I really hated myself at that time, like a maggot crawling out of an underground sewer and being discovered in the sun, with all my embarrassment and disgust clearly visible to others.
I have experienced both left-behind children and street children with working parents. In fact, the essential tragedy is poverty. The low self-esteem caused by poverty starts from childhood. I don't dare to buy things that are too expensive, I have a subconscious fear of beautiful and exquisite things, I am afraid of train stations, I am afraid of woven bags, I am afraid of discrimination in the eyes of strangers.
Purpose: It shows the lonely life of left-behind children. From the perspective of the protagonist, it exposes the backward thinking of favoring sons over daughters in the rural background.