1970S: I Supported My Family by Writing Novels

[Rebirth, farming through the ages, getting rich from writing, family growth, deep brother-sister relationship, low-key boss] When he woke up, former publishing editor Cheng Zhaohua returned to the mountain village where he was decentralized in 1971. Both his parents died, leaving only three younger siblings who were starving and emaciated. With a poor family and a bleak road ahead, she clutched the literary treasure trove in her mind from her past life, transcribed fragments of "Border Town" on rough paper, and walked thirty miles up the mountain to mail it. When three hundred pounds of national food stamps were delivered to the entrance of the village, the whole village was in an uproar! She used the pen name of "Idle Man in the Mountains" and kept writing. Her essays and short stories were moving, and her royalties continued to flow. She not only fed and clothed her younger siblings, but also provided them with education and literacy. The editor in Beijing stepped over the threshold to recruit her, and promised her urban household registration and institutional establishment, but she smiled and shook her head: "My home is here, I will not go anywhere." Rumors and rumors cannot stop her, and hardships and hardships cannot destroy her original intention. She used royalties to build a reading corner and a primary school, so that children in the mountains can touch the warmth of words. Many years later, reporters asked her why she was willing to remain anonymous. Cheng Zhaohua leaned against the old locust tree, looked at the children running all over the mountain, and smiled faintly: "I have never been a writer, I am just a sister who doesn't want my children to go hungry."