In 1974, the Su family in Hongqi Commune was facing a desperate situation of running out of food. Eighteen-year-old Su Jin was forced to marry into the Shen family in the city at a "sky-high price" of 300 kilograms of grain and 200 yuan in bride price. She was married to Shen Chengyao, a well-known sick man in the province - he was born with a heart disease and the doctor said he would not survive until the age of 21.
Everyone said that Su Jin went to celebrate the death of a dying person and waited for her to become a widow and remarry.
However, Su Jin managed to keep this sick beauty, who was about to die at any time, more energetic year by year with her nourishment and careful care. Shen Chengyao was still alive at the age of twenty-one, not dead at the age of twenty-five, and was still vigorously giving birth to her children at the age of thirty.
The couple walked through the tail end of the famine hand in hand, growing from a poor and sick couple in Tongzilou to a happy family full of children and grandchildren.
