Grandma Wu later passed on her needlework skills to her six daughters. Her husband died when her youngest son was only five years old, and to make both ends meet, she had to do menial work in the fields.
出閣之後，她又用刺繡來教育女兒，使六個女兒也個個傳襲了母親的針線絕活，和溫柔賢淑的好性情。沒想到在幼子五歲的那年，丈夫驟然去世，於是家道中落，改行務農。