The work uses the burning of cigarettes in Humen and the burning of Old Summer Palace as an introduction throughout the whole text. The full text describes the poison of opium to the people of the Qing Dynasty. Zhao San, who was deeply addicted to drugs and could not smoke cigarettes, tried to exchange his cigarettes for his wife. Due to his addiction to cigarettes, he kicked his wife and killed her. In order to have enough food, she had to replace her with her daughter. The eight-year-old daughter couldn't bear the abuse from the cigarette dealer and escaped late at night. She was rescued by Zhou Zhiqiang, who rescued her mother and was almost blackmailed by her father, so she joined the vigilante group.
After the death of Zhao San's wife, she was thrown into the wasteland in the west of the village. Wild dogs tore her body and miraculously resurrected her body and she embarked on a long journey to find her daughter. The tragic story continued along the way (she was burned by fire in the Earth Temple and almost died. After recovering from her injuries, she accidentally fell into a river and almost died. She was raped and thrown into an ancient tomb cave by bad guys while looking for water and almost died.) In search of her daughter in the Old Summer Palace in the capital, she set off a robber's fire and fled her hometown. The house collapsed and only a thatched hut remained. The husband's bones were scattered on the kang, and the scene was tragic as black ants gathered to eat them.
What was even more tragic was that Dagui's mother witnessed the tragic situation of dogs fighting for her son, and in pain, she followed her daughter who was killed by a thunderstorm.
Equally miserable is Wang Chen's family. The child was abducted and the wife committed suicide in despair of finding the child.
The violent husband beat his eldest son to death for urinating on the roof. In his confession, he hugged his dead eldest son and swam towards the body of his wife he met by chance. The three of them hugged each other in the whirlpool and sank to the bottom of the water.
The declining Qing Dynasty had deceitful people, and people valued money more than Mount Tai. For this reason, Ren Youli suffered greatly. He helped Song Ming sell a donkey and accidentally asked for the wrong price, causing Song Ming's wife to commit suicide unjustly. He also fell ill and died.
My son was a scumbag and deceived many people.
Guixiang's mother and son encounter a mixture of joy and sorrow at home, and their emotions cannot be suppressed when they face the bones of their loved ones.
