A dilapidated courtyard with mud walls, the center of which is three dilapidated earthen houses. Their roofs are thatched with straw. There are two more dilapidated earthen houses on each side of the main house. Besides these few rooms, there is nothing else in the courtyard, looking bare and desolate.,However, when Xie Yunjin was eight years old, he was discovered to be very intelligent by the private school teacher in town. The teacher went to Xie Lao and Xie Laotai's house and told them to send him to school.,The original family disagreed with this division of the household. Xie's family didn't want to argue and simply drove them out to the old house.。