In a mountain village with cracked frozen soil in the north, a storm swept in, carrying fragments of memory. The hero was driving his wife back home when a heavy rain trapped them on a winding mountain road. The winding rain streaks on the windshield bring back memories from twenty years ago: the unshed tears at his father's funeral, the biting spring grass that his wife hid in her diary during the blind date, and the little red snake with blood-like pupils in Snake Girl Mountain.
This snake-shaped village is undergoing a subtle transformation. Incidents of theft and cutting of communication cables occurred frequently. The red cloth strips on the ends of shepherds' whips were replaced by blue cloth strips. Children picked up broken pottery pieces and pieced together pottery pieces with "Spring God Feeding Snakes" engraved on them. When stretch marks appear on his wife's waist, the protagonist discovers that there is a surprising secret hidden in his wife's diary - the big red snake that was raised at the bottom of the ice cellar has not disappeared.
Magic and reality are intertwined in the cracks in the ice: the iron drill used by the mother to divert the frozen soil in the courtyard emits a cold light similar to the steel shovel used to steal the cables; after the trees on the top of the Snake Girl Mountain were cut down, water mushrooms grew on the tree stumps; the wild strawberries bloomed with red flowers, and the protagonist seemed to hear the crisp sound of the ice breaking in front of his father's grave.
This novel, which combines local memories and ecological fables, explores the eternal proposition of taking root and escaping through the bond between three generations of people on the land. The dreams of the whole village are being quietly covered by network signals...
Intention: Using permafrost cracks as bloody lines, in the severe pain of fiber optics and grass roots tearing the earth apart, we write the ecological code of those who were crushed and stubbornly reborn in the process of China's rural modernization.