Stubborn

On a spring night in Zhaojia Village, Hebei Province in 1982, Mr. Zhao stubbornly banged his pipe pot, breaking the tranquility of dividing fields among households. He adheres to the old principle of "the eldest son guarding the family", but his second son Jianguo went south to Shenzhen to smuggle watches and almost went to jail; his eldest son Jianguo guarded the tofu shop and was tricked by fake seeds, but found that his daughter-in-law Chunmei secretly used the money order to restart the stone mill; his third sister Meilan tore up the college entrance examination book and eventually became a teacher in the county middle school, but her husband cheated on her in middle age. Over the past thirty years, the stubborn copper cigarette pole has turned into a smart phone. He squatted in the greenhouse and watched his granddaughter sell tofu live. The torn family tree was stored in the cloud by Meilan's daughter using a blockchain. There was sugar-free Coke and quick-frozen dumplings on the altar table in the ancestral hall. As the photovoltaic project excavator approaches the ancestral grave, the Zhao family confronts each other with shovels, and Lao Zui plays Jianjun's confessional voice. Under the old locust tree, the shadows of four generations overlap with the light spots of the drone. From donkey carts to live broadcasts, the Zhao family used rough humor to develop a stubborn philosophy of survival amid the gears of the times. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.