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The novella "Uncle Australia" was shortlisted for the 2022 Yu Dafu Novel Award. This book contains a total of 7 short and medium-sized novels recently published by the author, such as "Swans Come to Yingtamu", "Broken Bridge", "Australian Uncle", "Su Mei's Window", "Black Horse", "Elegy to the South of the City" and "It Will Not Be the End of the World". The story takes place in his hometown of Xinjiang. It uses elegant language and beautiful words to tell the story of the changes of Maangmao Hutong for more than half a century. It captures family, friendship, love, marriage, folk customs, hometown, and distant image fragments from a large time span, and then connects them into a full scene of folk scenery.

With light brushstrokes, graceful narratives, and emotional descriptions, this book takes the Xijiang River, the mother river of life and nourishment, as the object of literary description. It uses personal experience, blends sincere emotions, and creates detailed and moving depictions, showing the author's strong local sentiments. In particular, the descriptions of group portraits such as "River Keeper", "Last Shipbuilder", "Disappeared Drainage Man" and "Fisherman" are of the nature of historical data. "Looking at the water", "fish things", "catching fish flowers", and "shrimp pots" are vivid and interesting to people who are far away from home. At the same time, this book has the meaning of ecological literature, and the feelings devoted to "Fishermen's Songs", "Mosquito Flowers", "River Bend", etc. In the book are sincere and moving. In addition, this book has written about the scenery and products along the Xijiang River. Dinghu Mountain, Antelope Gorge, Sanzhou Rock, Longmu Temple, Xijiang Ancient Post Road, Jindu Flower Banquet, and Danjia Cake are all unique and difficult to find elsewhere.

What falls from the sky are: rain, snow, rain plus snow, hail, meteors, bird droppings, empty wine bottles, and pies. And Sister Lin. The last one fell on Guo Qi's head. Guo Qi said to Jiang Haibo: "I fainted." Guo Qi said this to Jiang Haibo in a text message on his mobile phone. It was close to midnight. Guo Qi could imagine Jiang Haibo lying next to his sleeping wife, watching TV and replying to himself a text message quickly and briefly. Sure enough, Jiang Haibo came back with only two words: Don't faint. What does "don't faint" mean? If a sister suddenly appeared to you, would you not faint? Guo Qi sat staring at the phone for a while, thinking that Jiang Haibo would not say anything more comforting. He was very disappointed and simply turned off the phone. Jiang Haibo is like this, he is as mechanical as a robot: he has well-developed limbs and a super-developed head, but he has no heart and no warmth.

The girl poisoned her mother to death because of love, destroyed herself and her family, and her ethics and life were no match for worldly desires. If she could live her life over again, would she be able to find a way out? Thirty years ago, seventeen-year-old Huaizhu added a spoonful of rat poison to her mother's soup and poisoned her mother to death because her mother strongly opposed her falling in love with Xu Pingjun, a second-rate man from the city. Huaizhu was sentenced to death. On the day of execution, a broken truck drove her through the south of the city to Mazhao Ridge. Neighbors who had watched her grow up stood on the roadside in the south of the city and watched. They saw Huaizhu's immature body tied up like a rice dumpling with hemp ropes, crying all the way, her little face turned pale. When the truck passed by her house, she twisted her neck and shouted sadly, "Grandma, please help me! Grandma, please help me!" Several elderly grandmothers softened their hearts first and lamented that Huai Zhu was still a naive child and did not know what death was like. Now they thought of their grandmother and saved her life.