The Leisure Life in the 1970s

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Chapter 68 68, The past is like smoke

Wen Qin grew up in a scholarly family, and marrying Gu Wenli was considered a good match. She thought she could live a stable life without worries about food and clothing, but she didn't expect an accident to happen.

Wen Qin's uncle was a Kuomintang officer, and later fled to Taiwan. This was a disaster for the turmoil at the time. Several of her cousins ​​were forced to divorce their husbands, and Wen Qin was always worried that Gu Wenli would not want her.

This was commonplace at the time. Many families chose to divorce in order to avoid being implicated, and some even announced that they would sever their father-son or mother-son relations. Wen Qin was extremely scared at the time. As a woman, she had never worked outside for a day. If she got divorced, how would she live?

Fortunately, Gu Wenli still had a conscience and did not choose to abandon her. Instead, he planned to take her to a foreign country for refuge.

Wen Qin thought she had escaped a disaster, but when she arrived abroad, she found that there was no worst, only worse.

In China, she could at least hide at home, protected from the wind and rain, and although the food supply was not as good as before, she could still eat enough.

But when they arrived abroad, they not only had no food to eat, but also had no place to sleep, because they encountered thieves on the first day they arrived.

Gu Wenli had to go to the bathroom at that time, so he asked Wen Qin to look after the luggage and the child, but the child was not feeling well and was crying a little, so Wen Qin only looked after the child and didn't pay much attention to the luggage around her, and then a suitcase was stolen by the thief.

Although Gu Wenli did not blame her much later, their life was visibly getting worse and worse, and later they even slept under the bridge.

Wen Qin now dares not even think about such a life, and at that time she just wanted to die.

Fortunately, Gu Wenli soon found a job as a porter. With the meager income from his hard labor, they finally rented a shabby little house and had a place to live.

But the surrounding bad environment, vulgar neighbors, and the various ill intentions of homeless robbers made Wenqin's life abroad miserable.

Later, there was really no other way. The feeling of being hungry every day was too uncomfortable. Wenqin had to go out to find a job, but her Chinese diploma was not recognized at all abroad. Otherwise, Gu Wenli would not have fallen to the point of relying on hard labor for a living.

Finally, Wen Qin found a job washing dishes in a restaurant run by a Chinese. The man was a friend of Gu Wenli, and he agreed to let Wen Qin wash dishes for the sake of compatriots.

Wen Qin was reluctant to go at first, thinking that she, the eldest daughter of a scholarly family, had to wash dishes for others, which was more painful for Wen Qin than killing her.

But Wen Qin didn't have the courage to really give up her life, so under Gu Wenli's persuasion and the torment of hunger every day, she finally put aside her pride and went to wash dishes in tears.

Later, when they heard about China's reform and opening up, they also thought about returning home. However, at that time, they were short of money. Not to mention the money for buying boat tickets, they didn't even have money for tomorrow's meals.

So, the two could only write letters to their relatives in China, one after another, but after sending the letters, there was no reply. Gu Wenli finally gave up and just worked in the moving company. It seemed that he had accepted his fate. He was also worn out and aged a lot.