Ren Xiaona, a top student in engineering and mining in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, parachuted into Meixiang Township, a major coal-producing county in Shanxi Province, in the snow when she was 35 years old. She became the "female acting county magistrate" that the whole county openly and secretly mocked.
No one knew that she was carrying the miner's certificate of her brother who had been missing for ten years. He was killed in a water leakage accident in a black mine. The coal boss and corrupt officials teamed up to block the tunnel and concealed the truth. The murderer is still at large.
Faced with the deliberate evasion of the officialdom, the pursuit and interception of shady gangsters, the death threat of brake failure, and the sugar-coated bullets of millions of cash, she never gave in and fought hard to the end!
She thunderously shut down 37 deadly black mines, arrested desperate coal bosses across provinces, overturned the protective umbrella at the county, city and provincial levels, and uprooted the evil forces that had been entrenched in the local area for decades. She shouldered the heavy pressure to complete the important task of ensuring the national coal supply, shut down century-old kilns with the determination of a strong man, and transformed the resource-depleted coal town from a black gold quagmire into a Shanxi intelligent manufacturing town.
After taking root in her hometown for twenty-two years, she guarded the lights of thousands of families and became a benefactor engraved in the bones and blood of the people of Meixiang.
Reader comments
Yes, very realistic and reasonable. The writer is good.
The novel is wonderfully written. I had seen the Shanxi coal incident in the news before, but now I can see the unknown experience in the novel. Thanks to the author.
Yes, very realistic and reasonable. The writer is good.
The novel is wonderfully written. I had seen the Shanxi coal incident in the news before, but now I can see the unknown experience in the novel. Thanks to the author.