Chu Xiaofei, a Boy from Northern Jiangsu: Youth and the Dream of Being a Writer

My name is Chu Xiaofei. I was born in 1989 in a small rural village in northern Jiangsu. I am an authentic second-generation poor person. At the age of five, he was ridiculed by the whole village for eating milk, at the age of seven, his thatched cottage collapsed, and at the age of eight, he carried a self-made broken desk to go to school; the boy transferred to school and skipped school, ignorant of his first love, graduated from a technical school and worked in a factory, and experienced life and death in Zhejiang and Jiangsu; as an adult, he got married, had children, bought a house and paid off debts, and was turned into a silent middle-aged man by life, but he never forgot his childhood dream of becoming a writer. This is a complete record of my youth. It describes the fireworks of the countryside in northern Jiangsu in the 1980s and 1990s, the journey of ordinary people at the bottom from the countryside to the city, and the ups and downs of an ordinary person chasing the dream of being a writer!