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This book describes the experience and knowledge of a girl who was studying abroad during the Anti-Japanese War when she returned to her hometown - some ordinary people and simple things in her hometown in the mountain village. But in Nie Hualing's writings, the girl's secret love, the bitterness of the austere woman, the fight between wives and concubines, and women's yearning for freedom are delicately and soothingly displayed, like a freehand landscape painting, simple and meaningful. The soft singing of Jin Lingzi, which is a metaphor for the girl's feelings, is like a golden thread, gently looming in the whole book. It not only becomes the hidden main line of the novel, but also makes the entire storyline covered with a poetic gauze. The novel uses a first-person monologue narrative technique, and "I" is the central character, the eighteen-year-old girl Lingzi. Her secret love for the middle-aged man Uncle Yin Zhi, from ignorant love to shy confession, from concealment to rebellion from love to hatred, and the girl's curiosity about married life, the author's writing is meticulous and touching.