[Not a power fantasy] [No System] [Historical fiction] [Rural life] There are no heroes here, only ordinary people crushed and remade by history.
In the early years of the Republic of China, the mute Xu Xia is born amid a scandal in a landowning family. The landlord Xu Jingui dies in despair, leaving her, born unable to speak, to become the laughingstock of the countryside. Only Xu Sanwang, a kitchen hand, uses his streetwise cunning to give her a tender, protective refuge. The good and bad things that happen in the Xu family courtyard shape decades of change in the village. One great Xu family manor sets off decades of bloodshed; two red strings tied to locust trees bind together decades of loving protection...
The book is not finished The follow-up is "The Sunset Continues"