Mining Town Beauty's Everyday Parenting [1980s]

**[This story has undergone major revisions; the only complete version is on Jinjiang Literature City.]** In the summer of 1978, her in-laws were waiting to marry off the beautiful new widow Wei Mengxi for a bride price, leaving her two frail, kitten-like children with nowhere to go. Across the river in Caihua Gully Production Brigade, Lu Guangquan, an engineer at the Jinshui Mine, had been widowed for two years and urgently needed a woman to manage the household and raise his children. They met and promptly obtained their marriage certificate on the very same day. A widow with two little burdens, yet she managed to land an engineer with a state grain ration—everyone said Wei Mengxi was ...