At the annual commendation meeting of Gaoliang Coal Mine, Mr. Li delivered an enthusiastic speech, expressing his gratitude to all colleagues in the coal mine for their hard work in the past year, expressing deep condolences to the working people who still stick to their jobs during the Spring Festival, and expressing ardent expectations for the new thing of Anshun Logistics. Leaders not only have expectations, but also a 'encouragement money'.

At the annual conference dinner, the Gaoliang Coal Mine version of the 'Spring Festival Gala' family affection was staged, and the miners were busy rehearsing various programs, cross talk, sketches, soloists, and choruses were all available. As a production unit, the coal mine is to be co-produced during the Spring Festival, many front-line employees can not go home for the New Year, family reunion, even middle and high-level cadres have to take turns on duty, Xiang Tianya is one of them.

In March of the following year, after the business of Anshun Company was on the right track, he asked Tianya for a week off and prepared to go back to his hometown. In the past few months since he came back, Xiang Tianya has only called home twice and sent some money in addition to work. Because he is afraid to face it, he is afraid to face his own family in this era. After Xiang Tianya bought some daily necessities for his family in the city, he stepped on the bus home...

Xiang Tianya, born in a small mountain village on the edge of the western Xinjiang of the motherland in the 80s. Although the world is big, the crops don't seem to like this side of the water and soil, and naturally they can't raise this side of the people well. Surprisingly, the fathers on this side really care about education and success when they can't solve the problem of food and clothing, and it is estimated that they are afraid of poverty, and reading has become the only way out. The only "mansion" in the village turned out to be the school, how rich is the mansion, to tell you the truth, a total of two caves, plus a yard (playground). One hole is the teacher's office dormitory, and the other hole is the student classroom. How many teachers do you have? Answer: One. How many students are there in the village? Answer: No more than 30. That's right, you read that right, and I didn't say it wrong, there are 4 grades in the school, and a total of 1 (private) teacher. There is no time limit for starting and starting class, and the teacher leaves the class after the teacher finishes the lessons of all grades, and the students mingle with the teacher and go to class when they have had enough. There are no physical education classes, because students use this time to go up the mountain to work, quality education, pure quality education.

So what about the quality of education in your school, I'm sorry, at that time, under the situation of exam-oriented education, students' textbooks were memorized, and the exams could not be described as thinking like springs, which were simpler than open-book exams, and they were embarrassed to report to parents if they didn't score 100 points. Although the mountains and rivers are poor, people are not short of ambitions, and they create infinite possibilities with limited resources.

Xiangtianya is to grow in three steps and two steps in this environment. Other children don't want to grow up, but the children here want to grow up quickly. Elementary, middle, and high school passed as soon as they slipped away. After being admitted to the provincial mining university, he studied harder from Tianya, hoping that he could make the family live better, but the good times did not last long, in his junior year, his father died of stomach cancer, and his father's death made this originally very poor family even worse, and even frozen. Since then, my mother has been supporting the family alone, taking care of my younger brother who is still in high school. We often say that when I am developed, I will repay my parents, have you ever thought that when you are developed, your loved ones may no longer be there, and your son wants to be filial and his relatives are not there...

The mountain road is rugged, and the heart to the end of the world is undulating, he remembered that his parents in order to provide for his brothers to study, under the scorching sun and heavy rain hard to cultivate an acre of three points of land, set an ox cart to the market to sell millet for tuition, low three or four begging people to borrow money, life is not fair, others were born with a golden key, but you were born poor, no matter what the situation, we must have a hot heart of struggle, even in the most ordinary post, even under the scorching sun and heavy rain. It was still the lonely village surrounded by mountains, or those dilapidated caves, when Xiang Tianya appeared in front of his mother with a large bag and a small bag, he couldn't hold back anymore.

"Mom..."Throwing the burden to Tianya, he rushed over and hugged his mother. The mother's bony body was even thinner at this time, her hands were like dry branches in winter, her thin face was wrinkled by the wind and rain, her eyes were deeply sunken, and her head was full of white hair.

"You don't say hello when you come back, I'll cook for you!" Mother was shocked by Xiang Tianya's movements, this was the first time Xiang Tianya hugged his mother since he grew up.

"Oh, what a good meal!" Xiang Tianya let go of his mother and secretly wiped his tears.

"Make your favorite potato stew!" Mother said as she walked to the kitchen. Xiang Tianya picked up the package he brought back and brought it to the house. The room is still decorated 20 years ago, and the walls are plastered with the brothers' learning awards, which is a display of the brothers' learning achievements and the things that their parents are most proud of. There is an old photo of a family of four hanging on the wall, and the father in the photo is still so handsome and spiritual. The TV at the bedside has become an antique, which is probably the only company by my mother's side on weekdays.

"Mom, I'll help you cook!" Looking at his mother's busy figure, Xiang Tianya was really distressed.

"You just came back to rest for a while, I'll do it, and you won't do it!" The mother continued her movements.

"I'll help you peel potatoes!" Xiang Tianya picked up a few potatoes casually and peeled them carefully, in the era of famine, potatoes were almost the only staple food in the family.

After a while, with the cooperation of mother and son, a pot of hot potato stewed rice came out of the pot, which was still the familiar taste of his hometown and his mother's craftsmanship.

"Tianya, go burn a piece of paper for your dad after eating!" Mother said to Xiang Tianya while serving rice.

"Hey, I'll go in a minute!" If there is heaven, may my father be well there, and if my father can receive it, pray that my father will forgive my son's unruliness and unfilial piety over the years!

Xiang Tianya knelt at his father's grave for a long time, recalling his father's teachings when he was a child, recalling every scene when he waited for his father to come home at the head of the village, recalling his father's old smoking gun, recalling his father's bragging appearance when he was drunk, and the moments when his parents quarreled and he and his younger brother hid in the cellar... At a certain moment when he closed his eyes, Xiang Tianya felt that his father was still by his side, and when he opened his eyes, it was a dream, and he rested alone in the loess, but he was left with endless nostalgia for the living.