She was 29, from a farm. Her parents were divorced and she lived with her father, but her younger sister lived with her mother, who was sick with a lung disease and other problems. Someone needed to take care of her. The woman had to leave school at age fifteen because it was hard to watch them struggling. They needed her help, so she left school to go home and help take care of her mother.
She made little money, half of it she sent home to her mother and half of it she kept for her food and clothes. At 20, she started working for a wealthy family as a nanny. She had signed papers promising to stay for one year, she was afraid of what would happen if she broke the rules. After the year passed, she left to work at a business where people could take a shower, the pay there was better, allowing her to send more money home. Time passed, and the business failed when she was 24 in Someone she knew from the hotel recommended she go to Chamdo.
Before she got to Chamdo, she never expected to end up becoming a prostitute. At first, she found prostitution very difficult. Out of the need for money, she had to sell her own body. Other prostitutes told her she could make more than , Chinese Yuan in only two or three years, a lot of money for them.
It was terrible, but she made the money she needed. She got used to it and signed a paper to work at a brothel for two years. It seemed like there was some sickness, so she went to see a doctor. As soon as she heard that news she deeply missed her family and started to worry about her mother and sister.
She went home to be with them. A friend from the brothel helped pay for her medicine, which she was very thankful for. The medicine made her feel much better, with the medicine she felt well enough to return to work as usual. It was the season for picking the caterpillar fungus. The end of the month for picking fungus was the best time for prostitutes to make money. Men coming back from the mountains liked to stop by and see prostitutes before going home. At that time, a prostitute could see sixteen men in one night.
