
Stacked Hairpin Bends
by Xi Bang
About This Novel
If time were to fast forward, Ba Feng would definitely see the road of life looking back as a continuous hairpin bend. But at the beginning of this story, he had never heard of this word - hairpin bend in English, a sharp bend of less than 90 degrees, shaped like a girl's U-shaped hairpin. People in E County call it "looking back". They overlap on some mountains in the outskirts of the place and reach up to the clouds. Ba Feng was only in his first year of high school at that time. He was dark and thin, with thick eyebrows and eyes, and two white rabbit teeth looming between his half-closed lips. The boy didn't have any bad habits. He only had one shortcoming: his grades were poor and he was ranked among the bottom 20 among the top ten in E County. Only 20 of the 200 graduates from that school can go to college every year. His mother, Qiu Xinrong, basically despaired of his future. She always told her neighbors that she just tied the baby to the No. 10 Middle School and locked her up, and had no other thoughts.
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