Mr. Peng first met Sister Hu in the corridor of a cramped rental house in a village in the city. He holds a crumpled college admission notice, but due to his family's financial difficulties, he can't even pay for the tuition. His ideal is like an old poster taped to the wall, with the corners badly curled.
Sister Hu is a widow who runs a grocery store downstairs. She always wears blue shirts that have been washed white, and she is always spinning old beads in her hands. She didn't ask any more questions, but gave him a wad of change and just said, "Studying is a good thing, don't let walls trap you."
Later, Peng Shao learned that this woman who always smiled at him hid a past that was heavier than his - a betrayed engagement, an unspoken dream of being a painter, and a drawer of dusty paints. When Mr. Peng was hit hard and bloody in reality, he turned around and realized that Sister Hu had already used her own way to help him drag the ideals on the wall into the world bit by bit.
