Reborn in 1975, Song Huaixia became the “little widow sister-in-law” everyone in Hualin County avoided. Her husband’s family wanted her house, the neighbors watched for a show, and she didn’t have a single grain of rice in her pocket. But she stayed calm, set up an iron pot, and sold thick corn porridge from the streets all the way to the county’s First Food Factory. Yet the cold-faced military officer Shen Yanbei, who kept coming to buy porridge, wanted more than a hot meal. “Song Huaixia, there’s something suspicious about your husband’s death.” One bowl of porridge, one clue, and two people caught up in the same old case.
