Deep in the old alley paved with bluestones, Chen Yanhe guards a grocery store without cats. The wooden signboard faded to light brown, and when the bell rang, junior high school students who took shelter from the rain, the breakfast shop owner who delivered steamed buns, and the old man who lived alone complaining that the TV was broken came in. Each visitor brought with them some kind of worries.
Chen Yanhe has an old notebook in which he records the small wishes of his customers: Lin Xiaoman who wants to wait for his mother to come home, Uncle Wang who hopes that business will be better, and Grandma Li who needs help repairing the TV. He silently remembered and helped silently, using mints, a TV repairman, and a kind word to turn the grocery store into a "collection station for thoughts" in the old alley.
It was not until the end of the rainy season that Lin Xiaoman came to announce the good news with an admission notice. Suddenly, a calico cat lay beside the threshold. Chen Yanhe discovered that the vacancy where there was no cat had been filled by the care between people; and the tenderness hidden in daily life would eventually fall quietly beside him like a cat that came late.
Purpose: Hidden in ordinary daily life is the gentleness that heals all unexpected encounters