I am a Beijing field mouse

Author: Qingqiu Zi
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Thinking back, the days of suffering with the "ground mice" in Beijing already seem like a distant memory. The stars of last night, the tears of last night—all the joys and sorrows of ordinary people cannot enter history; they can only drift away silently. The companions I met in the basement are mostly gone. In 2003, Xiao Song still maintained a sporadic connection with me. He had already risen to the "surface" and left that tragic place, but the "Burger City" was still far off. In the sand-filled Beijing, there is still a young man in a jacket, running around in the crowd, seeking that faint hope. Perhaps there is no way out, or perhaps it is a sudden release—these two words, "fate," will entangle him for his entire life. The novel depicts the life experiences of a group of migrants in Beijing, filled with sweetness, bitterness, and hardship. They belong to the bottom of society, living in basements, and are jokingly called "ground mice." They are struggling for survival, but their hearts are always full of hope for a better life. This book is listed alongside A Second Encounter as one of the "Top Ten Reading Experiment Samples" of online novels.