Chapter 14 Summary

Winnie says in Kunming, her luck changed from bad to worse. They move into small rooms in a Yang Fang or foreign-style house between the city's north and east gates. After one of the tenants, the inspector, contracts malaria and dies, Winnie pays extra from her dowry for the larger rooms and for servants no longer provided by the Air Force.

Winnie is nine months pregnant when she drops her scissors and her child is born dead. She names the girl Mochou, Sorrowfree, after the lake in Nanking. Winnie has the scissors thrown in a lake and waits one hundred days before shopping for a new pair. In the market as she is selecting a new pair, she turns over a table of forty pairs of scissors.

Days later, Jiaguo tells her he may have to fire Wen Fu or put him in...