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Long-term manual labor has made the lean Tian Miao cast a good body, the height of one meter six or five is very stocky, and it is a good labor force at home to go home during the summer vacation, and he can easily carry more than 100 catties of wheat bags.

This year, after graduating from university, Tian Miao was assigned to work in the Tianshan District Agricultural Branch of Urumqi City and was an agricultural technician in the unit.

Born in the countryside since childhood, he loves the land, and at the age of seven or eight he followed his parents to do farm work, and his understanding of agricultural time and the characteristics of crops is no less than that of a farmer who farms all year round.

In less than a year, he stood out among several young people assigned to the unit together, coupled with his sincerity, he never took the lead in his post, picked fat and thin, and took the initiative to ask for help whenever he encountered heavy work, which won the praise of unit leaders and colleagues.

In the second year, the unit built a staff dormitory, and assigned Tian Miao a large and a small dormitory suite, cooking in the outer room and sleeping in the inner room.

On the night Tian Miao moved into the staff dormitory, he bought a bottle of Yili Daqu, fried a plate of peanuts, and ate and drank with tears in his eyes.

A rural baby has no relationship and connections, relying on his own tenacity and hard work finally left the countryside, assigned to work in Urumqi City, and has his own world, no need to face the loess and face the sky to farm like his parents, this night, Tian Miao cried silently.

23-year-old Tian Miao has also reached the age of marrying a wife and having children, and he does not have too many extravagant hopes for his marriage, as long as he can find a city girl with a household registration in Urumqi.

Only in this way can his children truly become urban people and enjoy treatments that rural people cannot enjoy, such as being assigned a job after joining the army and being demobilized, and being assigned to work as a factory worker by taking the technician exam during the high school entrance examination......

In the blink of an eye, it was winter, it was snowing heavily outside, the weather was freezing cold, and Tian Miao did not go to the countryside, sitting in the office and reading the information on the introduction of new wheat varieties in Xinjiang.

Sister Wang in the office sat opposite, knitting a sweater with bamboo skewers in both hands, and poked her head from time to time to look at the "Xinjiang Daily" spread out on the table.

"Tuk tuk, tuk tuk--" There was a timid knock outside the office door, Sister Wang hurriedly stuffed the woolen balls and bamboo skewers in her hands into the cabinet below, closed the cabinet door, she sorted out her clothes, brushed her hair, cleared her throat, and shouted to the door: "Please come in--"

The door of the house was pushed open, and I saw a tall young woman with a long scarf around her neck, she walked into the office, glanced at Tian Miao, who was buried in the information, and greeted Sister Wang, "Sister Wang is good." ”

"Hey, isn't this Li Zi, a college student who just been assigned, what's wrong?" Sister Wang smiled and inquired and looked at the handsome girl with flushed cheeks.

Li Zi pointed to Tian Miao, who was still concentrating on reading the information, "I'm looking for Secretary Tian, no, I'm looking for Brother Tian." ”

Tian Miao was the secretary of the Youth League branch in Bayi Agricultural College, and Li Zi, a junior sister who was one year lower than him, had not changed her words for a while.

Sister Wang leaned over to Tian Miao's desk and knocked on his desk with a clenched fist, "Xiao Tian, don't look at it, see who's coming." ”

Concentrating on thinking about the new varieties of wheat, if the old man at home tries to plant them next year, the seedlings who will increase the yield were startled by the sound of Sister Wang's "dong dong" knocking on the table.

Tian Miao looked up at Sister Wang in a panic, "Sister Wang, what's wrong?" ”

As soon as the words fell, two laughter suddenly came from the small office, "hahaha" and "hehehehe".

Seeing Sister Wang, who was laughing, squeezing her eyebrows and winking at herself, Tian Miao turned her head to look, and then saw Li Zi standing next to the door covering her mouth and grinning.

Looking at this familiar eyebrow, Tian Miao hurriedly got up and said hello, "Hello, excuse me, are you ----?"

Seeing that Tian Miao, who was smiling, didn't recognize herself, Li Zi tore off the scarf he was wrapping around, revealing his entire face, and said shyly: "Brother Tian, why, if you haven't seen me for a year, you won't remember me." ”

"Yo, Li Zi, why are you here?" Tian Miao happily patted her forehead with her right hand and asked with concern, "By the way, which unit have you been assigned to after graduating this year?" ”

Sister Wang teased Tian Miao in a loud voice, "Xiao Tian, Xiao Tian, you know how to study wheat seeds, Li Zi has been assigned to work in our unit, and the unit held a meeting a while ago to introduce new colleagues, and you happened to go to the countryside." ”

Tian Miao hurriedly stretched out her right hand towards Li Zi, "Welcome, Li Zi, we are quite fated, we were partners in school, and after graduation, we became colleagues again." ”

The warm-hearted Sister Wang saw a little greasy in Li Zi's eyes towards Tian Miao, and she said loudly: "When the two of you become two, then it is called fate, and the others are all for nothing, so it is not called fate." ”

When Tian Miao heard this, she blushed and said to Sister Wang, who was watching the joke: "Sister Wang, don't talk nonsense, other girls are thin-skinned. ”

Li Zi listened to Sister Wang's words, lowered his head in shame, rubbed the corners of the scarf with both hands, and looked embarrassed.

Sister Wang is a clear-eyed person, as soon as she saw Li Zi's expression, she knew that she was interested in Tian Miao, and after Tian Miao sent Li Zi away, she pleaded with Tian Miao and hurriedly pursued Li Zi.

Tian Miao admired Li Zi, who was one year lower than herself, at school, and as a member of the propaganda committee of the Youth League branch, she not only had excellent grades and was generous, but also a kind-hearted, capable and hard-working girl.

Over the years, the unit has assigned a lot of college students, all of whom are boys, and only Li Zi is a girl.

Li Zi is 1.68 meters tall, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and he is a college student, and he has suddenly become the object of pursuit by bachelors from various government agencies and units in Tianshan District.

Tian Miao was afraid that Li Zi would be pursued by other colleagues, but he thought that Li Zi, who was three centimeters taller than himself, would dislike him for being short, and when he was hesitating, under the instigation of Sister Wang's "first place near the water", he put down his ideological baggage and planned to bombard Li Zi indiscriminately.

Li Zi, who had a crush on Ueda Miao at school, just confessed to him, and agreed to the relationship between the two with a red face.

Tian Miao was afraid that "the duck in his mouth flew", and a month after confirming the relationship, he dragged Li Zi to the Civil Affairs Bureau on New Year's Day to get a marriage certificate.

Li Zi married the man he loved in more than a month after working for more than a month, and the new house was Tian Miao's single dormitory.

Following Tian Miao into his bachelor dormitory for the first time, Li Zi looked at the two rooms, one large and one small, with a happy face, and their future home.

In the back room, there is a single bed made of wooden boards, and the bedding on the bed is still Tian Miao's supplies when she went to college, and even the washbasin, foot washbasin, tea cups, thermos and other daily necessities are still engraved with the words "Bayi Agricultural College".

It is not an exaggeration to describe the furnishings in the house with four walls, which looks like the dormitory of a technician who has graduated for more than a year.

Tian Miao's work is forty yuan a month, he won't save all the money and wait to marry his daughter-in-law, Li Zi expressed his doubts.

I saw Tian Miao scratching her scalp and sneering embarrassedly: "My salary will leave some living expenses every month, and the rest will be given to my younger brothers and sisters." ”

The eldest brother Tian Sui filled in the college entrance examination too high and was not admitted to university, he was arrogant and did not listen to Tian Miao's dissuasion, did not go to cram school, first planted a field with his parents at home for a year, and ran to Tian Miao a while ago to ask for more than 40 yuan to go back to his hometown in Jiangnan.

The second brother Tianzhuang is a sophomore at Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics, the third brother Tian Cao was admitted to the Yili Animal Husbandry School, the younger sister Tian Dou is in the second year of junior high school in the county middle school, and the father plans to send his cousin Gou Yuzi to Yining City No. 8 Middle School to go to school, so that he can receive the best education.

Over the years, in order to reduce the burden on her parents, Tian Miao has borne the living expenses of her younger siblings alone.

The salary is not low, he bears the living expenses of his younger siblings, where can he have the money to buy daily necessities?!

Li Zi took out the 120 yuan she had saved from her pocket and handed it to Tian Miao, "We are both married, we have to clean up the house decently, these three major items must also be prepared, and the salary will be paid the day after tomorrow, and our wages plus the money I saved can make up 200 yuan to buy furniture." ”

Getting married, starting a family, raising children, is the most important thing in life for Chinese, and in Xinjiang, every era of marriage is imprinted with the mark of the times.

Tian Miao heard from the elders that in the 50s, when Han people in the city with good family conditions got married, the indispensable "three major things" were playing the dongbula (a two-stringed musical instrument in Xinjiang), riding a high-headed horse, and sprinkling sugar.

In the 60s, it began to be a little particular, and the "three major pieces" of the big bed, the eight-immortal table, and the chest of drawers were quite good, and when my aunt Tian Kunrong married Buick Polati, the Buick family prepared these "three major pieces".

Due to Xinjiang's remote location and relatively lagging economic development, the "three major things" for young people to get married are one or two steps slower than the rhythm of mainland cities, or even miss an era.

In the 70s, the "three major items" of urban people in Xinjiang who were well-off were large wardrobes, sewing machines and watches.

After the 80s, the consumption level of people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang gradually improved, and the "three major items" of urban people were bicycles, radios and single-cylinder washing machines.

Tian Miao thought about it, the Yan brand bicycles that he had ridden for three years were seventy or eighty percent new, and they could still be used, and the two of them lived in the dormitory of the unit near work, so there was no need to waste money to buy a new bicycle.

But this Beijing Bailan brand single-cylinder washing machine costs 190 yuan, where is the 200 yuan he and Li Zidong scraped together.

Tian Miao borrowed 200 yuan in advance from the unit's financial office, and the couple spent 230 yuan to buy a radio and a single-cylinder washing machine.

With the rest of the money, I found a carpenter to make a double bed, tables, chairs, benches, furniture, etc., bought some tableware and daily necessities, and the two of them made new clothes.

After Li Zi's careful calculation, their marriage room has the appearance of home.

But the money is really not enough to spend, and after spending all this, he is already shy in his pocket, and when he is helpless, Tian Miao remembers going to college to make money by loading and unloading goods in the freight yard.

In order to make up enough money to buy peanuts, melon seeds, candy, and cigarettes for the wedding, he hid Li Zi and rode his bicycle to the freight yard eight kilometers away to continue working as a stevedore.

In order to create his own happy life, the young Tian Miao got up early every weekend to load and unload goods, and after he earned 20 yuan, he handed it all over to his wife Li Zi.

Looking at the handful of change in his hand, Li Zi asked Tian Miaoqian where he came from, and he had no choice but to tell the truth.

Li Zi hugged this man who was three centimeters lower than him, and she couldn't stop crying in distress, she knew that Tian Miao was the mountain she had relied on all her life, safe as a rock, standing tall.

A week before the Spring Festival, the wedding of the two was held in the staff canteen of the unit, according to the process of the wedding of the Han people in the city of Urumqi that year, the leader of the unit took the marriage certificate of the two and read it on the spot, and simply said a few words of blessing.

At this time, there was no banquet at the wedding, and the round table was placed with peanuts, melon seeds, candy, cigarettes, tea, etc. purchased by the newlyweds.

At that time, it was not popular to receive gifts for weddings, and a few visitors to the wedding pooled their money to buy some thermos, basins with the word "Xi" printed on the bottom of the basin, red quilts, bed sheets, cloths, and other daily necessities.

Of course, there are also some young people with active brains who will take a gift of three or five yuan to celebrate the couple.

Entering the cave house to make a new house was the most exciting thing that year, and more than 30 alumni of Tian Miao and Li Zi crowded the new house with one large and one small.

The naughty boy tied a piece of candy stripped of the candy paper with a thin string and stood on the square bench, allowing Tian Miao and Li Zi to bite the small piece of candy with their mouths at the same time.

In front of everyone, Li Zi was a little shy, and he didn't bite a few bites, and several boys with feather dusters and brooms behind Tian Miao saw that Li Zi didn't bite the candy, so they picked up the feather duster and broom and beat Tian Miao's buttocks.

Looking at Tian Miao, who was beaten to the point of cracking her teeth, Li Zi felt distressed and let go, she glanced at Tian Miao, and she took the initiative to gently bite half a piece of candy first.

When Li Zi closed his eyes with half a piece of candy in his mouth and shyly waited for Tian Miao to bite the remaining half of the candy, he looked at his newlywed wife's trembling eyelids and red lips slightly open and waited for him to pick them.

Tian Miao's face was slightly sideways and bit the other half of the candy with his teeth, according to the rules of the game, the two of them couldn't bite off the candy, and licked the small candy at the same time.

Watching the newlyweds kissing in disguise, the young men in the haunted cave room were so excited that they screamed or whistled loudly, and the girls were so shy that they covered their eyes with their palms, and peeked from between their fingers from time to time to see Tian Miao and Li Zi eating candy together.

Tian Miao, who was immersed in happiness, kissed her bride for the first time, with a sweet candy flavor and Li Zi's unique fragrance in her mouth, happy and intoxicated......

On the third day after the two got married, the eldest brother Tian Sui returned to Xinjiang from his hometown in Jiangnan, and when he passed through Urumqi, he stayed at the eldest brother Tian Miao's house.

At this moment, Li Zi understood the real purpose of Tian Miao's original intention of placing the bed he lived in alone in the outer cabin.

It turned out that Tian Miao, who was the son of the Tian family, was always worried about his younger siblings, and this small bed was reserved for his family.

From this moment on, Li Zi understood that as the eldest daughter-in-law of the Tian family, she was not only married to Tian Miao, but more importantly, she had to bear the responsibility of the Tian family's son with Tian Miao.