[Migrant workers at the construction site VS the proprietress of the bun shop]
(Modern romance, three meals and four seasons, food, warmth and healing, two-way travel, daily life communication, sweet pets, market articles)
A steamed stuffed bun shop at 4:30 in the morning, and a Northeastern man who leaves the night shift at the construction site at 6:00. Five meat buns and a bowl of porridge were his silent good morning; the stuffed sugar triangles were her unspoken thoughts.
Xia Bingbing's life consists of a debt-ridden father, a sick mother, an autistic sister and a young daughter, like a steamed bun cage that can never be finished. Duan Tao's world is one of reinforced concrete, formwork and wooden work, and silent night shifts, like a heavy burden that cannot be lifted off his shoulders. Until the night of the power outage, he held up his mobile phone to illuminate her trembling sister and said, "Look, it's not dark."
There was no oath of love, only him quietly repairing her leaky faucet, and she silently cooking a bowl of millet porridge when she found out he had a stomachache. The warmth of his fingertips when he took the bun from her; she discovered the little wooden bird in his tool box with her daughter's name engraved on it.
This is a two-way redemption that takes place between the construction site and the bun shop. When the debt collector banged on the rolling door again, he cursed in Northeastern dialect for the first time, and then turned to her and said, "Don't be afraid, I'm here." And she finally mustered up the courage and pressed a note under the lunch she brought him: "Today's buns have sweet fillings."
The love of ordinary people is the white steam coming out of the steamer, the ashes that cannot be washed away from work clothes, the hoarse "five meat buns" in the morning fog, and the light that stays on for you in the middle of the night. Their story begins here.
The writing is so good, it's a very nice novel.