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"The Tide Collection", a collection of Zhong Ermao-themed short stories, focuses on the alternative life of migrant workers in Shenzhen. They all come from a small place called "Yuelongsha", but they have staged vastly different stories in the city, some are real and moving, some are absurd and humorous. The warmth and warmth of the world and the complexity of human nature are all contained in it.

This book is a collection of Zhong Ermao's themed novels, including 11 short stories and short stories published by the author in recent literary journals such as "Contemporary", "October", "Writer", and "Yangtze River Literature and Art", some of which have been selected for publication. Novels such as "Good Night", "Two Fathers", "A Gun and a Rooster" and "Fortress", which are concentrated in the novels, penetrate into the depths of urban space from different angles. Through the writing of deeply social themes such as home buying, childcare, elderly care and even euthanasia, it shows how contemporary people are lost in the urban forest. And breakthrough, sinking and redemption; especially looking at the inner dilemma of the "middle class" group - after defeating poverty, solving the problems of survival and food and clothing, and even achieving self-realization to a certain extent, why do they still feel bound, helpless and in deeper pain? While raising questions, the work also uses vivid stories close to the lives of contemporary urban people to arouse readers' inner emotional resonance and self-examination.

After graduating from college, after struggling for several years, I finally have a stable job, a good income, a house and a car! Diaosi just turned around and before she could take a breath, she ran into Xiao! Middle! Produce! The latest masterpiece "Little Middle Class" by emerging writer Zhong Ermao tells the story of a young couple born in the 1980s. Reporter Yao Fendou and civil servant Chai Meiwei started a family. However, before the middle-class people had time to fantasize about life, they were hit hard by reality. Second house, fake divorce, children going to school, medical treatment for the elderly, investment and financial management, quitting your job and starting a business... An anxious and miserable life is full of trivial matters. The stories in the novel are experiences that every young person will experience. The young couple saw each other's tricks while adhering to their bottom line and conscience, vividly demonstrating the common people's little wisdom and their courage to become more courageous with each setback. Are you like me? Sometimes you wonder: If a certain node in your life had changed a little bit in the past, what would you be like now? I wish I could go back to when I was right out of college. The whole thing is only 200 yuan, inside and out. Only the bag on the shoulder is considered high-end, because it has an extremely simple and elegant "English" name printed on the front: Gaojipibao. It's not like this now: I'm not afraid of anything, I'm just afraid of changes; I can't go up, I can't go down, I can't retreat, I just can't stop... Small middle class, how strong do you have to be?

Goodbye. The BMW turned around and rushed onto the overpass, not very fast. The two flat oval taillights on the back of the BMW flickered on and off, which reminded Dean, who was standing on the roadside smoking a cigarette, of his childhood at his grandma's house. During the drought in summer, at night in my grandmother's small town in southern Hunan. There are always many men collectively referred to as "uncle" holding torches, walking in the endless fields, walking in the endless night, dredging the ditches, and filling the fields with water in turn. This taking turns filling water is called "releasing water". Men in a village take turns keeping vigil. When your field is full of water, they immediately block the water inlet, and then open the water inlet of his field. Until dawn, the entire village's fields are irrigated.