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"The days go by so fast! The day after tomorrow is actually his 100th day. The days go by so fast! So fast!"

Outside the narrow store door, there are advertisements such as "Resume Writing", "Business Card Printing", "Same Day Pickup", "Obituary Printing" and so on. Several young apprentices were busy in the store, making a grinding sound. Two teenagers, Wu Fen and his friend Mu Jun, opened the door and came to the counter.

I myself feel that my speech cannot be useful or interesting to you, because I really don't know what it is, but I have delayed it for too long, so I finally have to say a few words here.

I dreamed that I was preparing a composition in a primary school classroom and asked the teacher for advice on how to formulate an argument.

If I could, I would write down my regrets and sorrows, for Zijun and for myself.

The street lights are completely haggard, pedestrians are busy in the green light, returning tiredly, and the sound of cars far and near makes us tired for the night. Winter drives away the beggars and brings hunger and cold to the poor. Now the street lights are not happy, and the cold is driving away all the pedestrians! But the Daimyo did not return.

I braved the severe cold to return to my hometown, which is more than 2,000 miles away and has been away for more than 20 years.

A few footmen were sitting under the corridor not far from the telephone, talking and laughing, but I didn't know what they were talking about. Suddenly the phone rang. One of them hurriedly walked over and took off his earphones and asked, "Hey, this is the Social Affairs Bureau, who are you looking for?" A few footmen were sitting under the corridor not far from the phone, talking and laughing, but they didn't know what they were talking about. Suddenly the phone rang. One of them hurriedly walked over and took off his earphones and asked, "Hey, this is the Social Affairs Bureau. Who are you looking for?"

Minming was sitting on the banquet, holding a copy of the "Eight Great Enlightenment Sutras" in his hand, and was reading like a stream of water. Her seat was under the east window, and the morning sunlight shone on her face, turning her body into the color of gold. She ignored the sunlight shining on her, but kept looking up at the timepiece on the wall, as if waiting for someone to come.

The dim sunlight slanted onto the mottled old wooden gate. I stopped in front of the door, threw away the cigarette butt in my hand, and went to ring the bronze, cold doorbell. There was a gray spider web on the doorbell. Just when I was thinking of using something to catch it, my old servant had already opened the wooden gate and was waiting for me to go in with a musty look on his face.

The third wife who lives in our back yard bought a pair of white rabbits in the summer for Yi's children.

The pure smoke smell of Craven "A" slowly drifted over from the jazz. Looking back - Hey, it's her again! Sitting on a table over there, smoking silently. I often meet that girl with a small square face in a Parisian style, and she brings a new man with her every time. I have noticed her since the first time I saw her. She has two kinds of eyes. When she smokes Craven "A", her eyes are like light gray Vienna velvet. Through the light smoke, her eyes are so pale that she can't see anyone. She looks in front of her inadvertently; she shines on the handbag. When she was putting powder on the mirror, dancing, laughing, or talking, she had a pair of cunning, mouse-like dark eyes. She looked at people flexibly from the edge of the mirror, from the shoulders of her dance partners, and from the wine glass, as if she wanted to steal every man's soul.

It was summer, and every afternoon as soon as he came home from school, He Yazi was forced by his father to watch the cows. Speaking of which, children always think that watching cows is ten times better than going to school. In fact, they don't know the pain of watching cows. Think about it, he is only ten years old, and of course he is not as experienced as his father. Judging from the size of the ox with criss-crossed horns, I'm not going to lie, although the ox has never been violent to him, but if he hadn't used the light of that big riding crop, he might be more afraid of it than the ox. Dad is very powerful, and besides, he is alone. He has to go to the distant mountains and rivers, and he will not come back until the sky is dark. And his little mind is full of stories about mountain gods and water ghosts, so he can't help but often have unreasonable thoughts - he can't live without a companion.

This book is composed of 29 Maupassant classics selected by the famous French literature translator Liu Mingjiu, including "Ball of Suet", "The Necklace", "On the Journey", "My Uncle Jules", "The Burning Umbrella" and other popular masterpieces. The themes that Maupassant was good at were the Franco-Prussian War that he personally experienced, his ten-year clerkship career, and his life in his hometown in Normandy as a teenager. These three environments provided extremely rich themes for his short stories. From rural stories, market life to deep accusations of war, it outlines a vivid picture of French social life. Images of aristocrats, bureaucrats, merchants, civil servants, workers, farmers, homeless people, beggars and other characters all appear on the page.

This book contains three parts: "Red Cavalry", "Stories of Odessa" and "Collected Stories", which show the essence of Babel, who is the first of "the one hundred best novelists in the world". The themes and materials of these short stories come from two major sources: one is the military combat life and military figures with distinctive personalities; the other is the many characters in the author's hometown of Odessa (including the author himself), especially the lower class and poor people and their legendary life experiences. Babel is good at capturing strong and vivid details, using a specific action, event or a picture that brings together many dramatic elements to show the complex social landscape, the potential energy of different groups competing with each other and the unstoppable historical trend.

Thurber's work is extremely distinctive. His paintings and essays are famous for their precise and ironic humor, unique whims and sharp insights. In the world he created, those trembling little people always relied on some cleverness that didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse, almost desperately trying to break away from numerous obstacles and control their own destiny. These qualities are abundantly present in his most famous character, Walter Mitty, a shy dreamer who invented an epic secret life to compensate for real-life disappointments. This book collects 27 of Thurber's most popular short story masterpieces. In his works, every ordinary person is a unique polyhedron, and even dogs are full of personality. The men he writes always try in vain to escape from some indescribable things in daily life, but they always run away, unable to act, and only have whims in the spiritual world. The sense of comedy in his works comes from his in-depth understanding of tragedy, keen observation of human weaknesses, and harsh ridicule of the pretentious middle-class life, which makes people laugh and feel sad at the same time.

This manuscript is a collection of novellas, one of the series "Sunshine Library". The manuscript of this book includes three stories, namely "A Journey to the Dust", "Dragon Clan" and "One Step to the Sky". The protagonists in the stories all have the unique persistence of Westerners in their bones. Through each story, a unique spiritual portrait of Western characters is painted.

This book is a short story and short story in the "Sunshine Library" series, which contains a total of 11 short stories and short stories written by the author during his lifetime. These novels all use the countryside where the author lives as the main story background, showing the truth, goodness and beauty in the human nature of the most ordinary farmers, showing the great changes in the countryside since the reform and opening up, and praising the party's good leadership and good policies. The language of the book is concise, lively, simple and plain, which can arouse the resonance of the majority of readers.

This book contains five works including "Narayama Setkao". Among them, the film "Narayama Setkao" adapted from "Narayama Setkao" and "The Warriors of the Northeast" won the Palme d'Or at the 36th Cannes Film Festival. In a small village deep in the mountains of Shinshu, Japan, a tradition of abandoning the elderly has been inherited due to extreme poverty: as long as the elderly live to the age of seventy, they will be carried to Narayama by their eldest son and abandoned. The locals call it worshiping the Narayama God. Although A Ling was about to turn seventy, her body was still very strong. She was worried that outsiders would see her as a "weird" and a "superfluous person" who did not go to Narashan to eat more food when she was old, so she made up her mind to go to the mountain on New Year's Day when she turned 70. In order to show that she was useless, she even used stones to knock out her strong front teeth. But before A Ling goes to Narashan, she must make a series of preparations and arrange her home properly.

He abandoned his studies, committed suicide many times, was addicted to drugs, owed debts, and was entangled with many women... Dazai Osamu's life was too "unbearable" in the eyes of ordinary people. However, many people like this "waste" writer. The reason why we like Dazai Osamu is precisely because these cowardice, shamelessness and contempt are always looming in our hearts. And this decadent writer who drank alcohol, abused drugs, and committed suicide, in his patient's ravings, just expressed our thoughts. In this society that is still indifferent and homogeneous, Dazai Osamu's dilemma is a reflection of the dilemma we face. Everyone who tries to maintain themselves and be loyal to themselves can feel the social alienation and helplessness that Dazai encountered. This book selects 36 classic works from Osamu Dazai's creative peak period (1935-1948), which fully demonstrates Osamu Dazai's anxiety when he faced the collapse of social order and the collapse of his moral system, as well as the entanglement and loss of his unwillingness to go with the world but his inability to change. It is a valuable choice for readers to "get into" Dazai Osamu.

This book is a collection of works by Osamu Dazai, a giant in Japanese literature, and includes famous works such as "The Girl's Disciple", "The Clown Flower", "Yin Fire", "The God of Kyogen", "Yezakura and the Magic Flute", "Chiyome", and "Eight Views of Tokyo". "Girl's Disciple" is Osamu Dazai's masterpiece. It uses monologue-style writing and delicate psychological description to show the changes in a girl's mood from morning to night. "Eight Scenes of Tokyo" is known as "the prototype of "The World's Unfit"". It was created earlier than "The World's Unqualified". From it, we can see the same obscurity and contradictions as "The World's Unqualified". This work should be an important transition between Osamu Dazai and his final creation of "Disqualification in the World". It is a representative work of his self-exploration, "inward viewing" and analysis.

As a representative poet of "non-nonism", He Xiaozhu's novel creation over the past twenty years has continued the pioneering spirit. "Zoo" is a collection of experimental novels. The whole book consists of four novellas. The four novels are all named after enclosed spaces - "Zoo", "Rehearsal Ground", "Nightclub" and "Cinema". A closed space represents a kind of dilemma. Around these four different closed spaces, He Xiaozhu uses the writing style of Kafka-style expressionist literature to describe various indescribable dilemmas in life - the dilemma of desire and the dilemma of spirit. As the author said in his preface, "the four novels, seemingly unrelated to each other, are actually the same thing, that is, four ways of writing a theme."

Xia Shizhi, an orphan, gave her love to her husband without reservation, only to find that her husband was looking for a new love outside; a campus couple who got together against all odds, but couldn't escape the change in their relationship after getting married; a social animal who was suffering from cancer and decided to live a wanton life, but after doing things, he found that his illness was fake... Six stories, six reversed life experiences, take you to care about the real life of the little people in the world.

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"Suilu of Night Stories" is a collection of classical Chinese short stories written in the Qing Dynasty, including about 160 legends and supernatural novels. For readers who like classical Chinese short stories, this book is a must-read. Most of the works are about ghosts and foxes, and stories about the encounters between beauties and beauties, and a few of them involve some social reality. On the surface, it describes an illusory ghost world, but it actually reflects the difficult and impoverished living conditions of the lower class people in the capital, including farmers, urban poor, slaves, etc. During the Qianlong period. The work does not deliberately pursue the bizarre plot, but focuses on the details of life. The writing is realistic and has a strong flavor of life. It is a work with good ideological and artistic qualities.

This book is a collection of short stories by Japanese writer Atsushi Nakajima. Each chapter in the book is based on Chinese classics, such as "The Analects of Confucius", "Lieh Tzu", "Historical Records", "Journey to the West" and Tang Dynasty Legends. Atsushi Nakajima borrows the shell of Chinese classics and injects modern ideology. He opens up his imagination in the blank spaces and gaps of Chinese classics to create strange worlds that are both true and illusory, presenting the human nature and modernity in classical stories. Atsushi Nakajima focuses on expressing the loneliness and nihilism of modern people. The protagonists in his works usually fall into self-pulling situations. However, while expressing the plight of the human spirit, they also provide a way out, gradually establishing the order of their own inner world, defeating nihility in action, and re-establishing their complete self. "Mountain Moon", with its sincerity, thoroughness, profoundness and sharpness, has become a book of warning, a book of answers and a book of life for countless literary and artistic young people.

Xu Dishan, whose given name is Zankun, whose courtesy name is Dishan, and whose pen name is Luohuashua. In the modern Chinese literary world, Xu Dishan's works play a decisive role. His novels and essays have also become acclaimed classics. "Firefly Lantern" collects the author's masterpieces of novels from various periods, including "Firefly Lantern", "The Gills of the Iron Fish", "The World in the Sea", "Jane Falling from a Dangerous Nest", "Lone Star on the Cape", etc. It reflects the fate of ordinary people who have been teased by the times. The author's fresh words reduce the tragic color of the story and form a unique oriental cultural philosophy. The works reach a wide audience. Whether you are a person who is confused about life, a person who is at a loss about the future, or a person who has doubts about how to behave in the world, you can be inspired by these works. For readers who are interested in Xu Dishan's works, this book is a must-read collection. It is not only a must-read for teachers and students, but also a life classic worth reading for people entering society. These classic works included in it can be used for both recreational reading and literary study.

"Attitude" is one of the "Wending Central Plains" series of key works supported by the Henan Provincial Writers Association. It includes six representative works created by the author since 2015: "Attitude", "The Last Farewell", "Don't Miss Me in the Next Life", "Looking for Combs", "The Rental Era" and "Women Are Like Flowers". These works have all been published in literary publications. The stories written by the author are close to reality, life and readers.

"Bean Shed Gossip" is a collection of short stories in the vernacular of the late Ming Dynasty. This novel has several characteristics: First, it uses the story telling in bean shed as a clue to connect 12 stories together. It is similar to Western novels such as "One Thousand and One Nights" and "The Decameron". It is equivalent to China's first collection of short stories. The second is to write randomly about the injustices in the heart. Some of them seem to be writing historical stories, but in fact they are for the purpose of irony. The content is profound and meaningful, the language is fluent and the literary talent is high. It can be said to be the best work among the Ming and Qing dynasty novels. This book also reflects the social reality that the Manchu Qing regime carried out large-scale massacres and suppression of the Han people in order to consolidate its rule.

"Bean Shed Gossip" is a collection of short stories in the vernacular of the late Ming Dynasty. This novel has several characteristics: First, it uses the story telling in bean shed as a clue to connect 12 stories together. It is similar to Western novels such as "One Thousand and One Nights" and "The Decameron". It is equivalent to China's first collection of short stories. The second is to write randomly about the injustices in the heart. Some of them seem to be writing historical stories, but in fact they are for the purpose of irony. The content is profound and meaningful, the language is fluent and the literary talent is high. It can be said to be the best work among the Ming and Qing dynasty novels.

This book is a collection of classical Chinese legendary novels written by Qu You (1347-1433), a scholar in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. It is the beginning of the revival of classical Chinese novels in the Ming Dynasty. The book consists of 4 volumes and 1 appendix, with a total of 21 legendary novels. From the perspective of the development of legendary novels, it is a bridge between the legends of the Tang Dynasty and "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". After being introduced to Korea, "Jiandeng Xinhua" not only circulated in its original form, but also had multiple translations during the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897). Most of the content in this book is based on the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. It is mainly about marriage and love stories, and is full of ghostly and supernatural characters. Compared with the classical Chinese legends of the Song Dynasty, the plots are more novel and the diction is more beautiful. The story is rich in content, with twists and turns, and has high artistic quality. The narration of strange and erotic stories is full of interest. A few chapters express the desire of young men and women to have independent marriages, which reflects from the side the unfortunate experiences brought to the people by the war in the late Yuan Dynasty. The author uses this to achieve the purpose of "lawing the good and forbidding the evil, showing integrity and improving customs".

"Collection of Pei Chuan's Short Stories" is a collection of short stories in classical Chinese written by Pei Chuan at the end of the Tang Dynasty. "Legend" has had a great influence on future generations, playing an important role in the history of Chinese novels and even literature. It has had a huge impact on the ideological conception and creative methods of later novels and operas. The shadow of "Legend" can even be seen in today's fantasy literature and fantasy dramas in the film and television industry that are popular on the Internet. "Kunlun Slave" and "Nie Yinniang" became the origins of later martial arts novels and operas: Yang Jingyan's drama "Mo Le Steals the Red Thread" in the Yuan Dynasty, the unknown Southern Opera "Mo Le Steals the Red Thread", the Ming Dynasty Mei Ding Zuo's legend "Kunlun Slave Swordsman Becomes an Immortal", Liang Chenyu's legend "Red Ribbon Girl's Sign Language Conveying Love", Song Dynasty's vernacular novel "Xishan Nie Yinniang", Qing Dynasty's You Dong's legend "Black and White Guard", etc.

"The End and the Beginning" is a collection of short stories and short stories by Fan Xiaoqing, the winner of the Lu Xun Literature Prize and a famous contemporary writer. It consists of seven short stories and short stories by Fan Xiaoqing. Each story has its own unique characteristics of the times, but they all revolve around ordinary little people in the tide of the times. Some of the things that happen to them may seem ordinary but have hidden meanings, and some may be unexpected but end hastily. Different stories are connected to form pictures of Jiangnan style. In such a passing time, a few strokes convey profound philosophical thoughts, reflecting Fan Xiaoqing's thinking about life, the world and the times.

"The Mysteries on Douban Street" is a collection of novellas by Fan Xiaoqing, a famous contemporary female writer who won the Lu Xun Literature Award. It includes seven works including "A Capella", "Seeing the Haystack Again", "The Troubled Summer", "The Mountain on the Other Side of the Water" and "The Mysteries on Douban Street". The novel focuses on the little bits and pieces of the lives of ordinary people. Through the unique characters such as retired Pingtan artists, rural teachers, college students, embroiderers, etc., It uses gentle, soft, vivid and delicate brushwork to truly depict the various aspects of life in the streets and alleys of Jiangnan area. The plainness is pregnant with true feelings, and the delicateness is full of philosophy. Every time, the warmth and warmth of human nature can be understood from every bit of life.

This book contains eighteen short stories and short stories, including "Golden Fallen Leaves", "Years", "Scent of Osmanthus", "Past Events", "Facts" and "Hoeing the Moon". The writer focuses his vision on ordinary people in the small towns, fields and countryside, and in the marketplace in the south of the Yangtze River - ordinary citizens, migrant workers, laid-off workers, and small civil servants. He constructs an ups and downs of drama in a small space, has a keen insight into the subtleties of human nature, and creates a strong literary tension between ordinary daily life and dialogue with characters. This book contains many early works of Fan Xiaoqing, which will provide readers with a useful reference for a comprehensive understanding of the writer.

This book contains sixteen short stories including "You Crossed That Swamp", "White Fish Formation", "Tea Guest" and "Winter Leisure". Although the works have a wide range of themes, the author has extended his brushwork to those ordinary lower-class characters - ordinary citizens, migrant workers, laid-off workers, small civil servants, etc., Using his own unique narrative style to explain his understanding of life, depict all kinds of living beings, show joy, anger, sorrow and joy, express his observation of the lower-class characters, and reflect his warm and tolerant temperament towards human nature. It can be said that Fan Xiaoqing's works are Suzhou style paintings.

This collection of novels is the culmination of Li Jianjun's many years of creation and has very distinct personality characteristics. Among them are "In Search of Memory", which describes the past in my hometown, "Fox Valley", which reflects the themes of desire, revenge and redemption, "Gone with the Wind", which shows the hard struggle of a generation, and "After the Fragment", which shows the torture of human nature in real life... Life is the wild jungle of novel creation, and the observation of human nature is the way into the dense forest. The writer combines society, history, blood relations, family power, and folk customs into the deep pool of human nature for observation, allowing readers to suddenly see a broader and more magnificent scene through the trek along the trail.

The works included in "How People Grew Wings" are the main achievements of the author's novel creation when he was young. Among them, "How People Grow Wings" was published by "Writer" magazine in the form of "Four People from Jiangsu Short Stories", the other three being Han Dong, Zhu Wen and Bi Feiyu; while "Cow Leather" and "Going Down Stairs or Going Up Stairs" two short stories and a creative talk "Guessing Life" were published in "Writer" in the form of "Short Collection of Zhang Yihui's Works".

"Shangri-La No. 118" Contains 13 short and medium-sized stories by Chang Jun, including "Shangri-La No. 118", "Lu Yifan's Keywords and Others", "Liu Guanjun's Forty Years", "Private Movies", "Smoky Makeup", "Moss in the Corridor", etc. The author pays attention to society, reality, and people's livelihood, and appropriately tailors everything about ordinary people. This not only maintains the natural nature of civilian stories, but also ensures the natural authenticity of the characters' language and behavior, rationality and desire, reality and yearning, making it extraordinarily real. The language of the novels written by the author Chang Jun has a distinct personality. Regardless of the description and narrative, it has the delicate and feminine beauty unique to female writers without losing the smooth and transparent style.

"The Name of Coffee" contains 13 short stories and 2 novellas. "White Fox" is about a modern literary youth. Faced with the confusion and hesitation of the commodity society, the male and female protagonists' outlook on life forms a sharp conflict. Which one is right or wrong may only be proven by time; "The Name of Coffee" is about a female star who stays briefly in a small city and gets a moment of comfort for her soul. For those who want to become celebrities, they should have some insights after reading it; "Running Away", "A Point", "Dancing with Money", and "A Cloud Floating Before My Eyes" are all stories about private loans that tell people to stay away from the temptation of high interest rates and there is no such thing as a pie in the sky; "Ten Songs in Life" writes a special love story. "My Maria" and "The New Prison Guard" are stories about teachers and policemen. "Pretty in Pink" is a story about an old husband and a young wife, which can be said to be a common phenomenon in modern society. This is the progress of social civilization, and love should have nothing to do with the age gap; "The Summer of Childhood" is a prose novel, which is refreshing to read; "Ambiguous" is about an office romance; "The Mountain Is Not High" is an experimental novel; and the last two novellas, "Qinghu" and "Broken Sound" are stories from different eras.

This is a collection of novellas describing the lives of ordinary people in the lower classes. The main writer is very familiar with the factory life and working life. In order to survive, they constantly struggled at the bottom of society. They once had a happy, peaceful and stable life, but due to their lack of skills in the economic tide, they were quickly thrown to the shore of time. Whether they were sad, lost or wandering in pain, in the end they returned to life, changing their destiny with thrifty, humble and hard work, and hope slowly rose. The author always puts himself low and writes with a warm heart close to the characters in the book, breathing and sharing fate, sorrow and joy with them. This novel is both beautiful and easy to read. The characters are flesh-and-blood and touch the pain of ordinary people's bodies and souls. Find the warm light of hope in the pain. The author puts each character in a specific historical environment to show their joyful and bitter life. There is concern for the disadvantaged people at the lower levels, there is also a lashing out against bad society, and there is a sincere and kind heart. Vulnerable groups deserve the attention of society and all of us. The fate of little people is our fate.

"That Night on Peach Blossom Island" selects some of the author's short and medium-length works published in famous Chinese magazines in recent years. The author uses smart writing and humorous narration to see through the secret trauma in the hearts of the characters in the evolution of the absurd story. Behind the seemingly absurd story lies the author's deep thinking about the plight of human existence and spiritual pain.

The 23 short stories and short stories included in "A Corner of the Sky" are works published by the author in major literary journals across the country in recent years. Some of the works have had a certain influence on society and have been favored by critics. "Sister-in-law", "Lotus Bathroom", "Daily Life of Car Drivers", "A Loud Slap" and "The Shame of Men", write about the living conditions of people at the bottom of the city; "A Corner of the Sky", "Pagoda of Loyalty", "Love in the White City" and "Birds in the Forest" reflect the emotional problems of middle-aged and elderly people "The Chicken Coop Hanging in the Window" focuses on new problems that arise in real life; "Suede Leather Shoes" and "The Turning Point of Life" are about absurd things in absurd years... The author's writing is fresh, the language is humorous, and the stories are vivid. After reading, you will be enlightened and enjoy the beauty.

Liu Jianbo's works inherit the text exploration style of avant-garde novels, focusing on philosophical expressions of deep themes. The short and medium-sized novels collected this time are not satisfied with writing about the appearance of life and reality, but express the desire to transcend the appearance of existence and reach the true nature of existence in the text, making his works always reveal a strong philosophical meaning in his concern for human survival.

"Chasing the Beekeeper" is a collection of short stories and short stories, containing a total of nine fascinating short stories. Some of the stories describe simple and honest rural life, some describe the posthumous love between children and parents, some reflect the disputes between husband and wife, and some bare witness to the annihilation of human nature... These short articles reflect the many aspects of human nature in this complicated world. Each short story is full of suspense and twists and turns, which can't help but make people marvel.

This is a masterpiece of short stories by the late writer Hao Wei. The novel embodies the writer's usual style, starting from small things, being close to the people, people's livelihood, and people's nature. It embodies the nobility in a down-to-earth manner. The language is simple and calm, the description is delicate and warm, the narration is precise and accurate, and the art pursues beauty and grandeur, revealing the classical aesthetic style.

There are a total of 25 short stories and two novellas collected in this collection. Almost all of these works have a yellowish background, like old photos, taking you back to the old days in the countryside. The novella "Tiantian Shang Shang" was reprinted in the 2010 issue 11 of "Selected Novels". The novel describes the hard life of a private elementary school teacher, with a bottom-level narrative of blood and tears, and the light of humanity shines in the ordinary. The short story "Winter Moon" tells the story of rural girl Cai Qin taking a bath before getting married. Although she can only use a basin to bathe next to a kerosene lamp, it is so sacred as a baptism; "White Legs" tells the story of Zhang Guangming's pursuit of Ge Ju in his student days, no matter how he pursues Ge Ju, it is all in vain. He was scheming, but twenty years later, when he returned to his hometown as a successful man, he easily fulfilled his adolescent dream; "Killing Horses" tells the story of Lao Liang, a contractor cadre who wanted to eat horse meat and forced his grandfather, who was a landlord, to kill his beloved horse...

"A Thorn" includes a total of 14 short stories and short stories written by the author in recent years. They are both microscopic cross-sections of life and individual existential fables. The novel advances the plot with amplification, describes details with light strokes, and glimpses the inner world of the characters from the smallest trivial matters in life, giving it a profound insight. The author seems to be watching his characters rise from extremely ordinary and trivial matters, and then unknowingly, driven by an inexplicable force, contradict themselves, find it difficult to understand, and are involved in some kind of paradox, thereby exposing the truth of life. The narrative style is both solemn and humorous, full of comedic elements such as exaggeration and irony.

"Yangshu Village in Lixiahe" collects more than 20 short and medium-length stories by the powerful writer Xiao Delin. These works have been published in many famous magazines. The author is good at looking at the bizarre world from the perspective of a teenager. Yangshu Village is the stage for the characters in the novel and a vivid specimen of social changes. Through the description of Yangshu Village, the author records the joys and sorrows in the social process. While telling the story of Yangshu Village, it also extends its focus to the stories of many Yangshu people who came to the city. All of them bear the mark of Yangshu Village because their souls have long been integrated with the vegetation and rivers here.

"Evening Sing" is a collection of novellas by Fan Xiaoqing, a famous contemporary female writer who won the Lu Xun Literature Award. It includes six works including "Growing Up", "Farewell to the Countryside", "Prospects" and "No Past". The novel focuses on the living conditions of people at the bottom of society, showing themes such as the warmth and warmth of human relationships in the streets and alleys of Jiangnan, the opportunities and problems encountered in the development of new rural areas and township enterprises, the later life of retired teachers, and the historical changes of ordinary families. The writing is delicate, neither exaggerating nor judging, and reflects the changes in life of the times from the joys, sorrows, and joys of ordinary characters.