All of this happened a few days ago.

Eastern Desert, Jiuxi Tribe.

"Patriarch An!"

"Patriarch An!"

"Patriarch An is so blessed!"

"Patriarch An, for many years, our Jiuxi tribe has never produced such a talented student, the An family is really blessed by the ancestors, thanks to the blessing of the sand god!"

An Youblessed, the patriarch of the Jiuxi tribe, came home from the field in the morning after watching the cornfields, walked back along the tribe's rammed path, passed one house after another, and listened to everyone standing in front of the door, saying the same praise and praise, and a wrinkled old face as thick as cowhide blown by the desert wind, smiled like a flower.

Since the human race stood out from the continent 10,000 years ago and established the Three Thousand Empire, the Eastern Desert, a place that is not loved by the father and mother, has finally been included in the territory of the Three Thousand Empire, as the largest area in the east of the Three Thousand Empire.

In the war of all races, the human races who were chased and fled to the Eastern Wilderness gathered into countless oasis tribes of all sizes in the vast desert, and they were finally paid attention to by the three thousand imperial courts, registered and registered, and continued to survive on the sand where they had lived for 10,000 years.

No one knows how much danger there is in the Eastern Wilderness Desert, and no one knows how many resources there are in the Eastern Wilderness Desert, at the same time as the Three Thousand Empires and Three Thousand Years Festival, the Imperial Pavilion announced the "Eastern Wilderness Development" plan, a transverse desert, starting from the imperial capital, passing through seventy-nine provinces, and directly leading to the East China Sea Changshan Railway Line, which was completed in less than a hundred years.

Only then did the people of the various tribes of the Eastern Wilderness begin to realize that they finally have their own country and their own ideological center, and being able to live in the imperial capital of the Three Thousand Empires has also become the haunting yearning of every generation of young people in the Eastern Wilderness.

But if Donghuang wants to enter the imperial capital, it is not only a matter of long distance, just the expensive train ticket has already made every tribe sigh.

So all the hopes of the people of Donghuang were focused on the only remaining road: the national examination.

Every year, the Three Thousand Empire organizes a national examination for students who have reached adulthood and have completed a complete formal 12-year compulsory education, giving all young people in the Eastern Wilderness a dream for the future. As long as they are admitted to prestigious universities in various provinces, young people in the Eastern Wilderness are eligible to enjoy marginal subsidies provided by the state, free train tickets, half-price college fees, and reliable work-study positions.

Today, more than 6,000 years have passed, and for the people of Donghuang, the national examination has replaced the original ancestor sacrifice and has become the most touching and influential thing for each tribe back then. Who doesn't have two grown children?

However, due to backward educational conditions and insufficient educational resources, although the tribe has exhausted all its strength, it is a pity that for a small tribe like the Jiuxi tribe, for more than 6,000 years, there are still only a handful of people in the tribe who can pass the national examination and go to the city, and there are only a few people.

Small tribes have the sorrow of small tribes, looking at other tribes that are already more numerous, sending out one student after another, and after the students have completed their studies, they bring technology and money to fund the construction of the tribe, and the small tribes have no other way but envy.

But this year is different, in the blessed family of An Youfu, the patriarch of the Jiuxi tribe, An Xiaoyu, the granddaughter who has just turned eighteen years old, received an admission notice from a famous university in the Three Thousand Empire. Not only did everyone who fell to everyone be shocked, but even An Xiaoyu's whole family was unbelievable that the school that admitted her was actually the highest school in the country-Three Thousand College.

That legend was the first university in the country established by pacifying the Great War of the Ten Thousand Races, laying the foundation of the human race, and creating the first court of the Three Thousand Empires, the Three Thousand Emperors, and it is also the university that every school-age young man of the Three Thousand Empire yearns for, and most people can only hope for in their dreams.

Joy overwhelmed her mind, An Xiaoyu felt that she was cloudy, and the flush on her little face had never fallen from the moment she received the notice.

The fact was at the door, and the commissioners sent by the Three Thousand Academies to the fringe areas were already standing at the humble doorway of their house, dressed in clean and straight uniforms, silver wire glasses on the bridge of their noses, and high-end watches on their wrists, all of which were incompatible with this broken house made of wood.

However, this person did not show any dissatisfaction and disgust because of the remoteness and simplicity of the tribe, and fully showed the extremely high quality of the civil servants of the court, with a faint smile on his face, and his gestures revealed an elegant demeanor, which surprised the onlookers of the Jiuxi tribe At the same time, he also strengthened the idea of sending more people to study in the university.

The envoy of 3000 College came to the remote East Wilderness to do a total of three things: first notify the admitted students of the admission notice and related matters, then assist the admitted students to prepare everything for admission, and finally take the admitted students back to 3000 College through a special train to go through the relevant procedures for early admission, so that students in remote areas can use the summer vacation time to adapt to urban life.

An Xiaoyu and her mother were at a loss in the house, they didn't know what to bring to school in the imperial capital, I heard that there was everything in the university dormitory, but this "everything" is like what people often say "the sand god is everywhere", where the sand god is, what he has blessed, no one can say.

In the end, An Xiaoyu left all the pots and pans and bedding that her mother had wrapped, and only took a bag full of clothes out of the bedroom.

Although it is said to be full of clothes, you can't expect any beautiful dresses and delicate accessories from people living in the desert, just some durable clothes that are common in the desert.

When she went out of the bedroom door, she saw her father and grandfather sitting on a chair in the hall, looking at her face with complicated eyes, her eyes were full of relief and reluctance, she still couldn't hold back after all, she cried out loud and threw herself into her grandfather's arms.

The cry was uncontrollable, the tears were ticking, and it didn't take long for the grandfather's robe to be full of golden beans for his beloved little granddaughter, and the father sat there, turned his head away, and coughed twice from time to time, and pumped his snot back. The mother was already crying so much that she didn't know what she was talking about.

Grandpa wiped his old face, and finally showed the demeanor of the head of the family, patted his granddaughter's shoulder, pulled An Xiaoyu out of his arms, looked at his granddaughter's delicate and tearful little face, and said loudly: "When you arrive in the imperial capital, take good care of yourself, do you hear!" ”

"Hmm!" An Xiaoyu felt a little choked in her throat and nodded frantically.

"You must learn the knowledge well, and after you learn it well, take your parents and younger brother to the imperial capital!"

"Grandpa, what about you?" Ann asked quietly.

An Youfu smiled reluctantly, didn't speak, helped An Xiaoyu up, stood up himself, and coughed at his son.

The father also stood up, pretending not to cry, hugged his mother, and together with An Youfu, sent An Xiaoyu all the way to the door. At this time, An Xiaoan ran in from outside the door sweating profusely.

This is a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy, although he still has a green face and an incomplete height, but the boy who has been tested by the Eastern Desert has shown considerable perseverance and strength, he stood at the door, looking at his sister who had already put on his bag, and his sister who loved him the most since he was a child, pouted, and asked, "Sister, are you leaving?" ”

An Xiaoyu felt a pain in her heart again and nodded.

An Xiaoan turned around suddenly, turned his back to An Xiaoyu, and raised his head.

The commissioner stood outside the door, not moving in the slow heat of the desert, not even a trace of sweat on his forehead, and looked at such a family with a smile all the time. Perhaps in the course of his work, he has seen such things before, so he is quite patient and does not feel it.

An Xiaoan stood with his back to the room for a while, and suddenly twisted back, the noon sun shone from behind, showing that this young man was extraordinarily bright, he smiled, a tear was finally squeezed out of the corner of his eyes by this smile, he said loudly: "When I grow up, go to find you!" ”

An Xiaoyu nodded and reached out to hug her brother.

After a long time, An Xiaoan got out of her sister's arms and walked in front of the commissioner. The three adults of the An family were a little nervous, and they didn't know what this stinky boy who was usually full of trouble was going to do, so they hurriedly called twice, but An Xiaoan turned a deaf ear. An Xiaoyu frowned and walked to An Xiaoan's side.

He just raised his head and looked at the commissioner who was half a body taller than himself, exuding a noble aura, with a pair of black eyes blazing, and a crisp voice when he spoke, he asked, "You are here to pick up my sister to school?" ”

The commissioner was a little surprised, this was a situation he had never encountered before, and he looked at the young man in front of him with some meaning, and the young man's eyes carried something he had never seen before, no, or rather, with some divine light that most of the people of the empire no longer had, and it touched people's hearts.

So he smiled slightly, nodded, and replied politely: "Yes." ”

After thinking for a moment, he added, "My name is Ni Yu. ”

An Xiao'an blushed, and in addition to courage, his tone was also much more polite: "My name is An Xiao'an." ”

After speaking, his eyes instantly sharpened again: "In the future, I will definitely go to the imperial capital to find my sister, you must take care of my sister!" He stretched out his hand upwards to Ni Yu's face.

Hearing him say this, An Xiaoyu's hand grabbed the corner of the young man's clothes with some trembling, as if this child, who was still coquettish in her arms yesterday, had grown up to be able to make her rely on it safely.

Ni Yu was stunned for a moment, looking at the young man in front of him, his heart was in a trance for a moment, as if he saw himself who had just become an adult. At that time, he carried many lofty ideals and ambitions in his chest, with such firm beliefs and wills, and without losing his infinite tenderness and emotion for the world, his heart, which had become old, couldn't help but move, and stretched out his hand to shake An Xiaoan's hand.

"When the time comes, I'll pick you up, and it's an appointment."

An Xiaoan smiled: "Hmm! It's an appointment! ”

This time, An Xiaoyu finally got on the train accompanied by Ni Yu.

The special train of the Jiuxi tribe of the Three Thousand Academy has stopped at the temporary parking station for equipment maintenance and train crew rest, and the silver-white train is particularly dazzling and enviable on the junction line of the sand sea and the oasis.

An Xiaoyu carried the bag on her back, stepped on the metal suspension ladder, and entered the clean and luxurious carriage, looking at the furnishings next to her, she was a little ashamed, Ni Yu saw her embarrassment, took her to the carriage, walked to the seat by the window, motioned for her to sit down, and then sat opposite her.

An Xiaoyu put the bag on the luggage rack, followed Ni Yu's example and put herself in the soft sofa, looked at the familiar people outside the window, and there was a dull "click" sound behind her. As soon as the train door closed, the whole carriage fell silent, and all the cheers and sobs outside seemed to have become the existence of another world, which had nothing to do with her.

Her throat was a little dry, and she waved her hand out the window, but before her hand could fall, and before the faces of her relatives could be seen clearly, the train had already left the Jiuxi tribe, quickly leaving behind her familiar oasis, leaving only the high blue sky and the endless sea of sand.