In the early 1980s, in an ordinary village on the North China Plain, there lived an ordinary family. The mother died of massive blood loss while giving birth to their fourth child, and the father was especially lazy. He did no farm work, let alone housework. The whole family depended on the man's mother to keep things going. Though she was the fourth child's grandmother, she treated him like a mother would. Grandma had high expectations for him, but sadly, she passed away from illness while he was in his third year of middle school…
