Jin's second collection of short stories was entitled Under the Red Flag. It was set in Dismount Fort, a village based on Liangjiadian in Jin County, Liaoning Province, where he'd lived as a child. The 12 village stories in the collection comprise "a local-gazetteer-like moral history."
架構第二本小說《光天化日》故事的「歇馬亭」，就是以他童年居住過的遼寧金縣亮甲店為原型，12 個鄉村故事構成「一部地方誌式的道德史」。