Lin Bei, a delivery rider, earns 7,000 yuan a month and is extremely happy.
Until he delivered a stewed chicken and rice in a gray residential building, bumped into the kidnapping scene, took a photo, and was specially recruited by a mysterious department.
He thought that from now on he could rely on the takeaway skills he had developed over the past three years to defeat bosses, solve strange cases, and level up to defeat monsters.
But behind the photo, there is his own origin.
Those children who were recorded as numbers, pressed into books after books of old accounts, and almost forgotten, were entangled with his life experience.
Along the way, he chased evildoers and went through old scores in dozens of cities before he slowly found the real answer:
What he protects is not a major case.
For every person whose name has been forgotten, a lamp is lit for him, someone remembers his name, and someone is waiting for his return.
From the light at No. 12 Ginkgo Road to the earliest lights in the far north, he walked a very large circle.
After completing the circle, he understood:
A name cannot be lost until someone remembers it.
The lights were on, everyone was here, and now we had a peaceful meal.
This book of his has found its end, and its final destination is under this lamp, among this family.
City·Suspense·Family Love·Guardian·Searching for Roots
There is not only Malatang in the takeout box, but also a person who has forgotten where he came from and where he is going.
Reader comments
This is the kind of book that you can't put down once you pick it up. The protagonist, Lin Bei, is a food delivery boy. There is a "kidnapping" at the beginning, in which he takes back an old boy. As a result, an old business card and a page of names lead him step by step into a game of changing the names of children who have been numbered. The pace is fast, and the first-person narrative is very energetic. When you watch it, you will think that it is going to fight and kill all the way. But the more you read, the more you find that what really touches you is the energy of "someone is willing to light a lamp for you and remember your name."
What I like most is the way it buries the thread. Grandma's account book, the letter left by my mother, a word from my uncle, the red strip of cloth under the old ginkgo... They seemed to be scattered old things, but in the end they were all gathered into one place. It does not talk about "family affection", but lets each character light the lamp for the children in the dark until they can't even remember their own names - Mr. Zhou's old house that has never been lit, and the paper lantern that the debtor has hung in the clock shop for decades and has not dared to light. These details are more important than any touching.
The emotional lines are also clean. There is no bloody relationship between Lin Bei and Su Wanqing, it's just "wherever you go, this light will light up for you." The heroine is holding the lights in the house one by one for him to prevent them from being extinguished. This kind of restrained companionship is more attractive than sprinkled sugar.
If I'm sorry, it's probably that there are a few lines in the middle that are so densely intertwined that I have to be patient and smooth them out slowly, which is not suitable for ten lines at a glance. But after figuring it out, the sense of completeness of each link is very satisfying.
Recommended for those who like a bit of suspense but warmth in their bones. What it actually says is: someone must remember your name before it is lost.
This is the kind of book that you can't put down once you pick it up. The protagonist, Lin Bei, is a food delivery boy. There is a "kidnapping" at the beginning, in which he takes back an old boy. As a result, an old business card and a page of names lead him step by step into a game of changing the names of children who have been numbered. The pace is fast, and the first-person narrative is very energetic. When you watch it, you will think that it is going to fight and kill all the way. But the more you read, the more you find that what really touches you is the energy of "someone is willing to light a lamp for you and remember your name." What I like most is the way it buries the thread. Grandma's account book, the letter left by my mother, a word from my uncle, the red strip of cloth under the old ginkgo... They seemed to be scattered old things, but in the end they were all gathered into one place. It does not talk about "family affection", but lets each character light the lamp for the children in the dark until they can't even remember their own names - Mr. Zhou's old house that has never been lit, and the paper lantern that the debtor has hung in the clock shop for decades and has not dared to light. These details are more important than any touching. The emotional lines are also clean. There is no bloody relationship between Lin Bei and Su Wanqing, it's just "wherever you go, this light will light up for you." The heroine is holding the lights in the house one by one for him to prevent them from being extinguished. This kind of restrained companionship is more attractive than sprinkled sugar. If I'm sorry, it's probably that there are a few lines in the middle that are so densely intertwined that I have to be patient and smooth them out slowly, which is not suitable for ten lines at a glance. But after figuring it out, the sense of completeness of each link is very satisfying. Recommended for those who like a bit of suspense but warmth in their bones. What it actually says is: someone must remember your name before it is lost.