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Chapter20 People in Gaojia Village were surprised to have not seen Qiaozhen working in the field for several days, because this labor-loving girl seldom did this before and the work points she made in a year was more than that of her businessman father could obtain. Soon, the villagers got to know that pitiful Qiaozhen actually had suffered such a big misfortune! Immediately, the whole villagers started to discuss this matter, just as initially they did when this girl was in love with Jialin. Most people felt quite sorry for her misfortune; but there were a few people taking pleasure in her misfortune. And, people all believed that Qiaozhen, Liu Liben’s second daughter, had been ruined thoroughly: whether commit suicide or be mad. Since everybody knew what this thing meant to a girl; moreover, how enamored she was with Gao Jialin, Gao Yude’s boy! But, a few days later, the villagers saw her like a sick industrious small mare ploughing hard in the field. First she was busy with the crops in her family plots and fixing the broken fence on the edges of the vegetable garden. Later, she worked with others and did what she should do as usual but seldom spoke all day long. What a tough-minded girl! She did not commit suicide, nor did she have a nervous breakdown; she survived! These who had taken pleasure in her misfortune were compelled to feel deep reverence for her from their hearts! They all observed every move of her. The universal impression was: She became much too thin! How could she not be thin? She hardly ate nor had a sound sleep for half a month. Every midnight she wept silently on the bed alone-- for her misfortune, for her miserable fate and for her buried love dream! Once she thought of dying, but when she saw the earth, the mountain and the river where she had lived and worked for more than 20 years, especially when she saw the green seedlings of the cereal crops she poured with sweat, such thought immediately vanished. She was reluctant to part with the wo