
Lean Years
by Yao Zongying
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In the winter of 1960, a heavy snow covered the land of North China. The misty sky shrouded the silver-white fields, making the whole world very desolate. The willows and locusts on the roadside were wrapped in snow catkins, and were destroyed by the ruthless cold wind. The withered and yellow treetops couldn't bear the pressure of the snow, and they hung down helplessly, swaying in the wind, and Ling Xue struggled. They look forward to the sunshine melting the cold and the gentle breeze dispersing the gloom. Waiting for spring to return to the earth, sprouting, growing, and strengthening... Sixteen-year-old Qiu Yutong carried his schoolbag and walked alone on the suburban dirt road with more than half a foot of snow, trudging towards the long-distance bus station. From a distance, he does not look like a teenager, let alone a freshman in high school, but more like an old farmer who is over fifty years old and hunched over.
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