Su Tao is dead.
All her sense of security came from her mother; now that her mother is dead, she doesn't want to live anymore.
She said, "I want that man to regret it, for my younger siblings to hate him, for him to die a horrible death, and for him to live a lonely and miserable life!"
She had witnessed her mother's suffering over the years. "With the three of us to support her, my mother couldn't go out to work, and no one gave her money."
So for all these years, Haiyan has been supported by the dowry she has received.
The more you spend, the less you have left; you have to gradually make up for it with subsidies.
Not only did she not receive any money from her second marriage, she also had to pay out of her own pocket. "My brother's milk powder costs over 100 yuan a can, and he needs four cans a month. How can 300 yuan a month be enough for him?"
Does that mean my wife and youngest daughter don't need to eat?
Disliking that Su Tao was born to his wife and ex-husband, Li Feng never gave Su Tao money to spend and wouldn't let her go to school.
Haiyan refused, going against Li Feng's wishes. The couple argued, and the man went to work in the provincial capital, only returning home once a year.
“My mother used her dowry to make up for my lack of money, which made my stepfather very unhappy. He sent me back to my grandmother’s house in the middle of the night.”
She's called a grandmother, but she's actually a "former grandmother," living with Su Tao's biological father.
"I sat on the edge of the well for a while, and my legs were covered in mosquito bites." Su Tao said, finding humor in her ordeal. "It wasn't dark at night, and the moon shone in the well. I looked out and thought of the Dai girls dancing by the river."
We can't go anywhere. My father has a new wife and they even had a little brother.
Su Tao sat by the well at the door, listening to the occasional sound of a little boy crying in the night, looking at the moon in the sky, and hugging her knees.
I would sit there all night.
That night, she thought a lot. "I can't make things difficult for my mother; she's having a hard time too—"
"I can't make things difficult for my dad, he doesn't like me at all."
Haiyan's first husband was indeed wealthy, but all the money came from his parents. He was incompetent and loved to play around. After Haiyan gave birth to her daughter, he asked her to "go out and work with me, and leave the child with my mother."
Haiyan refused. The baby had just been born and wasn't weaned yet. How could she just abandon the child?
Shouldn't we wait until the child turns one year old before leaving?
Su Tao was very thin when she was born, and Haiyan was afraid that she wouldn't survive, so she told the man, "Go to work first, and I'll come back to you in a few months."
Two or three years passed, and the man had another woman outside the marriage and even had a child with her.
If you come back, don't bother with Haiyan anymore.
"Since we haven't gotten a marriage certificate, you can cry and make a scene as you please."
The man's family is shameless and morally bankrupt. Knowing that Haiyan is gentle, they deliberately pick on her sore spots, saying things like, "Your mother sold you to my family for six thousand yuan, which is a lot of money. Go ask around on the street, who can afford six thousand yuan?"
The implication is that I won't ask you for the six thousand yuan, and you shouldn't stay at my house.
As for Su Tao, "She's a girl. If you don't want her anymore, you can leave her at my house or take her with you, it's up to you."
With a stepmother comes a stepfather, and Haiyan knows the nature of men well; they won't take care of their daughter.
Haiyan dared not leave her daughter behind; she couldn't bear to leave her behind.
Then you'll just have to suffer in silence.
“She deserves to be eating coarse food.” Tian Daying knew Sun Lifang had returned and asked why on the phone, “Why are you looking for Haiyan? She’s not here, she went to the county town. Her boyfriend wants to buy her a dress for the toast.”
Preparing for the wedding banquet.
Haiyan is beautiful, and even though she has a child, is divorced, and has a daughter, many people still come to her door to propose marriage.
"There are too few girls in this area. There are dozens of bachelors who can't find wives even if their families are rich."
After learning of Haiyan's divorce, more than a dozen families came to her to arrange marriages for her, including Tian Daying.
Sun Lifang knew that her own mother loved to play matchmaker.
Hearing Tian Daying's exasperation, it was even more amusing. "I told her to leave that girl behind, but she just couldn't bear to. What could she possibly be reluctant to do?"
Why not just leave it to anyone else? Why insist on carrying it yourself?
It's infuriating to even talk about it. Tian Daying said angrily, "I had already told her about someone I knew very well, someone you used to play with when you were little. I don't know if you remember her, but she didn't want to. She insisted on being with that college student."
Tian Daying is angry because her nephew's marriage fell through, and now she gets angry whenever Haiyan is mentioned.
"Just you wait and see what kind of good life Haiyan will have!"
“You and your sister are both shrewd, so I feel comfortable letting you choose your own men. Having money in your hands means you can't afford to lose out no matter what. But Haiyan—”
She has such a gentle and delicate nature, yet she found a college student, someone so much more accomplished than herself.
Why would someone be interested in her?
She had no self-awareness and fell for him just because he was nice to her.
"Think about it, he's a college student, not bad-looking, he could find anything in school, why would he choose a divorced woman with a child and no job?"
On what grounds?
Although Tian Daying was stingy, he was very clear-headed when it came to his children's marriages. "A good pig should be sold for a good price, right? If it weren't for the daughter, I could find someone even better for Haiyan's face, and I guarantee she'd be living a comfortable life for the rest of her days."
Haiyan has such a weak personality, so she needs to find someone with a similar personality who can't suppress her.
"That's how life goes smoothly, but that brat just won't listen to me!"
As neighbors, Tian Daying lived right next to Haiyan's house, so they saw each other all the time and knew everything about what was happening next door.
After rambling on for a while, the topic returned to what it started with, "Why are you looking for Haiyan? Does she owe you money?"
After Haiyan returned from her husband's family home, she moved back to her parents' house. "No one was home. Her mother and her brother went to Tianjin and settled there. They won't be coming back."
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