On a sunny afternoon, a man wearing a straw hat is leisurely herding sheep. Suddenly, the calm earth set off wind and sand. The wind and sand soon became a sheep's height, and the progress of both man and sheep was greatly hindered.
It was the middle of the 20th century, and the sheep in men's hands were his entire fortune. I would rather lose my life in this vast desert than lose my flock, which is related to the life and death of an entire family. The man tugged the grass knuckle on his head, looking at the sheep while moving forward against the wind and sand, slowly advancing.
Soon, the wind and sand spread again. Yellow sand wrapped around the dirt, blurring the line of sight from a meter away. Looking up does not know where the sun is, looking down does not know the road in front of you, how to move forward. The shepherd was lost, he had lost his way in this vast desert.
He drove the sheep aimlessly and walked through the desert. Yellow sand quickly swept through his original footprints, and for a moment, the ground under his feet did not know whether to come or return.
The man fell into extreme panic, and if he still could not get out of this vast desert, he was likely to die in the desert due to lack of water and food. At this time, the appearance of a person, like the salvation brought to him by heaven, led him out of this vast desert.
This is an old man with the surname Bai who has survived in this desert for a long time. He can understand how to discern the direction in the yellow sand and escape in the desert. Yesterday he happened to be working on this desert when he met this man who was lost in the desert. At a glance, I knew that this person was lost in the desert, and the old man surnamed Bai was a very simple and enthusiastic person, and hurried to talk to the man in front of him, saying that he would take him out of this desert.
The old man with the surname Bai is the last straw for the man lost in the desert. Men have no other choice but to listen to him. He followed the footsteps of the old man in this endless desert and walked out of this desert one deep and one shallow.
The old man was very enthusiastic, and now the man who was lost, went back to his home to rest. Gave him something to eat and drank water. The lost man was also a grateful man, and he knelt down on the ground straight to thank the old man for saving his life. From this day on, the two people became friends of life and death.
And this man lost in the desert is the father of the protagonist we are going to introduce today.
Today's protagonist is named Yin Yuzhen, born in an ordinary peasant family in Shaanxi. Yin Yuzhen's family is large, and she ranks fourth among her siblings. A girl born in the middle of the ranks is the least likely to be valued by the family.
Yin Yuzhen's family conditions are not very good, and the opportunity to study is left to boys. English was really old enough to go to school, and his parents did not go through the enrollment procedures for him. Thinking that a girl should help with some housework at home, taking care of her brother is enough, reading so many books, is not also for others to read.
Yin Yuzhen also grew up in such a family education, and she did not feel that there was anything wrong with it. What is the difference between Yin Yuzhen and ordinary people? That is the hands and feet of this little girl, a special Liso, a guy at home, and the inside and outside of the house are very open. Yin Yuzhen's personality is also particularly good, and the neighbors will often greet each other when they meet, and everyone's impression of this little girl is consistent. Many people also want to please such a daughter-in-law, but as everyone knows, Yin Yuzhen's marriage event has been entrusted to pay for it in a liquor bureau.
Since the establishment of diplomatic relations in the desert that day, this old man surnamed Bai and Yin Yuzhen's father have often met. The two of them personally cooked a few small dishes, laid out two pots of small wine, and complained while they were slightly drunk.
"Brother, you said that my family is so poor, how can my son get a daughter-in-law in the future?"
The old white man said nothing about the liquor in his glass, sighed a long breath, and pulled his eyes into the distance.
Seeing that his savior was so sad, Yin Yuzhen's father stepped forward and patted his brother's shoulder.
"My family has a lot of daughters, and I matched a matchmaker to make a daughter-in-law for your child."
The wine was on the head, and neither of them had considered it that much. One did not consider his own difficulties, and one did not consider the difficulties of other people's homes. Just between the collision of cups and cups, the affair between the two families is settled.
Fast forward to 1985, and it was time for the two families to marry the old man. Yin Yuzhen's father wandered around the house for a long time, and finally saw his fourth daughter, Yin Yuzhen, who was 19 years old this year, and it was the age of marriage that he took a big stride to his daughter.
"I told you about a family affair, and in a few days I'll take you to your husband's house to have a look."
At that time, it was common to get married at the age of 19 in the countryside. Yin Yuzhen did not have any twists, looking at her childhood playmates, some people had already hugged the baby, she did not think about it, she agreed to her father's request.
Yin Yuzhen was still immersed in the joy of entering the marriage hall, completely unaware that in her father's side-tapping words, she sometimes revealed the information that the man's family conditions were not good.
After a few days, Yin Yuzhen set off with her father. On the way forward, his father told him many times that the man's home was relatively remote. But Yin Yuzhen did not grasp the focus of the information at all, thinking that no matter how remote it was, where could it be remote?
But the road is like there is no end, keep going, keep walking. Gradually out of Yin Yuzhen's cognitive range, he walked to a place where there were few people.
It was a vast desert, and when my father said that when they got married, there was only one thatched hut made of thatch. Rustled under the wind and sand, and the house looked crumbling.
Yin Yuzhen had always known that her father was eccentric, but she had never imagined that her father hated himself so much. Since he couldn't bear to marry himself into such a person's family, Yin Yuzhen looked at his father with tears in his eyes.
Yin Yuzhen's father did not understand that every tear in Yin Yuzhen's eyes was telling something, he just stood quietly in the same place, waved his hand, and said to his daughter in a hoarse voice:
"This will be your home from now on."
Just this one fluttering sentence blew away in the wind wrapped in the yellow sand of the desert without a trace. Yin Yuzhen's tearful eyes were filled with tears, and she only saw her father's back. Father was gone, along with the last glimmer of hope she had left.
When he came to this desert, the white old man had died for physical reasons. At this time, only his son Bai Wanxiang was left in the family. Bai Wanxiang is a humble and simple person. He was not likely to speak, and there was a silly smile on his dark face. He put on a smiling face and took the initiative to talk with Yin Yuzhen, but Yin Yuzhen looked at the unknown man in front of him and was angry. Yin Yuzhen did not pay attention to him, and quietly hid to the side, using a brief silence to numb the facts in front of him.
Gradually, Yin Yuzhen found that this man did not have any transgressive movements towards her, and began to gradually let go of the guard in her heart. The house in Bai Wanxiang's home is really too broken, the wind and sand are slightly larger, and the house will be rebuilt. Yin Yuzhen looked at the busy man in front of her and took the initiative to go up and take the handle. The two officially began talking.
The relationship between the two began to ease, but it was not really a couple. But this desert day was really too difficult, and Yin Yuzhen couldn't understand why there was more than one daughter in the family, and her father only married her here. She tried to escape many times, but each time to no avail.
The road here was too strange, and Yin Yuzhen, who had just arrived, couldn't deal with it at all. And the water source you carry with you has become a problem, and it is impossible to go home. At this time, Yin Yuzhen's father came to this land again.
After all, the father is still the father, and there is still some guilt in my heart. He could only turn his guilt towards his daughter into practical action, and he also brought some supplies to his daughter from his already poor home. But looking at her father's current attitude, Yin Yuzhen was even more angry. Because his father meant that he should not have the idea of escaping home, or he should stay in this place and live with Bai Wanxiang!
Later, the depressed father suffered from liver disease. The disease never arose again, and the trainee was a magical thing, with broken bones and tendons attached. There was such a deep hatred between father and daughter, and when she heard the news of her father's death, Yin Yuzhen rushed back and lay on her father's body and cried.
It was precisely because of this sudden separation that Yin Yuzhen completely dispelled the idea of escaping from this desert, and he decided to live a good life with the generous man in front of him. From that day on, the two went from being husband and wife in name only to being a real couple.
But the days in the desert are too hard, and they can only survive with the sami that grows in the desert every day. There is wind and sand on all sides, and there are no fields to cultivate and no water sources. Ten thousand tall buildings rose to the ground, yin Yuzhen made a bold plan. She wanted to change the backward landscape of the place with her own hands.
The most valuable property of her husband's family was the only two sheep. Yin Yuzhen and her husband began to plan to sell one of the family's sheep and use the money from the sale of the sheep to buy some saplings to come back.
Watching the small green saplings being moved into the home, Yin Yuzhen and his wife also showed a hopeful smile on their faces. Against the scorching sun in the desert, they rooted small green saplings in the soil. Sweat slipped from his face and splashed on the ground in a nice splash.
It took some time for the two to finally get the 600 saplings one by one. But the day after the saplings were planted, a large wind and sand blew in the desert. After the wind and sand, only more than 100 of the 600 saplings remain.
Yin Yuzhen thought that the survival rate of saplings in the desert could not reach one hundred percent, but he did not expect that the actual damage was so huge. These 100 saplings could not satisfy Yin Yuzhen's desire to change his appearance here, and at this time, he was facing a dilemma.
Do you give up the idea of planting trees and continue living a life that remains the same, or do you try your best to fight. Yin Yuzhen struggled for a long time and finally chose the latter. She borrowed some money from her mother's family, then bought another 1,000 saplings, and once again planted these saplings in the desert with her husband's hard hands.
When trees are planted, water is diverted. The couple dug a four-kilometer-long water diversion canal with their own hands, and they used their shoulders to build the water diversion canal. But the length of the diversion canal is still not long enough, and the blockade quickly covers the canal, so that so many days of efforts have been wasted.
The couple still did not give up, and they planted windproof crops on the edge of the water area. They continue to lengthen the canals, and they want to fight with their own hands against the harsh natural environment. But they are too small to see the magic of nature. Their newly enacted aqueduct encountered stronger wind and sand and was also buried.
Their newly planted saplings were also depleted, and Heaven rubbed the last endurance of these two men with suffering. But the two of them were like the savage crops growing in the desert, even if the conditions were difficult, they had to work hard to live out the color. They are very tenacious, and they have never given up the idea of planting trees here.
The couple watched as their family's savings were depleted and went out to work. The two men were also strange, they only needed a mouthful of food, never charged labor fees, and these labor fees were replaced by them for saplings.
If one sapling is not enough, then use a hundred saplings, if a hundred saplings are not enough, use a thousand saplings, and if a thousand saplings are not enough, use ten thousand saplings. Persistence will surely lead to the ultimate victory.
The two of them have a wise saying:
"I'd rather plant trees and die of exhaustion than let the sand bully to death."
Even after giving birth to a child, Yin Yuzhen is still struggling in the front line. He remains with her husband for the ideals of their hearts. Soon after, Yin Yuzhen became pregnant here, which was her and her husband's second child. But the English was correct, did not think so much, even if there was a new life in her belly, she was still fighting with this wind and sand.
But his body could not withstand such torture, and the child could not withstand it, and after accompanying his mother to make up for alcohol, he could not open his eyes and see the world, and he left again. The child was gone, but Yin Yuzhen could not fall. Instead, he dismissed her husband and asked her to work with her to make changes for the desert.
Kung Fu pays off, and there is always some contention in these saplings. They take root in this wind and sand, they resist the new wind and sand, they refuse the desert to continue to spread.
In 15 years, Yin Yuzhen and her husband planted a total of 400,000 acres of sand. And the environment here, because the persistence of these two people has also changed dramatically.
The state also learned of this news, and the state recognized his contribution to the country and specially awarded her various honors. Good news will also spread abroad, and Yin Yuzhen was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. This illiterate rural woman is linked to the Nobel Peace Prize, which many people have never reached in their lifetime.
It is not as beautiful to be born as beautiful to live. Life has given Yin Yuzhen all kinds of tribulations, but she always firmly believes that my fate is up to me. Relying on your own hands, you can live the brilliant life you want!