The winter of 1956 was exceptionally cold. Adults responded to calls for intensified labor digging ditches and repairing irrigation canals. During this time, Lu Zhengqi took one-year-old Xinlian on his back, they fell off an embankment while jumping over ice puddles, resulting in Lu Zhengqi breaking his arm and Xinlian suffering a head gash. This incident led to Old Madam Lu beating Lu Zhengting unconscious with an iron shovel, causing him to lose his hearing.
