After the Tian family couple died, twelve-year-old Tian Xiaobao was no longer the pampered darling who didn't dirty his hands with work; he was forced by Tian Zhaodi to toil in the fields to earn labor points, exchanging his own hard work for food.
Under the oppression of Comrade Tian Zhaodi, the Tian family added a new family rule:
If you don't work, you don't eat.
The more work you do, the more food you get.
Moreover, whenever Comrade Tian Zhaodi came back from the mountain with wild game, she would find an excuse to punish Tian Xiaobao by not allowing him to eat, leaving him hungry and watching helplessly as the three sisters ate well and drank heartily.
The status of the four siblings in the family had been entirely changed by her.
