During the war in the Republic of China, in a small town in Sichuan, there lived an old woman living with her great-granddaughter. The family was very happy in a place with simple folk customs. But one day the old woman fell ill in the middle of the night, and the 12-year-old girl had no choice but to go to Pengjia Village, dozens of miles away, with a lantern and a pig-cutting knife on her waist to ask for a doctor...
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.