Quail Alley

[Era + filial piety + daily life + 1980s + group portraits + abuse of scum + no golden fingers] [Storyboard Introduction] Shen Yulan was married to her ex-husband, a gambler, for seven years, and they fought for seven years before getting divorced. Shen Yulan and her daughter remarried Zhang Guangtao, who also had a daughter, and then gave birth to two more daughters. Zhang Guangtao, who wanted a son to continue the family line, was very anxious. After the fourth child was taken out of the hospital, she was still a girl. When Zhang Guangtao saw the fourth girl, it was like a bolt from the blue. Wu Hongfang, the patriarchal mother-in-law, secretly gave away the fourth girl without Shen Yulan's consent. In the days that followed, she kept lying to Shen Yulan that the child died at birth. However, there is no airtight wall in the world, and the gossip in the village finally reached Shen Yulan's ears... [Introduction to the Literary Edition] In Quail Hutong, there live three families, Zhang, Yu, and Wang. Reform and opening up, and changes in the times have brought about earth-shaking changes in everyone's lives. From the late seventies to the present, their destinies are closely intertwined, full of hope and ups and downs. The juniors worked hard and made their way. Ordinary but unwilling to be ordinary people's children, fireworks in the market, a story of two generations.