The Way Home from Bondage

Come to China Literature's website to read more of my works! A piece of military order, half a lifetime is gone. Li Shuanzhu, a man from Shandong Province, followed the troops across the sea to Taiwan. From then on, his hometown became an unreachable thought in his dreams. He and his comrade Zhang Degui ate cold steamed buns from the construction site, looked forward to the empty promises of the Veterans Counseling Association, and endured the punches and kicks of life. A wooden sign with the name of his hometown engraved on it and a heart-wrenching letter from home supported him for most of his life on an isolated island. Nostalgia is a pain carved into the bones, and returning home is a lifelong dream. This is the miserable life of a Taiwanese veteran and the wandering tragedy of a generation.