Neon in an Enamel Jar

Magical realism. In a small town in 1998, laid-off worker Wang Jianguo clutched his crumpled lay-off certificate and used his savings to buy a black-and-white TV full of snowflakes. However, he accidentally found an enamel vat with "Labor is the Most Honorable" printed on it at a shoe repair stall. The strange neon pattern at the bottom of the tank turned out to be the key to travel through time and space - he plunged into the video hall in 1983 and saw his mother who sang when she was young; he reunited with Ahong, the daughter of his mother's old friend, in a hair salon and listened to her talk about the past hidden in lipstick and old letters. The confusion of being laid off, the mother's expectations, and the kindness of strangers are all intertwined with the neon light of the enamel vat. When his future self returned from Shenzhen and handed him a map marked with Huaqiang North Road, Wang Jianguo finally understood that this enamel jar was never a magic that changed the past, but a fire that illuminated the future. With his mother's concern and Ah Hong's blessings, he headed south to Shenzhen with an enamel vat in his arms. From a shoe repair stall to a chain store, in the wave of the times, the enamel vat in the 1990s reflected the neon light of the new era. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.