Ma Song, the author's wet nurse, came to the author's house to be a wet nurse because of difficulties in life. She stayed at home because she worked hard. She has been sending peace letters to her family and her salary. I want her husband to buy the land back, and I want her son Xiao Shuan to have a good life. But her husband gambled with money. When he had no money, he asked Ma Song for money, so the author's parents hated him. Later, Ma Song learned that Xiao Shuan died a few years ago, and Ma Song was very sad.
Ma Song wants to find her other child named Xiao Ya Tu. Because they prefer boys to girls, the little girl was sold to others when she was a child, and now she has no son and wants her daughter back. So Ma Song took the author to find her daughter. Unfortunately, she got nothing and never heard from again.
Introduction to the work:
Old Things in the South of the City is the representative work of Lin, a female writer in Taiwan Province Province. "Old Things in the South of the City" was written by Lin in the background of his life from the age of 7 to 13.
This work tells the story of Eiko's childhood through her childish eyes, reflecting the author's nostalgia for childhood and the south of Beijing.
This work was adapted into a movie of the same name on 1983, directed by Wu.