The educated youths lived, worked, and ate in the village without spending money. But each month, their families would give them two or three yuan for living expenses to buy things like soap, matches, and salt.,She forced a smile onto her face that was worse than crying, and said to Ning Yuan: "Ning Yuan, I'm so sorry... Can you forgive me",Her mother, however, thought it was teaching her manners and even wanted to give her away to her childless aunt. It was only because her father saw how much she cried that he refused.。