Forty-two-year-old Lin Shu is the most popular law professor among students at the University of Political Science and Law. No one knows that this man standing on the podium quoting scriptures was once a poor boy in a loess ravine who couldn't bear to turn on a lamp.
He is the first college student in the village. He walked from Dingxi, Gansu to Beijing for thirty years. A snakeskin bag, an old suit, chilblains, plain noodles, a hard seat for a day and a night - these were all his luggage. He used national student loans and old textbooks found at scrapyards to forge a path to study for a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, and a Ph. D.
Now his office is always the last light in the building to go out. He supports the same poor students as he did back then, but when correcting papers late at night, he occasionally stops and looks to the northwest.
The village is still there. The two-and-a-half-hour mountain road is still there. It's just that the young man who was lying on the edge of the kang and reading by the light has become a lamp that illuminates others. But no one knows why he is still alone. No one knew what kind of yellowed ticket was hidden in the old book with missing cover on his desk.
Purpose: The work expresses the core idea of "knowledge changes destiny, but real success lies in refining suffering into light that illuminates others" through Lin Shu's life trajectory from a poor mountain village boy to a law professor. It eulogizes the spirit of perseverance and struggle, and emphasizes the responsibility and responsibility of educators to educate others by themselves and pass on the fire to others.