"You are also the first person in Mantou Village to advocate equality between men and women. You are the first person who dares to propose a divorce to a man. You are the first person who rebelled against his fate."

……

After the lecture, Tao Xiaoqi left Ni Linli behind, and before she could ask, Ni Linli burst into tears.

After crying with her for a while, Tao Xiaoqi became a little anxious. Lin Nanshan was still waiting for her outside, and she had no plans to speak.

"Why don't you go to my place, let's talk on the way?" Tao Xiaoqi suggested.

Ni Linli shook her head, "I have to go back, Chunchun at home is waiting for me."

"Chunchun?"

"My daughter."

"Oh." Tao Xiaoqi understood.

"What about your husband?"

The corner of Ni Linli's mouth twitched, "Leave."

Tao Xiaoqi actually made a comparison in her heart. When she got married, she hoped that the bridge would collapse.

"Then why didn't you go home?" Tao Xiaoqi asked, having never seen her again in Mantou Village.

"How can a divorced woman have the face to go back?" Ni Linli said with a wry smile.

"Then where do you live?"

"Under the bridge hole in the southern suburbs." Ni Linli whispered.

Tao Xiaoqi gasped, "What about your child?"

"I live there too. When I come out today, I will entrust her to someone else to look after her."

Tao Xiaoqi got up and left, taking the shawl, the coat, and the bag.

After she finished packing, she was a little annoyed when she saw that Ni Linli was still sitting still, "What are you still doing there? Let's go."

Ni Linli looked bewildered, "Where are you going?"

"Go pick up your baby, you can live in the bridge hole, your daughter is still so young, how can you live?"

Ni Linli wanted to say it's okay, there are companions there, and there are quite a few people.But without saying a word, Tao Xiaoqi had already walked out.

She had to go out with it.

Seeing his wife coming out, Li Nanshan got out of the car and opened the door, only to find that there was someone behind her.

"Lin Li, sit in front and show the way." Tao Xiaoqi opened the door of the front seat and let Ni Linli get on.

Li Nanshan was at a loss.

"Ni Linli, don't you know her?"

"Ni Linli?" Li Nanshan said the name, "I know you."

"She and her husband are divorced, and now they live in the bridge hole, and they have a doll with them. Let's go and pick him up first." Tao Xiaoqi explained simply.

Li Nanshan understood and got into the car from the other side.

Ni Linli looked at the brand new car in front of her, but didn't get in it for a long time.

"Anything else?" Tao Xiaoqi asked.

"I know what you're going to do, Doctor Tao, I'm not here today to ask for help, I'm just here to listen to your lecture, that's enough."

"So you plan to take the child to be a beggar in the future, and raise her with a hundred meals? Make her unable to hold her head up for the rest of her life?"

Ni Linli twisted the corner of her clothes, she didn't think so, but she seemed to do exactly that.

"I have a factory, and I have been recruiting workers. You know, if I can use others, I can use you, unless you want to get something for nothing and wait for others to give you alms."

"That's not the case. I didn't think about waiting for others to give me money. I just need a little strength. I need the strength to live!" Ni Linli finally said.

"Then put away your tears and prove to me with actions that what tears can do, sweat can do."

Ni Linli finally got into the car.

When he arrived at the bridge hole, looking at the women and children sleeping in a row on the ground, Tao Xiaoqi seemed to understand what Ni Linli said.

Here are all women who suffered domestic violence after marriage and were not treated by their in-laws. They couldn't bear it, and they dared not go back to their natal homes. They had nowhere to go and had no one to depend on. Most of them gave birth to daughters. , or unborn.

Tao Xiaoqi thought that Ni Linli was the only one to be rescued, but she didn't expect it was a group of people.

She left, and before she left, she left a sentence, "You wait for me here, and I will come back."

On the way, Tao Xiaoqi's head was spinning rapidly, she was thinking about whom to contact for this matter.

"Civil Affairs Bureau." Li Nanshan said.

"Ah, isn't that the place to get a marriage certificate?" Tao Xiaoqi had the impression that the Civil Affairs Bureau was the place to get married.

"It is also a place for social assistance, and homeless people belong to their category." Li Nanshan said.

"Then go to the Civil Affairs Bureau." Tao Xiaoqi said.

"It's late today, everyone is off work, let's do it tomorrow, come back after work tomorrow."

It was agreed to come back tomorrow, but Li Nanshan received a call from his elder brother in the middle of the night, saying that his mother was dying.

The news was like a bolt from the blue, and the couple drove back overnight.

When we got home, Mrs. Li was really dying, and she was hanging on her last breath. The doctor also invited over, checked, and sighed, telling the children and grandchildren who could come back to come and have a look.

Li Nanshan's eyes were scarlet, he called out to his mother, and knelt down in front of the bed.

Mrs. Li opened her mouth, her eyes were wide open, but she couldn't speak, her expression was almost distorted.

"Mother, you go, we will take good care of daddy, we will take good care of the chickens, ducks and geese at home, so go ahead." The sister-in-law cried.

But Mrs. Li just couldn't swallow that breath, she looked outside the door, tears kept streaming out.

Li Nanshan suddenly realized something, "Did you call Nan Qiu?"

"Yes, on the way back." The elder brother replied.

Li Nanshan leaned in front of his mother, and asked in her ear, "Mother, do you miss Nanqiu?"

Mrs. Li didn't even have the strength to nod her head, but she blinked suddenly.

Li Nanshan suppressed the grief in his heart, and took out his phone, "I'll call Nan Qiu right away, you wait."

The phone was connected, and Li Nanshan turned on the external voice, and there was the whistling wind and the honking of the car, and Li Nanqiu's crying came intermittently.

"Nanqiu, don't cry first, mother wants to hear you, so please talk to mother carefully."

The crying over there was a little quieter, and then I heard a "mother" coming over.

Tao Xiaoqi noticed that the corners of her mother-in-law's eyes were raised, then the wrinkles on her forehead flattened, then the corners of her mouth, and finally the whole face relaxed.

Then she heard the cries of people in the room, and she realized that her mother-in-law was gone.

Mrs. Li left, and before she left, she was most worried about her daughter, which was beyond people's expectations.When packing up the relics, they took out five bright red sweaters from the bottom of Mrs. Li's box. They were brand new, as if they had never been worn before.

"Your mother wove this for Nan Qiu. Since the year she went to study, one piece a year. After Nan Qiu got married, your mother didn't weave any more." Old man Li said calmly, as if saying something. A very common thing.

Tao Xiaoqi felt that her father-in-law's soul was gone, the thorns on his body were gone, and now he was like any ordinary old man, curled up in the corner with his back bent.

Mrs. Li got up at night, slipped on the soles of her feet, fell down, and never got up again.

Li Nanqiu arrived in the early morning of the next day, covered in dust and snow. When she and Liang Hengsheng arrived, the mourning hall for Mrs. Li had already been set up, and her mother had already changed her clothes and was lying peacefully on the bamboo bed in the yard. No answer.

Li Nanqiu knelt in front of his mother, and no one could pull him up.

"Let her accompany your mother for a while, you all go out to greet, there are visitors outside." Old man Li said soberly.

He arranged for the third child to buy vegetables, cigarettes and wine, to pull the white cloth and hemp rope, and asked the elder brother to invite the elders of the village, and the Eight Great Immortals, and asked the second child to invite the fortune-teller, Mr. Huang, to come and see. Feng shui in the cemetery, asking the boss and the second daughter-in-law to ask women to help cook and make tea, everything has been thought of.

"Father, go and rest for a while, let's come here." Li Nanshan felt pain in his heart when he saw his father like this.

Old man Li waved his hand, "Where can I sleep, you have never experienced so many things."

"We can ask the old people in the village, you go and lie down, you didn't sleep well last night, and I will wake you up when uncle's family arrives."

"It's okay, your uncles should be here too." After the old man finished speaking, he took out the dry tobacco and stuffed a pot of shredded tobacco, lit it up, took a puff, and instantly became full of energy.

Li Nanshan told his daughter-in-law and younger sister to look after his father, and he went to work.

Seeing her father-in-law's calm and energetic appearance, Tao Xiaoqi always felt that it was not a good thing.

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