Take Your Time

The Li family in "Life Comes Slowly" is the epitome of millions of urban families. 40-Year-old Li Jing juggles between her two daughters in an administrative position at a state-owned enterprise. Her husband Wang Qiang works in 996 at an Internet company. Her 63-year-old mother Zhang Guifen moves in to take care of her grandson. She also moves Lao Lier, who "needs to watch cartoons when feeding" and "is so cold that she wears three sweaters", into the kitchen. Wang Yue, who has just entered junior high school, carries a tutoring bag that is heavier than a person, and hides the graffiti "when can I put it down" in her homework book; 6-year-old Wang Meng is caught between her grandma's "hot porridge" and her mother's "self-eating", which has become a small battlefield for intergenerational parenting. When Wang Yue's diagnosis of depression shocked the whole family, when Li Jing's father suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and was hospitalized and emptied his savings, when Wang Qiang took a ride-hailing service after get off work to support the family - the anxieties hidden in thermos cups, physical examination reports, and cram school schedules finally became a string. The calming charm that Zhang Guifen secretly begged for was torn into pieces, Wang Qiang's game recharge record became the trigger, and Li Jing cried like a child for the first time in the hospital corridor. But the days are always full of warmth: the coins and sugar in the dumpling bowl on the winter solstice night, the Sunshine Cafe painted by Wang Yue, the new fan of Zhang Guifen's square dance team, the tomato and egg noodles that Wang Qiang clumsily learned to make. From quarreling to holding hands, they gradually understood: Family is not a perfect arithmetic problem, it is a matter of old and young, difficult and easy, and there are always people to accompany you to carry it. In the end, Wang Yue's vocational high school admission notice and hand-made coffee, mixed with the fragrance of roses from the balcony, became the most practical answer - no matter how difficult life is, it is not difficult if the family laughs through it.