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Sister Tian Tao has changed, she doesn't like to laugh with him, she doesn't like to play coquettishly in front of him, she has become extraordinarily quiet, she likes to be alone, thinking quietly about her thoughts, and there seems to be an insurmountable gap between their brother and sister.

Tian Tao, whose parents died prematurely, is different from his elder brother Tian Liu and younger brother Tian Shan, his elder brother Tian Liu has the tenacity to fight against fate in his bones, while his younger brother Tian Shan seems to have forgotten his biological parents under the protection of his uncle's family and lives a carefree life.

And since Tian Tao went to normal school and recognized Lin Hong as her stepmother, her studies and career have been smooth under Lin Hong's care, and her living conditions are also very superior, but she has become more and more melancholy, and she has become estranged from her family like an ice beauty.

Tian Liu recalled the scene when he went to the normal school to see his sister two years ago, at that time, looking at Tian Tao, who had grown into a big girl, he was having dinner with Tian Tao and Lin Hong in the faculty cafeteria, and he casually mentioned that he would introduce Tian Tao to a partner.

Tian Tao shook his head in a panic as if he had been stung by a bee, the corners of Tian Tao's mouth were a little stiff at that time, and there was no trace of a smile on his face, which made him feel that his sister seemed to be experiencing despair, and her beautiful eyes overflowed with melancholy and sadness.

And Lin Hong, who was sitting opposite, didn't say a word, and glanced at Tian Liu, who didn't know why, with complicated and incomprehensible eyes.

Although Lin Hong seemed to be calm, that day, Tian Liu saw Lin Hong's strong disgust and rejection of him from the indifferent and even a little ruthless eyes she threw at her.

At this moment, feeling that someone was watching him not far away, Tian Tao turned his face to see that the second brother Tian Liu was looking at him worriedly.

Tian Liu, who has not seen him for two years, is already a man full of ambition and high spirits in Tian Tao's eyes, and his brother who graduated from a junior college has also changed from his previous status as a worker to a cadre.

Among the eldest brother, second brother and younger brother, the eldest brother Tian Yang, who has passed away for many years, looks only four times like his father, and the eldest brother looks like a beautiful mother.

The little brother dog has no shadow of his father on his facial features, and he doesn't look very similar to his mother.

Only the second brother Tian Liu's appearance looks like a heroic father, Tian Tao suddenly seemed to see the heroic figure of his father back then.

She smiled at Tian Liuwan, and the tears fell to the ground, and the crystal tears were extremely transparent under the refraction of the moonlight.

For some reason, Tian Liu was stung by his sister's teardrop, and his heart twitched violently.

"Taotao, if you don't want to leave Xinjiang, let's not go to Lanzhou, don't force yourself, hukou or something, my brother will find a way for you." Tian Liu persuaded his sister, he had tried his best to keep her for two days.

Tian Tao wiped his eyes with the back of his hand, smiled sadly at his brother, and said quietly: "Forget it, my parents are no longer in this world, for an orphan like me, it is the same wherever I go." ”

Tian Liu also wanted to persuade his sister, but Tian Tao suddenly said resolutely: "Brother, you don't care about me, when you burn paper for your parents in the future, burn one more for me." ”

Seeing his sister's decision to break the kettle, Tian Liu had nothing to say, he sighed and walked towards the hut next to him, only to see Lin Hong standing in front of the door of the guest room of his uncle's house at some point, Tian Liu saw her hatred for herself from the bottom of Lin Hong's eyes.

And Tian Tao, who was standing next to the stable, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and smiled at Lin Hong, who was uncertain, with a little flattery and submission.

For Tian Tao, the age of flowers meets the era of the wind, the slim youth, the bleak life, the experience of the world at a young age, whether to adapt to the strong resistance to fate in society, or to sink in a low-key manner, she has always been at a loss.

It wasn't until she met Professor Lin Hong at Normal School that the wrong start, the wrong decision, and the wrong everything made her slowly depressed.

Back then, it was the faint sadness between Tian Tao's eyebrows that attracted the attention of the head teacher Lin Hong.

Before Tian Tao left Yining, she asked her brother Tian Liu to ride a bicycle and carried her to the Ili River Road, and the brother and sister walked across the Ili River Bridge.

Standing on the bridge of the Ili River, Tian Tao looked at the waves of the river and said with a wry smile: "Brother, remember, when I was a child, my father once said that before this bridge was built, if you want to cross the river, people, animals, and vehicles have to go to Yamadu to take a kind of extra-large wooden raft boat, and rely on the ferryman to paddle the ferry to cross the Ili River." ”

Tian Liu looked at the Ili River that passed through the city, the wild grass on both sides of the river was wild, the river water rolling to the west was thick and gentle, and a dozen swans not far away stretched their bodies one after another, agitating their wings and tossing up and down with the wild ducks and other waterfowl that roosted in the flock, adding vitality to the bubbling river.

"How do you remember that the Yamarto giant raft boat crossed the river so long ago?" Tian Liu looked at his sister who was thinking out of her mind, with a melancholy and sad expression.

Tian Tao looked at the mother river under the bridge that was gurgling westward, and the sunset had dyed the trees and other landscapes along the river into a golden yellow, and sighed from the bottom of her heart: "I don't know why, I have left my hometown, these days, I always think of what my parents told us before their deaths, so clear, as if it happened yesterday." ”

Tian Liu understood his sister's feelings of leaving this hot land where he was born and grew up, and he was reluctant to give up, he did not speak, and quietly listened to the sound of the river flowing.

"I don't know, in 10 years, 20 years, or even 30 years, what will the Ili River look like? Will the beautiful Ili be more beautiful? Tian Tao said quietly, tears falling.

For Tian Tao, who is in her 20s, her ancestral home in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, is just a small grid when she fills out the form.

In her heart, Xinjiang Yining will always be her hometown, the place where she was born and raised, and the hometown she cherishes.

Perhaps, there have been many things that have happened to her uncomfortable in this land, she was bullied by her classmates when she was a child, and her parents have long since died, but the --- Xinjiang Yining in the south of the Yangtze River will always be the concern of her Tian Tao for the rest of her life.

This hot land raised her, and her grandmother, father, mother, brother, and many relatives are buried here.

After many years, Tian Liu, who learned the bad news of his sister's death, cried so much that he blamed himself and despaired.

He recalled the eve of his sister's departure from Xinjiang, and he regretted and blamed himself, blaming himself for not taking good care of his only sister, Tian Tao.

Tian Tao has never returned to Xinjiang since leaving Xinjiang, and after working and living in Lanzhou for half a year, she took the local college entrance examination and was admitted to Lanzhou University with excellent results.

After graduating from university, she was assigned to work in a research institute in Lanzhou, young and beautiful, she is not only outstanding in appearance, but also has a weak temperament, just like the contemporary Lin Daiyu, with a high degree of education, and there is no shortage of suitors behind her.

For some reason, Tian Tao didn't meet the man he liked, never married, and lived with his stepmother Lin Hong in Lanzhou.

Once, when Tian Liu was passing by Lanzhou on a business trip to visit his sister, he looked at the house and almost no trace of the owner's residence, the flat sofa, the spotless coffee table, and even the shoes at the door of the house were covered with clean shoe covers.

sat in Tian Tao and Lin Hong's house for half an hour, and Lin Hong took a mop to wipe it under his feet several times.

Looking at the embarrassed brother, when Lin Hong went into the bathroom to clean the mop, her sister Tian Tao blushed and laughed at herself: "After my godmother was abandoned by her ex-husband, she was resistant to men, and she also had a habit of cleanliness, and the toilet lid in the bathroom at home was never lifted. ”

When Tian Tao was 35 years old, her stepmother Lin Hong died of cancer, and soon after, Tian Tao married a 50-year-old Chinese man with a U.S. green card, and left her motherland with her husband in a gloomy manner.

In the winter of 2019, Tian Tao, who was far away in Los Angeles, USA, died of a severe cold, and before dying, her hands were tightly clutched in the photo of her brother's family, the background of the photo was the majestic Ili River New Bridge, and the sunset reflected the beautiful and spectacular Ili River flowing westward.

When she left her life, this poor woman was still nostalgic for her hometown--- Yili, Xinjiang, a beautiful place known as "Saiwai Jiangnan......

At that time, Rong Mao, an old intellectual, had already been transferred to Urumqi City, where he served as executive vice president of a university, and he and his wife Qin Min raised three sons and two daughters.

After the eldest son, eldest daughter and second son all took the college entrance examination, they successively studied in colleges and universities in their hometown of Shanghai, and the younger daughter also enjoyed the implementation of Shanghai's policy of settling in young children in the border areas, and left Xinjiang to settle in Shanghai.

Only his youngest son Rongchang secretly joined the army without telling him and his wife, embarked on the military life he loved and longed for, stayed in Xinjiang alone, and began his lifelong career.

Rongchang, who was in his early twenties, was guarding the frontier at the moment at the Zhaosu Poma (also known as Poma, a place where the Mongolian language was defended).

Rong Chang and his comrades-in-arms of this company stationed at the foot of Khan Tengger Peak at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains never forgot the difficult years of "three camels with one pot and two shovels to live in the ground", and carried forward the spirit of military reclamation of "daring to challenge, selfless dedication, and loyalty to the border".

In the hardest and farthest place in Yili, Rongchang fulfilled the mission of guarding the border and actively participated in the border defense mission.

Whenever Rongchang rode a high-headed horse to patrol the defense, looking at the boundary monument of the border of the defense of the country, which marked the inviolability of China's sacred territory, his heart fluctuated, and the mighty air surged into his heart.

In the Boma Frontier Company guarding the border for more than two years, the organization let him participate in the military academy examination, Rongchang was admitted to the military academy with excellent results, temporarily leaving his beloved Boma Frontier Company.

Although Yi Lixian, who is nearly half a hundred years old, has gray temples, he loves education, and still works as a high school Chinese teacher in a key middle school in Yining City.

His wife Xiao An gave birth to five children, one son and four daughters, and the youngest daughter Yi Yuxin is his favorite, smart and lively.

Elixian has a very high reputation among students, not only because he has noble teacher ethics to convince teachers and students, but also because of his beautiful handwriting, so that students can enjoy beauty.

What is even more amazing is that he is not young, he can blurt out ancient poems such as Tang and Song poems, Yuan Qu, etc., and his head is praised by students as "the big warehouse of ancient literature".

He had many opportunities to change careers to work as secretaries in government agencies, and he also had many opportunities to leave Xinjiang and return to his hometown in Tai'an, Shandong, to work, but he politely declined.

Heartily, he explained to the lobbyist that if he changed to other jobs, he would deviate from the original intention of engaging in education in the frontier back then.

Having lived in Xinjiang for 24 years, Yi Lixian's hobbies are still practicing calligraphy and reading.

He didn't know how to drink, and he had only drunk twice in more than 20 years, and he got drunk as soon as he did.

One was the first letter that Uncle Li, a guard of his father's former life, mailed him after he was transferred from Xinjiang to work in his hometown of Tai'an, Shandong, in which Uncle Li told Yi Lixian about the current situation of his relatives in his hometown.

Uncle Lee said in the letter that his elderly mother, Ishshaw, who was struggling to make ends meet, lived on his annual mailing expenses.

When the local government cashed out the old father's pension, the old mother donated all the money to Tai'an City, and the old man said that the country is too poor now to make trouble for the country, and the money will be donated to the Tai'an Municipal Government for urban construction.

Yi Lixian was proud to have such an ordinary and great mother, and for the first time he took the initiative to open Yili Daqu and drank heavily, and after drinking the first cup, he was so happy that he was drunk, and he sang the children's song "I Love Beijing Tiananmen".

The second time he got drunk was the bad news of the death of his mother in his hometown at the beginning of this year, he cried bitterly and only took a sip of strong wine and got drunk again, drunk sadly, drunk with tears and repeated repeatedly, "Loyalty and filial piety cannot be both".

He is a warm-hearted and bold person, and he will also take advantage of the winter and summer vacations to take his children to help these agencies write propaganda slogans outside the walls.

In order to express their gratitude, the staff of these departments will buy some high-quality rice paper, pen and ink for him, knowing that Yi Lixian likes to taste tea, and will also buy some good quality fragrant tea as a gift.

Tian Miao, the son of Tian Kunhe's family in Guangren Township, lived in the university for four years at Bayi Agricultural College, except for the first year of living expenses of 20 yuan from his family, and the remaining time to study in school, he was self-reliant to solve the living expenses of the four years of college.

There is a freight yard three kilometers away from the school, which is a turnover station for goods sent from Xinjiang to the mainland or other parts of Xinjiang.

On Sundays, students sleep in the dormitory, visit the store in groups, play on campus, or wash their dirty laundry for the week.

Only Tian Miao in the east just when the fish belly white, a steamed bun in the pocket towards the freight yard, rain or shine all year round, to the yard to pull the goods of the driver loading and unloading goods, unloading a car of goods can earn one or two yuan, there are more vehicles for unloading, as long as you are willing to work hard, you can earn three or four yuan a day.

The smart and wise Tian Miao's weekly action of going out to earn money has not affected his studies at all, and his grades are still at the top of the class, and he is still the secretary of the Youth League branch at the same level.

Tian Miao, who is not tall, handsome, upright, and open-minded, has become the target of the girls of Bayi Agricultural College, but Tian Miao is unmoved, devotes herself to her profession, and tries her best to earn living expenses.

In Tian Miao's heart, he is a farmer from a poor family, and falling in love at school is a luxury and waste.

After many years of uninterrupted odd jobs, Tian Miao not only used coolies to solve his living expenses and travel expenses, but also bought some cloth or candy for his relatives in Guangren Township during school holidays.