Grandma's Wood-Fired Stove

After work-related stress became overwhelming, a doctor advised Cheng Xiaoyu to take an extended leave. She decided to return to her rural hometown, where she had not been for years, carrying both her exhaustion with city life and her sense of unfamiliarity with the countryside. At first, Xiaoyu struggled with her grandmother's cramped kitchen and traditional cooking methods. But the scallion-oil noodles her grandmother made by hand awakened childhood memories, and she began to reconsider the value of rural life.