The goodness of Hangzhou can only be tasted slowly.
Like a cup of milk tea with 30% sugar, it feels bland at first sip, but after a few more sips, you can't live without it. Like the evening breeze by the canal, you don't feel anything when it blows on your face. After blowing for a long time, you will never forget the temperature.
It was only in the third year after Lin Yitang came to Hangzhou that he finally tasted this taste.
At that time, she was still working in a milk tea shop, earning 2,800 yuan a month, and living on the sofa at her sister's house. The room was as messy as a garbage dump, and he drank so badly that he hugged his cat and cried when he was drunk. She felt that her life was like a cup of milk tea that had been made wrong - too much taro paste was added, too little sugar was added, and the seal was not tightly sealed, so it would spill out at any time.
But Hangzhou did not give up on her.
The city has a strange patience. It doesn't rush, doesn't rush, just waits slowly. Wait for her to meet someone by the West Lake, wait for her to gather courage by the canal, wait for her to put her life back to its original state bit by bit.
Later she realized that good love is not like pearls in milk tea that you can chew and swallow. Good love is like sweet-scented osmanthus, broken and small, hidden in every autumn in Hangzhou. You think it's not there, but when the wind blows, the whole city is filled with sweetness.
This is a story about Hangzhou, milk tea and osmanthus.
It is also a story about two sisters and two brothers who spoil each other like children in completely different ways.
If you're ready, let's start from the beginning.
Purpose: 1. Growth and self-reconstruction The story of a twenty-six-year-old "waste girl" who learns to stand up while loving and being loved. Lin Yitang's monthly salary of 2,880, being fired, nibbling on her sister, and having a room that looked like a garbage dump, to studying for a college degree, buying a house, and finding a new job - her growth did not happen overnight, but was built up inch by inch through the "scolding" of her sister and the "waiting" of her boyfriend. The core idea is: You don't need to grow up overnight, but you need someone willing to wait for you to grow up. 2. Two forms of "being loved": The elder sister loves her by scolding her, and the younger brother loves her by pampering her. Both ways are changing her for the better. Lin Man's love is "fierce" and "when will you grow up?" - But there will always be ribs in her refrigerator, and there will always be a way out for her sister in her card. Li Shian's love is "soft", which means a cup of milk tea every day, remembering that she doesn't eat green onions, and when she cries, she doesn't say "don't cry" but "you cry". Good love doesn't have one look, but true love makes people grow bones. 3. Hangzhou - a city as a container The goodness of Hangzhou can only be tasted slowly. So is love. So is life. Canal, sweet-scented osmanthus, Dingsheng cake, scallion bun stew, Pian'er River... These specific and subtle imprints of Hangzhou form the gentlest background of the novel. The idea can be understood as: a city that is not in a hurry heals an impatient person; a love that is not in a hurry reshapes a broken self. Life is not elsewhere, it is where you are willing to stop and take a bite of sweetness. 4. The two-line narrative of elder sister and younger sister - the two women taking care of each other Lin Man is the sister who "doesn't seem to need to be taken care of", but she can also get drunk, want to cry, and say "me too" in front of Wang Chengyu. Lin Yitang is the sister who "seems like she will never grow up", but she eventually became her sister's proudest "coming-of-age ceremony". The two people used different methods to transform each other from an isolated island to a continent. 5. Ultimate intention (summary in one sentence) "In Hangzhou, you are pampered by your younger brother and become a child; in the world, you are loved and grow up to be an adult." What this novel ultimately wants to say is: We are looking for two kinds of love throughout our lives - one that makes you dare to fall, and one that allows you to stand up. And the luckiest thing is that there is someone waiting for you by the canal to give you both.