4. Us in the Old Days

The rural areas of the Central Plains in the 1990s were filled with rolling hills and lush trees. Xiaoshi Village, with a population of more than a thousand, hides the purest childhood of a generation. Young Shi Yinghao is the king of children in the village. He leads a group of eight or nine-year-old friends to chase hares and roast game in the kiln next to Yangming Temple in Beigang. They secretly pick watermelons in Donggang, catch climbing forks in the forest, catch fish and crabs in the river, and have fun all day long in the fields and mountains. Climbing trees to dig out bird eggs and playing in the fields fill the whole summer. In the years before electronic products, soil, vegetation, smoke and the laughter of friends were all happiness. A group of ignorant urchins grew up wantonly in the mountains and fields, got into minor troubles, and received scoldings. Those carefree and interesting rural stories became the tender old days that people of the 1990s generation can never go back to. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.