Father's Cordyceps

A novel about the entanglement between the fates of two generations and a Cordyceps sinensis. When he was twenty-five years old, Chen Xueyan was dragged back to the grassland by a phone call. His father, Chen Dajiang, was lying on the bed in the county hospital with pulmonary edema and difficulty breathing. However, there was still a mobile phone with a broken screen on the bedside table - which contained every message posted by his son. He is the best "Cordyceps handler" on the grassland. He has been digging Cordyceps for forty years, but he can no longer dig it. Chen Xueyan just wants to settle down with his father as soon as possible and then return to Chengdu to continue being his "social animal". He looked down upon his father's primitive livelihood of relying on the sky, and he didn't believe that a piece of broken grass could have any future. Until he put his father's Cordyceps online and it was returned by a Guangdong customer; until he followed an agricultural expert into the laboratory and saw Cordyceps growing like mushrooms on the shelf; until he proposed to his father to learn artificial cultivation technology, in exchange for saying: "That's not our Cordyceps, that's the food in the greenhouse!" Father and son broke up, and he went east alone. After that, he spent ten years proving that he was on the right path. But he could never forget his father's words. It wasn't until the day he became famous that he returned to the grassland and saw his gray-haired father standing at the foot of the snow-capped mountains. At that moment, he realized that what he had been fighting for for ten years was not winning or losing, but his father's nod. That little cordyceps is the father's obsession and the son's salvation. I would like to dedicate this book to all the fathers and sons in the world.