Chapter 1
Dayu Law, Article 7 of Household Marriage Law:
"All criminals, refugees, white laborers, those with a happy background, and those from lowly households are not allowed to enter officialdom for the third generation. They are not allowed to have daughters from good families. They are not allowed to give birth to children whose registration is "various". Those who die are not allowed to enter the ancestral tomb."
In the remote border town of Qinghe County in Youzhou, the two-foot-high blue brick fire wall in the backyard of the county government divides people into two parts——
On the other side of the wall, there is a proud man who has promoted people, and a magistrate's wife who is well-dressed and well-fed;
On the other side of the wall were corpses of white laborers digging for food in the sewers, and decapitated corpses rotting in the mud.
