Life is like an ocean, often surging and terrifying waves, and only those who are determined can finally reach the other shore.
Tong's first week is to rely on his strong will to draw a brilliant picture of life like a summer flower.
Born in the countryside from a young age, Tong's family situation is not bad.
His father was a private school man in the village, teaching and educating people, and Tong Di Zhou also learned knowledge under the guidance of his father.
The learning atmosphere of the whole tong family is also relatively strong, which can be regarded as the "bookish door" of the small village.
Tong Di Zhou has been full of curiosity about everything in the world since he was a child, and when he was playing games in front of the door, he accidentally found that there was a neat row of small holes in the stone slab in front of his house.
Tong Di Zhou was puzzled: "Who dug this hole?" Why is it so neatly chiseled? "
Tong Di Zhou, who couldn't understand anything, hurriedly pulled his father out of the house, hoping to get a reasonable explanation.
When the father saw the "studious" Tong Di Zhou, he couldn't help but feel happy and quipped to him: "This is not chiseled by people, but caused by water dripping from the eaves." "
When Tong Di Zhou saw his father talking so "nonsense", he asked his father: "How is it possible!" Doesn't it hurt when the water hits the slate, and how can it be chiseled into such a hard slab? "
My father had to patiently explain: "Although a drop of water is not enough to knock out the pit, after a long time, the water continues to drip down, and it can drip out of the pit on the hard stone slab, and it can also penetrate the stone!" "
Tong Di Zhou seemed to understand the truth of this "water drop stone wear", and he was quietly waiting for a heavy rain to verify his father's words.
When the heavy rain came, Tong Di Zhou sat in front of the door with a small bench, watching the drops of water fall from the eaves and drip on the stone slabs.
Only then did he understand that the original water droplets could really penetrate the stone, as long as they continued to accumulate!
The realization of this small truth affected Tong's life.
But life is so unpredictable that it is impossible to predict whether the accident will come first or tomorrow.
Tong Di Zhou's father unfortunately passed away, without the guidance of the enlightenment teacher, Tong Di Zhou's brothers were very anxious, they hoped that the little brother could study well, have a career in the future, and not come back to do farm work.
The brothers sent Tong Di zhou to the Zhejiang Provincial Normal School to study, but Tong Di Zhou had his own ideas: he wanted to go to the top ningbo Xiaoshi Middle School to learn knowledge.
At that time, Xiaoshi Middle School had a strict admission system, did not go through the back door, and candidates could only be admitted after passing the screening of written tests and interviews.
Because the first kindergarten of the child is spent in a private school, there is no formal school education, and there is a big gap from the pass line.
But this gap is not difficult for Tong First Week, with the spirit of "dripping water through stones", Tong First Week learns every night until late at night, and when his mother gets up in the middle of the night, she can still see the flickering lights in his house.
In this way, a spring and autumn passed, and Tong Di zhou finally got the qualification to enter the Xiaoshi Middle School.
He happily entered the third grade as a transfer student, but before he could begin his studies, the blows followed.
Tong's first week barely entered the pass line by relying on bad supplements, which had a significant gap with those children who had already received school education, and regrettably became the bottom of the class.
Looking at the eye-catching figures on the report card, Tong Di Zhou left a sad tear, and then turned his grief into strength, and decided to use the time he slept at night to make up for his studies.
Therefore, under the street lamp outside the dormitory, students can always see the figure of Tong Di Zhou.
After a long time, everyone speculated that Tong did not return to the dormitory late at night in the first week, whether he was in love?
Some people were worried about Tong's first week's academic waste, and made a "small report" to the class teacher, Teacher Chen.
Teacher Chen attaches great importance to the physical and mental development of Tong Di Zhou and is determined to find out.
At night, when Teacher Chen walked out of the dormitory building, he saw the thin Tong Di Zhou under the street lamp, and he quietly approached Tong Di Zhou, but unexpectedly found that Tong Di Zhou was just calculating mathematical problems by light.
Teacher Chen's doubts turned into full of heartache, and he asked Tong To go back to bed early in the first week, and it was not too late to study tomorrow.
Tong Di Zhou said with a slightly crying tone: "No, I don't want to be the penultimate number one, I must catch up with the homework." "
Seeing that Tong Di Zhou was so resolute, Teacher Chen no longer persuaded him three times, his heart was full of pride, and he was proud of having such a hard-working student.
Heavenly rewards hard work, tong's hard work in the first week, and finally in exchange for the average score of more than seventy in each subject, of which geometry also got a score close to full score.
Relying on this tenacity, Tong continued to work hard in the first week, and in the third year of high school, he got the first good result in the class.
These two "firsts" enhance tong's self-confidence.
He began to understand that he was not inferior to others, and that with hard work and effort, he could reach the same level as others, or even surpass others.
The so-called genius is only composed of one percent talent, plus ninety-nine percent sweat.
With excellent results, the twenty-year-old child can go straight to St. John's University in Shanghai in the first week.
But at this time, fate played a joke with him again: the eldest brother of the top pillar of the family fell ill unexpectedly and urgently needed someone to go home and take care of him.
Thinking of the eldest brother's meticulous care for himself after his father left, Tong Dizhou decisively gave up the opportunity to go straight to college and went home to take care of his sick eldest brother.
During the period of caring for the patient, Tong's first week of schooling was still not abandoned.
The elders in the family also encouraged tong to continue their further studies in the first week and not to abandon them halfway through.
With the expectations of his family, Tong Dizhou applied for Peking University and Southeast University successively, but neither was admitted.
Undeterred, he went directly to Fudan University in Shanghai to work as an auditor, and soon after was admitted to the philosophy department of the university.
Tong, who entered the philosophy department, was unknown for four years, and did not have any outstanding contributions in his studies, but met the first peach blossom of his life: Ye Yufen.
Ye Yufen and Tong Dizhou are both fellow Zhejiang compatriots, and their reading careers are also quite similar.
It was only tong di zhou who successfully entered the university, and Ye Yufen became a primary school teacher.
The two people feel sorry for each other, exchange letters, and express their views and cognitions about life and science.
After tong di zhou graduated from school, he went to Tonglu, Zhejiang province as a grassroots civil servant, and successfully "faced the base" with Ye Yufen, who had never met before.
Ye Yufen
After meeting, the two are not embarrassed, but like friends who have not seen each other for many years, there is a steady stream of topics.
Ye Yufen encouraged Tong Di Zhou to pursue his love: biology, without bending over the five buckets of rice.
After much thought, Tong Dizhou decided to take Ye Yufen's advice, wandered among Fudan alumni, and got a letter of recommendation from the assistant professor of the Biology Department of Nanjing Central University.
After arranging himself, Tong Di Zhou, in order to repay Ye Yufen's incentive grace, planned to take part of his salary and encourage Ye Yufen to enter the Biology Department of Fudan University in the name of funding.
As time went on, the feelings between Tong Dizhou and Ye Yufen became stronger and stronger, and the academic affection for each other finally burst into a spark of love.
As Tong Dizhou stabilized at Nanjing Central University, Ye Yufen also submitted transfer procedures to Fudan and applied to be transferred to Nanjing Central University to continue his studies.
The two ended their long-distance relationship and thought that a happy and satisfying life was coming.
But who knows, Because of his excellent grades when he was a teaching assistant, Tong Di Zhou got the scarce opportunity to study abroad in the department.
Once abroad, Tong Di Zhou and Ye Yufen are exotic.
Tong Di Zhou was worried that Ye Yufen would be unable to support her life alone in China, and she could not give up her love of biology, so she made an amazing move: marryIng Ye Yufen!
In a small hotel in Ningbo, the two held a simple wedding.
Subsequently, Tong Di Zhou went to Belgium to study, and the newlyweds flew away.
The study abroad life is extremely difficult, Tong Di Zhou parasitized in a small attic, relying on rusks and boiled water to survive, the result of the scholarship application is delayed, so that Tong Di Zhou is very anxious.
The situation of Ye Yufen, who is far away in China, is also not very clear, she is facing the risk of graduation and unemployment after giving birth to the love crystallization of the two, and Tong Di Zhou has no extra money to help her, and she is in trouble.
At that time, Professor Cai of Nanjing Central University learned of Ye Yufen's situation and tried every means to find her a job as a university teaching assistant, which alleviated Ye Yufen's economic crisis in time.
After the situation on Ye Yufen's side improved, Tong's life in the first week was getting worse and worse.
At that time, foreign students were not welcome to Chinese students, so that the scholarship applied for by Tong Di Zhou was delayed.
Tong's living expenses could not withstand the consideration of high consumption levels abroad, and the wallet soon bottomed out.
Ye Yufen, who had just stabilized, could not bear to see her husband's life full of hunger and hunger, desperately saving the living expenses of herself and her children, and also submitted articles everywhere, sending all the meager manuscript fees and accumulated living expenses to Tong Di Zhou, only to ask Tong Di Zhou to concentrate on studying abroad.
On the other side of the ocean, Tong Di zhou felt the deep affection of his wife, and in order not to live up to his wife's high expectations, he often stayed in the laboratory until late at night before going back to sleep, concentrating on overcoming the scientific research difficulties at that time.
There are unexpected storms in the sky, and Tong Di Zhou, who has not yet obtained good results, has caused a "big disaster".
At that time, the "918 Incident" broke out in China, and the news of Japan's war of aggression against China reached Tong Di Zhou's ears.
Unable to hold back his restless heart, he was determined to show his resistance to Japan's aggression with practical actions.
Tong took the lead in mobilizing Chinese students to protest at the Japanese Embassy in Brussels.
However, this protest did not have any effect, and the local police arrested the leader Tong Di Zhou for disturbing social order.
After the arrest, the Brussels government, intending to maintain a neutral stance between China and Japan, sentenced Tong to two weeks' imprisonment with a suspended sentence.
Tong Di Zhou, who suffered this great humiliation, realized that his own strength alone could only protect the family, but if the country was not strong, how could it protect the family?
Back at school, he studied harder.
In 1934, Tong Di Zhou received a doctorate in Brussels with excellent results, and also achieved excellent results in scientific research.
Tong Di Zhou and colleagues discuss research matters
At this time, some people advised Tong Di Zhou to stay abroad for further study with a generous remuneration, but Tong Di Zhou firmly refused.
Tong Di zhou, who has been separated from his relatives and the motherland for many years, only wants to return to the motherland and make some contributions to the scientific research cause of the motherland.
He also wanted to return to the bitterly missed Ye Yufen and take on the responsibilities that a husband should bear.
After several tosses, Tong Di Zhou once again stepped on the cruise ship back to China. Near the dock, he looked at the vague homeland, looked at the familiar figure on the dock, and Tong Dizhou, who did not like to cry, burst into tears.
Ye Yufen and her daughter came to the dock to welcome Tong's return, and the three embraced together with excitement.
Ye Yufen's years of waiting and waiting finally brewed a sweet wine that moisturized her heart.
After a brief stay with his family, Tong Di Zhou immediately went to work.
At the invitation of the Biology Department of Shandong University, he took his family to Shandong to take up a job.
Unexpectedly, the bench had not yet sat on the hot work, and a full-scale war of resistance against Japan broke out in China. Shandong University as a whole moved south, and Tong Di's family also came to Yibin, Sichuan.
As a result of the outbreak of war, prices rose rapidly and the experimental conditions were extremely difficult.
All these difficulties did not frighten Tong Di Zhou and his wife, who always hung the four big words of "science to save the country" in their hearts.
On this day, Mr. and Mrs. Tong Dizhou were shopping for the necessities of daily life on the street, but they accidentally saw an old microscope.
The two were so excited that they wanted to buy a microscope and go home to experiment.
But who knows, the boss offered a sky-high price: sixty thousand yuan.
Sixty thousand yuan was not a small amount at that time, and the couple of Tong Di Zhou had to save for two years without eating or drinking.
Back at home, Tong Di Zhou never forgot the microscope.
When Ye Yufen saw that he was so worried, he encouraged, "Why don't we go and buy it tomorrow?" "
Hearing his wife's words of support, Tong Di suddenly came to his senses and hurriedly said: "Be well, thank you wife!" "
The next day, the two came to the thrift stall early in the morning, intending to take out all their belongings and buy the microscope. But the boss sat on the ground and opened his mouth to sixty-five thousand.
The couple bought the microscope at a huge expense
This can make Tong Di Zhou and his wife embarrassed, you must know that these sixty thousand pieces are all raised by the two of them with all their wealth, and where to get more than five thousand pieces.
They begged the boss to sell it for sixty thousand yuan, but the boss was determined to sell sixty-five thousand.
Helplessly, Tong Di zhou and his wife had to leave one person next to the stall to pay attention to the movement of the microscope, and the other rushed to a friend's house to borrow money.
After cobbling it together, the couple barely managed to scrape together sixty-five thousand and successfully bought the microscope, but they also owed a lot of foreign debt. For the sake of science, the Tong Di Zhou couple was willing.
After having a microscope, some of the problems of the experiment were solved.
However, due to the poor lighting in the home, affecting the lighting of the experiment, the two decided to do the experiment by Tong Dizhou, and Ye Yufen lit it with a flashlight or kerosene lamp next to it.
Under such difficult conditions, Tong Di Zhou and his wife have made great achievements.
After careful experimental exercises and precise data calculations, the two made a key breakthrough in the analysis of the development ability of fish eggs and the motility mechanism of frog embryo cilia.
Manuscript of the thesis
The couple published a number of papers in international journals, when foreign researchers called Tong Dizhou and his wife China's purple micro-stars.
Mr. and Mrs. Tong Di Zhou became famous, but they were not trapped by their reputation.
On the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Tong Di Zhou was invited by Yale University in the United States as a visiting researcher, and retained Tong Di Zhou to work in the United States with a high salary.
Tong Di Zhou's pure heart has not changed. He insisted on refusing the invitation of the United States and returned to the country where everything was in ruins and waiting to be rebuilt, hoping to contribute to the construction of a new China.
Tong Dizhou, who returned to China again, found Zhu Kezhen and proposed the idea of building a Chinese marine research institution.
Without saying a word, Zhu Kezhen agreed to Tong Dizhou's request and allocated a huge amount of money to Tong Dizhou in the name of the person in charge.
Tong's first week established the Institute of Oceanography
With this huge amount of money, Tong Dizhou set up China's own marine research team, laying the foundation for domestic marine research.
All this is inseparable from Ye Yufen's support.
Ye Yufen is not only a helper in tong's first week of life, but also a good assistant in scientific research.
When studying the spawning of Wenchang fish, Ye Yufen accompanied Tong Dizhou in the laboratory to observe, record, dissect and experiment, staying for dozens of days.
When Tong Was occasionally upset by the differences in experimental data, Ye Yufen would also endure the discomfort of her successive work and try her best to soothe her husband's emotions.
Because Tong Dizhou held multiple positions at the Institute of Oceanography, he was also responsible for administrative work, and often rejected Ye Yufen's submission to the promotion of professor because he was afraid of gossip behind people's backs.
The brightness of Tong Di Zhou has also led to Ye Yufen being only an associate professor for decades, which does not match her superior scientific research ability and rich scientific research achievements.
But all this, Ye Yufen had no complaints or regrets. Fame and fortune are not her concerns, as long as she can work with her husband and make a contribution to the scientific research cause of the motherland, Ye Yufen is very satisfied.
It is difficult to meet a confidant in life, and it is even more difficult to meet someone who is connected with one's own soul.
Fortunately, Ye Yufen happened to meet Tong Di Zhou, and Tong Di Zhou also happened to fall in love with Ye Yu Fen.