The old town naturally could not compare with the prosperous, modernized new district.
Looking around, there were no buildings taller than seven stories. The tallest was merely a six-story tong lau.
Although it could not compare with the new district's prosperity, most people who had lived here all their lives were still unwilling to leave.
Perhaps it was because, compared with the cold, towering stone forest, this place had a little more human warmth.
Nian Nian Baozi Shop.
The shop was basically packed every morning. The customers were naturally all old neighbors who were familiar with the owner. Inside the shop, they were customers and owner; outside the shop, they were old friends.
"Little girl! Bring a pot of tea over here!"
An old man with a powerful voice called out.
In the front hall, a little girl who was bent over, cleaning up the leftovers from a customer who had just left, quickly answered and hurried over to serve the old gentleman some tea.
"Old Chen, where did you hire this girl? She's so hardworking! And she's pretty, too! Young girls these days—those with a bit of beauty all look down on this kind of hard work!"
Wasn't that the truth?
She was probably around twenty years old, fresh and beautiful like a hibiscus emerging from clear water. Whenever she smiled, people instinctively felt at ease.
Even though it was a sweltering summer morning, sitting in this old shop with its doors open and no air conditioning, people gradually began to feel waves of coolness.
The little girl moved among the tables, her figure light and graceful, like a butterfly.
"If I were thirty years younger, I'd definitely pursue her! Oh, no... forty years!"
"Me, too!"
"Hahahaha! A bunch of old geezers!" An old woman in the corner spat