The stepmother gave her a bowl of poisonous porridge and forced her to marry him: "Marry her as a wedding gift, and you can be a widow and share the land when you die." The sedan entered the Shi family, and the sick husband coughed up blood and fell into a coma. Her mother-in-law asked her to sign a widowhood contract on the spot. The villagers said that she was "sowing seeds on saline-alkali land - a waste of her life". Shen Hengzhi clenched the hoe tightly, but she heard a soft cry in her ears: "Girl, loosen the skin for me, I'm going to die..." The salty ground under her feet cracked fine lines, like thirsty mouths. She squatted down and pressed her palms on the cracked soil: "Don't cry, I'll help you turn over." That night, her husband's family was waiting for her to starve to death - she brought out a pot of wild vegetable soup, which was so fragrant that Liu Sanniang next door climbed over the wall to rub it. Later, the landowner brought people to seize the land, and the villagers held hoes in front of her door: "Ms. Shen, you have healed our land. If anyone touches you, we will fight to the death!" But the sick man's husband sat up from the bed, with a deep look in his eyes: "Who are you?"
