After Returning to the Early 1970S

The single man who had lived for more than seventy years was about to close his eyes at the last moment, thinking back on his lonely life... He had no wife and no children, and in his later years he lived on the national subsistence allowance. He closed his eyes in front of the hospital bed for a long time... When he opened his eyes, he went back to 1971, when my mother had also passed away for five years. My father had led us three brothers and sisters by himself through the difficult life. When I woke up in the morning, I thought about the time when my father and I were carrying coal down the river to exchange for salt... This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.