Liaodong, Xiaowang Village.
Xiaowang Village belongs to Xinyang County, about two hundred miles away from Zhang Family Village in Nie County. Compared to Zhang Family Village, it's even more remote and backward.
The villagers are naturally few and pitiful, more than a hundred households scattered alongside the country dirt roads. To save electricity, the few aging street lamps have long been turned off.
To leave Xiaowang Village, besides a pothole-ridden official road, you can only cross the mountain behind the village.
In the evening, at the village entrance's small shop, mahjong and poker are scattered everywhere. The owner Zhao Jie had just seen off his childhood friends after a game.
The barren land can't sustain too many people, so his family is the only one with a small shop in the village. Starting from his grandfather, passed down to him, the shop is only twenty-something years short of being a century-old establishment.
