The Shadow of the Gods under the Mute Tree

Name: The Shadow of the Gods under the Mute Tree
Author: Wang Yiqi's Treasure House

by Wang Yiqi's Treasure House

ongoing Realistic Fiction Period Fiction Male Lead

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Ch. 1 — The Flowers of the Mute Tree Are Blooming, and the Babies Are Crying on the Street

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About This Novel

In Raozhuang in the Wanbei Plain, the mute tree at the entrance of the village is the spiritual totem of the whole village. After the mute tree bloomed in 1956, the goddess Rao Shen picked up the baby boy Liu Jiayi under the tree. Their daughter Rao Lanzhi and her son-in-law Liu Wei were misdiagnosed as infertile and adopted Jiayi. Unexpectedly, they gave birth to two sons and a daughter. Jiayi became an outsider from then on, with only her grandmother to protect her. Rao Shen inherited the position of goddess in her later years. Her niece Rao Xiaofeng suffered from cancer and was involved in a car accident. Her son Rao Langang died suddenly under a mute tree at the inheritance ceremony. Rao Shen also passed away in resentment. Jiayi, who had lost his asylum, was regarded as a "fool" by the locals because of his rigidity and seriousness. He married Zhang Donghua, who was also honest, and they had three sons and one daughter. Misfortunes followed one after another: the eldest son was stupid and fell into a vegetative state; the second son accidentally entered a pyramid scheme and committed suicide by jumping into a river after being released from prison; the third son lost contact after his wife and children separated; his daughter died in childbirth, one dead and two dead. The second daughter-in-law abused her mother-in-law to death of starvation, abandoned her foolish daughter, and died of cancer herself; only the grandson Wenjun went crazy and became sane under the successive blows. The Liu brothers and sisters each have their own predicaments, and the relatives and friends of the Rao family are all trapped in superstition and coldness. The family begins and ends with the dumb tree. He firmly believes in the blessing of the gods and prays again and again despite suffering. He survived the death of his wife, betrayal and separation, and finally fell under a mute tree with his eldest son who was in a vegetative state. The novel uses the life of Jia Yi to connect the fate of dozens of little people, criticizes the shackles of ignorance on human nature, and reveals the powerlessness and struggle of the bottom characters in their fate and times.