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Going back to the 26th year of the Republic of China, we all lived in rubbish houses here. Out of all the people in the village, only the gatehouse of landlord Hu Guiting's house is built entirely of bricks. Hu Guiting's old mangy bitch left by his father often lay under the gate building, munching wheat noodles and steamed buns. If you can't help but look at it, it will protect its buns with its paws, grinning and growling at you, looking like a bad dog. I was just twenty-one years old at that time, and my mother and father were both gone, so I was left alone to get through life. I am born different from others. I have an extra little finger next to my thumb on my right hand. People around my hometown call me Liu'er. People say that people with six fingers are good at gambling. See, this old saying is true.