Lady Du's heart was filled with myriad emotions as she looked at her outstanding children, feeling extremely proud.
When the children were young, due to hard times, she thickened her skin to borrow food from others to fill their stomachs, dug wild vegetables in the mountain to stave off hunger. Someone once suggested that she sell her eldest daughter as a child bride to another family, which would save a mouth to feed and also bring in a few taels of silver to ease the situation. However, she would rather sell her own hair at the market than let her daughter become a child bride. At that time, she struggled desperately to care for her children's several small mouths, determined that even if they died suffering or of hunger, the whole family would die together.
