"Your hard work will always be remembered by your two younger brothers. In the future, when you get married, your father, your brothers, and I will make an effort and earn you a generous dowry, so you can be married off with pride."
Under Mrs. Zhong's painstaking brainwashing and coercion, the original character had to drop out of school and find a job, which was working at Grandpa Zhao's mantou shop for twenty yuan a month.
At three in the morning, she would get up to knead the dough and steam mantou, working until two in the afternoon.
Returning home at two, she would still have to wash her family's clothes, scrub pots, wash dishes, clean... because Mrs. Zhong would always complain about her poor health. Aside from wrapping matchboxes, she couldn't do any housework, so it all fell on the original character.
The dishes from their breakfast, lunch, and dinner were also left for the original character to wash when she got home.
