[Copywriting (August 8, 2025 edition) Exclusive to Jinjiang, formerly known as "Are There Any Lobsters?" Sometimes the text will be revised. If you read pirated copies, there will be bugs. Please be careful and think twice! The next book will be "Fairy Inn", and the next one will be "Lies".
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In the wave of urbanization in China in the 21st century, the gap between urban and rural areas and identity anxiety have become the hidden pain of the times and are engraved in the hearts of that generation.
Lao Zhang's story is the epitome of this era.
During the most festive time of the New Year, my daughter cherished the food but was insulted as "a farewell to the village". She got into trouble with a relative's young master in the mud. There was no reason to say it. Just because the relative married a "rich city man", the village needed to build roads to get rich, so she pointed out the relative to help.
Relatives who despised country people trampled on their dignity and pushed Lao Zhang to have the idea of lifting his daughter to the city.
Just at this time, the news reported on the policy of promoting farmers to settle in cities, promoting farmers to work in cities, and giving preferential treatment to the children of migrant workers in school... Lao Zhang decided to go to the city to "trouble".
He is disabled and has been frustrated in finding a job in the city. His wife's timid character is also incompatible with the city. Even his daughter cannot adapt to the schools in the city... But their family does not want to be a coward who gives up halfway!
Lao Zhang opened a three-square-meter Malatang stall in the food street next to the famous school. In response to the diners' love for crayfish, he sold crayfish every year during the lobster season. He managed the Malatang stall to become the most popular lobster stall in the food court. Lobster shops of all sizes came to him for supplies, and he became well-known in the industry as Lobster Zhang!
His wife, while raising children, slowly integrated into the city. She took over when Lao Zhang fell ill and supported the whole family with tenacity, allowing her husband to have enough time and money to receive treatment.
Their children, with their unyielding spirit, went from being laughed at from the countryside to graduates with both academic and moral excellence. They found a major they loved, transferred their hukou, and achieved their goal of becoming city dwellers.
But as times change, the boundary between urban and rural areas has been smoothed away by countless people like Lao Zhang's family. Lao Zhang also gains insight into the dignity and inferiority between urban and rural areas in his three-square-meter stall day after day:
Cities are not natural "golden towns". Most people plan carefully for their livelihood, but they are just modern "cows and horses";
The gap between urban and rural areas is not a natural iron law. Some people envy the freedom of the countryside, while others long for a green dining table...
What's even more ironic is that the relative's halo collapsed - her husband went bankrupt, tearing away the fig leaf that their family was a high-ranking city dweller. The former "noble young master" went to the pond to raise shrimps for a living, put aside his vanity, and returned to the fireworks of life.
People's dignity is never in their region or in their household registration book.
In the prosperous world, what warms people's hearts is always their support in the wind and rain, their perseverance in the face of difficulties, and their human touch in living a down-to-earth life.
What can warm up the hot days has always been thousands of fireworks, green mountains and rivers, and the hard-working, down-to-earth and unyielding tenacity in the bones of every ordinary person!
——Country Farewell: Hunan dialect, country person. The article will involve a small amount of Hunan dialect.
——In life, no one is nobler than anyone else; what distinguishes high and low is character.
——Those who work hard in life do not need to feel inferior.
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