This Ruan Xinke was a son she gave birth to after turning thirty-five.
Perhaps it was jealousy that she could bear sons, or maybe it was just pure bullying, but during those years, when the torment was at its worst, she nearly couldn't survive.
The incident that left the deepest impression on her was when she had no choice but to swallow her pride and ask Weng Menghua, whose family was in relatively good condition, to lend her some sweet potatoes and taro because relief food had not yet arrived and her child was crying from hunger.
At first, Weng Menghua refused to lend anything and verbally humiliated her, but when she couldn't bear it anymore and was about to leave, Weng Menghua told her to wait a moment. She really didn't want to lend anything, but thinking of her several children, she stood her ground.
In the end—