In the early spring of 1983 in the plains of eastern Henan, wheat fields grew up amidst the ripples of the Ying River and the chirping of cicadas in the bean fields. This girl, who was picked up from a wheat field by her father, relied on the love of her adoptive parents and her own tenacity to escape the fate of rural girls "getting married early and having children early" and was admitted to a university in the provincial capital.
During her four years in college, she was the most special presence on campus. When others were chatting in the dormitory, she was running around in a work-study position; when others reached out to her family for living expenses, she had already sent home the first money she earned. Not only did she not let her parents worry, but she used her young shoulders to build a new house for her adoptive parents, and took them out of the village to see the outside world.
In the ivory tower, she met Ying Xixiang. From the initial support of each other to the later interdependence of souls, the two girls turned their friendship into a transcendent love in countless days of fighting side by side. They and their three roommates are as close as sisters, sharing the confusion and passion of youth together. They once swam naked in the Yinghe River in their hometown at night, feeling the tolerance of the water; they also talked about their ideals in the hot pot heat on the eve of graduation, and used a shocking campus streaking to draw the most colorful ending to their unruly youth.
This is a story about growth, family affection and love. It tells how a rural girl watered her dreams with sweat and bravely pursued herself and true love in the gap between tradition and modernity. Mai Di'er's life is just like the wheat field in her name. It has gone through wind and rain, but it can always bear the fullest fruits.
Purpose: Taking the growth of Tang Maidi as a line, writing about the struggle and persistence of women in the era