"Aniang! When can daddy come back?"
"Your father is going to Siam. When he makes a lot of money, he will come back and take us with him!"
The heroine is not named Shurou, and the man she travels to Southeast Asia with is not named Musheng.
Looking at her son and daughter, Wu Hongmei relied on the only one-third of an acre of land in her hometown to support her two children, and she also had to serve her parents-in-law.
It was 1948, when the country was in turmoil. They were guarding the mud-tiled houses passed down from their ancestors. Situations like theirs were common in this era of rapid change.
