Liu Wenyuan is a pot-making maker in Wu County, Suzhou. His life experience is very pitiful. When he was four years old, his parents went to visit relatives in Taicang County next door to visit relatives and asked Qing soldiers to siege the city. After that, Liu Wenyuan lived with his hunchbacked uncle. At the age of six, when he was six, the hunchbacked uncle went down the river to touch the clams to supplement his nephew's nutrition, he unfortunately slipped into the deep water and drowned.

After the kind neighbor helped bury his uncle, Liu Wenyuan started eating a hundred-storey meals. He often drank bowls of porridge in the east and chewed pot crumbs in the west and hunger for a day. After a few years, a relative from afar came to him and saw that Liu Wenyuan was really lonely, so he took him by his side to learn the craftsmanship of tuning pots, thinking that the child could have the skills to be with him in the future and support himself.

Liu Wenyuan was indeed sensible and seriously learned the skills of craftsmanship with this relative and learned the skills of tuning the pot with hard work. At the age of 17, the distant relative paid some money and told Liu Wenyuan about his marriage, hoping that the child could also get married and build a career and pass on the incense of the Liu family.

Liu Wenyuan's wife is the three daughters of a tenant farmer in the countryside. She looks average, but like Liu Wenyuan, because she was from a poor family, she is particularly hard-working and knows how to cherish it. The couple worked hard to manage the family and loved each other. Although life was poor, it was not easy to survive in troubled times, so what else was not satisfied?

In the third year after marriage, Liu Wenyuan's wife suddenly became happy, which made Liu Wenyuan's Coke ruined. Because his parents died in Taicang and could not find the bones, he bought a lot of paper money and burned them on the hunchbacked uncle's grave. I hope that the uncle's spirit in heaven can bless his nephew's family and his niece-in-law's childbirth smoothly.

Unexpectedly, just as his wife's belly grew day by day, Jinxia's pirates suddenly came from the Yangtze River not far away, saying that they were going to fight Jiangning City. The pirates were on the river and went to fight Jiangning again. What should be worried about were the men in the government, and Liu Wenyuan, a pot-firing maker, had any worries, so they didn't take it seriously. Not long after, news came, saying that the pirates were defeated and withdrawn under Jiangning City.

It comes quickly and goes quickly. This news made many officials and gentry people near Suzhou frown. They regretted it, but it had an impact on poor people like Liu Wenyuan. They would do whatever they should do. Even if they change the emperor, they would not have to make money to support their families.

Within a few days, the Qing soldiers came outside Suzhou City. These Qing soldiers brought many bound women, saying they were women who were thieves.

These women were ragged and cried, which made people feel uncomfortable. Liu Wen looked at them for a while from a distance, but he couldn't stand it, so he went home and told his wife about this, and his wife felt uncomfortable, but what could he do? He could only blame those women for their miserable lives.

In the chaotic times, the only thing that can be taken care of is yourself.

Liu Wenyuan and his wife sympathized with those women, but they just sympathized with them. They didn't even dare to curse in front of the soldiers. The only thing they thought was that this pitiful thing should not happen to them.

After the Qing soldiers entered the city, they had nothing to do. Except for people buying women in the military camp every day, the rest was no different from before. As for where those bought women went, everyone in Suzhou knew it.

Liu Wenyuan still walked around the streets, repairing the pot for the home and the knife for the west. But a few days ago, the Qing soldiers in the city suddenly began to arrest people, which scared Liu Wenyuan.

The Qing soldiers only captured women. They dragged women out of their homes and told their families that they would bring the money to the military camp to redeem the people seven days later, otherwise these women would not want to go home.

When crying came from the neighbor's house, Liu Wenyuan and his wife hugged each other and hid in the woodshed. However, they failed to escape the bad luck and the door of the woodshed was smashed open.

The two Qing soldiers dragged Liu Wenyuan's wife out and found that she was a big belly. The two Qing soldiers laughed grimly.

Liu Wenyuan's wife was frightened and screamed in fear. Liu Wenyuan was also frightened. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately, begging Jun Ye to let his wife go. But the two Qing soldiers only coldly said that he would bring money to redeem the people in seven days, so he dragged Liu Wenyuan's wife out.

Liu Wenyuan stepped forward and hugged his wife tightly, begging him, saying that his family had no money, but the response he received was a fierce scabbard by the Qing soldiers.

Liu Wenyuan fainted. When he woke up, the courtyard was empty and the gate was open.

Liu Wenyuan was so anxious that the Qing soldiers needed ten taels of silver to redeem the people, but his entire family was only three taels. He wanted to borrow money from his neighbor's house, but along the way, he heard crying.

It's over, my wife is gone, my family is gone, my son is gone, everything is gone!

These days, Liu Wenyuan didn't know how he survived. He just lived like a walking corpse.

He had been to the Qing army's barracks, but he could not get in at all. He could only kneel outside the barracks, cry and beg like countless people whose wives (daughters) were captured.

However, this was useless. The Qing army said that whether it was raised or not, it would be possible to redeem people in seven days.

It was a pity that before the seventh day, the Taiping Army coming from Nanjing suddenly entered Suzhou City. The Qing soldiers cut off their braids and turned them into Taiping Army.

The Taiping Army is better than the Qing army.

There was news from the military camp that the Taiping Army ordered the people in the city to go to the military camp to bring their relatives back to their homes.

When he heard the news, Liu Wenyuan was unbelievable. He suddenly became energetic. He ran to the barracks quickly and wanted to pick up his wife. But when he approached the barracks, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

There are women everywhere in disheveled clothes, some even naked, most of them have empty eyes and no vitality. Some women cry loudly in the arms of their relatives, making people heartbroken.

Liu Wenyuan also cried, but he was even more worried that he was looking for his wife everywhere. After searching for him for a long time without success, he came to a table placed by the Taiping Army at the camp gate and reported his wife's name.

After flipping through the list, the Taiping Army shook their heads and took Liu Wenyuan to a corner of the camp.

In the corner, there were many naked corpses piled up. One of the women had a big belly, covered with scars and a distorted expression. They must have suffered great torture and pain before their death.

Liu Wenyuan was stunned. He recognized that the woman with a big belly was his wife.

He held his wife's body and roared to the sky, tears rolling down.

The Taiping Army people were very sympathetic when they saw it. An officer ordered Liu Wenyuan to find a ox cart so that he could take his wife's body back.

Liu Wenyuan refused, but he wanted nothing. He just held his wife's body and went home step by step.
Chapter completed!