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Towering buildings, endless subway transfer points, rich nightlife... After stripping away these standard features of big city life, the food, clothing, housing and transportation in small towns are probably closer to the essence of life for the silent majority today. "Marie Feng's Rose Garden" is a new short story collection by Fan Jianjun, a famous writer in Jiangxi and vice chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Writers Association. It includes 8 stories in total, "Inner River", "Life with Aftereffects", "Taboo of the Mirror", "Sleepwalking Tower", "Soul Circle", "Iron Fantasy History", "Marie Feng's Rose Garden" and "The Kite Runner". The novel describes middle-aged life in a small town, listening to thunder in silent places, using light writing techniques to reveal the turbulent undercurrents hidden under life; at the same time, the author's thoughts sometimes penetrate into forbidden places, making small town life magnificent and colorful, allowing us to accept the familiar or unfamiliar aspects of society with pleasure.

In the 1980s, a huge gold mine suddenly appeared somewhere in northwestern Jiangxi. Tens of thousands of people flocked to mine it. This news shocked the world and was reported by many foreign news media. The author has personally participated in the gold mining here and is familiar with the people and events in the gold mining process. After decades of precipitation and thinking, he wrote the novel "The Story of Gold Rush". "The Legend of Gold" written by Fan Jianjun is based on this incident. The story unfolds with the villagers headed by Zhu Da's family mining gold, smuggling and selling gold, and establishing their own gold jewelry brand, creating a series of portraits of a group of people chasing gold dreams. The novel spans more than a hundred years, from Zhu Da's great-grandfather Zhu Shu to Zhu Da's grandson Zhu Xiaoshou, spanning six generations. It is a history of the struggle of generations of ancestors chasing gold, and a fable history of gold. The novel relatively completely and truly reproduces the entire process of a gold mine, from its discovery to its prosperity, to its decline and demise. The Watergate Village in the novel has experienced a gold feast and a golden catastrophe. The people of Watergate Village were all involved in this battle for gold. Because they did not know how to protect themselves, many people suffered from silicosis during the gold mining process and died in pain. Watergate Village also became a village of widows. The people chasing gold are gone, but gold is still rampant in this world.