Remaining Words in the World

History only remembers the princes and generals, but this book remembers the rest. When he was eight years old, young jade craftsman Ah Heng watched helplessly as his father was taken away by those in power. Before his father died, he only left an unfinished sentence: "There is——" in the jade. The green and white jade that his mother stuffed into his mouth became a curse that he could not undo in his life. He lived for four thousand years. From the ruins of the Xia Dynasty to the human sacrifices of the Shang Dynasty, from the collapse of rituals and music in the Zhou Dynasty to the thousands of miles of wind and snow on the Great Wall of Qin. The piece of King Yu's jade in his hand attracted the attention of countless ambitious people. Every time he uses jade's induction, his body will become petrified. In order to survive, he worked as a handyman, a hermit, and took in orphans as apprentices. He hid his secrets in the dark patterns on the inner wall of the jade and carved his worries on the wooden hairpin. He couldn't save the dynasty from changing, but he saved one little person after another who was forgotten by history in troubled times. In the evening, under the old mulberry tree, grandpa held a piece of green and white jade in his hand and said to his little granddaughter: "Grandpa, why don't you grow old?" Grandpa said: "Because I am waiting for someone to finish listening to the story." Desolate yet warm, with constant reversals. From the perspective of folk anecdotes, it describes the struggles and inheritance of the low-level people under the wheel of history.