Su Yan, a part-time clerk at the "Qingtang Bookstore" at the end of the alley, is a handsome boy with a "rice paper smudge". When turning over books, he will press the spine of the book with his fingertips to avoid creases. When a customer praises the "nice voice", the tips of his ears will turn red and he will lower his head and smile. Even when watering the mint on the window sill, he has to squat down and water slowly along the gaps in the leaves, for fear of water droplets splashing on the old letter paper spread out next to him. This quiet day when he could hear the sound of the pen tip scratching the paper suddenly "went astray" one afternoon when he was 20 years old in Mengxia: when he was sorting out the Republic of China edition of "Shu Yu Ci", a bamboo bookmark engraved with "The lotus wind crosses the moon, the moon looks for you" fell out from the middle of the book. As soon as his fingertips touched the notch on the bookmark, the lotus-scented wind rushed in from the window, causing the thread-bound book on the top shelf of the bookshelf to crash and fall down.
He hurriedly reached out to help him, but he bumped into a girl holding a woven rattan basket - the girl's name was Lin Wanhe. The mung bean cakes in the basket were scattered all over his clothes. The sweet and glutinous aroma also wafted out of neatly folded notes, which read, "Whoever picks up the bamboo bookmark, please accompany me to eat thirty kinds of sweet cakes." Since then, Su Yan's life has completely turned into a "little theater of nonsense": new ink marks will appear on the bamboo bookmarks every morning, sometimes "Wearing an off-white shirt today, I will catch the hydrangeas blown down by the wind", sometimes "I go to the alley to buy tofu cakes, and I will meet an orange cat wearing a small bell. "; And Lin Wanhe actually became the owner of the "Hefeng Grocery Store" next to the bookstore. During the day, he sold ceramic cups that could hum songs and notebooks that could record the sunset. At night, he squatted in front of the store and "discussed whether the moon was round tonight" with the cat, and always used the excuse of "compensating for sand cakes"...
