He Yuzhu, a third-generation poor peasant. Yi Zhonghai, a Grade Eight fitter at the steelworks. Granny Deaf, a five-guarantee household and the courtyard's revered elder. Being a third-generation poor peasant is no excuse for acting like a thug, and being a Grade Eight fitter doesn't give you the right to twist the truth. Neither your status as a five-guarantee household nor your title as the courtyard's old matriarch lets you throw your weight around. When Ye Guoqiang first arrives in the courtyard and faces pressure from the whole nest of troublemakers, he doesn't argue with them. Instead, he turns and leaves with his younger sister. Outside the courtyard, Ye Guoqiang heads to the government offices, raises his grandfather's, father's, and uncle's credentials high in the cold wind, and kneels at the entrance...
