She said she cried on that Lunar New Year’s Eve in the rice field, but has become numb over the years to what she has suffered.
“I was beaten up on a regular basis by my adopted parents for things like breaking a bowl when I washed the dishes, and failing to light a stove fire or not cleaning the house properly,” said Cao, now the owner of a small grocery store, in a recent interview with Caixin. After 28 years, Cao Xiaoqin still vividly remembers watching fireworks from her hiding place in a freezing rice paddy on the eve of Lunar New Year when she was only 7.Ĭao (not her real name) was fleeing mistreatment and abuse in the southeastern city of Putian, Fujian province, at the hands of her adopted parents who had bought her as a child laborer in Changle county in a deal brokered via a “matchmaker.”Ĭao, 35, spent three years roaming the streets as a homeless child before she was brought back by her adopted parents and returned to the beatings and endless family chores before she turned 18 and left home to work at an out-of-town shoe factory.
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