One of the chapter in Eating Bitterness called The Landless Lord talks about Wang Tao’s, a peasant, life after moving to the urban. Wang Tao used to live in a village called Gan Jia Zhai. However, because Gan Jia Zhai blocked the main road to the High-tech Zone, his whole family was forced to move to the urban city. Decades of Wang Tao’s family were farmers. He used to be a hard worker: wake up early in the morning to start farming and go back to home until night comes. At that time, he was very poor. Being a farmer did not help him earn money. When he married his wife, Li Ping, he did not have money to escort his bride in a car or carriage. Even that was the tradition.
