Amei, a young man born in Anxi Town, is a man of unknown origin. Seventeen years ago, one night when the autumn leaves were covered with grass, Chen Laohan, a villager in the town, heard a baby's crying in the dilapidated Chenghuang Temple at Wulipo, and walked in to find that it was a baby boy crying. Alas, the bitter doll, don't cry and don't cry. Chen Laohan shook the baby boy while looking left and right, hoping to find the pair of ruthless parents who abandoned their flesh and blood in this harsh autumn wind. Helplessly, in the dilapidated City God Temple, there is only the figure of Chen Laohan and the cry of the baby boy. Chen Laohan gritted his teeth: "No matter what, it's a life, a hard-working baby, if you meet me Lao Chen today, I won't let you leave before you see the world clearly." Chen Laohan picked up the baby boy and was about to quickly return home to feed the baby some warm water. Suddenly found that the statue built in some years seemed to have a bright light, so frightened that Chen Laohan pounced, knelt down and begged the city god to forgive him for his disrespect, but just when he kowtowed to the third sound, suddenly a piece of oval jade pendant with a white body and a slight metallic luster was falling in front of him, vaguely, you could see the word 'plum'.

Chen Laohan took him home to take care of him for three months, how could he take care of a little baby boy himself, how could he take care of a little baby boy, he had no choice but to convene the villagers to discuss, and jointly decided to put the little baby boy in the home of the married couple to take care of it in turn, the third year of junior high school was at the house of the eldest sister of the Wang family, and the fourth year of junior high school was in the house of the aunt of the Li family. Since he was three years old, he has been taken care of by Chen Laohan, and in this way, seventeen spring and autumn seasons have passed.

Looking at the little boy who was growing up, Chen Laohan felt relieved, but he always had a heart problem, that is, he never knew where this child came from. Since he picked up this child that day, he has never given up on the birth of the child in the hall, and he has inquired about it within a radius of fifty miles, but he has never heard of any major changes in anyone's family, let alone any family that will not want their own children. Thanks to the vigorous reform and opening up under the leadership of several great men in the new century, the life of the people of country Z has become more and more stable, and Yuezhou City, where Anxi County is located, is not a rich place, but the people here are very simple. As long as you go to hope every day and there is no shortage of rice and noodles at home, you will not complain, let alone give up life. So Chen Laohan couldn't figure out what kind of desperation the child's parents had to abandon the child. The old man didn't have much knowledge, so when the child was five and a half years old, he let the child learn to write with a teacher surnamed Li, not hoping to be a scientist, but hoping that he would not grow up and not be able to write his own name and be disliked. But when Mr. Li asked for the child's name, Mr. Chen was in a difficult situation. Because I have always wanted to find the child's biological parents, so the old man has never given the child a name, and after thinking about it, Mr. came up with an idea: this child has been abandoned in the City God Temple since he was a child, and it is late autumn and winter. I hope that this child can be as tough as plum blossoms and will not be overwhelmed by the short winter snow. As soon as the old man heard it, he clapped his hands happily, since this is the case, then I will let Amei officially come to worship Mr. tomorrow, and in the future, I will ask Lao Li to take more care and let this child know more words.

Since then, Amei has become the child's nickname, and it seems that as Mr. Li expected, this child is as arrogant as a plum blossom, but never hurts, only six years old has been literate more than 1,000 words, seven years old silently wrote 100 Tang poems, nine years old began to pinch poems. Mr. Li looked at Amei standing in the snow and frowned deeply: Amei, come here. "What did the gentleman call me?" said Amei, walking lightly to the gentleman's step. "Amei, it's been four years since you came to my old man's house to study in your spare time, and I feel that I have nothing left to hand over to you in the past four years. You are very talented, you don't lose to any of my previous students, do you want to enter the school to accept a regular school, you don't have to worry about money, I will help you apply for a bursary. Ah Mei thought for a while and blinked: "Sir, what do the students in the school learn" Lao Li replied: In fact, with what you have learned now, you have an advantage over your peers when you enter the school, and I think you may become a scholar and a poet in the future. Ah Mei tilted her head: "Forget it, I know that Mr. is kind to me, but I think I have learned a lot now, thank you Mr. for your teaching, Ah Mei thank you, Mr. will come to see Mr. in the future" In this way, Ah Mei ended his study career, and Mr. Li understood why Ah Mei was reluctant to go to school after a long time.

Ah Mei leaned under the old locust tree in front of the City God Temple, which is said to be five hundred years old, and played with the elliptical jade pendant that the old man Chen handed over to him before he passed away, as if the old Chen head was in front of him, and the words that told him were also in his ears: Ah Mei, the old man didn't know me anymore, I have done a lot of good things in my life, and I have done a lot of inauthentic things. But the happiest thing for me is that seventeen years ago, I found out that you were still a baby, and it has been many years in a blink of an eye, and now that you have grown up, there are some things I have to tell you.

This jade pendant was found at the temple where I met you, and I always thought that this was the care of Lord Chenghuang for you, thinking that I would give him to you when you were older. Until three years ago, I felt that my time might be short, so I asked the son of Uncle Li in the village to ask in the county. Although this material is special, there are still many noble people in the big city collection, at that time I wanted to give it to you, let you go out of this village, to find your biological parents, but you are still too young, and I can live for a few more years. Now, you have grown up, come, child, take this jade pendant. Because you are an abandoned baby, so the people in the village have not given you a name over the years, and everyone has no culture, only by virtue of the word 'Mei' on your jade pendant to call you Amei, I guess, this should be your surname, Amei, remember what I said, this world is very big, take a look and find your own name, and the meaning of life.

Ah Mei looked at the blue sky, walked to the door of Chen Laohan's house nostalgically, waved her sleeves, and only took away a few clothes and five steamed buns. Stride forward, as Chen Laohan said, find the meaning of his own existence and his proper name......

Amei left, without alarming anyone in the village, and left this quiet and peaceful land with his last concerns, but he was not alone.