When the Japanese were storming Ling Tan's home and Tan rounded up his household to escape, who was the obese woman who had to be left behind hiding in the brush? (She was then discovered by the Japanese, and presumably raped and killed)
shareLao Er called her "your honoured mother" when he visited Wu Lien's home in the beginning. So she was supposed to be Wu's mother, I think. But it is hard for me to believe that a man could serve his enemies who raped and killed his own mother. Probably she was not his natural mother, since in old China a husband could have plural wives.
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