Thirty Years in the Wheat Wave

Thirty years, three generations, the escape and persistence of a Central Plains family. Grandpa guarded the land that was getting thinner and thinner, and was one of the last people in the village to guard the soil. The young people in the village went to the city one by one, while the old people stayed behind. He squatted in the field and talked to the corn, because his wife was gone and no one in the house spoke to him. My father gave up high school to study in a technical secondary school, walked out of the village and returned to the township to guard the podium, half escaping and half holding on, withdrawing from the school and merging schools and being marginalized, pushing his son desperately into the city. When it comes to his generation, they have worked their way up by taking exams—transferring to another city, repeating their studies, enrolling in graduate school, entering Beijing, and so on. Each generation relies on the previous generation to go further. Teacher Chen entrusts his father, and his father entrusts other people's children on the platform. Teacher Lin entrusts him on behalf of his father. One generation has been entrusted to another, and it has gone so far. This is a family's escape and persistence in thirty years. Those who are walking forward, and those who are keeping are carrying it, they are two sides of the same thing. Looking back to the end, he saw: escaping to the end is loneliness, but staying rooted and accompanying each other is reconciliation.