Miserable Life

... It is painful to be born, and it is painful to live... Endless suffering, inexplicable suffering, look at the suffering of all living beings in Old Man Yang's family... On that vast and boundless yellow land, the sun hung high, scorching the earth. Old man Yang bent his waist, holding the hoe tightly in his hand, and dug the hard soil again and again. Sweat kept flowing down his grooved cheeks, dripping into the dry soil, and disappeared without a trace in an instant.