When Mu Zodiac returned to his hometown, the vegetable patch was pecked all over by sparrows.
His father's back injury recurred, so he had to put in the work of anti-bird netting - too tight, and a strong wind overturned the entire row of brackets; too loose, the net surface drooped and collapsed, and birds got in through the gaps, as if they were in no one's land. He struggled in the mud and water, and learned the standard of "one finger loose, half a finger tight", and gradually understood that a net is like a relationship - if it is too tight, it will bend, if it is too loose, it will leak.
But his childhood sweetheart Zhou Wang was no longer in this vegetable field.
She walked from the provincial capital to Paris, and from Paris to Shenzhen, saying "be back soon" every time she said goodbye. Mu Zodiac adjusted the screen one by one in the wind and rain, and she climbed higher step by step in the brightly lit city. He could keep the stability of the vegetable field for a season, but he couldn't keep his determination to fly far away.
This is a story about "keeping" and "flying". Mu Xingxiang, the maintenance worker who adjusted the hanging of the anti-bird net, spent a whole year learning the direction of the wind and the breathing of the net, and also learned to watch. A net can cover a third of an acre of land, but it cannot cover a person who is going to a distant place. When he was talking about "spring device" at a technical exchange meeting in the county, she was holding a photography exhibition called "Net" for him in an exhibition hall in a bustling city.
He kept the land, and she took away the distance. Two people in the same web lead to completely different lives.
The net can catch the vegetable fields of all seasons, but it cannot keep the lover who pursues his dream. The fireworks in her hometown could not trap her ambition, but it also forged his skills into light. The wind blew through the mesh, making no sound, but everything was there.
