In my whole life

Author: Lao She
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Publish Date: 2001-06-01
Features: A witty and talkative old police officer recounts his life before starving to death—smart from a young age, but only attended school in his childhood. At the age of 15, he became an apprentice at a mourning goods shop but couldn’t make a living as a paper-mending craftsman. He then became a police officer, earning only six yuan a month. Finally, he managed to marry a wife, but she ran off with his senior apprentice. After much hardship, he reached the position of police chief, but the new chief wouldn’t let him stay. He also served as the head of the police station in a mining village but was quickly replaced. He then went to Henan to join the salt smuggling suppression team as a soldier and lost his son.