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My father is now a fisherman. Previously, people in Yangshu Village called him the "Knife Boss." The people of Yangshu Village were pointing fingers behind my father's past struggles and doing almost nothing now, but in the end, all the words he wanted to say turned into spittle and were swallowed. The Yangtze River estuary is 400 kilometers away from our Yangshu Village, and a pocket is deliberately left. Don't underestimate this pocket. Over 400 kilometers away, the fish that migrate to produce seeds are mature. The "three delicacies of the Yangtze River" were born here. The river fish here are abundant, and the river fish is even more coveted. Those trash fish are called "the eight delicacies of the Yangtze River." Now my father is busy in this pocket. He goes in and out of the courtyard gate every day, coughing, and there is always a puff of smoke behind him. The cigarettes he smokes are considered high-end in our Yangshu Village. People in the village say this is a disease caused by being a boss in the past - his posture cannot be reduced.

The day my uncle Harutora decided to build his family tree, he had to admit that he was poor. It takes courage to admit that you are a poor person. Before that, no matter how much suffering you suffered or how much sin you suffered, Chunhu always felt that there were still good days ahead. This time Harutora admitted it wholeheartedly. He said he was old and it was time to go. "I never dared to think that I could live to be over eighty years old, haha." The wrinkles on Chunhu's face were piled up, dark and shiny. Originally, we did not agree with my uncle's plan to compile the family tree. This "us" also includes my mother Chunlian. How can a poor man build a family tree? Only your nerdy uncle would come up with such an idea. My mother Chunlian said that the poor are like the dust on the ground and the dew in the morning. A gust of wind will leave no trace.

"Yangshu Village in Lixiahe" collects more than 20 short and medium-length stories by the powerful writer Xiao Delin. These works have been published in many famous magazines. The author is good at looking at the bizarre world from the perspective of a teenager. Yangshu Village is the stage for the characters in the novel and a vivid specimen of social changes. Through the description of Yangshu Village, the author records the joys and sorrows in the social process. While telling the story of Yangshu Village, it also extends its focus to the stories of many Yangshu people who came to the city. All of them bear the mark of Yangshu Village because their souls have long been integrated with the vegetation and rivers here.