About the author: Liu Yilian, female, 59 years old. She has been working around the stove all her life and has been a housewife for thirty-two years.
Zhu Fusan, in the 1930s, became the richest man in Wuchang County. The elderly home provides food and accommodation for homeless people. Raise thirty-two orphans. Donate money to build the bridge. Especially during the Anti-Japanese War, he fought wits with the Japanese devils, helped the Eighth Route Army anti-Japanese soldiers, delivered food and medicine, and rescued the wounded.
Wang Jiabin's family is very wealthy and is second to none in front of South Lianhua Mountain in Wuchang County. He risked his life to help the resistance officers and soldiers get out of danger. He rescued the wounded and went to deep mountains and forests many times to deliver food and supplies to the Eighth Route Army soldiers. Fight rationally with the Japanese devils, compete with the bandit Huzi, and make friends.
Colonel Yamaguchi, a Japanese military officer, captured workers from Hebei and Shandong to build a man-made river. The workers suffered heavy casualties. Wang Jiabin spoke up and argued with him, and the two had many head-on conflicts.
The bandit leader Shi Waibo went down the mountain to loot the countryside many times. Wang Jiabin was a big businessman, so he was naturally the main target for robbery. In the end, he was tamed by Wang Jiabin, and the two became friends.
There are also many wonderful plots in the book, such as the wonderful content about the superstitious people in the old society in Northeast China dancing to the great gods, which is hilarious.
This novel begins with the sound of gunfire when Japan invades China in the 1930s and ends with the death of the two protagonists in the 1980s.
It is worth mentioning that my father-in-law Wang Zhengxin also appears in the novel. During the Puppet Manchukuo period before the liberation of Wuchang, the old man was the head of the health department of Wuchang County.