Dianxi Dao Shi

Author: A Wen
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: In the early 1970s, several northern men were driven by hardship to explore the western part of Yunnan. They began their "blade" life with the "escort of the young lady named Liu." Survival was too difficult. Brother Qin was involved in a murder case and died in a foreign land in frustration, leaving an extraordinary Huse for Old Li. Brother Liu ran off on his own but was tormented by a serious illness and could not be free. His son, to repay his father's kindness, bravely ventured into the Gaoligong Mountains to seek medicine, trading the loss of one arm for his father's recovery. Ganzi and Old Li lived together in a small town, each having a wife and family, yet they experienced life and death—Ganzi died at the hands of bandits' gunfire, and Old Li's son died years later at the hands of a drug trafficking gang. The young lady Liu couldn't bear the joys and sorrows of life and eventually went mad. The former sent-down youth Han Cheng saved the madwoman. However, Han Cheng himself was trapped by love, in memories of the past. The term "blade" was outdated both in western Yunnan and in big cities. Ma Yei said she needed such a term, for it was the only way to help her find a sense of, which indeed had different intersections in each era. This story is extraordinary, and to express it in ordinary language requires courage. Perhaps, your reading habits will be overturned, and perhaps, you will need to see the end before listing the chronological years. Such a story cannot be told or understood all at once—world is never simple. It is a work full of masculine spirit. When literature is being played out with flowers, snow, and moon in the world, it can bring you the shock of the "Gao Yuan wind."