It is April 1972. This is Yangshutun, a remote village in Heilongjiang Province in Northeast China. Four years ago, my parents died protecting the production team's cattle.,yuan not only was greedy and lazy, he also wasn't clean. He wouldn't even touch anything big. All he did was steal a few scallions from one neighbor, a few cloves of garlic from another, and some vegetables from other people's gardens.,We ran out of money and the family is starving. I've been lying on the kang for days without eating, just thinking about how in two more days the relief funds will arrive.。