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In the small town of Sanlitun, the Kang family has been a large local family for generations, making a living by selling food. The Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded the Forbidden City, and the two palaces fled westward through Sanlitun. The county magistrate of Sanlitun committed suicide due to poor food preparation, and the Kang family was implicated, which triggered a series of stories.

This article belongs to the genre of rural works, and there is a rural flavor between the lines. The article mainly tells about Wenjiazhuang, a small fictional mountain village in northern Shanxi, in which Wen Jianming's family is the main clue of the story. It describes the collision between Wenjiazhuang's backward ideas and advanced ideas in the reform and opening up in the new century, and also shows the shortcomings of the younger generation's lack of traditional culture.