In the early spring of 1980, the snow had just faded from the "Hongqi Alley" in the small northern town, and the old locust trees at the entrance of the alley sprouted new buds. An alley with gray bricks and gray tiles: Li Shuqin, a female textile factory worker, and Li Jianguo, an auto mechanic. Next door is Ren Dajun, a cotton spinning factory, and Zhang Guilan, his daughter-in-law from the countryside. Diagonally across the street, technician Wang Zhiqiang and his wife Liu Hui, a salesperson in a department store, live. At that time, food stamps had not yet been cancelled, "Young Friends Come to Meet" was singing on the radio, and the breeze of reform and opening up was quietly blowing into this small town. The days in the alleys were full of fireworks and foreshadowing of the times.
So pretty