Rebirth of science and technology to rejuvenate the country

At night, Yuan Xia and Yu Xingyi were lying on the carpet of the new yurt, the mutton oil lamp had been extinguished, and only the whispers of summer insects and the sound of each other's breathing could be heard.

As soon as Yu Xing came over, he hugged Yuan Xia into his arms, and couldn't help sighing: "The conditions here are so difficult, and it's not convenient to take a bath in such a hot day, why does my sister want to stay here?"

They drove all day today, and in the afternoon they helped build the yurt. It was dark after work, and they wanted to take a bath, but there was not enough water!

To go down the mountain to fetch water, the animals had to go down by themselves because they didn’t have to walk at night. In the end, they had to give up, boil water, take a shower, and change into clean clothes.

Yu Xingyi let it go, he couldn't bear to have Yuan Xia suffer like this.

Yuan Xia said: "Maybe you're used to it. People are very adaptable. My sister chose to come to Xinjiang with a passion for serving the country. She has suffered even more hardships. Now for her , it should be nothing."

Yu Xingyi buried his head on Yuan Xia's shoulder, and said sullenly: "That's why I feel uncomfortable. She has devoted herself to this place for 20 years, but she is still living this kind of life. I don't want her to suffer again. guilty."

Yuan Xia patted him on the back: "Of course I also hope that my sister can go back. But we have to be mentally prepared, she probably won't go back."

Yu Xingyi sighed heavily: "She must be worried that my brother-in-law won't be able to adapt to the mainland, why don't we go and persuade my brother-in-law?"

Yuan Xia said: "I think it mainly depends on my sister's own choice. You know, she teaches in that school and takes care of all the children by herself. If she leaves, those children will face falling out of school. My sister is the most reluctant to let go. Yes, it should be those children."

Yu Xingyi said: "But she taught for several years by herself. Although there are only a few students, one can imagine how hard it is. I am a teacher myself, and I know how difficult it is for her. It is no exaggeration to say that she has worked hard."

Yuan Xia said: "I think it's the best way to build a boarding school and bring together the children and teachers from several nearby villages together."

Yu Xingyi said, "Isn't there a boarding school in the village?"

"The village is still too far away for my sister's children. How about we donate a school? Regardless of whether my sister goes back or not, this school needs to be built." Yuan Xia suggested.

Yu Xing hugged Yuan Xia tightly: "Xia Xia, why are you so good? To build a boarding school, at least tens of thousands, will it affect the production of the factory?"

Yuan Xia said: "Twenty to thirty thousand yuan is enough to pay for it. For us, it may be a temporary difficulty, but for the children here, it may be a decision that will affect their lives."

Yu Xingyi tried his best to kiss Yuan Xia: "Why am I so lucky? I was able to find you."

Yuan Xia took the initiative to respond to him, and soon, they forgot their temporary troubles.

In the early morning of the next day, Yuan Xia and Yu Xing came together, and Trike had already brought water back. When he saw them, he nodded shyly, as a greeting.

Yu Xingyi said: "Brother-in-law, morning. I'll help you carry water."

"No need." Trik didn't ask him to help, he easily took down a 25-liter bucket with one hand, as if it wasn't a bucket, but wool of the same volume.

Seeing that Yu Xingyi was dumbfounded, he is really a strong man.

Yuan Xia came over to wash up with something, and said to Yu Xingyi: "Xingyi, your toothbrush."

Seeing them brushing their teeth, Mulati and Sonar shouted excitedly, "We want to brush our teeth too."

Sonar said: "Dad, I brought you your toothbrush too, let's brush together."

So five people, big and small, lined up to brush their teeth. The scene was quite amusing. Yu Xingyi suddenly thought that it would be great if this scene could be photographed. He put down his toothbrush, ran back to the yurt, and took out the camera: "Sister, sister, hurry up!" come out."

Yu Zhiwen was kneading dough in the room, when he heard the cry, he went out with dough still on his hands: "What do you want me to do?"

Yu Xingyi pointed to the people brushing their teeth: "Do you think this is particularly interesting? Come and take a photo of us."

When Yu Zhiwen saw it, he immediately became excited: "Yeah, did you bring your camera? Come, come, I'll take a picture for you, and you stand up too."

Mulati said, "Mom, I've finished brushing."

Yu Zhiwen said: "Continue to swipe, mom will take pictures for you. Trike, don't go, take a picture."

Trik looked at his wife, with a shy and helpless expression on his face, Yu Zhiwen laughed: "You just brush your teeth, don't worry about anything else, don't look at me specially."

While speaking, his shutter has been pressed, leaving behind this precious scene.

After washing their faces, Yuan Xia and Yu Xing took a camera and took a lot of photos for everyone, including Yu Zhiwen's family portrait, Yu Xing's brother and sister, Mulati's younger brother and sister, Yu Zhiwen and his wife, and Yuan Xia And Yu Xingyi.

The background of the photo is on the grass, in the yurt, on horseback, in the flock of sheep, etc.

The Mulati brothers and sisters liked this new toy very much, Yu Xingyi did not hesitate, and taught the little nephew how to play with the camera.

This camera is still the one left to him by his father. It is a mechanical camera. It is well maintained and its performance is still good. He has never been willing to replace it with a new one.

On this day, Yu Zhiwen didn't bring up the matter of going out, she was busy kneading dough and making food, and even rode away with Trik for most of the day, leaving Yuan Xia and Yu Xingyi to the two children for entertainment.

Yu Xingyi asked Mulati, "Where did Mom and Dad go?"

Mulati said, "They are going to bake naan."

When Yu Zhiwen and Trike came back in the afternoon, they had two big bags of naan on their horses.

Yu Zhiwen said: "Okay, half a month's rations are here, we can leave for Shawan tomorrow, and I don't worry about your brother-in-law getting hungry."

Yuanxia and Yu Xingyi are still familiar with roasted pancakes. After coming to Xinjiang, I don’t know how many times they have eaten them. They were shocked for a long time after making them for half a month.

Mulati ran over with a camera hanging around his neck and said excitedly: "Mom, uncle said, this camera is for me."

Yu Zhiwen looked up at his younger brother: "Are you kidding me?"

Yu Xingyi said seriously: "No, this was given to me by my father. I have kept it for more than 20 years. It is not broken. Now it is your turn to keep it. I hope you can keep it properly and leave more precious moments for your family. .”

Yu Zhiwen said: "But we don't have film, and we don't have a place to develop photos. It's not very useful to hold this."

Yu Xingyi said: "I will send the film to you. If there is no place to wash it, you can also send it to me. I will wash it for you."

Yu Zhiwen silently looked at the camera in his son's hand, and said, "Mulati, take it with you, don't break it."

Mulati was ecstatic: "Well, thank you mom, thank you uncle!"

Early the next morning, they set off.Trik had to take care of the cattle and sheep, so he couldn't go too far. He could only send his wife and children to the foot of the mountain, and watched them ride away on horseback. He didn't wipe his eyes until he could no longer see them.

In order to convince him that they would not leave forever, Yuan Xia and Yu Xingyi left one of the luggage bags they brought, and only carried one on their back, which contained the change of clothes of the whole group and some of the things Yu Zhiwen insisted on bringing. dry food.

Yuan Xia felt that there was no need to bring dry food, but did not object.

They rode horses from early morning to noon before finally arriving in Kalayamule Township. They left the horses at the guide's house. A group of people rushed to the station and got on the bus to Emin.

The two children were very excited and chattering, like two hundred thousand whys.

Yuan Xia was worried that they would get motion sickness, but they responded well. He probably got used to the bumps on horseback since he was a child, so the bumps in the car were nothing.

Sure enough, they didn't have time to eat at noon. They took out the naan they brought from home and ate it reluctantly to fill their stomachs.

After driving for two or three hours, the car finally arrived at Emin.In the eyes of the two children, this poor small town is already a bustling big city. They have never seen so many houses and so many people.

Yuan Xia and Yu Xingyi led the mother and son to the guest house where they stayed when they came, and went to Shawan early the next morning.

The two children looked at this huge, strange, and novel world with curious eyes, like two chicks just hatched. They wanted to explore this world, but they were terrified of all this strangeness, so they could only hold on tight. Clutching the corners of the adults' clothes.

Yuan Xia and Yu Xing took their two children to go shopping, but there was actually nothing to buy. Their destination hadn't arrived yet, so it was inconvenient to buy too many things, so they mainly bought food, which was very useful for playing. The main purpose of buying less is to satisfy children's curiosity and learn some new things.

Yu Zhiwen seldom spoke during this journey, her attention was all on the two children, and she would only dissuade Yuan Xia from spending money, but usually it was of no avail.

The two children were finally tired from shopping, hugged their new toys, and slept contentedly.

Yu Xingyi sat in his elder sister's room, and he and his elder sister looked at the two sleeping children: "Sister, are you really not going back to your hometown? Now that the educated youths have returned to the city, you are a graduate of Southern Normal University, so we can definitely arrange for you when you go back." The school teaches. The two children can go back to school, and my brother-in-law can also start a small business, isn't it good?"

Yu Zhiwen shifted his eyes from the child to Yu Xingyi's face: "Actually, I haven't fallen asleep much these two days. I have thought a lot, and it will be very good to go back. Your brother-in-law is also young. He is willing to listen to me, so he should Will agree to go to the inland with me. But if I leave, what will happen to the herdsmen who often come to us to treat their livestock? What about the children who are waiting to go to school? There is a shortage of teachers in this place, and some schools are still teaching with primary school graduates. "

Yu Xingyi showed a shocked expression.

Yu Zhiwen said: "Staying here is actually nothing to me. I feel most sorry for these two children, making them scarce in everything, like a bird in a frog cage at the bottom of a well. The world you see will always be so small. But they still have the opportunity to go out to see the outside world. What about the children here? From birth to death, they may just repeat the life of their parents, unchanged. So I want to stay, I know that my strength alone is limited Yes, but if they don’t do it, when will they have a chance to change? I chose to come to Xinjiang to build the frontier, and now the frontier has not been built, how can I just leave like this?”

Yu Xing couldn't help being moved, sure enough, as Yuan Xia said, my sister will not leave, and her original intention has never changed.

"When Mulati is older and enters junior high school, I will send him back to the mainland, and I will trouble you to take care of him for me then." Yu Zhiwen reached out to touch his son's small face with tears in his eyes.

Yu Xingyi said: "Sister, don't worry, I will take good care of my nephew."

"By the way, I forgot to ask you all this time, where is my younger brother and sister? What does she do?" Yu Zhiwen said.

Yu Xingyi smiled awkwardly: "Sister, I'm not married."

Yu Zhiwen looked at him in surprise: "I got married late, and you are not earlier than me."

Yu Xingyi said: "When I was working in the factory in the early years, I was pursued by the factory manager's daughter. It was ugly and made me fear women. I'm afraid I won't get married."

Yu Zhiwen was a little astonished: "Although our siblings are of different genders, we have suffered so similarly. It's really hard for you. But don't worry too much. I thought I wouldn't get married again, so it's still the end. I can only say that you still I didn't meet the right person."

Yu Xingyi just grinned, he has already met the right person, unfortunately it is not a woman, but a man, but he dare not tell his sister this, for fear of scaring her.

Yuan Xia was not surprised to learn of Yu Zhiwen's decision from Yu Xingyi: "It really is like this. Then before we leave, let's talk to my sister about donating to the school."

Yu Xing nodded: "Well, you can go tell your sister when the time comes."

"it is good."

Early the next morning, they drove to Shawan by car, arrived in Shawan in the afternoon, stayed in Shawan for one night, and went to Zhongjiazhuang for business the next day.Shawan is much more prosperous than Emin, and the amazement of the two children is hard to describe in words.

Yuan Xia discussed with Yu Xing that since they were all in Shawan, after finishing their work, they might as well go to Urumqi and let the two children see what a real big city looks like, and Yu Xing agreed to this proposal.

When Yu Zhiwen arrived at the regiment headquarters, he explained his purpose of coming, which really shocked all the leaders of the regiment headquarters. People who had been dead for more than ten years were resurrected?

Yu Zhiwen told the leaders repeatedly about his original experience and where he went these years.

The regiment headquarters called the people from her company to confirm, and Shan Jiayin also came with the company commander and political commissar.When Yu Zhiwen and Shan Jiayin met, they hugged their heads and cried bitterly.

The regiment really blamed Yu Zhiwen for not returning to the regiment to report after he recovered from his injury. Yu Zhiwen said succinctly: "There is no money to go back to the regiment."

The leader said: "Then you should go to the Ninth Division to find our comrades in arms, they will help."

Yu Zhiwen said: "I don't know where the people from the Ninth Division are."

The leader also had no choice. Although Yu Zhiwen left the team but did not return, she was indeed close to death, and the deaths of other teammates were not caused by her, and her return finally restored the truth of the year.

"Comrade Yu Zhiwen, what request do you have? Do you want to return to the team?" the leader asked.

Yu Zhiwen shook his head: "No, I just want to apply for an identity certificate, register a household registration, and take away my files by the way. I worked as a seventh-grade teacher in a primary school in Kalayamule Township, and I decided to go back to teach."

This request is indeed not too much. She doesn't ask to return to the team, so there is no need to arrange another job for her, and the regiment headquarters will save a lot of trouble.

Yuan Xia still asked the regiment to write letters of introduction to the Public Security Bureau and the Education Bureau of Emin County, explaining Yu Zhiwen's situation, so that she could smoothly transfer her household registration and files to Emin County.

The Education Bureau of Emin County added a normal normal university graduate for no reason. It is estimated that there is too little time for joy. Maybe Yu Zhiwen will be transferred to the county middle school to teach soon.

Now that Shan Jiayin came over to meet, Yu Zhiwen didn't plan to go back to the company to take a look. They followed Yuan Xia's suggestion and set off for Urumqi. While it was still summer vacation, they took their two children to see the world.

After arriving in Urumqi, Yuan Xia called the factory to find out what happened after he left.Liang Hongchang said that there is no major problem, but Liren Factory has been urging for new products.Yuan Xia said that if there are any surplus goods, he will send some to the other party.

Yu Xingyi also made a phone call to go back and ask for leave, because he might have to go back two days later than the school start time.

They had a good time in Urumqi for two days and bought a lot of things, including clothes, shoes, daily necessities, and a lot of books and stationery. The books and stationery were not only for the siblings, but also for the students in the school.

When Yu Zhiwen heard that Yuan Xia bought books for the school children, he was very moved, and he didn't refuse, and took everything as ordered.

As a teacher, she certainly hoped that her students would have more learning resources, but in a place where it was difficult to find paper with words, students could hardly even have textbooks, let alone extracurricular reading materials.

When they went back, they returned with a full load.

Because of a trip to Urumqi and another day's delay in applying for Yu Zhiwen's household registration and file storage at the Emin County Education Bureau, the return time was four days later than expected.

Trik was so anxious at home that he strongly suspected that Yuan Xia and Yu Xing had abducted his wife and children.

He regretted it so much that he should have gone with him, even if it was to ask someone to look after the cattle and sheep, he was too careless.

Days passed, and the person who was supposed to come back still didn't come back.He had to ask his friends and brothers to help, and everyone got together to come up with ideas, where to find someone, and even started to pool money to go out and find someone.

His brothers and friends all blamed him for being too careless. Finding someone is like looking for a needle in a haystack, how could he find it.

Just when he was about to leave, Yuan Xia and his party finally came back.

Seeing his wife and children, Trik cried and laughed while hugging them.

Yu Zhiwen looked at the unshaven husband and the messy look of the house, and reproached him: "I'm not at home these days, you've turned upside down. Are you drinking at home?"

Trik laughed, holding his lost and recovered daughter, looking at his wife and children, tears rolled out of his eyes.

Sonar wiped away his tears: "Dad, are you crying?"

Trik kissed his daughter on the face: "Daddy thinks what you think."

Yuan Xia and Yu Xing looked at each other, they must have gone crazy, they went back to their yurt to see, and sure enough, their luggage had also been turned over, although the things were still inside, they were packed in a mess .

Yu Xingyi smiled wryly: "Does he think that my sister followed us back?"

Yuan Xia said, "I'm afraid it is."

"uncle!"

The two turned their heads and saw that Trik was holding Sonar and standing at the door of the yurt, with an extremely embarrassed expression on his face: "I, I..." He didn't speak for a long time.

Yu Xing stood up and said, "Brother-in-law, I took my sister and nephew to Urumqi for two days to play, and went to Emin to save my sister's file, so I came back a few days late, which made you worry."

Trik blushed and waved his hands awkwardly: "It's okay, it's okay, I'm sorry."

Yu Xingyi said: "Brother-in-law, my sister said she won't go back with me, so don't worry, she will stay here with you."

Trik nodded happily: "Good! Good!"

Yuan Xia also got up and came over: "I hope you can accompany my sister back to her hometown in the future. She has been away from her hometown for more than 20 years and has never been back. She must be very homesick, and we hope she can go back often. Welcome to visit us! "

Trik nodded sharply: "Okay, okay!"

Counting the time, the two have been out for more than half a month, and it's about time to go back.

Before going back, Yuan Xia seriously talked with Yu Zhiwen about donating to the boarding school.

Yu Zhiwen looked at Yuan Xia in surprise: "Really? You want to help us build an elementary school?"

Yuan Xia nodded and said: "I heard that the enrollment rate of children here is very low. Some of them are from poor families, and some are because the distance is too long. Some herdsmen have been migrating, and it is very inconvenient for children to go to school. Build a larger school at the midpoint for school-age children. They can eat and live in the school, and go home once a week or a month. Teachers can also gather together and teach in grades, so that teachers They won't be so hard. What do you think, sister?"

Tears flickered in Yu Zhiwen's eyes: "If this is the case, that would be great. Xiaoyuan, it will cost a lot to build a school. I think it will cost at least tens of thousands."

Yuan Xia felt that Yu Zhiwen's understanding of prices should have been many years ago, and that 1 yuan would not be enough to build a boarding school, so he said, "It doesn't matter, I will pay for whatever. After I go back, I will remit 2 yuan to my sister first." Tell me if you don’t have enough money, if you have any excess, you can use it to buy some necessities for the children, or help some poor children.”

Yu Zhiwen held Yuan Xia's hands: "Thank you, Xiao Yuan, you are so kind, I thank you for the children!"

Yuan Xia laughed: "Sister, compared to you, I just paid some money, so what's that? You can first ask someone about the cost of building the school, or you can report to the village about the school's construction. The township government should have a plan for the school, and when the time comes to see where the site is selected, the location should be as compromised as possible.”

Yu Zhiwen nodded: "I understand, I'll do it."

As soon as Yuan Xia and Yu Xing were about to leave, the elder sister's family was reluctant to part with them and tried to persuade them to stay, but they were all busy and couldn't stay longer.

Yu Xing teased the two children: "Mulati, Sonar, go back to the mainland to go to school with uncle? Okay? We can take the plane or the train."

The two children yearn for airplanes and trains, but they are unwilling to leave their parents.

Just like that, Yuan Xia and Yu Xing bid farewell to their sister and nephew, and set off on their way home. This time, Trike personally sent them out.

Walking out of the mountains, Yuan Xia and Yu Xing turned their heads and looked around, filled with emotion in their hearts. Even though their relatives are here, they don’t know if they will have the chance to set foot on this land. Even if they do, they don’t know when the next time will be. Because it is too far away.

However, this trip can be regarded as complete, even if it is far away, it is very satisfying to have a purpose and direction to worry about, and Yu Xingyi will have a blood-related relative in this world, so his sense of loneliness will be much less.