□□ Lin Yuan, an educated youth, went to the countryside to join a team and met the silent and tenacious farmer Chen Shoushan on the barren Loess Plateau. From the silently handing out roasted sweet potatoes to the silent protection after the criticism meeting, two people with very different identities warmed each other in a repressed era and developed feelings that they dare not express.
The resumption of the college entrance examination broke the short-term peace. The choice between returning to the city and staying behind separated them from mountains and rivers and an insurmountable gap of the times. Reunited many years later, only a solitary grave and a diary are left, recording the regret of "wanting to touch but then withdrawing my hand", and the lingering warmth on the Loess Plateau that has not dissipated.
Intent: Times and Human Nature