Lin's in "Old Things in the South of the City" left and never came back?

Old Things in the South of the City is the representative work of Lin, a female writer in Taiwan Province Province. This work tells the story of Eiko's childhood through her childish eyes, reflecting the author's nostalgia for childhood and yearning for the south of Beijing. This work was adapted into a movie of the same name on 1983 and directed by Wu.

In the late 1920s, a six-year-old girl named Lin lived in a small alley in the south of Beijing. She often stands in the alley looking for her daughter's crazy woman Xiuzhen, and she is Ruth's friend. Xiuzhen once fell in love with a college student, Si Kang. Later, Si Kang went back to his hometown and never came back.

Xiuzhen's daughter, Xiao Guizi, was sent to the foot of the city wall by her family and has since disappeared. Eiko sympathized with her and promised to help Xiuzhen find Xiaoguizi. Eiko inadvertently found that the girl's life is very similar to that of the little devil, and found the scar on the back of her neck, so she quickly took her to Xiuzhen.

"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. During the Japanese imperialist occupation of Taiwan Province, the Lins refused to live under the iron heel of the Japanese invaders and moved to Beijing where Xiaoying grew up. Seeing the camel team coming in winter and hearing the slow and sweet bell, childhood returned to the author's mind.