When Shen Jinglan was "assigned" to Lianhua Village by her father, she just thought it was an exile.
She stepped on the dirt with her small sheepskin heels. She offended Aunt Wang with a bowl of sour beans and rejected Aunt Li's free-range eggs as "unquarantined". Within a week, she became the public enemy of the whole village. The village secretary Zhang Jingshi was not in a hurry. She delivered breakfast on a large pole, replaced mosquito repellent on the window sill, and handed her body-warming compressed biscuits when she was hungry.
Xu Tang, a volunteer teacher, ran away from Suzhou to escape marriage and fell into the hands of local Internet celebrity Zhao Dongyang - the comment section said "he is not good enough for her", and she was angry that she actually cared.
In the corner of the market, old bamboo weaver Zhou Deshan has stopped weaving bamboo for ten years with his hands shaking. Until the first time he saw Shen Jinglan, he pulled out the carving knife that had been hidden for fifty years - the word "Shen" was engraved on the blade. That was her grandfather's name.
"Look at Bi Qiao and the green bamboo Yi Yi." Some things last longer than people. When bamboo is broken, it can be woven again, and when craftsmanship is broken, it can be woven again. After fifty years of agreement, the right person has finally arrived.
Intent: This is a story about "taking root". It is not a grand rural revitalization narrative, but how a group of ordinary people catch up with each other on a piece of dirt - Shen Jinglan catches up with his grandfather's fifty-year inheritance of craftsmanship, Zhang Jingshi catches up with the village road that his father has not finished, Xu Tang catches up with the eyes of thirty-seven children looking into her, Aunt Wang's sour beans and Aunt Li's native eggs catch up with their dignity left behind by the urban era. Bamboo can grow again when cut, and broken bamboo strips can be reattached. All people who have been uprooted by the times can find their roots again in this soil.