My name is Lin Chuxia, I am 28 years old. After being laid off by a large factory, I returned to my hometown of "Wutong Lane" in despair.
This old alley, built in the 1980s, is about to be demolished. Here are the wonton shop grandma who watched me grow up, Grandpa Gu, a retired engineer who is always repairing radios, and a group of noisy but extremely cute old neighbors.
I don't want this alley full of memories to disappear.
So, I made a short video: "With the power of a hundred people, can we save a home?"
The video unexpectedly went viral. The "children of Wutong" who once walked out of here and are now big bosses in all walks of life have returned one after another.
We transformed the dilapidated old factory building into a shared bookstore, turned Grandpa Gu's radio shop into a "time repair shop", and turned grandma's wonton stall into an internet celebrity check-in point...
On the day when the bulldozers arrived at the alley, all the old people in the alley held signs saying "We will not move" and smiled like a group of children who had won a game.
The most precious thing in the world is not how valuable the land is, but the smell of your neighbor's rice and the light that will always be on for you.
