Song Jinxiu's mother who attempted suicide by hanging after learning her children had prospered under another family. She was divorced from the Song family, sold to Zhang Bangchui, a hunter from Hama Village, for five taels of silver. She endured a difficult life with him but tried to kill herself upon hearing her children were well, fearing shame in returning to Songjia Village. She is severely depleted physically and refuses medicine, clinging to life by a thread until Song Jinxiu persuades her to live.
