Someone in the village recognized her, and seeing her looking like neither human nor ghost, mocked her for eloping and getting her comeuppance.
No matter how the original owner tried to explain, the villagers just wouldn't believe that she was sold by Liu Fuchai and Liu Baozhu.
The original owner, unable to take it, sought out Liu Fusheng's regiment.
Liu Fusheng said he didn't know her.
It was then that a boy of about ten called out to Liu Fusheng, shouting dad, and only then did the original owner learn that Liu Fusheng remarried in the third year of their marriage and had two sons and a daughter, the eldest now nine years old.
Even when Liu Fusheng went off to be a soldier, he was in constant correspondence with his younger brother and sister; the letters were sent directly to their school, so the original owner never knew. She foolishly served them, raising her brother and sister-in-law for five years, only to be sold off when she was of no use, squeezed for every last drop.
