This article is a local short story created between the authors. It revolves around a forest planted by ancestors in a seaside village and tells the sad and bumpy life of villager San Oyizi.
The forest is the hometown where the villagers have relied on for generations to survive and store their memories and family ties. It carries the past of San Oyster's childhood playfulness and making a living as a young man. It also hides the unbearable past of his youthful mistakes and being imprisoned for theft. The tombs of his relatives are also buried here. However, this forest has been occupied by foreign capital and transformed into a private sanatorium for the enjoyment of the powerful, leaving the villagers isolated.
Sanyizi was ostracized because of his criminal record, and it was even harder to let go after his cerebral infarction. The loss of the woods became a knot in his mind that he couldn't untie. He was obsessed with asking for his homeland, but he hit the wall many times. Seeing that the hard work of his ancestors had been usurped and the graves of his relatives were left unattended, he was filled with resentment and loneliness. During the Winter Clothes Festival, he paid homage to his deceased relatives from afar outside the fence to express his thoughts.
Not long after, a fire broke out in the forest. The entire forest and luxurious buildings were burned down, and countless birds fled for their lives. On the eve of the fire, San Oyster passed away quietly in a lonely hut.
The novel connects personal ups and downs with the fate of the woods, and uses the tragedy of Sanoyzi to describe the loss of the hometown and the struggle and fate of the low-level people. It is full of melancholy about the loss of human relationships and hometown in the changing times.
Concept: The hometown and country under the impact of power and commercial power