In the spring of 1985, two people came to face on a country road in northern Shaanxi. I saw a girl riding on a donkey with two long braids. The middle-aged man next to him was holding a whip to catch a horse. The girl's body is wearing a blue sweater, which looks particularly dazzling in a gray environment. The girl cried as she walked, and it turned out that she had gone to get married. And the place she was going to marry was a desert that was rarely visited. But perhaps even the girl herself did not expect that now she was weeping and weeping and marrying into the desert. In the future, it is also possible to receive a grand prize from the state.
So, who is this girl going to marry? Years later, why did she receive the national award? Is there any other hidden plot behind this simple marriage?
The girl to be married was named Yin Yuzhen, who was born in a rural area of northern Shaanxi and was the fifth child in the family. Because the natural conditions in northern Shaanxi are extremely harsh, Yin Yuzhen's family's fields can only grow some drought-tolerant crops such as potatoes on weekdays. However, this little income is never possible to feed so many people in a family. So Yin Yuzhen's father, like many fellow villagers, started to raise sheep for a living. Every year, when it was time for farming, Yin Yuzhen's father would drive the sheep to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia to graze their cattle, and then rush home when he was about to enter the agricultural busy. In this way, the cycle continues, and a year's life can barely last.
And every time Yin Yuzhen's father went to herd sheep, he would pass through a large desert. It is sparsely populated, and once Lao Yin encountered a strong wind and sand weather while walking. Fortunately, it was the local residents who struggled to rescue him, which allowed him to escape the disaster. In the small stone house of the locals, Lao Yin and the locals talked about wine. Finally, when they reached the point of the rising, they patted the table and recognized a brother who worshiped the handle. At that time, Lao Yin was very excited, first, he wanted to thank this old brother for saving his life, and second, he also wanted to consolidate the friendship between them and form a "good qin and Jin". Therefore, Lao Yin set up a marriage for Yin Yuzhen without obtaining his daughter's consent. In the future, even if it is more difficult and difficult, the old Yin family will definitely not regret this marriage.
In this way, a few years later, Yin Yuzhen grew up and reached the age when she should get married. At that time, the trend of "free love" began to prevail among young people. In fact, Yin Yuzhen already had her own good object in her heart. However, the father Lao Yin is unusually stubborn, and does not allow his daughter to engage in free love. He even said harshly: "If you still recognize me as a father, you must marry him." Although our family is poor, our family can't do that repentant thing. "That's it, my arms can't twist my thighs." Even if Yin Yuzhen had a hundred unwilling in her heart, she had to obey her father's words and marry her.
At that time, when Yin Yuzhen got married, she only brought some necessary daily necessities and a donkey. On the way, Yin Yuzhen cried all the way, and her father Lao Yin did not comfort her, but repeatedly urged her to go faster, don't miss the time. After arriving at the destination, the father only briefly explained two sentences like "the girl who married out, the water that was spilled", and then he did not even leave the happy wine to drink, so he went back alone, leaving Yin Yuzhen alone in this strange desert.
At the beginning, although Yin Yuzhen married, her heart was still very unconvinced. Her heart is still obsessed with the good friend in her hometown, always thinking about the day when she can escape, and then go to him. For this reason, on the first night of marriage, Yin Yuzhen was very repulsive to her husband. Dead or alive are reluctant to let the other person touch themselves. When the groom saw that Yin Yuzhen was so resistant, he did not embarrass her, so he had to carry the bunk to another room to sleep.
However, since Yin Yuzhen was married, even if she didn't want to, she still had to work hard for this new family. To this end, during the day, Yin Yuzhen washed clothes and cooked at home, and at night, she had to go to the sheep pen to turn around and clean up the sheep pen. After everything was taken care of, the exhausted Yin Yuzhen could go to bed.
Four months after Yin Yuzhen got married, her father Lao Yin came again. This time it was because Yin Yuzhen's mother was not at ease with her daughter's life and deliberately let her husband come and see it. Lao Yin looked at his daughter's sand-worn hands and couldn't help but cry with emotion: "Baby! You suffered. ”
Yin Yuzhen obviously did not appreciate her father's concern: "Now that I know that I have suffered, you insisted on marrying me in the first place." Why didn't you think about it for me then? ”
In the end, Lao Yin's trip to visit the daughter was also unhappy and dispersed because of Yin Yuzhen's rejection. As soon as Yin Yuzhen saw that there was no hope of going back, she honestly stayed. After that, she can only be with the poplar in the desert. Looking south, it was a long stretch of yellow sand, and it was also her hometown that she could never go back to.
Because Yin Yuzhen was forced to marry, Yin Yuzhen certainly had no feelings for her husband. She always seemed resistant every time her husband was with her. Only later, her father, Lao Yin, sent a letter to Yin Yuzhen, persuading her: Daughter, when she gets married, she will have children. If you think about it, if you get married and don't have children, and you get old and can't move, who will raise you again? Yin Yuzhen slowly gave up resistance and began to confess her fate.
In the third year after marriage, Yin Yuzhen finally became pregnant. Although she became pregnant this year, she also found a new hobby - "planting trees". When she married, it was full of yellow sand and the environment was very harsh. Now that he can't go back, the child is about to be born. Yin Yuzhen felt that she had the responsibility to leave a beautiful environment for future generations. So the reforestation project began.
Other pregnant women will be happy, sleepy, and unable to get out of bed all day long after pregnancy. But these situations Yin Yuzhen had not experienced. Not only does she have a great appetite, but her sleep is also delicious. Even often a person carrying saplings to a place more than twenty miles away and then loading them up, this time back and forth for dozens of miles, Yin Yuzhen walked effortlessly.
Because she was too tired when planting trees, Yin Yuzhen's first child was suddenly premature when she was only eight months pregnant. Fortunately, Yin Yuzhen was at home at that time, plus her husband and mother-in-law found out in time, which did not worsen the situation, and finally the mother and son were safe. After a long period of cultivation, Yin Yuzhen's body finally returned to normal.
After more than a year, Yin Yuzhen became pregnant with her second child. Only this time, her child was not so lucky. On the way to plant a tree, Yin Yuzhen swooped down and fell. As a result, symptoms of miscarriage appear. There are no doctors in the desert. In the end, Yin Yuzhen climbed up with her own willpower, but her child lost the opportunity to come to this world forever.
Yin Yuzhen sat in place and cried with her dead child in her arms. She hated herself for not taking good care of her children, and she hated such a harsh environment and weather even more. Facing the child's body, Yin Yuzhen had only one thought in her heart: we must have more than one kind of tree to protect the environment here. Only in the future will there be no such tragedy!
Back at home, Yin Yuzhen told her husband the news of her miscarriage in the desert. The husband was also shocked in addition to his grief. Yin Yuzhen, a woman who looked weak and couldn't help the wind, was actually able to walk back from the desert by herself in the case of being injured, which should also be regarded as a blessing in misfortune. Then, Yin Yuzhen persuaded her husband to plant trees with him in the future. It just so happened that the state had a policy to plant trees in a large area and return grazing land to grassland. Planting trees can also bring considerable economic benefits to Yin Yuzhen's family. Therefore, the husband also joined the team of planting trees
By 2000, Yin Yuzhen and her husband had completed more than 40,000 acres of sand control. Local cadres also specially inspected the results of Yin Yuzhen and his wife's sand control. After they returned to the unit, they immediately reported the deeds of Yin Yuzhen and his wife, which finally attracted everyone's attention.
The following year, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region sent a special delegation to Yin Yuzhen's home to study sand control work. And decided to award Yin Yuzhen the honorary title of "Model of Sand Control". At the same time, television stations and other media in various parts of Inner Mongolia have carried out a lot of reports on Yin Yuzhen's deeds. A woman in a desperate situation, but still does not forget her mission of planting trees and controlling sand, how much courage and determination it takes! Ask ordinary people, who can do it?
In 2003, SARS swept the country. Many businesses are facing operational crises. Xie Meiying, a female entrepreneur from Hohhot, learned about Yin Yuzhen's sand control deeds on TV and was deeply attracted to her. A woman, because of the pain of planting a tree and falling, also lost her child. Compared with him, what is the difficulty he is encountering now? So Xie Meiying also specially rushed to Yin Yuzhen's home to learn to plant trees with her, and talked to her about her life experience by the way.
"I feel like I see the future direction of my career in these trees." Xie Meiying was very excited afterwards and said to the employees in the company: "There I realized the value of life, and it turns out that a person's career can really be combined with the cause of the country." We ordinary people can also do something more meaningful! ”
Today, Yin Yuzhen not only continues to plant trees to control sand, but is also a deputy to the People's Congress of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Her methods and experiences in sand control have been extended to more arid areas across the country, turning more deserts into oases. Yin Yuzhen said: "Controlling sand and planting trees is to do good things for future generations, I did suffer when I was young, but I also hope to do something good for them." Even if I did a little bit, my whole life was valuable. ”
Yin Yuzhen's story is actually the epitome of countless sand control heroes. They struggle on the front lines of the battle against the wind and sand. Even though he was tortured to the end, he still refused to back down. Perhaps, this is the spirit of sand control. This is also the best embodiment of our national spirit and national strength.
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"Yin Yuzhen: The Cow of the Widow"" communist party member
"Yin Yuzhen, the "Hero of the Towel" who Controls The Sand", the story of party building