Fireworks Bring Summer to the World

"Yu Xia in the Firework World" is a realistic daily novel spanning twenty-seven years, telling the complete lives of Lu Yu'an and Shen Zhixia from the age of six to forty-three. The story began in 1998 with a piece of watermelon under the plane tree in Old Street. Six-year-old Lu Yu'an handed half a piece of watermelon to Shen Zhixia, who was being bullied, and said, "I will protect you from now on." This child's words he fulfilled throughout his life. The novel unfolds the fireworks of the city and the glory of the military with a gentle and two-pronged approach. Lu Yuan is the son of veteran Lu Jianguo. He has determined to be a soldier since he was a child, but he has bowed his head time and again in the face of reality: he is carrying bricks and cement for his livelihood, he is taking over a noodle shop for love, and he is postponing his dream for his family. It wasn't until he was twenty-nine that he finally put on military uniform, went to the frontier for three years, and won a second-class merit medal. And Shen Zhixia went from a normal school student to a primary school teacher, from the daughter of a grocery store to the proprietress of "Xia'an Noodle Shop". She carried her family on her soft shoulders and waited for his return. There is no system, no cheats. In their stories, there is only the sound of soup boiling at four in the morning, cement bags in the rainstorm, parting tears on the train platform, and a bowl of clear noodle soup in front of the funeral. The villain Zhou Zihao has changed his mind from an arrogant second-generation rich man, the young Zhao Xiaojun has changed from a scumbag to a butcher shop owner, and the president of the literary club Chen Mo has become an editor of a publishing house - each character has his own way of coming and going, and they have grown ups and downs in the torrent of the times.