Of course, the happiest are the families with members working at the brick factory.
The Li Cuilan family was also one of the impoverished large families in Qingshan Village. They had elderly parents to care for and three half-grown daughters to feed. Yet, the family was so poor that they barely had enough to eat. The children went to the mountains every day to dig for wild vegetables, and even the elderly parents dragged their less mobile bodies up the mountain to collect firewood. The couple worked tirelessly, never daring to take a day off, earning full work points each day, yet life continued to be difficult.
Once, the elderly parents even took a rope to hang themselves, fearing they were a burden to their son and daughter-in-law. Fortunately, Li Cuilan returned just in time; otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
