Illustration: Mu Rong
So hard and yet so frustrated, it is an ordinary life and a life of fireworks
Book title: "There is a Canteen by the Clouds" 》
Publication date: 2018-07
Story introduction
The protagonist Liu Shisan’s parents divorced and his mother ran away. His grandmother Wang Yingying relied on running Yunbian Town. Liu Shisan was raised in the canteen. Relying on the words left to him by his mother, Liu Shisan began a life of hard work. He wrote his plans in the sacred book, and ticked every item he completed. Slowly, it became more and more difficult to check the boxes. Liu Shisan still worked hard to study, get into college, and live in the city. This also opened up Liu Shisan's real life... He worked hard but did not seek ways and means. He was selfish. , he just wants to escape when trouble comes, and he expects pie in the sky to fall one day. He also encounters obstacles along the way, no matter love, study, or work. But Liu Shisan has his grandmother, and Cheng Shuang, the girl who burned his heart in the summer. Shisan, who was kidnapped by his grandmother and brought to Yunbian Town, gradually improves his work with the help of his grandmother and Cheng Shuang. However, grandma was old and her cancer was incurable. Doctors predicted that Cheng Shuang would live for more than two months when she was a child. However, the tenacious Cheng Shuang lived for more than twenty years. In the end, both grandma and Cheng Shuang both died. passed away. Liu Shisan, all his concerns in the world were separated like this...
Characters of the novel
The protagonist Liu Shisan is not perfect at all, he is probably a microcosm of all living beings. He has low self-esteem, but he works hard, but is never proud. It seems that he has just made progress but is hit hard by life. Real life never separates sadness and joy. They always arrive and leave at the same time. Sadness and joy are both rays of light that can illuminate the mountains and seas in our hearts.
Cheng Shuang knew she was seriously ill since she was a child. She slipped away from the hospital three times, the first time she met Liu Shisan, and the next two times it was for Liu Shisan. The little girl said that the doctor said that she could only live for more than two months, but if she lived for one more day, she would have earned it. She is smart, brave, and delicate, and illuminates Liu Shisan with her own light.
Grandma Wang Yingying is a typical sharp-tongued person, and she has cared for Liu Shisan’s growth all the way. After her husband passed away, her husband's family only kept her daughter. They wanted to get rid of her, so she took her daughter to Yunbian Town to raise her alone. Later, her daughter's marriage failed and she ran away after the divorce, leaving Liu Shisan to her. She relied on the canteen to make a living and fed generations. On her deathbed, she said it was not easy for Thirteenth Mother, so don't blame him. Yes, it's not easy, life has never been easy, but we've gotten through it, right?
The novel describes many vivid characters. Some of those people are like themselves, some are like relatives, and some are like people around them. Life seems to be calm but also stormy. Only those who are in it know.
The novel is lively and lively, the language is humorous, and some places are a bit forced to be humorous. Here, it seems that there is more or less my own shadow.