The First Half of His Life

In the deep mountains of Yunnan in the 1980s, there would be a small village in some slightly flat places. In the village, tile-roofed houses and thatched houses were built in a disorderly manner on the private plots of their families. Most of them had the mentality of favoring boys over girls. Every family wanted to have a son. Some of them could not afford to raise several daughters, so they either gave them away or buried them cruelly. The muddy road is covered with pig excrement and cow excrement, and pig urine flows in the small ditch on the roadside. The protagonist Jie Wendong was born in such a small village. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.