A chemistry graduate student traveled back in time to 1934 and became "Shitou", a young soldier in the Red Army's cooking class. Although he is thin and silent, he uses local methods to extract salt, boil saltpeter, and make soap, saving his comrades from desperate situations time and time again. On the bank of the Xiangjiang River, the old squad leader gave him the unfinished shoe soles and said: "Go forward." From Yudu River to Wuqi Town, he used knowledge to ignite sparks and remembered with all his life - H2O is water and NaCl is salt.
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While writing this book, I often thought of those who cannot come back.
The old monitor put the sole of his shoe on the stone and said, "Go forward." Shuan Zi will remember "H2O is water and NaCl is salt" until his death. They are not names in history books, they are people who can be hungry, cold, scared, and laugh. What I want to write is not some great truth, I just want people to know how those young people in their twenties paved the road to where they are today with their lives.
The stone is me, the bolt is me, and the old monitor is me. After writing the last word, I put the soles in my arms and said to myself: Go forward, don't look back.
While writing this book, I often thought of those who cannot come back. The old monitor put the sole of his shoe on the stone and said, "Go forward." Shuan Zi will remember "H2O is water and NaCl is salt" until his death. They are not names in history books, they are people who can be hungry, cold, scared, and laugh. What I want to write is not some great truth, I just want people to know how those young people in their twenties paved the road to where they are today with their lives. The stone is me, the bolt is me, and the old monitor is me. After writing the last word, I put the soles in my arms and said to myself: Go forward, don't look back.
Worth reading, a bit of a war situation