章)The smell of disinfectant choked her nose. Liu Qiaoyuns head hurt and she was a little confused. She opened her eyes and saw a serious female doctor examining her.
Liu Qiaoyun tried to recall that she was too late after school and was in a hurry to go to work. When she was crossing the road, she was hit by a car and flew away. Was she sent to the hospital by a kind person?
However, why did this hospital look so wrong? The room was very small and cold, with a cement floor, wooden doors and windows, and the yellow paint on them was almost peeling off. There were very shabby wire beds in the ward, which did not look like a modern hospital at all. She looked around and saw her silhouette in the window.
This person is not her! The girl was at most 18 or 19 years old, skinny, with two long braids, and wearing a patched gray cloth dress with protruding knees. It must have been worn for a long time. The shoes on her feet were also tattered and there was some mud on them.
What is going on?
The doctor said, "You fainted because of malnutrition and low blood sugar. You need to rest well and replenish your nutrition."
At this time, someone outside the door said, "What the hell! You are not from the city, why are you so pretentious? You come to the hospital for such a trivial matter?"
A short and fat woman with dark skin came in and pulled Liu Qiaoyun out of bed.
Liu Qiaoyun was caught off guard and staggered and almost fell to the ground.
"You are the patients mother? Why do you treat her like this?"
"I am her mother-in-law. What? Do you want to say that I abuse her?" The woman spit on the ground and said viciously with triangular eyes: "If a bug comes out when eating melon seeds, how can you come out? You are so kind, why dont you give me some money to replenish her nutrition. Otherwise, shut up!"
The doctor didnt want to cause trouble, so he left quickly.
The woman had no scruples anymore, and dragged Liu Qiaoyun hard, cursing as she walked out: "You spendthrift, you let the doctor see you once, and the familys living expenses for half a month are gone. Its all Yinhuas meddling that forced her to borrow a mule cart to send you to the town! Are you dead? You just let the doctor see you, and you spent so much money all at once, why dont you just die!"
Liu Qiaoyun finally knew what was going on. She was inside the book!
Last night she read a novel about rural changes, mainly about a couple of college students who returned to the village to start a business and led the villagers to get rich. There was a little character in the novel with the same name as her, and the fate of this girl left a deep impression on her.
Liu Qiaoyun was married to the Shi family in the same village by her parents at the age of fifteen, in exchange for a betrothal gift of 500 yuan. Liu Qiaoyuns husband Shi Tao worked outside and was not at home all year round. She was treated like a cow and a horse by her in-laws, plowing the land, cooking, washing clothes, cooking, raising pigs, and serving the whole family in the Shi family.
She worked hard and gave birth to children, hoping that she could raise them one day and get through the hard times. However, she got cancer before she could live a good life. Her husband found a rich old woman outside and couldnt wait to kick her out of the house.
Liu Qiaoyuns family thought she was a disgrace and didnt let her go home or care about her.
In the end, Liu Qiaoyun had nowhere to go and could only jump into the river with her young children.
Liu Qiaoyun was speechless when she read it. Even if she wasnt the protagonist, it couldnt be written like this, right? And how could Liu Qiaoyun be so soft and be bullied like this! This was 1987, not the old society!
"Im an orphan too, but Ive never been bullied like this. If I were this woman, Id see how Id deal with them!"
Unexpectedly, the next day, she came into the book!