In the midsummer of 1978 in Xikou Village, two boys buried an iron box in the wild red bean forest.
Shao Mingchuan stuffed a glass marble: "Be friends forever!"
Yu Wanfeng placed a red bean: "... Okay."
We met again in the laboratory of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 1992. Our former playmates had become strangers.
The scars on his wrists are hideous, and the blades of his writings are bloody.
When academic scandals and old whistleblowing letters explode one after another——
"Are you going to run away a second time?" Shao Mingchuan grabbed his white coat.
Yu Wanfeng looked at the smashed red bean sample and finally held the hand behind his back: "The laboratory has surveillance."
At the inauguration ceremony of the rural library in 2012, a student asked:
"The book says red beans symbolize lovesickness. What do you two think?"
The white-haired scientist raised his intertwined hands, and the reporter smiled and opened the title page of Flora:
——"This thing is the most lovesick, and my heart clearly proves it."
Reading tips:
1. Reality slowly warms up, from being cautious to being passionately embraced
2. The academic line refers to real events, and the emotional line coexists with sugar knife.
3. Lots of botany/journalism details
Famous scene warning:
? Confrontation in the laboratory on a rainy night
? Keep a red bean close to your body during an avalanche in Tianshan Mountains
? In old age, they bury the marriage certificate in front of their father's grave.
Intention: Let love and truth take root and sprout in the cracks of the times
