In the turbulent final years of the Qing dynasty, famine, crushing taxes, and bandits plague the land.
Chen Gensheng suffers from the day he is born until the day he dies. His entire life is devoted to one thing:
growing rice, selling rice, and saving his family.
He sells rice for his father, his wife, and his son,
but one by one, they die before his eyes.
He sells off all the grain, his home, and his life,
and in the end, all that remains is a shattered family, no survivors, and no one to carry on the family line.
A tragedy of the lowest classes in feudal society, without a glimmer of light.
It's a very good book. I can read it.