The twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Tonghe River crossing. When Shen Tie knelt down and opened the carton, the dark eyes inside looked at him, neither crying nor fussing, as if they had been waiting for a long time.
The first thing Jiang Sui said when she was five years old was not "Who are you?" She pointed to the door and said, "There are three people outside, and the one on the left is lame."
From that day on, everyone in Tonghe knew that Shen Tie had picked up a daughter. But no one knew that this girl would load the entire Copper River coal into her father's truck body.
