From the fragrance of osmanthus in the Central South Associated University Library in 1980 to a cup of tea in the old town of Central Sichuan in 2023, Qinglin and Lanzhi spent forty years turning a "guawazi" encounter into a deep love that can be learned from mountains and rivers.
Lanzhi, the "Iron Lady" of the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, knocked over a book written by Qing Qinglin, a dumb girl from the Department of Electrical and Electrical Engineering. A copy of "The Collection of Flying Birds", a joke about "Millennium Widow", and a wrong dance step in a literary performance made two Sichuan girls clumsily open each other's hearts in the poems of Tagore and Marquez. Qinglin included a love poem in his party application, Lanzhi sealed his love with a handkerchief with the word "zhi" twisted in it, the willow trees under the moonlight counted the leaves three times, and the egrets by the river took away the last ray of recklessness of youth.
He went to repair the hydropower station in western Sichuan, while she stayed at the power plant in northern Sichuan. From then on, flash floods, heavy rains, and collapsed postal roads became the biggest enemies of love. It wasn't until Qinglin climbed over the mountains and ridges holding the broken amber necklace, and Lanzhi threw herself into his sweat-soaked arms on a rainy night that her feet were sprained, that she realized with surprise: Mountains and rivers can block the postal route, but they can't cut off the fragrance of osmanthus for forty years.
Reunion in middle age, Qinglin became the chief engineer, and Lanzhi was the technical backbone. They smiled at each other in the firelight of the emergency repair of the generator set, and sent sweaters and apology letters to each other in the night of training in the provincial capital. Ruiya became a female entrepreneur, Chen Xu was imprisoned, and they finally locked the "Willow Leaf Hairpin" and "Songyan Ink Cartridge" into the same drawer. After retiring, he went to Africa to work as a consultant, and she founded a school for female workers. The video call during the epidemic was stuck on the "kapok" lip language, but the osmanthus in the library in the 1980s bloomed again through time and space.
Purpose: Tell an epic love story that grows stubbornly in the folds of the times