The noon sun was scorching hot, the sun was scorching hot in the middle of this summer. The flowers and grass were also withered, the fields were also parched and cracked. There had never been a summer like this, a very harsh summer. In the small, simple, dilapidated thatched-roof house, Mrs. Nam was trying to help her daughter-in-law deliver her fourth grandchild. Mrs. Nam said to her daughter-in-law: