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"The Old Okra House" is set at the turn of the 21st century, taking the reconstruction of the middle section of Huaihai Road as an opportunity, and involving the relocation of 24 households in the new village of southern Shaanxi as the background. It focuses on describing the contradictions and dilemmas of the old Okra House facing relocation. The protagonist of this household, Lin Youlan, is a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts and a religious figure. He has three married daughters and a still unmarried sister Lin Yutong. The entire story of this article is complete and has a broad background. The time scope covers the Anti-Japanese War, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Cultural Revolution, and the Reform and Opening Up. The spatial scope covers Shanghai, Weihai, Heilongjiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, France, the United States, Japan, Singapore and other places. Pujiang Trilogy "Dream of the East" is a series of novels. It is composed of three novellas: "Old Okra House", "Shikumen in Suhewan" and "Dream of the East". The three parts have a total of 268 sections and more than 600,000 words. The three parts are both interrelated and relatively independent, the content is extensive and vertical and horizontal, and the main and auxiliary lines are spread out and blended with each other.

"Paw Companion" is a story about residents in Jingxingyuan Community raising pets and becoming emotionally bonded with their dogs. Some community residents are keen on keeping pets, which has caused conflicts with some residents who don't like pets and the surrounding sanitation. The community property committee guides the residents correctly, formulates civilized rules for pet keeping, and establishes the Dog Friends Association...

This story describes the conflicts, collisions and emotional integration between those born in the 1950s and those born in the 1980s and 1990s. Three good neighbors and classmates, including Li Cuifen, Wang Limin and Lin Yuping, who were born in the 1950s, went to the mountains and countryside to join the team and returned to the city. After thirty years of reform and opening up, Shanghai's urbanization and development have undergone tremendous changes. They are faced with the education, career choice, marriage, retirement, and neighborhood problems of their children and grandchildren. There are many conflicts such as conflicts in the family, and a series of problems such as the relationship between in-laws, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and neighborhood relationships. Especially in the aspects of children's education, returnees' career choices, etc., They have huge conflicts, collisions, and emotional stories with their children and grandchildren, but they also love each other.

"The Pure World" is an inspirational story that reflects the hardships experienced by young people of that generation after more than thirty years of hard work. The protagonist Yue Lihua was originally an intellectual youth who went to the mountains and countryside. After five years of hard training in the countryside, she originally hoped to successfully return to the city by applying for college and achieve her life goals with the person she loves. Unexpectedly, his place in the college application was replaced by his best friend's sister, and his first love was also taken away. Full of anger, he vowed to sever ties with his best friend and never see her again. Together with another boy who joined the production team, he left the mainland, traveled across the ocean, came to the United States to start a business, and opened a new chapter in his life. Unexpectedly, thirty years later, his next generation is inextricably involved with the next generation of his best friend and his sister, and they are actually going to marry him! The debate continues and the reasoning becomes confusing, and fate returns to its original point of clarity. After her husband failed to invest without her knowledge and was forced to break up, Yue Lihua, as a single mother, gritted her teeth and endured hardships to raise her two daughters. Fortune plays tricks on people, and when fate pushed her to the edge of the cliff again thirty years later, she exchanged ethics and morality for her true love, realized the value of life, and regained friendship and trust. Her body also reflects the efforts and hardships of that group of young Chinese intellectuals. After the wind and rain, looking back, the sky is still blue and the world returns to a clear color.

It tells the joys, sorrows and joys of the Shanghai residents along Suhe Bay during the era of relocation. Big time, little people, this world.