This is a novel that takes the time from the Republic of China to modern times and writes about the fireworks at the bottom and the deep feelings in the world. It includes four stories: "I can't touch it with my hands out", "The Spring Breeze Blowing in the Evening", "Zhang's Leaving the Rain" and "Lotus Pond". The book is based on water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, loess towns, and high-density rural areas. It focuses on ordinary people in troubled times and ordinary years, and describes their persistent pursuit of warmth, companionship, and love in the midst of hunger, cold, war, separation, and hardship.
A Yuan met Lin Wan in troubled times, and the half piece of glutinous rice cake and bowl of hot tofu were a brief but profound light in his dark life; the orphan Lin Xi lived in a cold town, and the gentle kindness of the young man who supported education lit up her dark world like the evening breeze; Zhang spent his whole life The husband, who is waiting to be captured, clings to the meager warmth in the continuous cold rain and lives his obsession as his destiny; four different types of love are staged beside the lotus pond - the regrets of childhood sweethearts, the mutual love of Chai Mi and his wife, the fulfillment they have been waiting for for half a lifetime, and the rush to be untainted by the worldly world.
There are no earth-shattering legends in the book, only the struggle and perseverance of small people at the bottom. They were tossed about by heavy taxes, war, poverty and indifference, but they still refused to extinguish the glimmer of "love" in their hearts. This light is the advice of parents, the protection of elders, the kindness of strangers, the breath of support for each other among the poor, and the simplest warmth in ordinary days.
Love is never a vigorous vow, but the warmth hidden in the cracks of suffering. It is the power that supports people through all the darkness. It is also the light in this world that is always worth pursuing.
Purpose: Life may not be perfect, but we can move forward because we have been illuminated