My Great-Grandmother, a Woman Who Struggled to Survive in Troubled Times

[Farming + Food + Daily Life] This book is written in the 15th year of the Republic of China, when warlords forcibly allocated opium poppy cultivation. The peasants rose up in resistance. The first great-grandmother's husband and eldest son were killed by the Wu army. She led her son to escape overnight and fled to a small town at the foot of the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, where she settled down and raised her two young sons. Although the town was a paradise, due to natural and man-made disasters, my great-grandmother had no choice but to remarry Hu Zi, the second eldest son of the Zhang family in the town. The eldest Zhang family made shrewd calculations and used his own wisdom to make the family live happily despite the severe drought that lasted for three years in the 17th year of the Republic of China. But God did not follow people's wishes. In the 22nd year of the Republic of China, cholera was rampant. The eldest son of the Zhang family was infected with cholera. Huzi stayed in the small town to take care of his brother. Eventually, both brothers died of cholera in the 22nd year of the Republic of China. After the cholera ended, the great-grandmother returned to the town. People from the Zhang clan came to seize the Zhang brothers' property. Because the Zhang family had no children and only had one daughter, the Zhang family was afraid that the great-grandmother would take the Zhang family property to her ex-husband's family and deprive the Zhang family of the family. The great-grandmother abided by the agreement with Boss Zhang and worked hard for more than 30 years to hand over the Zhang family property to Zhang Kangtai.