She thought she was marrying a rough guy with a clean background, but she heard late at night that his secret words were hotter than his love words.
On a rainy night in 1975, Su Wan, a down-and-out medical girl who was sent down, picked up a silent and tough man named Lu Zheng.
In order to protect themselves, a marriage certificate tied the fate of the two people together.
She thought he was just an ordinary veteran who would dispel her panic with the sound of chopping wood, and would pick out the sweetest sweet potatoes from the stove ashes and hand them to her.
It wasn't until later that she discovered——
The secret code he sent out late at night was related to thousands of miles of mountains and rivers; her face was painted all over the back of his mission map.
This is a story about two people with "bad ingredients" who have the softest love in a tough era.
During the years of firewood, he used the body heat of a soldier to warm the cold earth kang, and she used the herbs and silver needles in the old aluminum lunch box to protect the safety of the place. A bowl of mushy chicken soup and a crisis of saving each other with blood will carve the mutual affection into the bones.
In the life of the compound, rumors and scrutiny never stop. He held up a clear sky for her with his silent protection. When enemy agents attacked, he showed his prowess to everyone's astonishment. The commendation order only read: "Making outstanding contributions to safeguarding the construction results."
When the spring tide surges, they join hands. She turned the aesthetics of life into a collective enterprise to generate foreign exchange for the country; he lost his mystery and became the most solid backing for her career. From the adobe house to the Canton Fair, they have always been closely linked.
