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Everything the father experienced in the family during his lifetime was reactivated by his daughter's return home. The past and real life of family members, relatives and friends gradually unfolded, showing the influence of a strong mother on the character and emotions of a family. The conflicts and entanglements between husband and wife, father and daughter, mother and daughter, and brothers and sisters not only reflect the ethical life of the Chinese people, the emotional structure of the Chinese family, but also reflect the changing concepts of the two generations and the torrent of social change. Starting from his own real emotional experience, the writer uses deep compassion and patience to show the light of ordinary people's dreams amid the emotional trajectories and life variations of ordinary people. The work thus carries the powerful power of reality.

The novel describes the growth and spiritual history of Wang Yuejin, the mayor of a prefecture-level city, from a poor rural child to a mayor. Wang Yuejin, who came from a lower class, studied hard and was admitted to university. After graduation, he was assigned to the city. He has high aspirations, but lives a lonely and lonely life. He got married by accident, and his emotional life was certainly not of high quality. By chance, he embarked on the road of officialdom and was promoted to mayor. With the promotion of his position, Wang Yuejin felt a sense of separation and anxiety deep in his heart. The quality of emotions is also clouded. Shao Li focuses on the emotional life state of such a special group of people. It is cold and flirtatious, warm and cruel. It is a kind of torture and a kind of compassion. The writer takes the officials who have risen through the ranks and responded to every call down to the "human" level for observation, and calmly looks at those who have lost their aura of power. Behind her interesting line drawings are the contradictions and embarrassments of human nature.

This book includes nine short and medium-sized novels by Shao Li, including "Minghui's Christmas", "Autumn Outside the City", "Candy", "Mulan's City", "Ma Lanhua's Waiting", etc. It embodies the general creative style of Shao Li since he entered the literary world.

This is a novel. The story originates from the ancient Zhouzhou Village on the banks of the Ying River in Zhongyue Songshan Mountain. The dreams and realities, branches and roots, starting points and present of six generations of a family are vividly presented in this novel. The mutual pain and warmth between the Zhou family members is touching. The migration of family elites from the countryside to the city, and from the city to the countryside, truly reveals the huge differences between the city and the countryside, and writes about the joys and sorrows of life from isolation to integration. Through the rebellion, competition and ending of the two daughters in the city and the country, it is revealed that the family women's persistence and struggle under the traditional culture have supported the soul and rebirth of this homeland.

Shao Li, born in November 1965, is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese Writers Association. He is currently the vice chairman and secretary-general of the Henan Writers Association. He has written nearly two million words of novels and essays. His works have been published in large national publications such as "People's Literature", "Contemporary", and "October", and some of his works have been selected by "Selected Novels", "Novel Monthly", "Selected Chinese Literature", "Works Contest", "Xinhua Digest" and various annual anthologies. Some works have been translated and introduced to France, Japan, Greece and other countries. He has won the Biennial Award for Outstanding Novellas in "Selected Novels", the champion of the "Contemporary" Literary Rally Competition of People's Literature Publishing House, and the title of the most promising young writer in the "2003 Chinese Literary Figures" by hundreds of media across the country. The novella "Minghui's Christmas" won the 4th "Lu Xun Literature Award" of the Chinese Writers Association. The novel "My Quality of Life" was shortlisted for the 7th "Mao Dun Literary Award". Trying to speak about other people's lives is a very thankless task, which often leaves us deeply frustrated. In fact, sometimes even what happens in one day is thrilling to say, let alone such a long life, let alone the unpredictable heart. If this life had been placed in the era of rapid changes in China, it would have been even more unpredictable.

"Northland Love" tells the story of "I", a 28-year-old woman who has just stepped out of campus. Although she received a doctorate from the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, she applied to be the chairman's secretary in the face of the hard reality that "a doctor can travel everywhere, but a master's degree is not as good as a dog." In the days that followed, the female doctor fell into an extramarital affair with the chairman. Facing the cruel life, she was tortured by career, love, pursuit and desire, and finally left her hometown. "The Fortieth Circle" is the writer's "temporary work", which grimly depicts a murder case that occurred in the countryside. The honest and honest Qi Guanglu, whose butcher shop business was booming, actually hacked to death Public Security Bureau Chief Zha Weidong with a Japanese saber. The details behind the case are intertwined, and the various narratives are like "Rashomon". The novel tells the story in detail, revealing the secrets of the case, and deeply explores the inner suffering and struggle of people in the modernization process of China, an ancient agricultural country. Shao Li, chairman of the Henan Provincial Writers Association, won the Lu Xun Literature Award for "Minghui's Christmas" and was shortlisted for the Mao Dun Literature Award for her novel "My Quality of Life". She is regarded as a "leading figure" among contemporary female writers in Henan.

When I was sent to Tianzhong County as a writer to serve as deputy county magistrate, many people told me about a case that once caused a sensation in this county. It's a homicide case, but it's not exactly a homicide case. There are cases within the case, which is quite complicated. It has been over ten years, and everyone is still talking about it. Because the people who told me about this case were different, the appearance of the case was also different, and the evaluations of the various people inside were even more varied. It was really like a "Rashomon" episode. Don't blame anyone. I understand them. No matter how complicated the case is, it belongs to others. The first person to tell me about this case was my driver, Master Liu. But from the time I took office in the county until I left, he never told the story in detail, and others told it even more fragmentedly.

Shao Li was born in November 1965 and is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese Writers Association. He is currently the vice chairman and secretary-general of the Henan Writers Association. He has written nearly two million words of novels and essays. His works have been published in large national publications such as "People's Literature", "Contemporary", and "October", and some of his works have been selected by "Selected Novels", "Novel Monthly", "Selected Chinese Literature", "Works Contest", "Xinhua Digest" and various annual anthologies. Some works have been translated and introduced to France, Japan, Greece and other countries. He has won the Biennial Award for Outstanding Novellas in "Selected Novels", the champion of the "Contemporary" Literary Rally Competition of People's Literature Publishing House, and the title of the most promising young writer in the "2003 Chinese Literary Figures" by hundreds of media across the country. The novella "Minghui's Christmas" won the 4th "Lu Xun Literature Award" of the Chinese Writers Association. The novel "My Quality of Life" was shortlisted for the 7th "Mao Dun Literary Award". No matter how clean you are when you are born into this world, you will be stained by dust; a hundred years later, no matter how dirty you are, you will be filtered clean by dust. There are many grievances in life. If you carefully consider your surroundings, which one is not filled with sadness?

When Hao Chunsheng entered the office the next day, seeing Qin Qing's haggard look, he really wanted to kill that man for her. "Why don't you divorce?" "It was my choice, and what I did at the beginning was not fair to him. Now, I am also responsible." That was the first time Hao Chunsheng saw Qin Qing shed tears in the seven years he had been with Qin Qing, but he had no way to comfort her.

When Zhou Qiming was a boy, he participated in the revolution in order to escape from marriage. After the victory of the revolution, Zhou Qiming met his future wife and had children in his new job in the new era. However, he did not know that the daughter-in-law his grandmother married for him when he was a boy had already given birth to his daughter Shuanni. This daughter later became a nightmare for Zhou Qiming and his new family, but it was also an inseparable family bond for generations of the Zhou family. After Zhou Qiming's death, the descendants of his two wives grew up in completely different living environments, each with their own achievements, regrets and failures. By comparing the two lines of "I" and Shuanni, the author faithfully records the development trajectory of the family, records the trauma brought by the times, and seems to put forward the proposition "what determines a person's growth."