Digging for Treasures in the Mountains in the 1970s: A Comeback from Desperate Odds

Conclusion "Going into the Mountains to Dig for Treasures at Seventy, Counterattack in Desperate Situations" tells the story of a man who went into the mountains to look for something, but finally discovered that what he was looking for was not something. The core action of the entire book is "passing". What Zeng Guangyuan hid in the savage ditch was not gold and silver, but Zheng Yitie's bone-setting prescription. He kept guarding it for more than thirty years until his death, waiting for someone to pass on these recipes for him. Lu Xun spent several years finding them, organizing them into books, printing them, and sending them to where they should go. The story starts from "treasure hunting" and ends with "inheritance". The path is clear and the end point is clear. Zeng Guangyuan, a character who has never appeared in person, completes the most complete character arc in the book through three letters. When the third letter is revealed in Chapter 191, all the previous foreshadowing is gathered together. This is the most structurally successful part of the entire book. At the end of Chapter 210, I used wind, fallen leaves, and empty wicker chairs to restrain my emotions. I had no unnecessary words and restrained myself. But its flaws are equally obvious. The medicinal material business line in the mid-term takes up too much space, and the tension of "digging for treasure" almost disappears in the middle. Qian Yongchang's villain line has always stayed at the level of "passing materials to the person stuck", without forming a real desperate situation. Repetition of writing habits—the opening sentence, the closing sentence, the repeated actions of the characters—permeates throughout, weakening the sharpness of the text. It completes the theme of "inheritance", but does not complete the type label of "desperate situation". It is a quiet novel that lacks a little intensity, but goes its own way decently.