Lively

Introduction to the work "Lively: The Voyage of a Wooden Fish" When Shen Yuanzhou was six years old, he carved a crooked wooden fish out of a piece of scrap material in his father Shen Dehou's carpentry workshop. His father did not praise him, but polished the fish body smooth with sandpaper and said: "The object is dead, but the hands are alive. You have to make it alive." At that time, he didn't know what vitality meant. From Yuhe Town to Beijing, from Beijing to Shanghai, from migrant worker to entrepreneur, from bankruptcy to comeback - Shen Yuanzhou spent fifty years carrying this wooden fish through the ups and downs of an era. He met An Qi, a woman who also wanted to escape her origins but had nowhere to escape; he walked side by side with Zhao Jianguo, and walked together from the video hall to the business world, and finally parted ways in the face of reality; he kept Zhou Yunying, the wife who still left a light for him when he was at his lowest. This is a novel about "escape and return". The son of a county carpenter desperately wanted to escape the fate of his father, but after half a lifetime of stumbles, he discovered that his father had long hidden the most important thing in that wooden fish. Not all voyages have an end. But every fish is looking for its own piece of water.