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Before attending the banquet, Li Juan had no idea that there were any of her classmates from the countryside in the provincial capital, let alone that she had a classmate in middle school named Xiang Qian who was nicknamed "Little Sparrow". Ding Li rarely brings his wife to banquets. Li Juan was too lazy to get involved in her husband's men's games. However, that evening, Ding Li decided to take Li Juan with him to the banquet because the banquet he was about to attend was specially prepared for Li Juan. Although Ding Li is the director, he still pulls Li Juan's clothes. Li Juan was a little puzzled at the time. She guessed that the other party had either made a coincidence or had bad intentions. But Ding Li said: "Have you heard of Xiang Qian, right?" Li Juan said: "I have seen reports about him, saying that he entered the 30th place on Hurun's domestic rich list in just five years, with a net worth of several billion. It is definitely a boast.

The novel takes "I" after graduating from junior high school as a clue, and takes the Chinese countryside undergoing great changes in the late twentieth century as the background. It uses fresh and simple words, language full of thoughts and wisdom, colorful details, and real twists and turns to vividly describe a series of major historical events in the late twentieth century through the experiences of a pair of half-brothers growing up, marrying, and studying in a large family society. Under the influence of the incident, the half-brothers and the great changes that quietly took place in a village called Shitai on the shores of Hongze Lake truly restored the rural scenes that had disappeared or were about to disappear and the different personal struggles of the two young people. It was permeated with a spirit of criticism of clan power in rural China and enthusiastically eulogized the love between mother and child, brotherhood and true love, and was full of wisdom in life and warmth of humanity. A unique novel about family emotions; a novel about personal growth; a unique novel about social relationships.