Today I read pages 445-447 of Snow in Midsummer. Mrs. Cai re-introduces herself as 13 years older. She changed Dou's daughter Duanyun's name after Mrs. Cai's son and Duanyun got married. She was now Dou E. Three years ago however, Mrs. Cai's son died leaving Dou E a widow.
Mrs. Cai went to see Dr. Lu to collect money. He didn't have the money so he lured her out to the village and tried to strangle her when Old Zhang and his son Donkey saved her and then threatened to strangle her themselves if she and her daughter-in-law didn't marry them.
Dou E then introduced herself. She had a pretty sad life filled with death and loss starting at just the early age of three years old. "A three I lost my mother, at seven was torn from my father; then the life of the husband I married was cut short; so my mother-in-law and I are left as widows, with no one to care for us or see to our needs."
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