Gong Yan was a mute single mother.
Before she even turned 18, her birth parents took ten thousand yuan as a bridal price, celebrated with gongs and drums, and took her away.
After carrying a child for ten months and giving birth to a daughter, Gong Yan's miserable life had thus begun.
Her in-laws complained that she was a hen that couldn't lay eggs.
The man did nothing but farm unless he was at the mahjong or drinking table.
Drunk, he would return and take his rage out on her.
As her daughter grew day by day, Gong Yan couldn't take it anymore.
Without even taking a change of clothes, she fled to the provincial city overnight with her daughter and the 200 yuan she had saved up.
By picking up bottles and scavenging through trash, sleeping under bridges, Gong Yan managed to save up five thousand yuan within a year.
Then, she spent three thousand to send her daughter, who was of the right age, to kindergarten.
