In 1958, Shen Weiguo was ten years old.
His father smashed the iron pot and threw it into the steel-making furnace. There was still half a pot of porridge at the bottom of the pot, which flowed into the fire and disappeared with a hiss.
He didn't know that there would be famine, sports, queue jumping, failing the college entrance examination, and being laid off.
All he knew was that he was hungry. I want to study, but I don't have the chance. I want to get into the city, but there is no way. I want to hold an iron rice bowl, but the rice bowl is broken.
He has never defeated the times in his life.
But he buried his younger brother, swallowed his mother's photo, and sent his son to college.
In 2000, he was fifty years old. When his son was admitted to college, he sent him to the entrance of the village and said, "Let's go, don't come back."
The son is gone. He knelt down and picked up a cigarette butt. The cigarette butt went out.
The wind is strong from the west. He stood up and walked back.
The fire in the stove is still burning.
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This is a period novel about "how do people get here step by step".
