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This book is a collection of novellas published by the author Feng Junke in recent years in "Contemporary", "October", "Chinese Writers", "Beijing Literature" and other publications, including "Old Stage", "Silence", "Where to Place", "Letter from Damascus", "Brother, How's It Done", "A Street Full of Dust" and "Notes from Jianliang Village". The stories in these novels all take place in the same place. A county chronicle records Jianliang Village with a history of more than two thousand years. Jian, Jianshui, the name of water, in Henan Province, China. Jianliang is a large embankment built next to the Jian River in ancient times. "Erya Shidi": "Liang Mo is bigger than Jian Liang," Guo Pu notes: "Jian is the name of water; Liang is the embankment." Jian Liang Village is similar to Yoknapatawpha in William Faulkner's novel, and is a fictional place name created by the author. These novels revolve around the changes of the times in Jianliang Village, with the Sima clan as the protagonists. In a certain sense, they express the changes in China's rural areas from the 1950s to the 1960s to the present.

Qist Village in spring is particularly charming. Flowers of various colors bloomed, red, green, yellow, and white, in clusters, covering the strange villages. This ancient village on the banks of the River Tame has only one main road paved with cobblestones mixed with sand, and there are all kinds of vibrant flowers, plants and trees growing on the roadside. This main road is as old as the village. The village is dotted with farmhouses whose roofs are covered with reeds, wheat straw or thatch, and the walls are decorated with colorful stones and red bricks with exquisite patterns. Most of them were built in the 17th century. There is also a small river branched from the River Tame, rolling through the village with thin waves.

I heard that some tomatoes sold in the market are red and big, and they are sprayed with chemicals, so they are not green food. I don't believe it. I happened to have an open space in my yard, and I wanted to grow my own green food tomatoes. Lao Bi, a senior engineer at the Municipal Academy of Agricultural Sciences, was my high school classmate, so I called him and told him. A few days later, Lao Bi came with a smile on his face, carrying a cardboard box, and opened it to see that it was a box of tomato seedlings. Lao Bi said: "This is a newly cultivated variety, and it is the best variety." After the seedlings were planted, they grew well. When it's time to bear fruit, every tree has tomatoes. But later I discovered that those tomatoes grew too slowly. A week has passed and not much has changed. Two weeks have passed, and it still hasn't grown much. The color is only green with a hint of pink, not too red to look good.