The crowd quietly waited for Village Chief Wang to calm his emotions.
Village Chief Wang first looked at a woman in the crowd: "Sanjin's mother."
The woman had just lulled the child in her arms to sleep. Suddenly hearing Village Chief Wang call her, she raised her head in a daze.
Village Chief Wang gestured with his hand: "Come over, you earned the most money, totaling two strings and two hundred thirty copper coins."
Sanjin's mother, Mrs. Zhu, was a quiet woman, not good-looking, and shorter than average women. Her first child, Sanjin, as her mother-in-law put it, was not much bigger than a piglet, with the weight of only three pounds all together.
Mrs. Zhu's husband passed away last winter, and the burden of two elders and two children suddenly fell on her shoulders, making Mrs. Zhu feel it would be better to die at times, until Sanjin suddenly fell ill.
