I stayed in the flood for three days and nights without eating or drinking to save the whole village, but they turned around and wanted to get tens of thousands of yuan in tourism development funds, and teamed up with the village secretary, a newly arrived college student, to send me to prison indefinitely. When the cold handcuffs were firmly stuck on my wrists and the bulldozers roared to flatten my father's grave, the kindness and nostalgia I had held on to for twenty years were completely dead.
