Fifteen-year-old Chen Bei admires Young and Dangerous the most. He thought it was the coolest thing to walk down the street with a machete and everyone was afraid of you.
Until one day——
His father, who got up before dawn every day to knead dough, feed stray cats, and only laughed when his mother scolded him, sat on the sofa and said to him: "Let me tell you a story. It happened twenty years ago."
Chen Bei didn't know that his father had been in prison for fifteen years when he was young. He didn't know that the lame lawyer who came to the house every now and then to have a meal, the uncle in the white coat who opened a chain of clinics, the "fourth uncle" who always wore a black glove on his right hand... Were all brothers who followed his father all the way from the west of the city to the whole country, and stepped on half of the world under his feet.
He didn't even know that "Grandma Zhao" who brought old hens to his family during the holidays - twenty years ago, she was only eighteen years old and was his father's biggest "connection".
The noodle shop is still the same noodle shop. The soup pot is still the same pot.
It's just that some stories took a generation for someone to finally listen to them.
"Dad, then why did you quit?"
"Because being a big brother is to be able to be a big brother one day."
