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Lee Mi-jin, a woman born in 1972, is the third in a family of eight siblings. The family's living conditions were extremely difficult, and the only two modest wooden huts were crowded with the family, so small that they didn't even have enough space to spread out the carpet and sleep peacefully.
Due to the large size of the family, some siblings were forced to live in neighbourhoods. This kind of poverty year after year has had a profound impact on Li Meizhen when she was a child, making her gradually form a character trait of introverted and inferiority.
Although Li Meizhen performed well in school and always maintained the top position in her class, her family's financial constraints forced her to voluntarily give up the opportunity to further her studies after graduating from junior high school.
She once had the beautiful dream of becoming an excellent people's teacher, but when she saw that many of her classmates had now realized their ideals, she couldn't help but feel a deep sense of loss and helplessness in her heart.
When Li Meizhen was 18 years old, her father suddenly arranged a marriage for her, with an ordinary young man in the same village. Although she was full of strong resistance to this marriage, her father told her: "With our family background, how can we be qualified to be picky? ”
Her father's words undoubtedly brought a heavy blow to Li Meizhen, and she could only accept this arrangement obediently.
Soon after marriage, Li Meizhen followed her husband to Guangdong to work. Due to her husband's limited education level, he can only engage in some heavy manual work, and although Li Meizhen only has a junior high school education, she still has a certain pursuit and yearning for life.
As a result, during their time in Guangdong, there was hardly any common ground between the husband and wife, and even more unfortunately, Li Meizhen's husband had a short temper and often inflicted domestic violence on her.
During those gloomy years, her husband would often choke Li Meizhen's throat tightly, and sometimes even push her to the kitchen basin stand, followed by merciless punches and kicks.
In the face of her husband's strength, Li Meizhen had no choice but to bear it silently, because every time she resisted, she would be beaten more violently, and in this way, Li Meizhen spent ten years of domestic violence torture in Guangdong, living in endless pain and humiliation.
Until the moment when Li Meizhen ushered in her 28th birthday, she finally broke off her marriage relationship with the shadow of violence. At this pivotal turning point in her life, her eldest sister suddenly returned home to visit her and brought a message that surprised everyone - the family had formed a unique "stilt team" and was in dire need of a powerful assistant.
Faced with the dilemma of unemployment, Li Meizhen chose to accept this challenge without hesitation.
One day, the stilt team happened to pass by a village on the way and happened to come across a family holding a solemn funeral ceremony. There, a woman falls to her knees and reads a eulogy in a choked voice, grief-stricken as if she were the most affectionate character in the play.
This is the first time that Li Meizhen has witnessed the real scene of the special profession of "crying spirit". Seeing this, her eldest sister explained to her that the woman was hired by the mourners to express her mourning for the deceased through the crying spirit, and the more touching the cry, the higher the reward.
After hearing the introduction of the eldest sister, Li Meizhen said firmly: "I can do this too!" Although she had never set foot in the realm of crying spirits before, she was full of confidence in her abilities.
The eldest sister was initially skeptical, so she invited an experienced weeping spirit master to write a eulogy for her. As it turned out, when Lee Mi-jin began to read the eulogy, tears welled up in her eyes, and her cry was sincere and heartbreaking.
Seeing that her sister showed such an amazing talent, the eldest sister immediately suggested that she take Crying Spirit as a full-time job, because compared to the stilt team, Crying Spirit obviously has a broader development space.
Li Meizhen followed her eldest sister's advice and soon found her first employer. In order to present a more perfect performance, she personally had an in-depth communication with her employer and learned more about the experiences of the deceased during his lifetime.
In the process of crying, she skillfully integrated these touching details into it, and the tears were full of empathy. The gloomy weather that day, coupled with Li Meizhen's deep and sincere mourning language, moved the audience, praised her employer, and gave her a reward of up to 70 yuan on the spot.
Even in the first few years, Cryling's salary was relatively low, and Li Meizhen endured a lot of criticism and doubts because of this, but she always stuck to her beliefs. After years of hard work and tempering, as expected, Li Meizhen eventually became a highly respected local "Crying Spirit Master", and her remuneration for each appearance also jumped to an astonishing 3,000 yuan.
Since getting involved in the crying spirit industry, the economic situation of the beautiful Li Meizhen has been reborn. At the peak of her career, she could easily reach an astonishing figure of 3,000 yuan with the income of a single crying spirit! What is even more remarkable is that sometimes within a month, she even has to go to more than ten crying ceremonies, and the total income easily exceeds the 40,000 yuan mark!
Eventually, she was able to break free from poverty and be able to buy a property for her eldest son in the bustling city, thus completely changing the poverty of her former life.
This generous income also allows Li Meizhen to have more resources to care for and take care of the lives of her two sons. Whether it is a mobile phone worth more than 2,000 yuan or a computer worth more than 5,000 yuan, as long as her sons need something, she always supports them without hesitation and never hesitates.
She hopes that her two sons will be able to escape the shadow of poverty and maintain the confidence and self-esteem they deserve among their peers.
Although the journey has been full of twists and turns, Li Meizhen's deep maternal love for her two sons has always been unwavering. She has done everything she can to create a happy and healthy living environment for her sons.
Whenever her sons invite their classmates home, she always enthusiastically prepares a variety of nuts, desserts and other delicacies to keep them away from guilt and low self-esteem from an early age.
Under Li Meizhen's careful care, the two sons have shown excellent personalities and healthy psychological qualities, and have not been affected by their parents' divorce.
Seeing her sons grow up happily and sunny, Li Meizhen found a new sense of life value and meaning in life.
It was the ups and downs and hardships over the years that made her deeply understand what it really means to be beneficial to her sons. She does not want her son to repeat the mistakes of her past and suffer the pain of poverty and low self-esteem again.
Although the controversial act of crying brought rich financial benefits to Li Meizhen, and even enabled her to buy a home for her eldest son in the bustling city, she also had to bear a huge physical cost in the process.
The work pressure deposited from the long period of kneeling and crying caused severe wear and tear and injury to her knee joints. The pain is so intense that it is impossible to get rid of even during non-crying hours.
At first, Lee Mi-jin endured such pain tenaciously, just so that she could continue to get a good reward. However, as time went on, when the severe pain in her knees began to have a significant impact on her crying performance, she had to wake up to the fact that she was no longer up to the task.
There is no doubt that the crying spirit industry has given Li Meizhen financial freedom and helped her completely change her impoverished living situation. However, the profession was also ruthlessly overdrawn on her physical health.
It was like a long-draining battle, and her knees were no longer able to handle the high-intensity movements required by the crying spirit.
Realizing that her career was coming to an end, Lee began to plan for her retirement. With the wealth she has amassed over the years, she has used some of the funds to co-found a small restaurant with several sisters.
She is looking forward to earning herself a comfortable and decent life through this restaurant.
In her 22-year crying career, Li Meizhen has witnessed countless joys and sorrows and regrets in life.
Once, during a tragic and painful funeral, Li Meizhen witnessed firsthand how a noble overseas billionaire treated his American mistress as a personal belonging, without regard for the basic dignity that a wife should enjoy.
At that time, Li Meizhen did not hesitate to stretch out her arms, hugged the woman who was betrayed and was also a victim, and comforted her with tears in her eyes: "Your fate is too bumpy! You have selflessly dedicated your best years to this family, but you have not received the respect and rewards you deserve."
In the face of the rich man's wanton aggression, Li Meizhen stepped forward without fear and rebuked sternly in a firm tone: "What do I have to be afraid of? For such a treacherous villain, how can I tolerate his dignity being trampled on in this way?" Her gaze was firm and persistent, as if she was mercilessly judging the rich man with her eyes.
It is precisely because of this bravery and sense of justice that Li Meizhen has shown extraordinary strength in her ordinary life. Although she is just an ordinary weeping person, she tells the world in a unique way about the deep pain and unwillingness of ordinary people, and gives their voice to those who have been neglected and betrayed.
She used her tears to express her admiration for the lives lost, and at the same time used her tears to fight for justice and dignity. For Li Meizhen, crying is not only a job, but also a kind of self-redemption and an opportunity to regain the value of life.
It is this love and reverence for life that inspires her to forge ahead in the crying spirit industry and spend 22 years in the spring and autumn.
Each of us will inevitably encounter various difficulties and setbacks in our lives, and the key is to have the courage to face the difficulties head-on. Lee Mi-jin has achieved the extraordinary as an ordinary person, which stems precisely from her sincere belief in life and her fearlessness of suffering.
In her ordinary life, she has witnessed extraordinary power, which may be the greatest meaning of her life.