Wife of Commissar Yu, director of the women's committee in the family compound. She prefers to be called Sister Wang rather than sister-in-law. She grew up in the countryside and could not read as a child. She is diligent, visiting homes to check on ration coupon distribution and keeping a notebook of families who haven't received them. She has two sons described as dark as coal. She is straightforward and not afraid to complain about logistics department inefficiencies.
