The wife looks back on their childhood:
郎骑竹马来，
绕床弄青梅。
同居长干里，
两小无嫌猜。 'You came riding a bamboo horse and circled the bed playing with green plums. We both lived in Changgan, two little ones with no suspicion between us.' She married him at fourteen and now waits for him to come back from a trading journey up the Yangtze.
