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This book is the latest collection of stories by Qiu Bing, the founder of "Angels Look at Hometown". It tells the story of the joys and sorrows of ordinary people in the great era. It is an exploration of the meaning of life and an affectionate confession of tolerance and compassion. Zhang Yimin was a captain. He was over sixty years old and suffered from lung cancer. He did not have much time left. After his enemy Ma Ye learned that he was ill, he spent 1 million in cash to treat his illness without hesitation; Qiu Bing's father was a policeman who was orthodox, revolutionary, frugal, and did not know how to adapt. Even though his father is over 90 years old and aging day by day, he is still as tall as a mountain in the eyes of the author; Lao He is his father's colleague, known as He Leifeng. As his name suggests, he is enthusiastic, sincere, brave, and helpful. One day in 2022, the 76-year-old Lao He unfortunately fell to his death from the seventh floor where he lived; the old leader suffered from the disease Alzheimer's disease, the author recalled every moment of getting along with him during the glorious days of the newspaper industry, and the road he walked with him... The captain, policeman, father, old leader, friend, sister, Qiu Bing wrote that they all lived a small and ordinary life. They faced the changes of the times sadly and helplessly, and they also suffered from sadness and collapse in the face of birth, old age, illness and death. But the personal dignity, loyalty, bloodiness and resilience, tolerance and compassion that are faintly reflected in them are the heroism of this era that can touch people's hearts.

This is a collection of non-fiction essays by Qiu Bing. In an affectionate and simple way, he tells the story of the growing pains and self-exploration he experienced in the collision between ideal and reality, life and distance. The 18-year-old Qiu Bing was admitted to university and came from a backwater town to the prosperous Shanghai. He stumbled all the way but always adhered to his original ideal; when he reached middle age, Xiao Xu lost his job, but deep in the mountains there was a "Chicken King" who led the villagers to start their own businesses; Lao Xiao still did not become a reporter, but in a certain fish pond on the Yangtze River, But it was filled with more of his life expectations; in the winter rain in Chongqing, Lao Zhao was laid off, but he was still trying to figure out how to open his own noodle shop... We have all sought knowledge and grown up in loneliness.