Dried Dates in Famine Years

Female Channel + Famine Years + Chronicles + Family Memoirs The full text records the ups and downs of Wang Xiaoyuan, a farmer in southern Sichuan, over the past 80 years. Taking the family and marriage life of four children as the main line, Wang Xiaoyuan's multi-faceted life is unfolded. In 1958, Wang Xiaoyuan and his son Wang Kesheng secretly went to the market to buy bulls and adopted the little beggar Qin'er. As an adult, Keqin learned a good craft from Carpenter Feng and later opened a wood craft workshop. The second son, Wang Kesheng, a worker in a railway machine repair shop, was injured in an accident. After two marriages, his untimely death was a huge blow to Wang Xiaoyuan. The younger son Wang Kejun successfully enlisted in the army and joined the party along the way. After he was discharged, he was assigned to work as a dispatcher in the county grain bureau. After the second son left, the younger son became Wang Xiaoyuan's support and lived in the city. Wang Xiaoyuan used a tough attitude to force his daughter Wang Qunzhen to marry Zhou Tianshun, a wealthy and ugly credit union clerk.