Ningzhou County Tianqin Training Center was invited to Longzhou County to participate in the Summer Tianqin Invitational Competition. This is undoubtedly a great event for the training center.

In the past few days, in our training class of more than 50 people, Fangfang Heavenly Master has stepped up to select outstanding players to prepare to go to Longzhou to participate in the competition.

The male and female singing group program I collaborated with Nong's Qinghua was very popular. The songs we collaborated on were called "Singing the Ballads" and "Celebrating the Harvest". At the end of the performance, not only did we win the applause of all the students, but even the five judges and teachers sitting in the front row couldn't help but stand up and applaud us.

During recess, I went to the bathroom and passed by the teacher's lounge at the end of the corridor, and I glanced out the window and saw Master Fang Fang and the three teachers chatting there.

The breeze blew through the window of the lounge and brought the conversation of the teachers to my ears.

"Jiuyin and Qinghua are really a pair of wizards, I can take them as apprentices, I'm so happy. They have a very good understanding of Lyra, not only playing accurately and singing well, but also being very delicate and devoted emotionally. When I teach them, every gesture and every look I make, they understand very accurately and in place. Fang Fang Heavenly Master said excitedly.

"Not only do they play well and sing well, but the two also cooperate very tacitly, even in terms of body and appearance, they are also very compatible, they are really a pair of golden boys and girls." There was a female teacher who couldn't stop laughing "hahaha" when she said this.

"See where you have gone? The two of them, one is from the bustling metropolis of the Pearl River Delta, and the other is from the poor and isolated mountains of northern Vietnam. Another teacher also laughed.

My cheeks flushed to the base of my ears, and I hurried to the bathroom with my head down.

My heart was as happy as honey, but I was a little dissatisfied and thought: These young and beautiful female teachers, you think that men want to be springy, just forget it, please don't make fun of our two little children!

When I came out of the bathroom, I happened to meet Fangfang Tianshi, she stopped me and said to me: Jiuyin, this time to Longzhou to participate in the Tianqin Invitational Competition, several of our teachers decided to choose five or six programs to participate, you and Qinghua men and women play and sing programs not only to participate in the competition, but also as a pressure pillar, these days several of our teachers have to work overtime to guide you in rehearsals, you are generally very good in all aspects of playing and singing, but there are still some deficiencies in the good, such as the bell on the feet, the movement and rhythm of your shaking feet need to be further improved.

If you play the piano well, but the bell on your feet does not match well, then the previous efforts are wasted, or the sound of the bell overshadows the sound of the lyre, it is also a failure.

In the evening, after school, I was walking towards the union gate. Suddenly, someone called softly, "Brother, let me tell you something." "I stopped to look, and it turned out to be Nong Qinghua standing under a mango tree next to the gate, looking at me with blank eyes.

Her face was crimson, and her eyes looked at me with affection. Obviously, she must still be immersed in the joy and happiness of the success of the two of them in the morning, although her face could not hide the shy look that is unique to the girl.

"Brother, do you think we played well in the morning?" She asked me softly with a blushing face.

I plucked up the courage to look at her up close, and I realized that her big clear and bright eyes, watery and black and white, were so simple, without the slightest distraction, and could not help but remind people of the brightest and brightest star in the night sky like a wash.

"I feel okay, but I feel that the rhythm of the bells on my feet could be improved." I took the opinions of the teachers who came out of the teachers' lounge in the morning as my own.

When Nong Qinghua heard this, she was stunned for a moment, then looked up at me with understanding and nodded with understanding.

Maybe she said to herself, "Wow, you can even see that, that's good." ”

"If we're sent out to compete, we're ......"

As soon as we met, she quickly lowered her long fluttering eyelashes, which made people feel the urge to pounce on them and kiss them.

"I can't ask for a competition in other places, Longzhou is known as the hometown of Tianqin, where there are masters like clouds, and I can have the opportunity to communicate with the masters, which is very helpful to further improve my piano skills." I learned from the teacher's tone and said,

"I know that, but ......," she said again.

Why is she so entangled when she mentions going to compete in other places?

She lowered her head, lowered her eyes to her toes, and rubbed the corners of her clothes with her hands.

"I actually want to go, I want to go in my dreams, but I ......"

I asked again and again, and then I realized that she was not worried about her piano skills, but about her mother and the cost of the competition!

She said that she was able to come here to study Lyra this time, although the tuition fee was paid by Uncle Flying Fish, but her family was not too happy, because although she was only thirteen years old, she was already a strong laborer at home, and she was a good helper for her parents.

They have a grandmother who has been bedridden for many years, and there are five younger siblings waiting to be fed. Usually, her mother does the farm work at home, and every holiday, she goes home to help her mother, not only to do farm work, but also to take care of her younger siblings.

They have to plant three crops a year, and they can never finish the farm work. It's summer vacation, and it's the busiest time of the year for harvesting and planting. Her mother got up early in the morning and worked in the fields alone, but she came to China to learn Lyra.

Later, I learned that the women on their side are particularly hard.

In their country, due to the long war, the ratio of men to women is seriously imbalanced, and there are very few men, so men are generally lazy and lazy, and the idea of male superiority and inferiority of women is also deeply rooted.

The status of women is very low, and their fate is more tragic. In order to support their families, women work hard during the day, and at night they have to serve their husbands and take care of their children!

For a family of nine like hers, her father usually doesn't work in the fields. Just rely on her mother to support herself, why don't you make her worry?

"Originally, I would go back in a month, but now I decided that after the Tianqin training class, I would go to other places to participate in the performance, even if my mother agreed, she couldn't bear it, she couldn't bear it, she couldn't wait to go back to help her mother now, and support the burden of the family with her thin shoulders, after all, her mother was already overwhelmed!

"I need to hurry back and help my grandma with the farm work, you ...... It's better to find someone else to work with you, so as not to affect the game when you get it......"

At this, she suddenly couldn't stop her tears, and although she wiped them with the back of her hand from time to time, the tears still fell like beads of broken threads.

I stood under the tree in a daze, and for a long time, I scolded angrily in my heart: Dog's day, poverty, not only restricts people's imagination, but also restricts people's hands and feet!

After scolding, I let out a long sigh. But suddenly I couldn't help but feel extremely proud and proud that I was Chinese.

My father once told me that when Vietnam was still a French colony, when the boundary monuments were surveyed on the spot, the people in the disputed areas wore Hanfu and the whole family spoke Chinese, and when people from the two governments entered the house to investigate, they insisted that the whole family was Chinese.

I didn't understand these historical facts. Now I know that the only reason why those people did that was to join my Greater China box and live a life of food and clothing;

I also heard Ah Ba say that in the villages across the border, many women dream of marrying, even if we are relief households and low-income households, they do not hesitate to marry.

Ah Ba didn't lie to me, isn't her wife marrying him a living example?

Women across the border are marrying eastward, but not a single woman on our side is marrying.

The water flows to the east and the moon sets to the west, the eternal truth.

I looked at her embarrassed appearance, and my heart was sad for a while, and I sympathized with her infinitely in my heart, but I couldn't help it.

Then I fell into a cranky thought, I thought: she is such a smart and beautiful girl, she was born in a poor family in a poor country, it is not her fault, after all, she has no choice in this regard, I can't blame her.

The road ahead is long, may she choose a path to happiness and strive unremittingly......

"You...... You, marry in China in the future! My lips trembled violently for a long time, and finally the words came to my lips but stopped talking.

When she saw that I was speechless, she choked up and left.