(Minghui.org) I’m 67 years old and live in the countryside. I started to practice Falun Dafa in 1999. Because I refused to give up my belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) arrested me multiple times. I was sent to forced labor camps twice and my home was ransacked.
My husband is the only son in his family. He has three sisters. As a daughter-in-law in a rural family, I was responsible for all the housework. All seven family members’ clothes were sewn by me, and I did all the laundry. I had to carry heavy buckets of water from the well by myself.
I cooked all the meals. When I cooked some food with flour (which was considered better food at that time), my mother-in-law would not allow me to eat it, but everyone else ate it. I was only allowed to eat carrots and dried sweet potatoes, even when I was pregnant.
Due to a lack of food, I only weighed 35kg after our son was born. I was so weak that I frequently collapsed. My mother-in-law scolded me because I did less housework since I took care of my son. I hated my mother-in-law deeply. Many times I wanted to die.
When my son was six months old, my parents-in-law told my husband and I to move into a dilapidated house. There were only two rooms, two bowls, two pairs of chopsticks, and a small bowl. When it rained, the house leaked. I was resentful. My health deteriorated. I developed nephritis and often urinated blood.
Although we lived apart from the in-laws, they still insisted that my husband and I work for them. After my father-in-law passed away, my mother-in-law and three sisters-in-law did not know how to do farm field work. My mother-in-law often called my husband and I to do it for them. She did not even thank me.
I hated my mother-in-law more and more, until February 1999, when I began to practice Falun Dafa.
Master said,
“In cultivation, there may be two scenarios when dealing with specific conflicts or when others treat you badly. One is that you might have treated this person badly in your previous life. You feel in your heart that it is unfair, “How can this person treat me like this?” Then why did you treat this person that way in the past? You might claim that you actually did not know it at that time, and this lifetime has nothing to do with another lifetime, but that won’t do. ” (Lecture Four, Zhuan Falun)
I came to understand: the reason my mother-in-law treated me badly must be because I treated her badly in a past lifetime. I had to repay the debt.
I no longer hated my mother-in-law. I paid all her medical bills. She gave all her money to her three daughters but nothing to my husband and I. I was not upset because Master already gave me the best of everything.
During the last few months of my mother-in-law’s life, she was unable to get out of bed. I took care of her. I read Zhuan Falun to her. She did not suffer at all. My sisters-in-law thought my reading Falun Dafa’s teachings to her brought her blessings.
After my mother-in-law passed away, my husband praised me in front of more than 20 villagers. He said because I learned Falun Dafa, I treated his mother very well, and everyone should learn from me.
“You all know how my mother used to mistreat my wife,” he said. “If my wife did not practice Falun Dafa, there’s no way she would take care of my mother. Master Li’s (the founder) Dafa is so good! It teaches people to be good.” He told many people that Falun Dafa is good.
Saving People
In order to save people from being poisoned by the CCP’s lies, I often go out to distribute truth-clarification materials. My sister (also a practitioner) often goes with me. Each of us usually brings 200 booklets to distribute to nearby villages.
There were several dogs on leashes at the entrance to one village, and they barked at us as soon as we approached. I told them: “Stop barking, I’m here to save you. As long as you remember ‘Falun Dafa is good, and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,’ you will have a good place to go to.”
The dogs immediately stopped barking. They also did not bark at us the next time we went there. They only wagged their tails.
Sometimes when we inserted truth clarification booklets onto farmers’ gates, their dogs ran toward us. As soon as I talked to them they stopped barking.
Some stray dogs seemed to understand we were here to save people. They followed us and wagged their tails as if they wanted to accompany us.
Once when I was pulling weeds in a wheat field, my foot was bitten by something. It was unbearably itchy. After the skin broke when I scratched it, my foot became infected and turned purple. It looked scary and people advised me to see a doctor.
I knew Master was pushing my karma out. I did not go to the doctor and continued to do what I needed to do. This situation lasted for several months.
One night, my sister and I went out to distribute materials. It suddenly began raining heavily. Since the materials were wrapped inside plastic bags, we continued to distribute them house by house.
The water on the street was above our ankles. When we stopped at the gate of a family who kept cows, the cow manure in the yard was washed out onto the street, giving a strong smell. We waded through the water. That night we finished around 3 a.m. I was completely soaked and my infected foot turned white after hours in water. However, the next day it no longer itched. Three days later my foot was completely healed.
On April 25, 2015, I was trying to give materials to some people in a van. I did not realize they were police.
I was taken to the police station. They asked questions such as where I lived and where I got the materials. I did not answer their questions, instead, I kept clarifying the truth to them, telling them “Falun Dafa is good.” They found my information by matching my photo in the computer system.
They called the police station in my hometown. I heard from their phone conversation that the police entered my home by climbing the wall. Since I recently got 1,000 copies of informational materials from a fellow practitioner, and I only distributed about 200 of them, I thought I cannot allow the police to take all those precious materials which should be used for saving people. I silently asked Master to help: “Please do not let them see the materials.” Police thoroughly searched my home. They found about 40 copies of brochures which were left on the table. They did not find the rest. Thank you Master!
While inside the police car, I clarified the truth to two policemen. One of them agreed to quit the CCP.
I was given fifteen days of detention and taken to the city detention center that evening. I thought the people in the detention center were waiting to be saved.
The management in that detention center was relatively loose. Detainees from different cells could visit each other. The next day, many people came to my cell, and I clarified the truth to them. I told them how wonderful Falun Dafa is, the truth about the staged “Tiananmen self-immolation,” how wicked the CCP is, and why people should quit the CCP and its youth organizations. Eight people quit the CCP organizations. Some shouted, “Falun Dafa is good!”
I clarified the truth to the detainees every day, and they listened very carefully. They were all very kind to me. Some of them said, “Auntie, you must pay attention to safety after you get out.” The detention center guards did not allow practitioners to have vegetables at meal times. Some detainees insisted on sharing theirs with me.
Every day, I clarified the truth, did the exercises, and recited Hong Yin.
Fourteen days passed. Several detainees came to my cell. We were supposed to be released the next day. They told me we had to stay one extra day because the next day was Sunday, and the detention center would not release people on Sundays. They were upset and swore at the police.
I said, “Please calm down. After you get out, behave yourselves and do not do bad things. Remember to follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and say ‘Falun Dafa is good.’ You will be blessed.”
The next day two policemen came and told those detainees to line up. The detainees were being released, even though it was Sunday. They knew they got lucky because they quit the CCP. They waved to me and thanked me.
Then a policeman called my name and told me I could leave.
I walked out of the detention center and borrowed a phone. I called my son to let him know I was out. He was surprised, “The police just called me and told me I need to pay 1,500 yuan and pick you up tomorrow.”
“What they say doesn’t count, son,” I said.
“Whose words count?” he asked.
“What my Master said counts!”
My son was very happy, “That’s great you came out one day earlier, plus, we don’t have to pay 1,500 yuan!”
Seeing how my health and character improved after practicing Dafa, my husband encouraged me to practice. Over the years, he often took me on his motorcycle to distribute truth-clarification materials in nearby towns.
Due to the CCP’s persecution, my husband suffered a lot. Once when I went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa, the town police director and the director of the Committee for Maintaining Social Order took my husband to the village committee. They beat him and kicked his crotch so hard that he lay in bed for two days and was unable to urinate. The CCP harassed him every day. He was forced to hide at relatives’ homes in other provinces for quite a while. Despite everything, he always believed in Dafa, supported me in my practice and saving people. When relatives and friends came to our house, he often told them the truth about the persecution.
One day in 2004, my husband was doing some work on the roof. He accidentally stepped on a pile of bricks. His foot slipped and he and the bricks fell. He remembered he was heading to the ground head first, but somehow, he found himself kneeling on the ground after the fall. The bricks fell with him and broke into pieces. He was not injured.
He got up, came inside, and told me what just happened. I went out and saw the broken bricks and the marks where he fell. I knew Master protected him. Over the years my husband fell several times from roofs or trees, yet he was never injured.
One day in 2013 when it rained heavily, my son was riding an electric bike home when a large tricycle hit him. He was thrown several meters. The man on the tricycle fled. My son’s bike was slightly damaged. He pushed the bike to a repair shop and it was quickly fixed. He came home on time without any injury.
During an accident in 2019, my son, his company’s boss, and the boss’s wife were driving in a car when a truck hit them. The car was severely damaged but all three of them escaped without injury.
It’s just like Master said,
“Since you practice a righteous way, your practice will benefit others.” (Lecture Six, Zhuan Falun)
Because I practice Dafa, and because my husband and son encouraged me to practice, Master protected them, again and again!
One evening in May 2021, the police arrested me when I was distributing information about Falun Dafa. While they were preparing files to further persecute me, I had only one thought: Only what my Master says counts, no one else’s decision matters.
Since no police wanted to stay there guarding me through the night, they took me home around midnight and thinking they could come and get me the following morning.
Before dawn, I hopped on my electric bike and went to sell garlic sprouts at a market more than 20 kilometers away. Around eight o’clock in the morning, seven policemen came to my home. They did not find me. It so happened that my husband wasn’t home either.
The neighbors told my husband that the police were looking for me. My husband found me at the market, just as I finished selling the last garlic sprouts. I decided not to go home for a while. A practitioner introduced me to an 80-year-old practitioner couple who was looking for a caregiver as their previous caregiver just left. So I moved in with them. I took care of the elderly practitioners while continuing to make truth-clarifying materials.
Over the past 20 years of cultivation, I deeply realized that as long as we maintain our firm and upright faith in Master and Dafa, keep sentient beings in our hearts, and do what Dafa disciples should do, miracles will happen, as Master said in the poem:
“...Disciples’ righteous thoughts are strongMaster has the power to turn the tide”(“Master-Disciple Grace,” Hong Yin II)
I still have many human attachments, such as a fighting mentality, zealotry, showing off, and doing things for the sake of doing things. During our limited time left, I will try my best to eliminate these attachments, reach Fa’s requirements for us at each level, do the three things well, and follow Master to return to my true home.
Thank you Master! Thank you fellow practitioners!