At the class reunion, he slipped a note into her mouth, disrupting her thirty years of ordinary life.
Zhao Chunfang's life is like being nailed to death on the loess soil: she is married to the honest and humble Chen Dongsheng, guarding several acres of land and worrying about her son. Until she met Li Shouye again at the elementary school reunion - the boy who once stood for her and secretly stuffed rubber into her, has now become the boss of the homecoming.
The screen saver on his mobile phone was the yellowed graduation photo, with her huddled in the corner; he gave her a new version of the essay selection, remembering that she was the girl who was the best at writing articles in the class; he said with red eyes: "I heard your dad beating you, saying that the girl can't read..."
Her old heart moved, but Chen Dongsheng beside her was silently giving her the money he had saved for half a year: "Go and sign up for a literacy class."
Aunt Wang's gossip was like a needle: "My entrepreneurial wife is in the bank, and those days..."
That night when his son had a fever, Li Shouye drove to the hospital. When Chen Dongsheng rushed back, he saw him putting a coat on her. Hidden in the silence between the two men was the guilt that she dared not express.
When Li Shouye's wife came to the door with a fierce look, when Chen Dongsheng used crutches to block the spittle at the entrance of the village for her, when his son cried and asked, "Do you not want us anymore?"——
She stood on the ridge of the field, with the family love boiled from firewood, rice, oil and salt on one side, and the white moonlight that had been hidden for half her life on the other.
That elementary school graduation photo is still there, but time has long dragged me into a different track.
She has to choose after all: run towards the late heartbeat, or keep the warmth of the calloused hands in front of her, but always holding her?
(One sentence synopsis: After thirty years of marriage, Bai Yueguang reunited and she stood in the field.
