C269 I Came Home

Beyond the village's central poverty alleviation road, the rest of Chen Meixin's hometown bore the marks of age and decay. The uneven dirt roads were pocked with holes, and the homes' entrances were in disrepair. Some dwellings lacked even a basic door, using a meter-high stack of yellow mud and stones as courtyard walls, and a makeshift gate fashioned from tied-together sticks