Back to the steppe

On July 8th, after a bumpy day, I returned to the grassland after a long absence. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After several rounds of air tickets going home, Nanning went to Xiamen for a connecting flight, and I thought that after boarding a plane from Xiamen, I would go straight back to Hohhot, and I didn't want the plane to stop in Jinan! After half an hour's rest, it took off again. Xiamen and Jinan are implementing air traffic control, strictly control the air flow, Xiamen was delayed for more than an hour, arrived in Hohhot at 20:15 in the evening, should have arrived at 18:30 in the evening, fortunately only less than two hours late.

But at 6:30 in the morning, I set off from home, all the way upside down, and it was almost ten o'clock in the evening when I arrived home, and my waist had begun to protest on the last journey, and I couldn't sit down because of the pain.

After a temporary stay in Hoh, I returned to the grassland where I grew up, and saw that the grassland I grew up in had been unrecognizable, lack of rain, overgrazing, and man-made destruction, the grassland has no grass and warblers flying, and the village is also dilapidated, and the houses everywhere have long been empty.

Fortunately, both parents are in good health, relatives are living and working in peace and contentment, and the implementation of rural policies, although the natural environment has changed viciously, people's hearts and environment are still primitive and beautiful, and everyone has the same good thoughts and peaceful hearts.

My nephew graduated from college, and after the work is implemented, my brother will also leave the grassland, and my parents are getting old, and I will not be at ease if I stay in the grassland, and how to arrange my parents' pension will also be on the agenda. It is something I should consider to arrange for my parents to buy a house in my hometown or move south with me. 2014.7.10

In the past six months, the grassland has not even rained a decent rain, the grass is only inches high, as far as the eye can see, there is bare land everywhere, the green is the farmland, artificial irrigation has created a piece of green, the grassland is dense and vibrant, the grassland in the memory of the hour is gone, like many people have no possibility of returning.

In recent years, after the government's governance, the amount of livestock has been reduced, farmland has been returned to forests, and sand fixation thorns have been planted, the desertification of grasslands has been alleviated, the ecology has also improved, and the invasion of sandstorms has decreased, but the drought has become increasingly serious, and the natural environment is still deteriorating.

Industrialized land management has greatly improved people's work and living standards. The implementation of the government's pension, medical insurance, subsistence allowance, land subsidy and other policies has also made everyone's life worry-free.

The neat, clean and beautiful village has also become old and mottled due to the death of the old man and the evacuation of the foreign population, and there are empty ruins and broken walls everywhere, and there is a depressed scene.

Most of the people in the village didn't know each other, most of the old ones passed away, and the children younger than me had never met, and when I returned home, to a familiar village, I felt like I was back in an environment full of strangers. I never like to go around, I don't like to be lively, but I don't feel embarrassed.

It's just that my generation seems to be more out of reach, yesterday a small child visited, to give a little snack play to play, only to know that I am his grandmother-level character, I am old, right?

The family was worried because of his nephew's lack of progress, the failure to graduate from college, and the lack of a job. My brother didn't have a smile on his face, his elderly parents felt sorry for his brother who worked all day without hope and sadness, and watched the family feel sad because of their nephew's ignorance, and their hearts were full of self-blame, because I was negligent in discipline and supervision.

When I was a child, I watched my parents work hard, hoping that through their own efforts, they could have spent their old age in peace, I didn't want to have such a big twist and turn in life, I didn't have time to take care of myself, and I didn't have much ability to change anything, life may be the same, everyone's journey has been arranged, no matter how hard you try, you can't change your fate.

My parents are also at ease with this kind of life, not adapted to the indifference of steel in the city, but they are getting old, I still need to worry about my parents' pension, my brother's burden on my nephew's future is still very heavy, I can't let him pay for his parents' old age alone, and it seems feasible to buy a house in my hometown town to support my parents.

2014.7.13