Bing, whose panicked face reddened with the white marks of strength and rigidity, started crying, “My love, please make them stop!”
Just then, a woman in her mid-thirties, appeared with a huge belly beneath a large winter gown, a half-fi nished baby suit in her hand and a short haircut. Her profi le looked absurd with her lips missing. At fi rst, Mei couldn’t recognize her. But when she spoke, Mei at once remembered exactly who she was.