oct 28, 1854 - Mountain Days
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After receiving a letter from Snow Flower saying that her family had survived the outbreak and inviting Lily to come and visit, Lily decided to do so. One night during her visit at Snow Flower's, there was news that the emperor had sent an army to stop the Taiping rebellion and the fighting was coming towards the villages, so Lily and Snow Flower's whole family fled to the mountains. They suffered three months on the mountains, along the way Snow Flower's prized second son died which caused her husband to rage and beat her, thus causing pregnant Snow Flower to miscarry. Snow Flower attempted to jump off the hills but Lily stopped her from doing so, she also learns that her laotong's husband had been beating Snow Flower for a long time now. Finally after news came that the fighting was over, Lily's husband came to pick her up from the butcher's home.
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