(The age and geography of this book are alternate, with reference to some local customs in the northwest of Shanxi, China, and the content of the book is purely made up by the author, please don't worry too much about the time or price in the book)

(Min: (pronounced min) The love between the sun and the text, the love between autumn and the sky, Min Tian in the Kangxi dictionary refers to autumn, the season of harvest of all things, and the season when all things begin to wither, and the heroine of this book, Luo Yumin, was born in this season of grain harvest. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Min is translated into English as heaven meaning: God, God, sky)

In recent years, due to global warming, the climate has undergone serious changes in various places, some places are flooded, and some places do not see a few drops of rain all year round, which is the case in the mountainous areas of northern Jinbei in China.

The mountainous areas of northern Shanxi are almost all endless loess slopes. There were only low shrubs in a radius of tens or even hundreds of miles, and there were not many tall trees to be seen.

A narrow winding dirt road stretches deep into the mountains, with cliffs on one side and steep mountains on the other, and when the wind picks up, it kicks up patches of dust and dust that you can't keep your eyes open.

In the depths of this mountain, there is a village called Yatougou Village, where the inhabitants are a few households that can be counted on both hands, and the so-called houses are all caves dug by the mountain.

The lack of rainfall lowered the water level of the river and dried up the wells, while the last well in Yatougou Village dried up a few years ago, and the better families in the village moved out one after another, leaving only a few households in the village for a few years.

In order to pay less agricultural taxes, they would rather stay in this place where there is no water or electricity and continue to live that bitter life.

There is no water source in the village, so it is a luxury to take out daily water from a not-so-large pool two miles away, and to wash your hair and bathe is a luxury here.

It was an early autumn morning, and the air in the mountains was quite fresh, and from time to time there were a few barking dogs, which startled a group of sparrows that were scavenging in the field to feed.

With a "squeak", the courtyard door of the village family closed a few boards and was nailed at random, and a plainly dressed girl walked out of the courtyard, which was the heroine of this article, Luo Yumin.

Luo Yumin looks about 1.7 meters tall, and her body is also quite strong, with a round face, and her yellowish hair is cut into the hairstyle of the fifth in the women's basketball team.

The upper body is wearing a washed white blue canvas jacket, a pair of somewhat worn jeans, and a pair of black foreign cloth mille-feuille shoes on the soles of the feet.

The girl opened the courtyard door and turned back, and pushed out a wheelbarrow with strong arms, and two large wooden barrels were tied to the cart standing upright.

The girl shouted into the yard: "Grandma, I'm going to carry water." After pushing the wheelbarrow, squeaky and squeaked, he walked out of the village, his steps were very relaxed, and his strong arms held the wheelbarrow handlebar steady.

"Min girl, slow down on the road." With the voice, an old lady wearing a black cardigan and a small white cloth hat came out of the cave (the old ladies in the mountains in North China like to wear such a hat, a bit like ** people).

The old lady still held a dustpan with crushed corn in her hand, and she walked neatly to the other end of the yard, where there was a chicken pen made of adobe bricks, and opened the door of the chicken shed to release dozens of hens and chickens inside, and scattered a small handful of broken corn in the dustpan on the ground, and the chickens that had been hungry all night cooed and screamed, and there was an old ox lying on the straw in a corner of the yard.

Yatou Village is full of Luo surnames, and the old lady just now is Luo Yumin's maternal grandmother Luo Zhou.

Speaking of this Luo Laohan couple, the couple is quite pitiful, the only old man died in an accident a few years ago when he went out to work, and his daughter-in-law couldn't help but leave behind his six-year-old son Luo Yuliang remarried the next year.

The eldest daughter Luo Erya was originally married very well, and the two were married in free love, although they only gave birth to one girl, and the family was also harmonious and beautiful.

Due to the lack of water caused by global climate change, the harvest was very poor for several years. Luo Daniu left his wife and naïve daughter to work in the South China Sea.

It's been five years, and when I finally came back, I wanted to dissolve my marriage with Erya, but of course Erya refused.

At first, Erya refused, on the one hand, she couldn't stand Luo Da Niu's coaxing and deception, and on the other hand, she couldn't stand the cynicism of her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, saying that she couldn't give birth to a son, so Luo Erya moved back to her parents' house in a fit of anger, claiming to have disowned Luo Da Niu.

But not long after, all the people in the in-law's family moved away, and later Luo Daya learned that Luo Daya bought land and built a house for the family on the edge of Qizhen, and according to insiders, it was Luo Daniu who asked for a wife outside and gave birth to a son, so he rushed back to divorce Luo Erya.

After Luo Erya learned the news, she found the new home of Luo Daniu's parents and made a big fuss, but it was a foregone conclusion, coupled with the indifference of legal awareness in the countryside before, the two did not have a marriage certificate when they got married, and they are now the real daughter-in-law of the Luo family, the wife protected by the law, on the contrary, Luo Erya has become a junior.

Later, Luo Erya fell seriously ill, and Luo Yumin was only 14 years old at that time.

This illness dragged on for more than half a year, and after the illness recovered, she also figured it out, because she was given a doctor, her mother's family, who was not generous, owed a lot of money, and her daughter was facing the high school entrance examination.

In this way, Luo Erya left Luo Yumin to her elderly parents and left the village to work in other places.

In the second year, Luo Yumin was admitted to the county high school with excellent results, but she did not go, but stayed in the town middle school to study, on the one hand, because of the difficulties at home, and secondly, to take care of the two elderly people and the naïve younger brother nearby.

The town welcomed such an excellent student, and immediately reduced her tuition and miscellaneous fees for three years, and also subsidized her with a food allowance of 100 yuan per month.

Luo Erya left home, like her ex-husband, and never came back, but every once in a while she would send a small amount of money home, and occasionally send some clothes back.

Luo Yumin knew that her mother was in the coastal area from the irregular address on the remittance slip.

Luo Yumin has just entered the third year of high school this year, and she will take the college entrance examination next year, she takes her younger brother to study in the town, her grandfather and grandmother are old, and she has to walk dozens of miles of mountain roads every weekend to help the family carry water and do farm work.

People in northern China mainly eat pasta, and only some green vegetables can be seen in summer throughout the year.

In winter, Chinese cabbage, potatoes, onions, and tomato sauce are the main dishes;

In summer, some tomatoes, long beans, and large eggplants are usually planted in large quantities;

In autumn, the harvest season, a large number of tomatoes are made into sauce, packed in brine bottles and stored in the cave to eat until the next year, and long beans and eggplants are usually made into dried vegetables and stored, and in the winter, you can see a little green on the table when you soak them in boiling water, and the cave can be used as cold storage when the cave is dug deep.

Because of the lack of water here all year round, planting some drought-resistant food crops, wheat, corn, corn, etc., Luo Fugui also planted a few walnut trees, whenever the walnut picking season, will use a knife to pick out the tender white walnut kernels to their own babies to beat the tooth sacrifice.

Luo Fugui's family rarely sees meat all year round, but because the children are growing up, the old couple raises a lot of chickens, and they usually let them out during the day to let them find food in the mountains by themselves.

Some of the eggs collected will be boiled and the dolls will take them to school, and the other part will be sold in the town together with the wild walnuts, wild sour dates and other mountain goods picked in the mountains, in exchange for some money to buy oil, salt, rice and coal.

The nearest village to Yatougou Village is also several miles, where there is a bus to the town every day, but the round-trip fare costs 5 yuan, and you have to sell a number of eggs to save this 5 yuan.

The money sent back by Luo Erya is not much, barely enough to pay Luo Yun's tuition and miscellaneous fees, and sometimes send some cheap clothes, and Luo Yumin's father has not given a penny of child support since he left, but her grandfather's family thinks she is a money-loser and refuses to raise her.

Luo Yumin is very fortunate to have a pair of very kind grandfathers, and he saves some money to provide for the two children to study. In this way, with the help of the poverty alleviation fund in the village and town, the school exempted her from tuition, and also reduced part of Luo Yuliang's tuition, so the two of them could study smoothly like other children.

And the two children are very competitive, their studies are among the best, and the walls of the kang are plastered with awards from the two babies.

Although the clothes sent back by Luo Erya are cheap, they are like treasures in Luo Yumin's opinion, and they are reluctant to wear them when they are working, and they are only willing to take them out and wear them during festivals.

For more than two years, no child would not want his mother, but Luo Yumin's stubborn personality made her never show anything in front of her grandparents.

Luo Yumin's wheelbarrow made a "squeak" sound and walked on the road, enjoying the scenery on the road all the way, and muttering English words in his mouth.

She never told her family that a year ago she started working as a handyman at a restaurant in town every night, earning 300 yuan a month.

Luo Yumin knew that it would cost a lot of money to go to college, and the family would definitely not be able to take out this money, so she begged the restaurant owner to hire her two years ago.

Because the boss is not old enough to be afraid that others will say that child labor is used in the store, Luo Yumin can only help wash vegetables and dishes in the back kitchen.

There is a TV in the restaurant, and when the kitchen is not busy, she will hide and watch the TV, from where she has to know the latest outside news and learn Mandarin from the news host.

Because the little girl is clever and diligent, the restaurant owner also acquiesces to her behavior, and sometimes she will pack up the surplus leftovers in the restaurant to eat with her brother, and often give her some old newspapers and books that the guests have read.

Luo Yumin often sees people in suits and dresses on TV, holding tall wine glasses and elegantly tasting foreign wine, she vows that she must get out of this ravine, live a personal life, and earn a lot of money to honor her grandmother and grandfather.

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