早年间,富春江南岸的太平村,有个男人名叫阿林。阿林三十左右年纪,家里无田无地,整天挑着一副货郎担走村串户,靠做点小本生意维持家人的生活。两年前他妻子患急症不治而亡,给他留下了一个小女孩,名叫巧玉,长得又瘦又小,看着就让人觉得十分可怜。阿林每天出去做生意,就把巧玉置于货郎担上,一头女儿一头杂货,天天风里来、雨里去,受尽风寒之苦。 Early years, Taiping Village on the southern bank of Fuchun River, there is a man named Alin. Aaron thirty or so years old, the family has no fields and no land, all day lug a bunch of shopkeepers take the village households, by doing small business to maintain family life. Two years ago, his wife died of acute illness and died, leaving him with a little girl named Qiao Yu, who was thin and small, and looked so pitiful. Alin every day to go out to do business, put the Qiao Yu placed on the groomsmen, a daughter a groceries, wind every day, the rain to go, suffer the pain of the cold.