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Groaning painfully, Jin Dabao has a bad fall, lying on the ground for a long while and holding his chest, which attracts more and more onlookers. The embarrassed and painful look of Tao Dabao makes Jin Weiwei feel relieved in her heart. To express her gratitude, she pulls the hand of Little Rich, pinches his hand a little bit, and smiles to him.

With the onlookers crowding the gate of his shop, Qian doesn’t know whether he should pick him up for a while. All in all, he wants something from Jin Weiwei, so he is afraid of offending her. “Miss Jin, how could I...” Says Qian, approaching Jin Weiwei and asking for her advice. “Mr. Qian. I really admire you, actually. You have your own code of doing business. Surely, I want to cooperate with you and earn money together. But I am straight-minded and stubborn a little bit, I have my own bottom line. There is something on which I am not going to compromise.”Says Jin Weiwei.

She adjusts her clothes messed up by Tao Dabao and says, “I have said all that should be said about it. If you really want the exclusive selling right of Jin’s sausages, you will never buy the meat from Jiang’s Meat Shop. Think about that carefully.” “Well...this....this is a little bit hard for me. Our partnership has been lasting for many years. If I break up this cooperation suddenly, I’m afraid...” Unwilling to hear the endless excuses of Qian, Jin Weiwei waves her hand to interrupt his words and says, “Jin’s sausages and Jiang’s Meat-Shop cannot exist at the same time. You have to choose one.” After that, Jin Weiwei and Little Rich stride out of the door with all the onlookers standing there dumbfounded.

On the way home, Jin Weiwei remains in bad mood and wears a cold face. At first, Little Rich pays no attention to that; however, after a while, her sullen and resentful silence makes him unbearable and he cannot help asking her about the whole thing. Jin Weiwei doesn’t want to recall those bad memories. However, when she looks at the worried face of Little Rich, she decides to tell him the whole story from the beginning to the end. It turns out that Jin Dabao has two sisters, who are the elder aunt and the younger aunt of Jin Weiwei.

As the only man in Jin’s family, Jin Dabao was well loved and protected, especially by his two sisters who spoiled him so much that they were willing to do everything that their little brother asked. His laziness is largely derived from that. Unfortunately, his two sisters got married and moved to the county, which forced Jin Dabao to earn his living by himself with his sisters’ financial help occasionally.

Eight years ago, Jin Dabao fell in love with Cao and married her and Jin Weiwei became a burdensome member in the remarried family accordingly. In order to please Cao, Jin Dabao sent Jin Weiwei to the county and left her to his two elder sisters. At first, Jin Weiwei was sent to her elder aunt’s home. Required by Jin Dabao, she took Jin Weiwei reluctantly, although she didn’t like Jin Weiwei. Her elder aunt, ill-tempered, always tried to find excuses to scold her. Although the husband of her elder aunt was good, he couldn’t protect her because of his weakness. Until one day, her elder aunt accused Jin Weiwei of stealing money because she found that the money container was moved and the money was stolen. Certainly, Jin Weiwei would never admit that. Therefore, her elder aunt broke her leg and sent her to Xingtian Village.

Jin Weiwei had to stay at Jin’s family due to her broken leg. During that period in Jin’s family, Cao, her step-mother, ordered her to do everything in the family regardless of her broken leg, which led to her chronic leg disease that always made her feel a dull pain in the broken leg on rainy days. Cao came to dislike Jin Weiwei strongly. Thus, she pushed Tao Dabao to send Jin Weiwei to her younger aunt’s home.

Though much better than her elder aunt, her younger aunt didn’t have kind words for her; after all, one more person had to be supported in the family without any reason. Jin Weiwei could have stood that; however, the husband of her younger aunt was a hypocrite who was a lady-killer under the disguise of a kind-hearted appearance.

At the beginning, he just molested her verbally and touched her hands when her younger aunt didn’t notice him. Although Jin Weiwei could stand that, his sexual harassment worsened. He even sneaked into Jin Weiwei’s room to harass her. Jin Weiwei couldn’t stand him anymore. She bounced up and kicked him seriously.

You know, Jin Weiwei, a little bit simple-minded and rash at that time, broke his arm with her great strength. Seeing him lying on the ground and groaning painfully, she was so scared that she rushed into Xingtian Village overnight. She didn’t know what her younger aunt explained the whole thing to others. The only thing she knew was that in the next morning, her younger aunt, together with her two sons, shouted and cried before her house, asking Jin Weiwei to compensate the medical expenses for his broken arm. They said that although they provided her with accommodations and meals, Jin Weiwei, vicious and ungrateful, broke the arms of her husband.

At that time, Jin Weiwei was not as articulated as she is today. No matter what she explained, no one trusted her. As for Jin Dabao and Cao, they not only refused to support her and help her to compensate the medical expense, but scolded her with her younger aunt as well. Hanging Jin Weiwei on the tree by tying up her arms and legs, they even beat her cruelly in public in order to peace her younger aunt so that they would not be held responsible for their medical compensation.

Jin Weiwei will never forget her grievances and hatred. Her heart was full of fear and despair when she was bruised and lacerated from flogging of her own father. Jin Weiwei kept on asking and pleading for him, but the whip still fell on her body, which eliminated all her filial devotion.

She shouted and cried until her tears dried up. She swore that she would never step into Jiang’s family and she would treat them as strangers. In order to stay at Jin’s home, from then on, she took charge of all the work in Jin’s family including killing pigs and sheep and making sausages. Seeing that Jin Weiwei, obedient and diligent, was just like a servant in Jin’s family, Cao never pushed Jin Dabao to send her away.