Urban Romance (Complete Collection of Mao Dun Literature Award-Winning Works: Collector's Edition)

The novel focuses on the municipal construction of a large city in the north, depicts the ecology and mentality of everyone from the mayor to the street women, and reflects the complex face of current urban reform. Municipal Party Secretary Gao Bonian has been having trouble with his government affairs and family affairs recently. His unmarried daughter Gao Jie had a miscarriage and was lying at home. His wife Shen Ping thought it was Gao's secretary Zhang Yimin who had done it, but the daughter said she had taken the initiative to give birth to someone else. Mayor Yan Honghuan is young and promising, determined to improve transportation and rebuild streets to solve residents' housing difficulties. The Prime Minister asked the mayor to report on the work but did not notify the municipal party secretary. The secretary felt an inexplicable sense of loss. Chen Baozhu's family on Pudian Street also had a difficult life. His father was a tricycle driver, and his mother was a good man and adopted her adopted son Baozhu. During the "Cultural Revolution", my father became the deputy commander of the rebels, and was later suppressed for several crimes. Baozhu was sentenced to two years for affray, and his mother became ill from shame and became paralyzed. The kind-hearted neighbor Aunt Yang and her son Yang Jianhua, who is in the municipal engineering team, encouraged Baozhu to have the courage to start a new life. Baozhu became better and better as he worked in the engineering team, and used his mother's previous savings as bonuses for workers. However, the case of his involvement in robbing and dividing the stolen 50 yuan was discovered, and he had to be sanctioned; his heart still remained at the construction site, and everyone hoped that he would reform and work better after he came out.