Echoes of the Northeast Forest Farm

The most moving parts of the book are those people who were crushed by the times yet never seen. Old Lv's wife, the landlord's wife, Dalin... The author does not look down or pity, but simply tells their stories calmly, letting readers feel the heartache themselves. And the mother figure running through the book—a woman who braved the journey from Tai'an, Shandong to the Northeast, silent, resilient, bearing everything like the black soil—is the true spiritual foundation of this essay collection. This is not a nostalgic collection of essays. It is a rescue archive of memory, a love letter from a son of the Northeast to his homeland, and an answer from the descendants of those who ventured to the Northeast to the question "Where do we come from?" The smoke from the four settlements has long dissipated, but the stories remain. Open this book, and what you smell is the scent of black soil.