Lu Zheng has been running on the canal for thirteen years, calculating the cargo prices and shipping schedules, as well as the opponents' overt and covert attacks. He only missed one thing - her husband Ji Mingyuan, a gentle and obedient man who never caused her any trouble, was bandited on the way back home. He was neither alive nor dead.
She searched along the canal for three months and found only an old bloody robe.
Pei Jinyan opened a small bookstore in the south of the city and kept it alone for three years after his wife died of illness. They met several times at the dock when they were young, but later they got married and never met again. Until that autumn rainy night, Lu Zheng was soaked and pushed open the door of his shop. After seventeen years, one handed them ginger tea and the other took the cloth towel. No one asked the other how they got here all these years.
The commercial war on the canal never stops. Lu Zheng refused to give in in the game of water transportation share and terminal donation, and by the way, he prevented an unnecessary disaster for the targeted bookstore. Pei Jinyan kept silent, but secretly sent a can of spring tea. The note only said: drink while it's hot.
They are all middle-aged people whose edges have been smoothed away by life. One of them feels guilty towards his late husband, and the other is afraid that he is just the next best substitute. One step closer, two steps back.
However, news came from Yongzhou: Ji Mingyuan may still be alive.
Old friends who cannot be found, new friends who dare not stay. She could calculate the water level and wind direction on the canal, but she couldn't figure out the account in her heart. And Pei Yanyan just stood quietly among the bookshelves, waiting for her to come out of the guilt that had no end in sight - or, waiting for her to say not to leave.
The boat travels thousands of miles and eventually returns to the boat. Two scarred people, after half a lifetime of separation, are testing the sincerity of getting closer.
A shrewd, capable and meticulous water transport businessman and a lonely and proud bookstore owner.
Private facilities are like mountains, men and women have relative equal rights, and boys
Purpose: Happy every day