Song of Beacon Fire
About This Novel
A rusty bullet case was engraved with a strange name - Lin Feng. A yellowed diary filled with longing for tomorrow. Under the golden ginkgo trees on Qinglan Campus, Su Nian, a sophomore girl in high school, accidentally opened this time capsule. 1938, Southern Shanxi. Lin Feng, who was also seventeen years old, cherished the dream of studying, but was ruthlessly pushed into the bloody whirlpool by the Japanese invaders' artillery fire. In the bitter trenches and the shadow of death, he used a pencil to carve in his diary his love for the land, his anger towards the invaders, and his obsession with a "tomorrow" with "bright and clean windows and the sound of books" - "The blood of my generation today will fertilize the land of China, so that future generations will enjoy eternal peace!" This oath was finally solidified in the bloody sunset on the Black Rock Cliff in 1939. The sunshine in peaceful times was warm and genial, but Su Nian's heart was burned by the fiery words in the diary. She is no longer a bystander. Together with her friends, she followed Lin Feng's vague footprints: piles of old papers in the archives, blurry old photos... Every time the clues were interrupted, the weight of history deepened. When the cold message of martyrdom in the yellowed old newspaper pierced the eyes, time and space suddenly shattered - the "tomorrow" guarded by the young man who longed for mutton steamed buns in his diary was the daily life within her reach at this moment.
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