An elderly widowed woman nicknamed Grandma Zhou, who lives downstairs from Su Ye. She had eight chefs in her kitchen before liberation and comes from a wealthy family background. She cultivated a small vegetable plot with special permission and shared vegetables with Gu Xiangqian. She worked on a blueprint for an integrated circuit segment. She treated Gu Xiangqian like family after losing her own son and daughter-in-law in the Korean War.
