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Booying

Booying

General Fiction

Old Vine

19K0

On the day he reported to Miaoxi Town, Zheng Xiaomao, who was still excited about being named on the gold list, was poured cold water on his head. Lao Hu, the deputy secretary in charge of personnel, asked him to immediately go to Jinhuashan Village at the source of the Bailang River and serve as deputy director of the village committee. Jinhua Mountain? One year? Zheng Xiaomao took a breath of cold air. It's the most remote and poor place in town, and there's no bus service. If you have something urgent, you can only get there in a hurry. "Isn't the civil service post I took the exam for the Finance Office? Why did I become a village official?" Zheng Xiaomao muttered. The sound was not loud, but Lao Hu obviously heard it. Lao Hu stopped midway in holding the teacup, stared with a pair of goldfish eyes and asked, "What?" Zheng Xiaomao knew that he had made a mistake, so he bit his lower lip and stopped uttering a word.

Northland

Northland

General Fiction

Old Vine

297K0

Through a veteran cadre's review and rumination on his forty years of work in the Northeast, it reflects the magnificent history of how Baihe, Beiland, transformed from Beidahuang to Beidacang under the leadership of the party. Party spirit and human nature are intertwined, and good times and setbacks are alternately tempered, showing the deep feelings and unchanging beliefs of the developers and builders of the Northland. A veteran cadre suffering from Alzheimer's disease wrote foolish words at the end of his life. His son, together with a writer friend, returned to the Northland according to the map to search for old friends and salvage old memories for his father. The name was called "Recalling the Soul of the Father", but it was actually an inventory of the treacherous life of the builder of New China, which was a mixture of merit and fault, right and wrong, compromise and perseverance. The novel is an independent chapter based on the names of thirty places where the protagonist once worked. It is a collection of 30 Northland custom paintings and thirty milestones in the development and changes of the Northland.

Hemp Oak Tree

Hemp Oak Tree

General Fiction

Old Vine

20K0

The oak tree was cut down by village accountant Liu Zhu. The tall oak tree trunk was sawed into three pieces, and each piece was pulled by two mules, dragging three strands of yellow dust down from the post. When the mule team passed the gate of the primary school, the accountant Liu Zhu, who was huddled in a crowd, stopped and said to her: Cut it down, the village chief has long wanted to use it as a longevity material. Feng Guomei didn't say anything. She thought Liu Zhu's facial features were funny. He had a shiny and big head. Why were his facial features so crowded? When the last section of the tree trunk pulled by the two mules was dragged past Feng Guomei's eyes, she suddenly saw the familiar line of characters on the trunk. The strokes of the characters had been patinated and deformed, but she could still vaguely make out: How far is it from Niutouba to Korla. She thought that as a complete sentence, there should be a question mark after this line.

Guantang

Guantang

General Fiction

Old Vine

25K0

Lao Teng, whose real name is Teng Zhenfu, is a member of the Chinese Writers Association and a visiting professor at Bohai University. He is the author of seven books including "Applause" and "Confucian Notes". He has won the Northeast Literature Award and the Liaoning Literature Award. Currently working for the Xigang District Committee of Dalian City. Mao Ke likes to take a bath, and likes to strip naked and dive into the folk soup like a loach. The so-called Mintang is a small stream flowing down from the Aishan Hot Spring. It passes through the white stone sedge and yellow apricot forest, and then flows through a low-lying grass pond covered with reeds. It merges into a hot water bubble in the south of the grass pond. Because of the warm water, the villagers of Huangxing Village often came to take a bath, so they gave the water bubbles a somewhat ironic name like Min Tang, which means that the people who come here to take a bath are just ordinary people.

Burnt Taste

Burnt Taste

General Fiction

Old Vine

19K0

Yu Changshan was always enveloped by a burning smell all day long. His nose was as dry as a chimney, and he was worried about nosebleeds whenever he sneezed. Yu Changshan knew where this smell came from. That place was called Big Cross, the heart of Yuzhou City, and it was a famous barbecue street. Although Yu Changshan dislikes this burnt smell, like many passive smokers, he has no choice but to adapt, because the only place he can relax in the county is Maer BBQ on Grand Cross. Yu Changshan is a vegetarian. His vegetarianism has nothing to do with his faith. He just hates the burnt smell of kebabs. Every time he comes, he gets a plate of edamame and two bottles of Songlin beer. He has enough left over, which is exactly two yuan and a half.

Meeting of Sorrows (novella)

Old Vine

26K0

Lao Jia has been preparing for large-scale meetings for decades and has never had any mistakes. Unexpectedly, he made a mistake. Last week, Huang Zhong, the old secretary of the municipal party committee, officially retired due to his age. The person who took over as secretary of the municipal party committee was Yu Xiaoye, director of the Political Research Office of the provincial party committee. The municipal party committee decided to hold a meeting of cadres at the municipal level and above this Tuesday, allowing the new secretary Yu to meet the cadres, and also allowing the old secretary to say a formal farewell to everyone. The preparation of the meeting is naturally Lao Jia's business. Lao Jia is the director of the large-scale event office of the municipal party committee and the municipal government, referred to as the "big event office". He also holds the title of vice chairman of the Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference. His main job responsibilities are to prepare and host meetings. When he was about to get off work last Friday, Lao Jia met his old secretary Huang Zhong beside the elevator.

Grass and Trees

Grass and Trees

General Fiction

Old Vine

211K0

"Grass and Trees" is a novel with realistic themes written by the famous writer Lao Teng. This book focuses on the revitalization and development of Xuli Village, a village that evolved from a post station in the Qing Dynasty. It tells the story of how cadres "I", Shao Zhentian and others led the villagers under the guidance of the Party's rural revitalization strategy to develop industries according to local conditions, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of the post station culture in China's excellent traditional culture, and create the Post Road·Meet Culture and Tourism integration project, which finally brought about earth-shaking changes in the village and put it on the road to health and prosperity. The novel has strong characteristics of the Northeastern border region. It explores new artistic qualities and updates narrative experience in the profound tradition of local literature, and embodies "the enterprising spirit of the Chinese nation that is upright rather than conservative, and respects the past rather than retrospecting."