Reminiscing About the First Half of His Life

It tells the story of the life of a young man who came out of the countryside in the 1970s. In August 1972, the air in Yanghe, Siyang, Jiangsu Province was still filled with the humidity and heat of late summer, and the chirping of cicadas echoed one after another on the old locust trees at the entrance of the village. In the adobe house of the Du family, Chen Xiulan was lying on the earthen kang covered with a coarse cloth mattress, with fine beads of sweat on her forehead and biting her lips. Beside the kang, her husband Du Qingfu was rubbing his hands and pacing back and forth, still smelling of the herbs he had just treated Lao Wang's cow in the neighboring village - he was the only veterinarian in the village... This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.