No scheming, no gimmicks, just the genuine ups and downs of everyday family life.
Grandma was married once before. When she married Grandpa, her current husband, she brought along Dad, a twelve-year-old burden.
No one would ever truly care for him.
When Dad was thirty, Grandma brought home a lame woman to be his wife. That was my mom.
Grandma said she had traded a sack of grain for my mom.
My mom was very fertile. Over the next ten-plus years, she gave birth to seven children, but only four survived: my eldest brother, fourth brother, fifth sister, and me.
My eldest brother was soft and meek. In modern terms, he was a mama's boy; back then, you'd say he couldn't make up his own mind.
He was thirty-four and still unmarried. When Dad heard that people were going to the border region to bring back wives, he paid a middleman twenty thousand yuan to take my brother there.
Two years later, my brother came back...
I have finished reading the updated one. The characters are close to life and the images are vivid. It is very good-looking. Please update it quickly, author.
I've listened to three chapters and it's quite interesting. Come on, the author.
A very down-to-earth novel with a short story about parents
It's so sad, indeed good people don't live long.
Period novels are quite good
A narrated down-to-earth and documentary portrayal of life... Good book recommendation
Real, down-to-earth and beautiful