Old Man's Warehouse
by Healthy
About This Novel
"Old Man's Warehouse" is an excellent realist masterpiece. It boldly touches on various new problems and contradictions emerging in contemporary rural reform, and has a strong sense of reality. The protagonist of the novel, Zheng Jiangdong, the former secretary of the Xifeng County Party Committee who retired as director of the National People's Congress, is a veteran cadre who has struggled for the party and the people all his life. At that time, he was ambitious, well-known among county party secretaries in the entire region for his thunderous temper and iron-clad party principles. In order to solve the drought in Xifeng County and the water supply problem in the coastal city more than a hundred miles away, he took great risks and built the Laorencang Reservoir in the western mountainous area. He also did wrong things and wronged some good people. He was also influenced by the "Left" and suffered hardships and setbacks during the "Cultural Revolution". Gradually, his party spirit and principles unknowingly became indifferent. Especially after he retired from the county party committee secretary and became the director of the National People's Congress, he felt that he was old and should re-judge everything in the world by the standards of a real old man.
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