The original owner's father, who held a leadership position at a factory and earned 32 yuan a month. After his wife passed away, he remarried a year later. He gave his daughter plenty of money (385 yuan and 98 cents in savings) and a large stack of ration coupons including grain, meat, oil, cloth, sugar, industrial goods, towel, wool, soap, coal, and tofu coupons to ease his guilt. He refused to let his wife discipline Tang Tang, knowing how monstrously strong she was.