Ma's children are hardworking and hard-working. Because they are in a bad mood, they let their husbands scold her casually for two and a half hours, but they won't talk back.
According to the book, if her husband scolds her, or her neighbors quarrel with her, she will melt like a pool of wax, and her temper will be soft and it will be difficult to resist.
She didn't wake up, she didn't have self-awareness, and she didn't know that she wanted to live with dignity. Her husband's two and a half miles is her day and everything to her. She does whatever her husband tells her to do. For Li Li, his wife, the pockmarked woman, is just a tool for his delivery. Hemp children have no ideas and thoughts of their own.
Later, Ma's children were killed by the Japanese, ending her ignorant and resigned life.
Jin Zhi is a character who appears in the second chapter of the novel. He fell in love with a young man and got pregnant before marriage, which was widely discussed by the villagers.
Soon after Jin Zhi and Ye Cheng got married, they gave birth to a little daughter. Because the family is poor, they have no clothes and food, and they can't afford to raise children. But unlike those poor people, the couple got angry and quarreled, but her husband managed to throw his little daughter, who was born just a few days ago, to death.
After the Japanese invaded China, Jinzhi soon became a widow.
I went to Harbin to save Jinzhi and do mending work in the city.
In order to earn a dollar to mend clothes, being bullied by men makes life worse than death.
Later, Jin Zhi wanted to become a monk, but the nun was already empty and could not become a monk.
Under this background, we can imagine the future path of Jinzhi: either poverty and starvation, or joining War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and dying in battle.