Summary

As months and years pass, Madame Wu and her family continue along their ways. There are changes: as the result of the movement of refugees away from the war, Ch’iuming is reunited with the searching mother who was forced to give her up shortly after she was born. The connection is established when the woman first reveals that her lost child was left with a piece of embroidered silk, and Ch’iuming produces the piece of silk with which she was found. Once the two are reunited, Ch’iuming leaves the Wu family with Madame Wu’s blessing and several gifts.

Meanwhile, Fengmo and Linyi are productive in both their family and in their school, successfully bring both children and education into the world. Fengmo is driven and intense, his determination irritating the industrious and hard-working Liangmo, particularly when Fengmo insists that Meng...