My Family

My family Content summary: In an ancient village in the mountains of Guangxi, Mingde and Xiulian were childless and lonely in their later years. In the cold winter of 1948, they found an abandoned boy at the entrance of the village, wearing thin clothes and a mutilated copper coin hanging around his neck. Out of kindness, the couple took in the child and named him Zhiyuan, thus opening an extraordinary chapter in the family's history. At that time, China was on the eve of great changes. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Mingde couple relied on a few acres of thin farmland and their father's carpenter skills to make ends meet. The old couple treated their adopted son as their own and saved money to send him to school. Zhiyuan was also very sensible and went to the fields to help with farm work after school. However, the good times did not last long. A natural disaster in 1958 caused an extreme shortage of food in the village. The family had to rely on eating wild vegetables and digging tree roots to satisfy their hunger. The old Mingde became ill from overwork and eventually died of starvation. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.