Everyone would have understood it if she had wanted to save Comrade Wang, but it seemed completely inexplicable that she would go to all this effort for Zhang Guoqing. Since I didn’t know what was going on, I set out to make some basic inquiries, and thus discovered a new bombshell – she was having an affair with him! They had got together completely by chance and in a very simple way: one Sunday Zhang Guoqing had borrowed 20 yuan from other people, to which he added his own 5 yuan, and was on his way to the post office in the nearby town to send it to his wife and child who were suffering in the famine. He filled in the documentation and just as he was handing the money over at the counter, someone suddenly rushed forward, grabbed the money out of his hand, and ran off. Zhang Guoqing ran after him but didn’t catch him, so he squatted down in the road and burst into tears. He kept saying that it wasn’t money that had been stolen – it was the lives of his wife and child! And so on and so forth. Anyway, Huang Yiyi and Comrade Zha happened to be walking past the post office and bumped into him. Huang Yiyi saw him crying in the road like that and felt sorry for him, so she fished out all the money that she had on her and borrowed some from Comrade Zha to make up 25 yuan, which she then gave to Zhang Guoqing. She told him to hurry up and send it to his family. Zhang Guoqing was stunned when he saw the money in Huang Yiyi’s hands; this was after all the time of the three years of natural disaster when people were starving all over the country, and 25 yuan was enough to buy three or four hundred jin of rice. His wife and child would be able to eat for more than six months on that!