Baisha Town is so small that there is only one repair shop.
Lin Shi wanted to escape since he was a child.
Escape from this place that doesn't even have takeout, escape from grandpa's nagging and typos, escape from those endless radios and rice cookers.
He stole four thousand yuan from his grandfather and dragged the pots and pans to Shencheng.
I thought that from now on, the sky would be high and the sea would be vast, and beautiful women would be like clouds.
As a result, the beauty did meet Shen Lu, the eldest lady with a vicious mouth and a soft heart, and she beat him to pieces.
Later he realized that some things can be repaired when they are broken, but some people cannot come back after they leave.
For example, the admission notice that grandpa hid in the cash box.
For example, the tears that didn't fall when Shen Lu turned around.
Baisha repairs shops, repairs things, and also repairs people's hearts.
Purpose: Core Purpose:
1. The metaphor of "repair" - repairing things means repairing the mind
The novel uses a "repair shop" as its core image. On the surface, it repairs old items such as radios, rice cookers, and music boxes. In fact, it repairs the relationship between people, the connection between people and their hometown, and the reconciliation between people and themselves. Lin Shunfeng repaired Widow Wang's radio, which she had been waiting for for twenty years. Lin Shi later realized that what his grandfather had been repairing was his desire to escape.
2. About the growth of "Farewell" - some people are meant to be missed
The story of Lin Shi and Shen Lu is not a happy story about "a poor boy chasing a eldest lady", but a BE aesthetic about "people from two worlds meet briefly and then get well." Shen Lu was pampered and lacked everything. Lin Shi was the first person who "didn't spoil her" - she fought hard, but still couldn't keep him. It's not because I don't love you, it's because at the fork in the road in life, both left and right are the right answers. The meaning of farewell is not to regret, but to let you know that some people have been here and you have become a little better.
3. About the return of "hometown" - running away is to come back better
Lin Shi desperately wanted to leave Baisha Town at first, feeling that the town was too small and dilapidated to accommodate his ambitions. Four years later, he realized that Baisha Town had never changed, but he had changed. Grandpa's "Come back and look at the store" is not a restraint, but a "I'm here waiting for you". The point of the novel is not the pretentiousness of "escape from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou", but: you can go to a bigger world, but don't forget that there is a place that will always leave a light for you.
4. About the deep affection of "hard-talking" - the background of Chinese-style family affection
The old man Lin Shunfeng is the soul of the whole book. He never said "I miss you", he only wrote letters and cursed people; he never said "you are very good", he only said "who wants you like that"; he never said "waiting for you to come back", he only said "go back and check the store". This kind of "knife mouth and tofu heart" is the typical background of Chinese family love.