forced to work in the country faraway from his city the college student were wasting their youth in the wild field the narrow valley dashed their hopes at that hard time in fact their suffering came from their identity as a city man otherwise they would get along their life without so much dream just as their neighbor who had been born in the village and began to work in the field from the childhood leading a peaceful life as a rural native and illiterate he never suffer like a college student or complaining about the injustice of fate the neighbor of the college students leading a monotony life every day just like a silent bundle straw in and out in the small village all over their life a few years later the college students who has became a writer in the city (recalling the hard time in his novel) revisit the familiar place sigh and sigh with so much emotion while his old neighbor still go out to work as usual like a bundle of silent straw no recordation about the old neighbor in the history and no people mention of him From the sand biography (September 2019 in Chinese) by southern press, available on amazon 知识青年的邻居 上山下乡的知识青年 青春就在土地中荒芜 那一片狭窄的山谷啊令人窒息 知识青年会痛苦 是因为他有知识有文化 是因为他有高中毕业 是因为他来自城市 知识青年的邻居 也是一个青年 只是小学没毕业 因为小学没毕业 所以不知道痛苦 因为不知道痛苦 所以没有人为他嘘唏感叹 知识青年的邻居日子很单调 他每天象一捆沉默的稻草 进出 多少年后知识青年们旧地重游 感慨万端 他当年的邻居还像一捆沉默的稻草 进出 关于知识青年的邻居 在历史上没有记载 选自美国南方出版社《沙子小传》（2019年9月中文版），电子书在亚马逊有售
An unknown poet who sings to himself 