When the bad news came, the whole country mourned and the mountains and rivers shared the same sorrow.
"Heroes serve the country and the people", a man who spent his whole life feeding 65.438+0.4 billion people in China, saved the world with rice, eliminated hunger, and made an era full of things and people write his monumental name.
We lost a national hero for our country; For Yuan Longping's wife Deng Ze, what she lost was her soul mate who had been with her for more than half a century.
On the morning of May 24th, Yuan Longping, who was covered with the national flag, was lying among the flowers and cypresses at the farewell ceremony.
In the solemn mourning hall, there was a deep voice of sadness and joy. His wife, Deng, sat in a wheelchair and leaned over to say goodbye to her lover, unable to restrain her grief and burst into tears.
That year, when the great poet He Zhu left Suzhou, he remembered his dead wife and began to write a mourning sentence of "Everything is wrong again, but the combination is different".
Yuan Longping's departure, for Deng Ze, is not only "a white-headed mandarin duck lost its companion", but also "what's going on forever?" .
From 65438 to 0953, Yuan Longping, as the first generation college student in New China, graduated from the Department of Agronomy of Southwest Agricultural College (now Southwest University) and was assigned to teach in Anjiang Agricultural School at the foot of Xuefeng Mountain in western Hunan.
He was 23 years old that year.
The criss-crossing fields and the undulating countryside, although the place where he works is remote and backward, he still regards it as the "Peach Blossom Garden" in his heart.
At that time, although Yuan Longping had reached the age of marriage, she was obsessed with agricultural research and never had the heart to fall in love.
Yuan Longping and Dunzer.
10 years later, Yuan Longping is 30 years old and still a "loner".
Many people proposed marriage, but all failed.
Later, with the help of old classmates, a girl named Deng Ze who worked in an agricultural technology station was introduced to Yuan Longping.
This beautiful girl has a good personality, natural and graceful, and a bright smile.
However, Deng was quite hesitant. In her mind, "Miss Yuan is a good person and speaks well in class."
After all, there was a love between teachers and students, which made her worry a lot: "What is the relationship between teachers and students? What should I call him in the future? He is in his thirties, eight years older than me. Is there a big age gap? "
However, with the help of the matchmaker, two people who have a good impression on each other gradually fell in love.
Yuan Longping when he was young (second from the right in the front row)
1964 On the fifth day of the first month, an amateur basketball match was held in Qianyang area. Deng also participated as a player, and the venue was just chosen in the auditorium of Anjiang Agricultural School.
Enthusiastic "matchmaker" suggested that Yuan Longping and Deng Ze's wedding should be held while the iron is hot!
The organizing Committee of the contest temporarily adjusted the number of contestants to make the match and marriage correct.
Yuan Longping felt sorry that he couldn't give the bride a present, so he quietly said to Deng Ze, "Do you want me to buy you a new dress?"
Deng knew that Yuan Longping was a poor scholar and simply refused: "No, no!"
The wussy Yuan Longping listened to Deng Ze.
It only took them a month to get married!
Two unusually traditional intellectuals, however, used the most fashionable "flash marriage" form of modern people to finalize the lifelong event.
Stills from the movie Yuan Longping.
Later, every time Yuan Longping mentioned this matter to people, it was hard to hide his pride: "The happiest moment in my life was the moment when Deng did not hesitate to agree to marry him."
In Gu Man's novel How to Get to Shengxiao Mo, Chen said to Mo Sheng, "If you are destined to be my girlfriend in three years, why don't I exercise my rights earlier?"
Romance never divides the times, it only exists in two hearts, determined to move towards each other.
When they got married, Yuan Longping was 34 and Deng was 26.
Due to the limited conditions, they didn't buy any wedding supplies and didn't hold a decent wedding. Deng was wearing a red jersey, which meant "getting married"!
Shortly after the wedding, Yuan Longping happily invited Dunze to go swimming.
This rigorous and meticulous man in the field of science, in the face of his beloved wife, occasionally has an ancient knight romance.
Deng recalled that Yuan Longping had a meeting until the afternoon 1 1, and he was dragged to swim when he got home. Before going out, Yuan Longping also specially brought a pair of small scissors.
Deng was puzzled.
Young Yuan Longping.
Yuan Longping explained that there are many fishing nets laid by fishermen in the river. If you accidentally touch the hook while swimming, he can cut it off at once and help her get away.
Such a pleasant life after marriage suddenly passed away. "I am modest and will not forget to worry about my country." For a person who regards scientific research as his lifelong mission, it seems that there are only four words in Yuan Longping's schedule: Seize the day.
Yuan Longping was deeply shocked by the great famine in China. As an agricultural graduate, he is determined to bring hope to those who are struggling with hunger and death.
Because of repeated failures, the scientific research teams in the United States, Japan and the Philippines at that time had given up the research on hybrid rice, but Yuan Longping was determined to continue this extremely long and rugged road of scientific research.
In order to overcome the technical difficulties as soon as possible, Yuan Longping, his wife and students took a magnifying glass, and in the vast rice fields, their heads were scorching and their feet were muddy. At the same time, they endured the bites of various mosquitoes and searched for natural sterile plants ear by ear. They spent a whole 16 days looking at nearly 654,380,400 rice plants, and really found a natural sterile plant.
A year later, they found six sterile plants, which brought a ray of light to their research.
After two years of accumulation, Yuan Longping found that the seed setting rate of hybrid rice was as high as 80%-90%, which became an epoch-making discovery.
While Yuan Longping was absorbed in his research, Deng was also preparing for the arrival of his second child. Because her husband is too busy, Deng can only let her mother take care of her at home and need an extra bed.
Deng borrowed a detachable bed at school, and all he had to do was assemble it in Yuan Longping's time.
Yuan Longping, who used all his wisdom in scientific research, was clumsy in his usual life: "Mr. Yuan can't do such a simple thing, and how to spell it is not like a bed."
But Deng never complained about Yuan Longping.
Just like Jiang Yang in those days, in the face of her naive husband, she once proudly said, "My greatest contribution is to keep Qian Zhongshu naughty and arrogant."
In the late 1960s, the superior decided to transfer Yuan Longping to the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, so that Yuan Longping could continue the hybrid rice research, but Deng failed to do so and had to stay in Qianyang with his children.
Since then, Guanshan has been far away, and the husband and wife have been separated for more than 20 years.
In this way, the burden of taking care of the elderly and three children at home is all on Deng Ze's shoulders.
As a scientific research worker, Deng also has her own lofty dream, but when "you can't have your cake and eat it", she made her due choice.
Yuan Longping felt guilty for this, and more grateful to his wife.
A few years later, he became the target of public criticism, and the institute was also smashed out, which made Yuan Longping heartbroken and desperate.
Deng secretly put away the remaining seedlings, hid them and continued to cultivate them, which reserved the "kindling" of hope for Yuan Longping's later research on "hybrid rice".
1975, Yuan Longping's father died.
Father said before he died: Longping is busy with hybrid rice experiments and has great responsibilities. Under no circumstances should he come back.
After the funeral, Deng tearfully wrote a letter to her husband, telling him the news of his father's death.
1982 On New Year's Eve, Yuan Longping, who has been immersed in scientific research for more than ten years in the Southern Breeding Base, went home for the first time for the New Year.
On the second day of the first month, Deng was sent to Huaihua District Hospital for emergency treatment because of acute viral encephalitis caused by overwork.
Deng was in a coma for half a month. Yuan Longping waited for his wife day and night.
He wiped her body, changed clothes frequently, and fed chicken soup spoon by spoon; She recited Tang poems for her, told stories and hummed "Old Black" in English:
"I heard them calling me softly.
I'm coming.
I'm coming.
I am old and my back is bent.
I heard them calling me softly ... "
This scientific giant who holds up agriculture in China has suffered countless hardships and suffered too much. The willpower cast by steel bars and iron bones made him silently bear all difficulties and hardships. But in the face of his wife who has been in a coma for a long time and whose life and death are unpredictable, he often secretly cries.
After half a month, Deng finally opened his eyes, looked at her husband in a trance, and slowly spit out her usual name for him: Mr. Yuan.
"Thank God, you finally woke up!"
At that moment, Yuan Longping was so excited that tears welled up in his eyes.
Next, in strict accordance with the doctor's instructions, he helps his wife turn over every hour and often massages her.
A month later, Deng was discharged from the hospital, leaving no sequelae.
Yuan Longping devoted himself to intense scientific research after his wife recovered. Deng fully supported this and never complained.
Later, the whole family moved to Changsha and lived in Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center. The Cowherd and Weaver Girl who had been separated for 20 years really lived together day and night.
Because he feels that he owes too much to his wife, the most practical way for Yuan Longping to compensate his wife is to "buy it for her in buy buy".
I don't even want to change clothes for 50 yuan at ordinary times, but as long as I buy things for Deng Ze, Yuan Longping often shows the generosity of "spending a lot of money".
At the age of 55, Yuan Longping went to Beijing for a meeting, and couldn't wait to buy a gift and ask someone to take it home, and wrote to his wife:
"I bought you two skirts and an undershirt in Beijing, two black and one dark blue. This is my first time to buy a skirt. I don't know what size suits you, so I have to buy two for you to choose from. "
Deng was as happy as a child when he received a gift from her husband.
At the age of 60, the Yuan Longping family moved from a remote agricultural school to a new house in Changsha.
The new home has bright windows and a gas water heater, and the conditions have been greatly improved.
But every time Deng Ze took a bath, Yuan Longping shouted outside, "Deng Ze! Deng Ze! "
She was disturbed by the noise: "What are you shouting? You won't stop taking a shower! " "
Later, Deng Cai knew that it was Yuan Longping who was afraid of her gas poisoning. She had to listen to her wife's reaction before she could rest assured.
In 2006, Deng Ze and his colleagues met a car accident on their way to visit Yan 'an, resulting in a serious fracture of their legs.
Yuan Longping, who is attending the China People's Political Consultative Conference, can't wait for the meeting to end because he is worried about Deng Ze. On the day he finished writing the report, he hurried to Xi 'an.
"Listen to the secretary on the phone to describe my illness, he is still very worried. He can only rest assured if he sees my situation with his own eyes. After so many years, Mr. Yuan's careful care still touched me. "
Deng learned to drive at the age of 63: "At the beginning, I asked Mr. Yuan for advice, and he especially supported it. I studied for a month and passed easily. "
Although Yuan Longping encouraged his wife to learn to drive, she didn't advise her to drive often.
Deng said that once they went to the city on business, Yuan Longping took the car she had driven once. Although his wife drove carefully, Yuan Longping repeatedly reminded him: "He didn't dare to take my car. Maybe I am old and he is not at ease. "
Every time Deng wants to drive out for a walk, she can hardly bypass her husband. Yuan Longping will never allow his wife to touch the steering wheel as long as he sees that there are young people at home who can act as drivers.
Deng Ze's safety and warmth became the top priority in his later years.
In his spare time, Yuan Longping will take time to accompany his wife to the Old Age Art Troupe.
When Yuan Longping plays the violin, Deng can play the piano or sing.
The scene of husband and woman singing together and playing the piano touched countless people.
On the silver wedding anniversary, Yuan Longping reissued Deng Ze's wedding.
He is trying to repay his kindness and make up for his wife's regret.
Yuan Longping's 90th birthday, after the cake was pushed up, Yuan Longping ignored everyone's eyes, first dug a spoonful, fed it to his wife and watched Deng Ze eat it. Yuan Longping laughed so heartily. ...
In this life, Yuan Longping wrote two "love letters".
He wrote a "love letter" on the vast land, but he wrote another "love letter" in the ordinary years when he fell in love with Deng Ze.
"I like to see thousands of rice fields, and heroes are dying everywhere", which belongs to the heroic feelings of a son who always has the country and people in his heart;
"You don't need to be with each other, but your head is bent when you laugh." This belongs to his long-term love with his wife.
"As far as I know, your research on hybrid rice is very bumpy and extremely difficult."
He said: "Frustration and failure have always accompanied me along this road. You may not believe it. I am a person who can sing about life. You see, the sun rises as usual every day. As long as there is sunshine, there will be a symphony of life. "
When Yuan Longping died, his family sang his favorite "Red Plum" for him:
"The fields and rivers are full of red plum blossoms.
There is a teenager who really loves me.
But I can't tell him,
I can't say anything full of confidence ... "
But he never woke up.
"I spent the rest of my life on my way to you; Every day of the rest of my life will be a day of missing you. "
Enjoy the cool under the grain and never forget it every day; Pengshan has a road, so hurry back.
Goodbye, my girl;
Goodbye, my child!
Text/rudder rudder green