Book title: "The Long Road Home"
Introduction:
In the northwest mountainous area in 1978, the wind was as cold as a knife. The talented Lu Yuanzhou (male protagonist) works as a private teacher in a village primary school. He is waiting for a place to become a full-time teacher and jumps out of the farm, but he is replaced by the son of the village party secretary. Overnight, he fell from the clouds into the quagmire, was forced to pick up a hoe, and spent his youth on the barren land.
Chen Wanzhao (the heroine), a girl from a neighboring village, is ingenious, transparent and tenacious. She doesn't understand those profound poems and books, but she knows what integrity is like better than anyone else. When everyone thought that Lu Yuanzhou would sink, Chen Wanzhao silently held up the sky for him and told him with the simplest wisdom: Don't be afraid if the road is bad, and you can always walk through it if you are strong-willed.
A sudden turn of fate occurred when Lu Yuanzhou was illegally recruited into the city because his uncle had returned from demobilization. In the county town, he reunited with his former classmates, and the two walked side by side on the road of news and reality. However, behind the prosperity lies huge temptation and crisis. When the truth broke out and Lu Yuanzhou lost everything and returned to his hometown again, he finally understood: the real way out was never to escape from the mountains, but to take root in the mountains.
This is a history of struggle for dignity and redemption. There are no bloody emotional entanglements, only the struggle and perseverance of ordinary people under the torrent of the times. From the depths of the mountains to the prosperous city, from having nothing to rebuilding their homes, Lu Yuanzhou and Chen Wanzhao stumbled forward on their respective life paths, proving with their sweat that even if they are born in a ravine, as long as they work hard to grow, they can live like a ray of light.
