
Small Town Story: 2003
About This Novel
In the autumn of 2003, a new photo was posted on the bulletin board of No. 1 Middle School in Suiling County. Gou Mian, who had just graduated from Harbin Normal University, returned to this small northeastern city that she had always wanted to leave and became a mathematics teacher at her alma mater. Here, she reunited with senior Ren Zhilong, who graduated two years earlier and taught biology. Similar origins and destinations brought the two local young people together naturally. Ren Zhilong's life is just like the biology class he teaches, regular, practical and predictable. He planned his future early: a step-by-step married life. The love he gave was concrete and warm, like soy milk in the cold winter morning, the repaired dormitory light bulb, and the "stable" guarantee that everyone said. But in the warmth day after day, Gou Luomian heard another voice in his heart - a throbbing that was unwilling to be completely covered by the established trajectory, and an unquenched desire for spiritual resonance. This is not a fierce conflict, but a slow misalignment of two visions of life in a peaceful daily life. In 2008, they each got married, and their partner was a more "suitable" person. He married a gentle nurse, and she married a husband who could talk about education. They still live in Suiling, teach in the same school, and would nod and greet each other when they met at the vegetable market. This past story is about the choices and costs of young people in small towns, and about the more subtle struggles and arrangements after "staying". In the end, they lived on the same land and became two samples of happiness. In this way, they reached a profound reconciliation with their youth and each other.
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Official(6)Scraped 9d ago
I haven't read such a good novel in a long time. I hope the author can continue to actively update it.
The writing is true and vivid, and it reminds me of more and more.
At first, I just treated this novel as a tool for entertainment. I felt that the netizens' comments after reading it were very deliberate. After seeing the daily contact and interaction between Gou Liao Mian and Ren Zhilong, I felt that it didn't have the fantasy feeling of other online novels. I put it down. After two or three days of reading the novel, I suddenly wanted to continue reading. I gradually realized the characteristics of this novel. I thought of my friend in junior high school, when his favorite girl was forced to separate because her family did not allow him to be with her. She listened very well to her family members. When she saw my friend for the last time, she had a cold face, but there was always a glimmer in her eyes. At that moment, my friend knew that maybe some people just wanted to miss it, and my friend didn't want to let it go. She was struggling hard, and we never met each other again. We met Ren Zhilong and I saw the shadow of my friend and her. Because of the constraints of the world and the wasted fate, we could never see each other again in the end. Alas, they were really a pair of fateful mandarin ducks.
It can be said to be the most perfect novel I have read so far. The teacher Gou depicted in the book in a few strokes reminds me of the organic fertilizer high school teacher who has entered the sewer. It can be said that the quality is very good. I have bought it and I am very satisfied. The big man of Sister Yu has arrived and I hope the author will continue to update it and hope that the author can further introduce more characters.
An author with great potential. Support the author.
So well written! Recommended recommended recommended! ! !
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Official(6)Scraped 9d ago
I haven't read such a good novel in a long time. I hope the author can continue to actively update it.
The writing is true and vivid, and it reminds me of more and more.
At first, I just treated this novel as a tool for entertainment. I felt that the netizens' comments after reading it were very deliberate. After seeing the daily contact and interaction between Gou Liao Mian and Ren Zhilong, I felt that it didn't have the fantasy feeling of other online novels. I put it down. After two or three days of reading the novel, I suddenly wanted to continue reading. I gradually realized the characteristics of this novel. I thought of my friend in junior high school, when his favorite girl was forced to separate because her family did not allow him to be with her. She listened very well to her family members. When she saw my friend for the last time, she had a cold face, but there was always a glimmer in her eyes. At that moment, my friend knew that maybe some people just wanted to miss it, and my friend didn't want to let it go. She was struggling hard, and we never met each other again. We met Ren Zhilong and I saw the shadow of my friend and her. Because of the constraints of the world and the wasted fate, we could never see each other again in the end. Alas, they were really a pair of fateful mandarin ducks.
It can be said to be the most perfect novel I have read so far. The teacher Gou depicted in the book in a few strokes reminds me of the organic fertilizer high school teacher who has entered the sewer. It can be said that the quality is very good. I have bought it and I am very satisfied. The big man of Sister Yu has arrived and I hope the author will continue to update it and hope that the author can further introduce more characters.
An author with great potential. Support the author.
So well written! Recommended recommended recommended! ! !









