People on the Plains

On the loess plateau, a village called Beiyuan spreads like a rag among thousands of ravines. When Li Shanhe was twelve years old, he was called "idiot son" for the first time. His father was a farmer who broke his head and squatted on the edge of the field watching ants all day long. His mother was the most tolerant woman in the village. She kept sucking the soles until late at night. When her fingers pricked, she sucked them with her mouth and continued sucking them. He was writing on the dirt, but it was crushed under someone's feet. He squatted down and wrote again. He was publicly humiliated in class. He lay on his stomach without saying a word and drew the word "" on the table with his fingers. He is the poorest child in the village and the most diligent child in the village. From Beiyuan Village Primary School to the town's middle school, from the town's middle school to the County No. 1 Middle School, and from the County No. 1 Middle School to Tsinghua University. He walked a long way, so far that when he looked back he couldn't see the old locust tree on the plateau. But he's back. There is a job with an annual salary of 500,000 yuan waiting for him in Beijing, and he is back. It's not a return home in fine clothes, it's a return with bare hands. Instead of retaliating against those who bullied him, he led them to grow apples, build roads, and build cooperatives, turning Beiyuan from a forgotten poor village into a nationally famous model village. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.