Siheyuan: the Burning Years

In the late autumn of 1965, 17-year-old Yi Mingyuan came to Nanluogu Lane in Beijing with a baggage on his back. Before his death, his father left a note with an address and a name on it - Yi Zhonghai, his father's cousin, an eighth-level fitter at the steel rolling mill, and the uncle of the family who had not graduated from the fifth level. From a boy in the countryside to an apprentice in a steel rolling mill, from a stranger in a courtyard to a family member in the household registration book. The uncle doesn't know how to say nice things, but he will put an extra bowl of rice on the dining table, pass on the skills of an eighth-level fitter to him, and will say the words when he is bullied: "I am your uncle. Your business is not a problem." This is a story about blood inheritance. Those days were tight, but people's hearts were warm. An old man with no children and a young man who lost his father transformed the word "family" into "father and son" in the old courtyard house in Nanluogu Lane. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.