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"Eilechuan, under the Yin Mountain. The sky is like a dome, covering the four wildernesses. The sky is blue, the wilderness is vast, the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep. ”

In the vast wasteland, as far as the eye can see, on a loess road leading to the wilderness, a large army-green truck staggered in the uninhabited wasteland, and the desert on both sides of the soft loess road is scattered so that there are a lot of thorn teeth, camel grass, plantain, and a lot of wild low bushes.

These vigorous desert wild plants grow low and yellow, obviously lacking moisture, but still show tenacious vitality in this barren desert.

Wherever the vehicle passed, a cloud of smoke and yellow dust was raised behind the car, fluttering, and the air was filled with a strong and choking earthy smell.

The dust raised covered the heads, necks, and clothes of the passengers huddled in the carriage with a thick layer of white ash, and it was impossible to see the facial features of the people, and from the body shape it was five women and four children.

Nine people, large and small, huddled in front of the carriage, with their backs to the front of the car and facing the rear of the car, the four young women were probably in their twenties.

These young mothers are hugging, hugging, or hugging in front of them, protecting their children like old hens protecting chicks.

The only one who didn't hug the child was a middle-aged woman who was nearly half a hundred years old, very tall from the point of view, her face was covered with dust and only a big black eye was flickering, she was the mother-in-law (mother) of these young women, Mrs. Tian, and the backbone of the Tian family.

The most obvious difference between Mrs. Tian and the young women around her is her three-inch golden lotus, which is an old lady with bound feet.

The dust on her face concealed her natural complexion, and from the erect bridge of her nose and lips, she could tell that she was a rather thoughtful-looking woman.

"Yue'e, is your distant relative Wang Heng begging for a living here? Why do you see that this is a place where rabbits don't, and after two days and two nights in the car, I didn't see a single figure, why didn't I have any popularity? Mrs. Tian tilted her head and squinted at the environment on both sides of the car, the endless desert, and she was full of doubts.

A short and thin woman on the very edge, because of her short stature, she was 23 years old like an underage girl, "Mother-in-law, that's right, it's Quang Non Commune, and the People's Liberation Army driving is also heading towards Kwang Non Commune, so it may not have arrived yet." ”

This young woman named Yue'e, whose full name is Ji Yue'e, is the daughter-in-law of Tian Kunhe, the third son of Mrs. Tian.

In 1960, Jiangnan, known as the "paradise on earth", was either famine or plague.

I really couldn't get by in the local area, so Mrs. Tian thought about taking a weak family and going all the way to the distant relatives of her third daughter-in-law, Ji Yue'e's mother's house.

Zhang Hua, the second daughter-in-law next to Mrs. Tian, is a head taller than Ji Yue'e, and is the daughter-in-law of Tian Kunpeng, the second son of Mrs. Tian. ”

The honest Ji Yue'e hugged her daughter Xiao Tianye and muttered in a low voice: "Cousin Wang Heng said that he would not starve to death here, why would I harm our family." The crimson and anxious on her face were covered by the white dust, and she couldn't see anything clearly.

Mrs. Tian's only daughter, Tian Kunrong, was close to her mother's right, she turned her face to Zhang Hua, the second sister-in-law on her mother's left, and said: "Second sister-in-law, don't be foolish, the third sister-in-law has not been fooled by us, Pang Jie also said that Xinjiang Guangren Commune is a good place, but the road is farther." ”

Pang Jie, Tian Kunrong's husband, is a weak scholar who is now building a railway in the northeast with his three eldest brothers.

The daughter in Tian Kunrong's arms, Pang Dongdong, looked up at her dusty little face, pursed her lips, and wanted to cry, "Mother, I'm hungry." ”

"Hey, when will this day end?" Mrs. Tian sighed, stuffed her right hand behind her ass and squirmed for a long time, and took out a small package that could not come out of the ashes.

took out two nests from the bag and handed them to the second daughter-in-law and daughter on the left and right, "Save food, these are still the two nests given by the People's Liberation Army." ”

During the ride, the older PLA sitting in the front cab saw the five women in ragged clothes, their faces haggard, and then looked at the four young children, let out a long sigh in their hearts, shook their heads, and gave them a few nests before driving.

gnawing on the hard nest and squinting at this strange and desolate barren place, Mrs. Tian had a little hope in her heart, but more melancholy and confusion about the future.

Mrs. Tian frowned, let's live one day at a time, let's get through it one day at a time, isn't this how life goes?!

Before the liberation of Mrs. Tian, who was nearly 50 years old, she was the child daughter-in-law of the Tian family, a large landlord in a town in the south of the Yangtze River.

Her timid husband, who was five years younger than Mrs. Tian and fearful, committed suicide by throwing himself into the river five years ago, leaving her orphans and widows behind.

She and the deceased old man raised a total of three sons and a daughter, and in the past two years, the three sons and sons-in-law went to the northeast to build the railway, and they have not seen each other for two years.

In order to make a living, Mrs. Tian took her three daughters-in-law and a daughter and a group of young and weak women to the Tianshan Mountains, intending to spend the rest of her life in the Tianshan Mountains.

Under the bumps of the truck, the women and children in the carriage fell asleep as if they were sitting on the cradle.

Finally reaching a populated area, the truck made its way through a dilapidated alley to a row of low, dilapidated adobe houses rammed with loess.

The young PLA comrade jumped down from the cab and slapped the carriage board with his hand, "Fellow, fellow, to the ground, Quang Nhon Commune has arrived." A thick Lunan accent.

Mrs. Tian got out of the car with the orphans and widows in a hurry, and bowed to the comrades of the People's Liberation Army to thank her.

The older PLA in the cab looked through the glass of the car at four sleepy-eyed children, and the youngest little boy in open crotch pants opened his mouth and cried, and he could see the small tongue in his small mouth trembling slightly.

The older soldier shook his head sympathetically, looked at the few nests in the package on the seat, and glanced at the young driver who had gotten out of the car.

The young PLA climbed into the car, left a nest head, and after jumping out of the car, he gave all the rest of the nest head to Mrs. Tian.

Holding seven or eight hard nests in her arms, Mrs. Tian burst into tears, and took her daughter-in-law and daughter to bow and thank you again.

People are always like this, they can tolerate very grievances and difficulties, but they can't bear a bit of care and tenderness.

The truck started and rolled up the loess and flew away, and five women watched with red eyes as the army-green truck disappeared into the narrow and long streets.

As the sun sets, everything around is glowing with a faint yellow under the illumination of the setting sun, and twilight is about to fall.

Old Mrs. Tian put Wowotou into the package, wiped her tears with her hands, and retracted her thoughts, "Yue'e, you are so slippery that you and Zhao Xing and Rong Rong hurriedly took the letter to find your relatives, we are waiting here, don't get lost, we are not familiar with life, be careful, mouth dessert, ask more." ”

Seeing the eldest son Tian Kunshu's daughter-in-law Zhao Xing was slumped, without any energy, Zhao Xing was a sick seedling, she had been motion sickness on the truck, she barely said a word, and she fell asleep all the way.

"Forget it, Zhao Xing won't go, Yue'e and Rong Rong will go." Mrs. Tian withdrew her gaze towards her eldest daughter-in-law, and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly.

This eldest daughter-in-law is the most eye-catching among the three daughters-in-law, except for her appearance, it can be said that she is useless, not to mention her illness, she doesn't say a word all day long, and she can't beat a fart with three sticks.

Mrs. Tian walked to the base of the low loess wall with Zhao Xing and Zhang Hua with their bags scattered and sat on the ground.

Looking at the bags that had fallen apart, Mrs. Tian commanded Zhao Xing, "Zhao Xing, with a little eyesight, take that hemp rope to bundle the luggage." ”

Mrs. Tian just sat against the wall, "Grandma, I'm itching, itching to death." A little girl about two years old beside her, with her face up, her little hands grasping her hair with two pigtails, and her dark eyes looked timidly at the majestic old lady Tian.

Glancing at Tian Ye, the daughter of the third son Tian Kunhe, Mrs. Tian sighed, stretched out her hand and dragged Tian Ye in front of her, pulling Tian Ye's unkempt hair with her hand, the messy hair can be used as a bird's nest, and the girl's soft yellow hair has formed a clump without washing her hair for a long time.

Mrs. Tian struggled to break open the yellow hair that was messed up, only to see that it was full of white lice, and the dense lice were stuck to each hair.

Seeing his cousin Tian Ye tilting her head and enjoying her grandmother's service, Tian Wan'er, who was half a year older than Tian Ye, grinned and cried "wow", her little hands scratched her itchy scalp vigorously, and she looked at her mother Zhang Hua with a pleading eye.

Zhang Hua took out a grate with uneven brown tooth marks from the bag wrapped in cloth, and shaved the lice on her daughter Tian Wan'er's hair.

Zhao Xing'er next to her tied up her bags and dragged them to the base of the wall, and then sat on the ground with her son Tian Yang, who was more than a year old.

Although the autumn sun in the Western Regions is high in intensity and scorching the earth, the wind blows on the body with a chill, and Mrs. Tian, who lives in the south of the Yangtze River, did not expect that the autumn in the north is very different from the south, and the wind in the north is so dry and painful that it blows on the face, not as soft as the autumn breeze in the south.

Women and children leaning against the base of the wall huddled together to keep warm, and waited quietly for good news.

The short and thin Ji Yue'e and her sister-in-law Tian Kunrong went to find a distant relative with a crumpled letter, and they patted off the dust on their faces to reveal their true faces, and the appearance of this sister-in-law was extraordinary.

The dirt on her face can't hide the thin Ji Yue'e's fair skin, willow eyebrows, apricot eyes, delicate nose, and thin lips, at first glance, she is a typical Jiangnan woman.

Tian Kunrong, who is nearly 1.7 meters tall, has an appearance that makes people even more immobile, with distant mountain eyebrows, phoenix eyes, a tall nose bridge, not thin or thick lips, her facial features are more heroic than her sister-in-law, and her ragged and wide clothes that barely cover her skin show her delicate figure.

The two of them followed the address on the envelope and searched all the way down the road, and as soon as they reached the street with a little more population, they were followed by several teenagers and children who were not too old and a little small.

It was a group of children of the age of "even dogs hate", with short hair and snot in their hair, and one boy who looked to be three or four years old and wore open crotch pants.

This group of children followed Ji Yue'e and sister-in-law all the way, and they were not too tired to shout in their immature children's voices: "Blind stream, blind stream, female blind stream......

Blind flow is the local people of Guangren, born and raised in the sixties and seventies of the last century, the contempt for foreign households, blind flow, strong contempt.

The sisters-in-law blushed and lowered their heads to finally find Ji Yue'e's distant relative, Wang Heng's house, and looked at the dilapidated adobe house in amazement.

The low one is less than two meters, and it is not so much an adobe house as a square circle without a roof with only four walls, and there is no trace of the owner living in it.

Ji Yue's sister-in-law looked at each other with a smile, and the two of them suddenly felt cool in their hearts, what about Wang Heng? What about Wang Heng's family and children? Did they move?

The sister-in-law stood in the so-called "Wang Heng's home" on this bare loess wall, at a loss.

Among the group of children who followed, the boy with a yellow nose in open crotch pants threw a stone on Tian Kunrong's knee, and then kicked the short Ji Yue'e in disgust, and muttered and scolded: "Blind stream, blind stream, Absis gives (local swearing)." ”

The sister-in-law who couldn't understand the local dialect knew that it was not good, and the two young women who had just arrived let the three-year-old child bully, and the three-year-old child's strength was not hurtful at all, but the words he muttered in his small mouth made the sister-in-law feel timid, how could this child be a kind of gangster at such a young age? !

"The eldest son of the Zhang family, you have started to do bad things again, why don't you learn well at a young age." A deep male voice came from the east.

Aunt Ji Yue'e followed the prestige, only to see a short, middle-aged man walking over and loudly reprimanding the little boy who threw stones at them.

The appearance and reprimand of the dwarf man made the gang of boys disperse in a hurry, shouting rhythmically while running: "Blind stream, blind stream, there are two female blind streams......"

Looking at the children's backs, the dwarf man muttered in a low voice: "This Xilin, if his fart boy Gaqiuqiu doesn't take care of it well, he will definitely be a scourge in the future." ”

This short man with a round face and mediocre facial features turned his face to look at the handsome aunt and sister-in-law in front of him, and muttered to himself in his heart, I have never seen a woman with this posture in the commune.

He turned his head to look at the dilapidated adobe house again, his eyes fell on the dusty aunt and sister-in-law again, and he asked in astonishment: "Fellow countryman, you won't be here to find Wang Heng, right?" ”

Hearing the name of her distant prince Wang Heng, Ji Yue'e, who was hesitant, felt warm in her heart, her nose was sour, tears fell down, and she held the envelope in both hands and handed it to this short and kind-looking strange man.