Waiting for a Flower to Bloom

At the foot of the mountains in Huizhou, there is a small garden in a dilapidated primary school. An old teacher from Yanjing, Mr. Wang, has been here for decades. In the first lesson of the school year, he pointed to the inconspicuous cinnamon in the garden and said: "This kind of small flower can still grow even on the hardest mountain ground." Five-year-old Li Jianfeng couldn't understand these words. All he knew was that he was an unwanted child, hiding in a corner and not daring to look into anyone's eyes. Until one day, he answered a fourth-grade question correctly in class. From then on, Teacher Wang told him: Some flowers bloom brilliantly from the beginning, while others require a long wait. Maybe your seeds will never bloom because you are just a towering tree. From Zhujiacun to Liuqiao Middle School, from Jinzhai No. 1 Middle School to junior college, and then to junior college. Li Jianfeng grew up stumblingly and was bullied and pulled back. He thought he could never catch up with others' flowering period, but he didn't know that the old man who rode his bicycle to the county town on a rainy night to seek justice for him had already planted a seed in his heart. Many years later, Li Jianfeng stood on the top floor of Jiangcheng Hi-Tech, facing a contract with an annual salary of 300,000 yuan, but he received a call: "Teacher Wang is gone." He pushed everything away and returned to the foot of the mountain. This time, it was his turn to stand on the podium, point to the flowers outside the window, and say to the children in the audience—— "This is the first lesson taught by a teacher's teacher." This is a novel about growth, education and inheritance. It is written about those people who spend their lives guarding hope in barren land.