Introduction to the work "The Iron Bone Scavengers"
In 1949, in a remote village in Henan, there lived a taciturn old scavenger named "Old Black Head". He lives in a leaky shabby house and makes a living by picking up scraps, but he always gives out sweets to the children in the village, and there are endless stories hidden in his eyes. In 1978, three Beijing jeeps suddenly entered the village, revealing his true identity - he was actually Xiao Yunfeng, a classmate of the famous anti-Japanese general Sun Liren and a national army officer Xiao Yunfeng who graduated from Huangpu's seventh class.
After the Battle of Liaoshen, Xiao Yunfeng did not want his compatriots to kill each other, so he lived among the people incognito. He did not know that his beloved wife Lin Wanqing went to Taiwan during the war, thinking that he had died. For fifty years, she guarded the incomplete jade pendant and trained her son Lin Siyun to become a military scientist; while he searched for a few words related to Taiwan in the scrap pile to express his thoughts.
Fate favored this troubled couple in their old age. Through declassified files on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, their son Lin Siyun traveled across the sea to find his relatives, bringing with him his father's unproduced weapons blueprints and his mother's collection of family letters, making the love that had been separated for half a century finally come true. After Xiao Yunfeng passed away, Lin Siyun used the composite armor material he developed to bury his parents' ashes together, making their love as strong and immortal as the country they dedicated to.
This is an epic of family and country about war and peace, forgetting and remembering, brokenness and reunion.
The dilapidated house of an old scavenger hides half of the history of the Anti-Japanese War; a longing across the Taiwan Straits testifies to the tenacity and affection of the Chinese people.
