In the winter of 1978, Cheng Hewen, a young man from northern Shaanxi, received a letter from Beijing. The letter was written by Feng Jiayou, an educated youth who had returned to the city and was admitted to university. The letter contained a few words: She was pregnant with his child and decided to abort it.
Cheng Hewen didn't have time to think too much, so he squeezed onto the train with the letter of introduction and chased him all the way to Beijing. At the door of Feng's house, he stopped Feng's young child, who was about to be taken to the hospital by his mother. The deal was done, and this "local son-in-law" from northern Shaanxi was reluctantly accepted and moved into the crowded courtyard of the Feng family.
The Feng family is a typical intellectual family in the capital. The mother-in-law is the editor-in-chief of "October" magazine, and she dislikes everything about this country son-in-law; the father-in-law is taciturn, but observes secretly; the sister-in-law is clever and clever, waiting to see her brother-in-law's jokes; the sister-in-law, because of years of infertility, secretly harbors the idea of a child in the Feng family's young belly.
No one thought that this "country bumpkin" was hiding another soul. On a set of reread test questions, he amazed the whole family with a score close to full marks; in the dead of night, he wrote the novel "Wrangler" and sent it to "Yenjing Literature", which was in competition with his mother-in-law.
Reader comments
The pronouns look messy, and sometimes I can't tell who is talking.
The pronouns look messy, and sometimes I can't tell who is talking.