gets married and watch her get married. I don't want to spend a penny now. I will save it all for her. When she gets married, I will give it to her."
I heard him ask the captain to take better care of me when he was gone.
From then on, I knew that not only would I lose my mother, but I would soon be a fatherless child as well.
Maybe my father was in a good mood during those years, and he held on until I was twenty years old.
When I met Dalang, his father was still in good health and his mother smiled at everyone she met and looked very kind.
At that time, who in the whole village wouldn’t say that their family had a good tradition?
Although I don't have a mother, I am good at work. I could get seven work points when I was fourteen. I also look good, at least better than most girls in the village. Also, Dalang's mother stared at my butt for a long time that day and was very satisfied.
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