Shanghai Piao Ji

In the autumn of 2019, the protagonist and roommate Liu Yang (nicknamed "Big Cannon"), a sophomore, set out from a vocational and technical college in Jingzhou with an ignorant yearning for the Shanghai stock market and embarked on the road to Shanghai. The two entered Xianda Fresh Food internship together, starting as delivery persons at Nanchang Station in Huangpu District. Amidst the smoke and exhaustion of alleys, they began to struggle and grow in Shanghai. They are each other's most solid support: they squeeze into trains together, rent pigeonhole-like huts, drink together and complain about the grievances at work, find a moment of solace in custom shops together, and stick together in the difficult situation of the epidemic lockdown. The protagonist is introverted and tenacious, working his way up from a deliveryman to a webmaster, gradually sinking under the responsibility and pressure; Cannon is extroverted and reckless, loyal but also confused. He always stays with the protagonist, but in the end he has to make the choice to go his separate ways. After five years of drifting in Shanghai, they experienced the greenness of joining the job, the joy of promotion, the suffering of the lockdown, and the confusion of unemployment. They met the kind-hearted Grandma Zhang, the warm-hearted grandma, and sympathetic colleagues. In the fireworks world of the custom shop, they got a glimpse of the truth about the lives of countless strangers. From the alley delivery of Xianda fresh food, from the longing for the Bund to the gap of returning home, every step is engraved with the hardship and stubbornness of foreigners. In the end, the protagonist returns to his hometown full of exhaustion and memories, while Cannon wanders at the intersection of Shanghai. This book has no hot-blooded counterattack, only the most real daily life of Shanghai drifters. It hides the struggle, perseverance and farewell of two ordinary young people. It also writes about the pull between dreams and reality of all strangers, as well as the hot memories about youth, friendship and return.