Zhenxiang

A young man named "Old Ben", in a real dilemma, dreams of walking out of Zhenxiang, like his second uncle. But his second uncle left Zhenxiang and never came back, which made him have some questions. One day, he learned from Ganba's father that his father also had a second uncle who also left Zhenxiang and became a beard. This triggered a series of questions from him, and he became even more confused when faced with different answers. Through the narrations of private school teacher Tan Weixian, sheepherder Xiao Laoding and others, he saw many past events of Zhenxiang's land reclamation in that refugee era. There is no grand narrative here, just small characters who escaped from famine. In the vast historical process, in a remote town, they lived humble, barren, and tried their best to survive. And my second master seemed to be slightly different from these people...