That year, famine struck. The family was so poor they had nothing to eat. Her father was useless, her mother timid, and her younger siblings were crying out for food. Liu Guixiang gritted her teeth and decided, “I’ll carry this family.” She earned work points, fought for rations, stood up to the vile, and clawed out a way to survive. If anyone looked down on her, she gave as good as she got. If anyone tried to tear her family apart, she fought them with everything she had. And somehow, she did it: not one member of her family was lost.
