1901, the year of Xin Chou. That year, the political situation was turbulent, and the whole land of China was in turmoil. To find his younger brother Marford who disappeared during the Siege of the International Legations, Italian adventurer Paolo Dimarco came to China in the name of cultural inspection. The Italian man admired his predecessor Marco Polo and had special feelings for China and the canal, so he named himself “Little Polo”.
Xie Ping Yao escorted Polo on his visit as his interpreter, and successively gathered many people from the bottom of Chinese society such as the porter Shao Chang Lai, the ship owner Xia and his apprentice, and the Sun brothers, members of The Fist of Righteous Harmony, to accompany them all the way. Starting from Hangzhou, they departed from Wuxi and headed north by following the Grand Canal. This road is not only a journey of learning and observing, but also of reflecting about the identity and fate of intellectuals while at the same time, this is a journey to find their roots. When they finally arrived at the northern end of the Grand Canal, at Tongzhou, Little Polo died unexpectedly. At the same time, the Qing government ordered the cessation of water transportation, and so the decline of the Grand Canal began…
About a hundred years later, in 2014, every field in China started to talk about the functions and value of the canal. When Xie Wang He, a descendant of Xie Ping Yao, reunited by chance with the previous generation’s descendants, every separated piece of this story that happened between the people of the Grand Canal were finally reunited into a full scroll. This year, the Grand Canal successfully obtained the status of World Heritage.
(Translated by Vico SDL)
In the summer of 2000, Ma Si Yi, a ten-year-old girl whose life is a mystery, arrives at Flower Street by the canal. Due to her extraordinary appearance, she became the most popular person on Flower Street.
Three teenagers, Xie Wang He, Xing Chi, and Hai Kuo, have always been around Ma Si Yi, standing up for her when some punks come to harass her.
After an accident in high school, Ma Si Yi’s brother and grandmother passed away, and Ma Si Yi disappeared. Chen Rui stays in his hometown for school, while Xie Wang He, Xing Chi, Hai Kuo, and Da Hua Zi reunite in Beijing. Da Hua Zi has contracted a delivery point, Xie Wang He works for an internet company doing local life services, and Hai Kuo works as an engineer in another big internet factory. Only Xing Chi is still muddling through his days.
Because of the sudden appearance of Ma Si Yi, the young boys and girls who grew up together come together again. However, the pressure of competition and life has put them all in a state of confusion.
After eight years of absence from their hometowns, the teenagers of that year return to Flower Street on the Canal one after another, except for Ma Si Yi. But just when everyone sees the hope of a new life, Ma Si Yi is also on the way back.
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