 "A scarecrow" ("Dào cao rén " 《稻草人》.These pieces focused on the suffocation of the lower-class people.His highly praised fiction "Ni Huanzhi" 《倪煥之 》 revealed the pathetic life of an intellectual called "Ni Huanzhi".Ye discovered that many people in the New China were selfish, apathetic, hypocratic and conservative.