Green Lake Autumn Lotus

The author's statement: From February to August 1972, he joined the Xiangtan City Schistosomiasis Control Brigade and worked in Yuanjiang County for half a year. Thirty years later, what I saw and heard while working in Yuanjiang is still deeply remembered in my mind. Those people and things are vivid in my mind when I think about it, and I always want to record them, so I wrote this article. I wrote the first draft in the summer of 2003 in Jiangnan. It was finalized in Beijing in the summer of 2010.