It writes about a group of ordinary people at the bottom with no backing, no diploma, and no luck on the edge of the Salt Lake in Yuncheng.
When I was young, I struggled to get a job in a state-owned enterprise, when I was laid off, I was forced to go out to work, and when I was old, I was trapped in the gap between urban and rural areas.
With the protagonist Li Shuanzhu as the axis, it connects the ups and downs of a group of people over the past thirty years.
It accurately pokes at the collective empathy of the Chinese people: "They strive for stability all their lives, but they are always trapped by the times."
Purpose: The ups and downs of the times