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1 Refers to Lin Haiyin's quirky thoughts.

2 Camels have patience.

3 Because Lin Haiyin misses the interesting stories of his childhood, and misses the people and things there.

Question (1): Refers to the idea that the author, Lin Haiying, said.

2): I know that camels do things calmly, and the one at the head of the camel team has a bell tied to its neck.

3): Because she missed the scenery and characters in the south of Beijing in her childhood, she wrote them down and wrote "Old Things in the South of the City".

"Old Things in the South of the City" is the representative work of Taiwanese female writer Lin Haiyin, which tells the story of Yingzi's childhood. Synopsis of the main content of the story: In the late twenties of the twentieth century, Lin Yingzi, a six-year-old girl, lived in a small alley in the south of Beijing.

Xiuzhen, a "crazy" woman who often stands at the mouth of the alley looking for her daughter, is a friend of Yingzi. Xiuzhen once secretly fell in love with a college student, Sicong, and later Sikang returned to his hometown and never came back. Xiuzhen's daughter Xiao Guizi was sent by her family to the foot of the city wall and disappeared.

Yingzi was very sympathetic to her, so she agreed to help Xiuzhen find Xiao Guizi. Yingzi inadvertently found that Niu'er's life experience was extremely similar to Xiao Guizi, and found Qingji on the back of her neck, and hurriedly took her to find Xiuzhen. After Xiuzhen and her daughter who had been separated for six years recognized, she immediately took Niu'er to find her father.

But in the end, when catching the train, the mother and daughter died together under the train. Yingzi was very sad, had a high fever, was in a coma for ten days, and almost lost her life. Later, Yingzi's family moved to Xinlianzi Hutong.

Yingzi met a young man with thick lips in a nearby deserted garden. He had to steal in order to provide for his brother's education. Yingzi thinks he is very kind, but she can't tell whether he is a good person or a bad person.

Soon, Yingzi picked up a small bronze Buddha in the barren meadow, and was discovered by plainclothes police, who brought the patrol police to arrest the young man, which made Yingzi very sad because he lost a friend. Later, Aunt Lan came to Yingzi's house, Yingzi found that her father's attitude towards Aunt Lan was wrong, Yingzi thought of a way to introduce Aunt Lan to Uncle Dexian, and then the two of them fell in love, and finally they left in a carriage together. When Yingzi was nine years old, her wet nurse, Song Ma's husband, came to the Lin family.

Yingzi was very sad to learn that Song's mother's son was drowned two years ago, and her daughter was also given by her husband to a couple riding a three-wheeled couple without children, and she couldn't understand why Song's mother left her children alone to serve others. Later, Song's mother was also picked up by her husband with a small donkey. In the end, Eiko's father also died of lung disease.

Because of her father's departure, Yingzi realized her responsibility and felt that she had grown up.

"Old Things in the South of the City" is a series of six stories written by the author as an adult, with his childhood self as the protagonist.

It is written about the lives of the poor people that Bingxin saw in old Beijing when he was a child.