Teahouse in Troubled Times: I Picked up Attributes in the Warlord's Lair

The background of the story is set in Peiping in the 1930s. Through a small teahouse called "Juyixuan" and the daily life of the surrounding neighbors, it shows the various scenes of the market during the Republic of China. The novel adopts the structure of unit drama intertwined with the main plot, with the teahouse owner "Lao Le" as the core character, connecting humorous stories of various characters such as coachman, hawker, fortune teller, down-and-out scholar, warlord's concubine, etc. The theme combines Lao She's Beijing-style humor with the complaint rhythm of modern Internet articles. It has both a pungent satire on the turmoil of the current situation and a warm praise of the optimistic life of the people at the bottom.