Chen Xiaomei is an ordinary peasant girl, 17 years old, from Jiale Township, Jiangjin, Chongqing. Unlike other peasant girls, she was abandoned by her mother right after she was born. Xiaomei's adoptive parents are authentic farmers, picked up Xiaomei, they are old, the child died at an early age. According to their words pick up Chen Xiaomei is in order to "old after the tea water have someone ......". Xiao Mei's foster parents did not study, the family lack of labor, the economy has been very difficult. When Xiao Mei was in the third grade of elementary school, her adoptive father became seriously ill, and the family's economy became even more problematic, with no money to pay tuition, Xiao Mei became an out-of-school child. The year was 1994.