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In 1959, in a rural village in northern Anhui, Li Meijun looked at her son's small hands holding the cow rope and made a firm decision—to take the whole family to the city so her child could go to school! But her husband Lin Haoran was worried: five yuan could buy three catties of rice, but not half a month's rent. Grandma hugged the old locust tree and cried: "I'd rather die guarding our ancestral home!" To raise travel expenses, Li Meijun secretly sold her dowry silver hairpin; Lin Haoran carried heavy loads at the pier before dawn; even their seven-year-old daughter exchanged her glass marbles for eggs. When they crowded onto the truck to the county town, the wind carried the smell of the coarse cloth shirt sewn by Grandma. No one knew if what awaited them in the city was a factory recruitment notice or the landlord's cold face, but the family's hands were clutched tighter than ever before...
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