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The novel tells the ordinary but touching story of an eighty-year-old man and his children in Gushuipo Village at the foot of the Taihang Mountains. Lin Dashu is nearly eighty years old, but he has been volunteering as a ferryman at Gushui Ferry all year round. He once saved an American female nurse on the battlefield. Many years later, she found Gushuipo and helped build a Hope Primary School here to repay her kindness; Lin Jiawang led the villagers to work in Shenzhen and opened a migrant worker service company. After experiencing various hardships, he finally gained a foothold in the bustling city; Lin Jiaxin gave up working in the city and resolutely returned to the village to support education in his hometown. Lin Jiayong returned to the village to start rural tourism after retiring from the army...