Xia Hanqing and Xia Hanyu lived in Qianqian Village, Huangqiao Township.

Xia Hanqing is young, but there is no kindergarten nearby, after thinking about it, the grandparents decided to let Xia Hanqing enter the first grade and be in the same class as Xia Hanyu - this is also Xia Hanqing's own request.

There is an advantage of studying in primary school in the countryside, the control of student registration is not strict, as long as you have a name and pay tuition, you can run a school registration, and you do not need a household registration book.

In this way, Xia Hanqing and Xia Hanyu became students of Qianjin Primary School.

Every day, Zhao Buliang rides a bicycle to take his children to and from school. Xia Hanqing sat on the horizontal bar in front, and Xia Hanyu sat in the back. It takes you a few minutes to get from home to school. Xia Jingzhi chose to entrust the child to Zhao Buliang and his family, considering the identity of Zhao Buliang Primary School principal.

The content of primary school is very simple, Xia Hanqing has studied kindergarten, and has learned Chinese pinyin with her grandmother, and it is difficult for Xia Hanqing to learn language, literature and mathematics. The days of elementary school were simple, but happy. In the company of Xia Hanyu and under the care of his grandparents, Xia Hanqing grew up happily.

Occasionally, I miss my parents, but I can't get a call from my parents, so I take out the letters they sent from afar and read them over and over again.

said that it would only go for a year, and in the blink of an eye, more than a thousand days and nights.

Since she started studying, Xia Hanqing has always been the youngest in the same grade, and all her classmates love her like brothers and sisters. And the teacher will take care of her as a baby. In September 2004, Xia Hanqing went to Qianjin Primary School, and Xia Hanqing directly followed the first grade, and his grades have always been among the best. The grandparents wanted him to repeat a grade, but she was not happy, obviously only the person with the worst grades would repeat the grade. As a result, the second and third grades went down like this, and by now, she is a fourth-grade student.

Other children are looking forward to the holidays when they go to school, and Xia Hanqing is also looking forward to it. But whether it was a one-month winter vacation or a two-month summer vacation, Mom and Dad never came back.

For example, at a special time such as Xia Hanqing's birthday, Zhao Hongsleeve and Xia Jingzhi will go to the county seat and call home. More often than not, they will write down the trivial things in life and send letters home. In those letters sent back, Xia Hanqing can know how difficult and difficult the place where his parents live, and how bad the conditions there are.

The people there, how much they are needed.

May 11, Mother's Day. Zhao Hongsleeve specially made a call home, and Xia Hanqing also took the opportunity to say a lot of good things to her mother and wish her a happy holiday. Then, be coquettish with them and let them come back early.

Every time he called, Xia Hanqing had to mention this matter, however, Zhao Hongsleeve always said that he must come back early, he must come back early, but he never came back.

Xia Hanqing once even secretly asked her mother if she gave birth to a little brother there, so she didn't want her, and she was scolded by Zhao Hongsleeve that time.

But Zhao Hongsleeve himself knew that he had to go back early. The children here are children, and their own children are also big treasures! If you don't go back, your children will grow up.

"Baby, don't worry, after teaching this semester, my mother will definitely go back!" Zhao Hongsleeve assured Xia Hanqing.

A few years have passed, Xia Hanqing is already a fourth-grade student, and in her mother Zhao Hongsleeve's heart, she is still the soft baby she was at the beginning

Zhao Hongsleeve is serious this time, the report to go back has been completed, the approval has been passed, and at the end of this semester, she will go home with Xia Jingzhi.

It's a pity, just like the story of "The Wolf Comes", Xia Hanqing didn't believe what Zhao Hongsleeve said, she could only emphasize and emphasize, "Mom, don't lie to me." ”

"Mom promises, I will never lie to you this time. Zhao Hongsleeve was very helpless, she thought, fortunately she really wanted to go back this time, otherwise she would have no credibility in her daughter's heart.

After talking to her daughter for a while, she asked her son to answer the phone, and after chatting for a while, she hung up the phone. It's a long-distance call, and it's quite expensive.

When they first came here, both of them had mobile phones, and later found that the place where they worked, there was no signal at all, and the mobile phone numbers of the two of them were all work numbers, and the unit helped to stop the machine, as for the mobile phone, the two of them sold it directly.

No way, lack of money.

This mobile phone carries the little romance of each other at the beginning of their work, but people really can't just point to romance.

The two of them are a doctor and a teacher, they don't change their mobile phones, they don't buy bags, they don't even rest on holidays and don't go home, but their lives are harder than anyone else's, who believes them if they want to say it?

No way, since they came to Xichuan, they are really trying their best to do things. Sometimes in the middle of the night, lying on the hard bed, I will even waver, whether it makes sense to do it myself.

After all, one person's strength is limited, Zhao Hongsleeve thought, they can only contribute to this land for a few years.

The next day, there was an earthquake in Nishikawa.

When I first heard someone say that there was an earthquake in Xichuan, Xia Hanqing hadn't figured out what had happened.

Technology is advancing, the times are developing, parents are in a place where there is no signal and can't make calls, while the teachers around them can use their mobile phones to watch the news.

In fact, when the teacher casually told the students about it, even they didn't realize how big the earthquake really was and how devastating it was.

After school in the afternoon, as usual, the siblings went home on their grandfather's bicycle. Xia Hanqing keenly found that his grandfather was in a very bad mood, and his spirit was a little unfocused, and he was used to walking the road, but today he was almost planted in the ditch, but fortunately, she reminded him in time.

When she got home, Xia Hanqing wanted to report her grandfather's situation to her grandmother, and made a small report with her, but found that her grandmother's mood was worse than that of her grandfather, and her face was very strange, as if she was about to cry.

This kind of thing shouldn't happen once in hundreds of years, Xia Hanqing couldn't believe it.

"Grandparents, what's wrong with you?" Xia Hanqing was puzzled, but her grandparents said it was okay and asked her to go back to the house to do her homework.

Xia Hanqing lives in the West Wing, but she prefers to stay in her grandmother's house, and play computer games when she has time — not a simple and low-level game like Apple, of course.

Putting the schoolbag on the desk, Xia Hanqing wanted to play a little game secretly, and as soon as he sat on the chair, he saw the web page that was not closed.

The title contains the words "Xichuan Earthquake" that she just heard this afternoon, and the vocabulary of the fourth-grader is enough to support her to read the article with even guesswork.

In a hazy mood, Xia Hanqing suddenly remembered that the place where his parents were was Xichuan.

At this time, there is not much accurate information about earthquakes, and the article is shocking in its extensive references to data and pictures from another earthquake decades ago.