"Oh no, your old Yuan jumped into the well!" On May 21, 1968, Yuan Longping's wife Deng Zhe suddenly heard a bad news, her face was pale, and she trotted all the way to the accident site.
found that Yuan Longping was wet, sitting by the well with a few seedlings, his face was covered with mud and moss, his eyes were full of tears, and his hands were trembling slightly.
The two assistants told her, "All the seedlings that the teacher had carefully cultivated had been dialed out, and there was not a single one left, so we searched around a few times and found a few floating in the well, so the teacher jumped into the well without saying a word." ”
Deng Zhe walked to her husband distressedly: "Can this seedling still live?" Why don't we find a good piece of land and plant it first, in case we live? ”
Yuan Longping choked up and cried: "This is the second time, why is it so difficult for me to conduct an experiment?" This is my 4 years of hard work, why are they so ruthless? ”
In 1953, Yuan Longping, who graduated from Southwest Agricultural University, responded to the call of the country and came to Anjiang, a poor and remote Hunan Province, to teach.
He is thin and unkempt, often goes into rice fields to conduct research in addition to teaching, his skin is tanned, his image is very unpopular, and he is still single at the age of 33.
He was also a handsome guy back then
This was sad for a group of friends, so they arranged an encounter in a basketball game organized by the school.
Deng Zhe, a 25-year-old agricultural technology cadre, broke into Yuan Longping's eyes with his superb ball skills and charming youthful atmosphere.
"She's my former student, I'm 8 years older than her, is that okay?" He hesitated.
The introducer hurriedly asked Deng Zhe, and when Deng Zhe heard that it was Teacher Yuan, whom he admired, he couldn't help blushing, lowered his head and replied with a smile: "Okay." ”
In January 1964, under the mediation of everyone, the two began to date, and the talented Yuan Longping married Deng Zhe home a month later with handwritten poems, a good singing voice, and a melodious violin.
Wedding
At this time, Yuan Longping had been teaching at Anjiang Agricultural School for 11 years, and since then he is no longer alone, because he has found a like-minded lifelong partner.
In July 1964, accompanied by his wife, Yuan Longping braved the scorching heat and found a "natural male sterile strain" among tens of thousands of rice ears in the experimental rice field.
He was overjoyed, holding his wife's hand, so excited that he couldn't close his mouth, Deng Zhe hurriedly stuffed a heatstroke medicine into his mouth, and said distressedly: "Don't get heat stroke!" ”
After artificial pollination, the rice plant produced hundreds of first-generation male sterile seeds.
In 1965, they found six more natural male sterile strains in a nearby rice field and successfully propagated the next generation, which strongly refuted the theory of "asexual hybridization" of foreign rice.
It's a husband and wife and a colleague
In 1966, he published a treatise on hybrid rice, "Male Sterility of Rice", which was highly valued by the higher authorities.
This year, their eldest son was also born, which was a double blessing, but a special movement broke out.
Someone posted his big-character poster, and immediately after, his experimental field was smashed. Late that night, it rained again, and he and Deng Zhe rushed into the rice field to rescue some residual seedlings in desperation.
Yuan Longping said to Deng Zhe: "If I am taken away, you will take your son to draw a line with me, and I will not let you be affected." ”
Deng Zhe resolutely refused: "What's the big deal, if it doesn't work, let's go to be farmers, anyway, the family can't be separated!" ”
In the midst of the unease, the foreseen danger did not come, and under the protection of a series of important people, he was listed as a protected object and could continue to study hybrid rice in an open and honest manner.
Those remnants of the seedlings thrived under his careful care. At the beginning of 1967, the topic of male sterility of rice was officially included in the provincial scientific research project, and everything was developing in a good direction.
Yuan Longping and his assistants
On May 18, 1968, 700 sterile seedlings cultivated by Yuan Longping were uprooted after only one month of transplanting.
This is the heartache of ripping the heart, Yuan Longping stumbled around looking for his precious seedlings.
It wasn't until the third day that he and his assistant found floating seedlings in a well, so he jumped into the well desperately, and the opening scene occurred.
He jumped down the well and found that all the seedlings were at the bottom of the well, except for the five floating plants on the surface of the well.
He reported the case angrily and begged the school leaders to send someone to drain the well water and salvage all the seedlings at the bottom of the well, but the seedlings soaked for too long and all of them were damaged.
What's worse is that instead of finding out the villain, he was defiled by the villain, saying that he was a scientific and technological liar who self-destructed the seedlings because of years of scientific research without results.
In the midst of slander, Yuan Longping was wronged and speechless, and the scientific research on hybrid rice was stopped. Yuan Longping handed over the five remaining seedlings to two assistants and instructed them to continue their research.
In June 1969, in the tearful eyes of Deng Zhe and his children, Yuan Longping was sent to the coal mine, went down to the mine to dig coal during the day, and was criticized at night.
The strong Deng Zhe wiped away his tears and gave him gentle relief and firm support, so that Yuan Longping had the strength to support him in despair.
Two of his assistants risked their lives to send a telegram asking for help to the State Science and Technology Commission, and things finally came to a turning point.
Yuan Longping returned to Anjiang Agricultural School from the coal mine and started research on rice sterility again. The couple hugged each other and cried, which strengthened their goal in life.
The husband sings and the wife follows
Soon, he left Anjiang Agricultural School with two assistants, and went to Yunnan and Hainan, where three crops of rice can be planted in a year, to accelerate the propagation of sterile materials, and miraculously discovered the "wild defeat" of wild rice male sterile strains.
Deng Zhe said to him: "You can do it freely, this is a major matter for the country and the people, don't worry about family affairs!" I'm here! ”
Since then, the couple has been separated for many years, and she has no regrets and takes care of her three children and both parents alone.
Until one day, Deng Zhetu was hospitalized with a high fever of encephalitis, and the mountain at home collapsed.
Yuan Longping hurried to the hospital and was grief-stricken when he saw his unconscious wife.
During the day, he forced his composure to turn her over, scrub, and feed her liquids.
In the dead of night, he held his wife's hand, couldn't help but burst into tears, and choked up to sing the songs his wife loved to listen to.
Fortunately, Deng Zhe finally woke up after being in a coma for half a month, and she looked at her husband and smiled after waking up:
"I heard you tell me stories, and you also memorized Tang poems and sang old black slaves, and I remembered ...... back then"
Yuan Longping also smiled: "You scared me this time, so thank you for waking up, otherwise, I won't be able to move an inch from now on!" ”
You sing and I make music
Some people say that Lao Yuan is a crazy devil who spoils his wife, he has to talk on the phone if he doesn't see him for a day, he doesn't buy anything when he goes out, he buys it for Deng Zhe, and he is afraid that she will have an accident when he takes a bath......
In 1975, Yuan Longping conquered the hybrid rice seed production technology, and in 1976, the mainland hybrid rice was successfully promoted in the country, with an average yield increase of 20% per mu of rice, which could feed 70 million more people every year, and successfully solved the problem of "food shortage" in the country.
In 1999, an asteroid was named Yuan Longping.
In May 2021, Academician Yuan Longping passed away at the age of 91.
In his life, because he loves the country so much, he does nothing, sleeps at night, suffers a lot, and does not change his original intention.
In this life, because of their deep love, they can become a mountain for you, turn water for you, go through vicissitudes, and have no regrets in this life.
True love, nothing more.
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