Spring in Baiji Lake

It''s an epic novel that spans from the late thirties to the late nineties. The story begins with the victory of the Long March. When a Red Army team was advancing westward, it was intercepted by enemy troops, and a female fighter was unfortunately left behind and rescued by the boy and his family. In the place where the boy lived, there was a kind of migratory fisherman who was not known to the outside world. It was a relict gull later recognized by the academic circles. The boy found the female soldier of the Red Army when he was digging out the eggs of the bird. The boy''s mother died during childbirth. Facing the enemy''s search, the boy''s family bravely helped and let the female soldier pretend to be the boy''s mother. In order to let the female soldiers return to the army as soon as possible, the boy''s father took the risk to report the news to the Lanzhou Eighth Route Army Office, but was killed halfway. The female Red Army soldier decided to stay and take the boy''s family to tide over the difficulties. With firm belief, she ushered in the victory of the revolution with the boy and the local people, and started a great new journey to build China. Decades later, when the relatives and friends of the female warriors returned from overseas, they regretted that the female warriors were like relict gulls, losing the wealthy life of their original families and living in the remote west. The female warrior smiled and said: The so-called abandonment is a choice without regrets. Because every piece of land under my feet belongs to the motherland, I am willing to be a "e;relict gull"e; with no regrets for the motherland.