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In 1955, I was 9 years old. Because I was hospitalized for surgery for congenital heart disease, the doctor issued a certificate requiring me to take a one-year leave of absence from school. In March, after the first spring rain, my father stopped a carriage in an alley, went to the Municipal Children's Hospital in Yuetan, and took me back to my home on Dongsi North Street. The fare cost more than one yuan, which made my mother feel distressed. My house seems smaller than before. The windows were polished by my grandma. The blue plaid sheets were so neat that there were no wrinkles. The sun shone in through the glass windows. Everything was new. My father carried me into the house and carefully put me on the bed as if he were putting a fragile object. I sat on the edge of the bed and looked up at my father, mother, and grandma. The same word was written in their eyes: worry.

The hero, Lao Er, is deeply in love with a girl in the alley - his classmate Wu Qiang. However, Lao Er's neighbor, Da Ling, who is also a classmate, is even more devoted to Lao Er. Then, due to various twists and turns in life, the second child failed the college entrance examination, and the beloved girl Wu Qiang was snatched away by her classmate Xiang Xiaoning. However, Daling struggled step by step and transformed into a successful woman. The second child lived a life of embarrassment. After marrying and divorcing a woman he didn't love, he gradually realized that Daling was his true love, and the two finally came together. But as the second child goes to Hong Kong to inherit the inheritance, life becomes troubled again...

"The Past" is a novel that exudes a strong flavor of life and the local characteristics of Beijing's Hutongs. It is an "original" image of Beijing! During the famine years, when materials were scarce, Lu Zhongxiang opened a small wine shop in his courtyard, which became the center of the alley, and thus began the love-hate relationships of various little people. Although the background of the story is in the 1960s, the focus of the story is the lives of ordinary people in the hutong. The author downplays the special political environment of that era and focuses more on the daily life of the people at the bottom. This book describes not only the nooks and crannies of Beijing's old city, but also the various aspects of life in Beijing's courtyard houses.

A restless woman, living a willful and tired life, divorced, without a job, her lover also moved on, and at the bottom of her life, she was suddenly diagnosed with cancer! However, in this desperate situation, she fanatically pursued her attending doctor! What kind of humanity shines behind behavior that seems to violate secular morality? What will be her fate? Can she get the love she wants at the end of her life? "Let Me Love You at the End of Prosperity" has smart and delicate writing style, passionate story and profound insights, allowing people to think deeply about existence and love in the entanglement of life and death, soul and body.

"Liu Li" is an encyclopedic novel describing Beijing's "Hutong culture". Won the 4th Lao She Literature Award. From the 1970s to the beginning of the new century, like an old man, he narrated a history of the capital. The male protagonist Lao Er is deeply in love with Wu Qiang, a girl in the alley who is also his classmate, but Da Ling, who is also a classmate and Lao Er's neighbor, is even more devoted to Lao Er's love. After the college entrance examination was resumed, Wu Qiang was admitted to university, while Daling lost the opportunity to enter college due to an unexpected pregnancy, so she could only bury her feelings for the second child deep in her heart. The second child, who did not go to college, felt the same inferiority complex and could only watch Wu Qiang being snatched away by her classmate Xiang Xiaoning.

It pays tribute to the ordinary and long-lasting life; it reproduces the charm of the alleys of old Beijing; the latest novel by Xue Yanping, winner of the Lao She Literature Prize and a representative writer of Beijing-style literature; it uses delicate and tender writing to find warmth and light in daily life; it writes Beijing in the sense of the soul and contemporary times in the sense of the mind.

A restless woman, living a willful and tired life, divorced, without a job, and suddenly diagnosed with cancer. However, under such circumstances, she fanatically pursued her doctor! In the end, she died happily in the arms of her ex-husband, her lover, and her doctor. Xue Yanping said: Death is just like a common thing, it can happen anytime and anywhere, but the process of preparing for death is a bit cumbersome. Xue Yanping wrote about the Chinese "concept of death" in this novel, which not only surprises but also shocks people.