Female, wife of militia company leader Xiao Niande. She is an older village woman who recounts the harsh memories of the famine from her youth to the young sent-down youths. She explains that during the famine, droughts ruined crops and children were emaciated, with even grass on the hills picked clean. She believes that having work and grain to harvest is a kind of happiness compared to those desperate times. She genuinely likes Yao Xiaocui and worries about her future after marriage.
