Host Literature: There are many characters in the book. I will mention later that this character may not be very special, but his description is also very interesting and has a great influence on my aunt, that is, Wang.
Mo Yan: In the first draft, Wang Xiaotong is a dentist in Zhejiang. In the 1960s, he opened a dentist's shop in that place. He is a very handsome young man. In the first draft, the young man established a love relationship with his menstruation. Later, people in the commune created unjust cases and beat the dentist to death.
Host Literature: Why did you become a pilot later?
Mo Yan: Later, I felt that this figure was not contemporary. At that time, the dentist violated the historical truth. In the 1960s, it was impossible for dentists from other places in Zhejiang to open a dental clinic in Gaomi County, Shandong Province, which probably appeared after the reform and opening up in the 1980s. I changed it into a pilot in the second draft. Why write about such a pilot? It is also related to my infinite worship of pilots since I was a child. There is an air force airport in the west of the real Gaomi county. When the weather is good, planes in the airport often drill over our village, and there are many myths about pilots' drills.