He clenched his fists and regarded books as an ax to split his fate, and school as a ladder to the sky. Stepping out of the mountains, I thought I was running towards the light.
Within the walls of the county town, ideals collapsed: respected teachers sold their blood to survive; officials in charge of the "Hope Project" greedily embezzled; and those with a wealth of knowledge sold their collections of books at low prices for medicine. "Knowledge" only shows the scholar's embarrassment in the mud of reality.
Books bend my spine. The school bullies smashed his dignity to the ground. On a cold night, despair broke out, and he tore into pieces the test paper that carried the blood and broken faith of his family! The confetti is like snow, declaring a break with the "sacred knowledge". He turned towards the cold city.
Cities are crueler arenas. From an ant on the scaffolding to a struggling foreman, he was betrayed by his co-workers, disillusioned with love, and cheated in business. He was covered in wounds and bruises, and his soul was marked as a "loser." The city has no roots, and the smoke from the hometown is drifting away.
In his later years, his sick body staggered back to his hometown. Wangjia'ao has become a showcase for curiosity: the smiles of the mountain people are a performance, the father's whetstone is a prop, and the blood-soaked soil with a red carpet has become an attraction. The blood and tears of relatives (mother hanging from a beam, father falling off a cliff) become sacrifices that no one cares about.
When the actor falsely shouted out his mother's crying "bones will pave the way for you"... He exhausted his last strength. Dragging his festering body onto the red carpet stage (where his father sharpened his knife), he used a cold whetstone to cut the cold wrist veins. Blood soaked the red carpet and polluted the stage.
The police lights illuminate the wreckage and the huge blood ring - the starting point is the hot "paving" blood of the black pig entering school, and the end point is its own cold annihilation blood. It strangles Wangshan to death, strangles the myth of "knowledge changes destiny", is the tragedy of the alienated and consumed countryside, and is the countless skeletons that have been reduced to the price. The mountain wind cannot blow away this bloody prologue
