Yellow Dog Diary

"Yellow Dog Diary" This is the exclusive memory of an old yellow dog named Ah Huang in a Shikumen alley in Shanghai in 1988. It followed the hostess Wang Guizhen into the cramped attic, watching her nibbling butter melon seeds, chewing White Rabbit toffee, and picking up the cracks in the window to criticize Mrs. Zhang's georgette dress across the door; it guarded the stuffy gourd-like male owner Li Gensheng, watching him wearing a blue workman's vest and frowning at the machine tool drawings. No one thought that this yellow dog lying down and taking a nap next to the briquette stove would become Li Gensheng's "dog-headed military adviser" - with a burst of cleverness, he dragged him into the Shanghai tavern, and with warm rice wine and salty bad beans, he pried open the frown and the problem of machine tool debugging. The wind in the alley carries the aroma of bad meat, and the waves of the river on the Bund beat the time. Ah Huang accompanied Li Gensheng to listen to the Pingtan and go to the river beach, watching him transform from a shrinking wimp to Master Li who was praised by everyone in the factory; watching Wang Guizhen's nagging gradually add a bit of pride; watching the alleys with gray bricks and gray tiles being demolished and rebuilt, but the days were filled with warmth and sweetness in the smoke. There is no earth-shattering legend, only the shortcomings of the parents in Shikumen, and the mutual redemption of a dog and a man. This is Ah Huang's dog life, and it is also the most ordinary and hottest old time in the old Shanghai alleys.