Polygonum Flowers Fall and Bloom Again

The main line is the 47-year life changes of a classmate from Shanxiang Village in southern Henan, spanning 1979 to 2026. A poor boy studied hard by gas lamp and grew up picking polygonum on the river beach. Four ignorant and secret loves that have been hidden for a lifetime quietly took root in their youthful years. Old customs of rural marriages, disparity in family status, and neighborhood rumors all rewrite everyone's fate early on. A college entrance examination allows students to travel far away. Some people stick to the rural school and do good all their lives, some go to the provincial capital and alienate their hometown, most people work diligently and live an ordinary life, but only two people go astray due to vanity and laziness and sink half their lives. As time goes by, urban and rural areas are separated, love and hate are separated, and marriage regrets accumulate layer by layer. After thirty years of separation, classmates reunited, and class gaps, youthful debts, and half-life worries all emerged. Old friends return to their hometowns one after another in their old age, those who have lost their way repent and atone for their sins, those who are obsessive calmly let go, and the feelings that have been missed for half a lifetime are tender and reconciled. Polygonum flowers wither and flourish with each passing year, and their youth is gone forever. It writes about the friendship between classmates, the ups and downs of destiny, the joys and sorrows of a generation, and describes the various situations in the world: youth is easy to lose, original intentions are hard to keep, and the years are long, but we will eventually meet and forgive. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.