«——【 ·Preface· 】——»
In 1985, Yin Yuzhen, who was not yet 20 years old and was in her prime of youth, was married by her father to a desolate and silent desert.
Unexpectedly, 15 years later, Yin Yuzhen received an award from the state, and solemnly and respectfully called her the "Queen of the Desert".
Yin Yuzhen, who doesn't know a few big characters, why was she able to win the national award? What did she experience?
«——【 ·嫁到沙漠· 】——»
In that era when marriage matters were subject to the opinions of parents, Yin Yuzhen's father hurriedly married off his 19-year-old daughter, and learned from his father that the person named Bai Wanxiang had a calm personality and worked diligently, Yin Yuzhen was very curious and readily agreed to the marriage.
After packing her luggage, Yin Yuzhen followed her elderly father and a horse to the depths of the desert, Yin Yuzhen wore simple clothes and tied double ponytails, and her heart was full of anticipation for her husband and marriage.
But the road is far away and it is difficult to see the end, and there is yellow sand all over the sky as far as the eye can see, such a harsh environment makes Yin Yuzhen more and more flustered, and suddenly sees a "soil nest" of less than 5 square meters, and she is puzzled what this thing can do.
But at this time the father stopped in front of the nest, which was really just a hole dug in the back of an undulating slope of sand, supported by a few solid sticks, and covered the sand with weeds and branches.
Yin Yuzhen is like five thunderbolts, she doesn't want to believe that what she is going to live in front of her is the place where she will live for the rest of her life, there are no people around, no plants, only endless sand, even if Yin Yuzhen was born in a poor family, she can't accept it.
When Yin Yuzhen was still in various intertwined emotions such as shock, unwillingness, and resentment, her father drove her off the horse, left her with the burden, and left.
Yin Yuzhen's resentment against her father was held back in her heart, crying vigorously, and after two days, she decided to escape from this unbearable place.
But on the third day of the wedding, the door of their house was blocked by the desert, and she hurriedly dealt with the problem, then turned back to vent her emotions, and worked with her husband to cut the sand open.
She ran for a long time and lost her way in the desert, and she completely understood that it was difficult to get out of this desert by her own strength, even if she tried several times in succession, her hands and face were once blown apart by the wind, sand and dust, and she never saw the hometown of thousands of lights.
For children from poor families, in addition to living tiring and poor, living in the desert is also lonely, and she is depressed all day long and has no outlet for emotional release.
After 4 months, the father thought that his daughter might be able to forgive himself and accept life in the desert, and when he came to his daughter, he saw a completely different daughter from his impression.
His eyes were dull, he was thin, his face and hands were full of scars from the wind and sand, and all his father's guilt was at its peak at this moment, and he regretted why he had let his originally cheerful and sunny daughter marry here.
Yin Yuzhen was very surprised to see her father suddenly come here, and thought that her father would take her away, but this emotion was quickly filled with the suffering and grief of the past few months.
With tears in her eyes, she questioned angrily, "Why did you marry me here!
After returning home, the father thought about his daughter's situation every day and regretted his choice, coupled with liver disease, he lost his life.
No matter how Yin Yuzhen complained about her father, she still couldn't calm down for a long time when she heard the bad news, and she cried loudly and regretted why she didn't cherish the time when she met her father for the last time, and asked her father to pass away with guilt.
The departure of her father made Yin Yuzhen completely change her mind, and she wanted to follow her father's arrangement before his death and stay in this place to run her own life.
«——【 ·种树战沙· 】——»
Half a year has passed, Yin Yuzhen has been able to adapt to the local environment more freely, but after all, she has married here, and she will inevitably have children in the future.
In the face of such a harsh environment, Yin Yuzhen once thought of using her own strength to change and plant fruits and vegetables, but the next day she would be flooded by the ruthless wind and sand and disappear without a trace.
After all, Yin Yuzhen can live tenaciously in such an environment, her heart is so strong that the more she is suppressed, the more she will break through the ground, and she is bound to plant trees in this endless desert!
So without saying a word, she took her husband and the family sheep out to buy saplings at dawn the next day, and she planted 600 saplings regularly in a place near her home.
Carefully watering at a fixed time every day, every time she sees a vibrant, green plant taking root in this bleak desert, her heart throbs a little more, and her determination is a little more.
Although she tried hard to take care of the final survival rate was only 10%, as long as she could survive one, it was a great support for Yin Yuzhen.
The persistence in Yin Yuzhen's heart is the struggle for her unfair fate, the obsession with her deceased father, and the expectation for the future growth of her children.
Yin Yuzhen is very persistent in planting trees, full of inexhaustible vitality, within 3 months opened up a nearly 5,000 meters of canal in the desert, nearly 20,000 cubic meters of sand and soil transported back and forth within 1 year, planting nearly 6,000 willow trees, behind the incredible numbers is Yin Yuzhen's persistence day and night.
But success did not happen overnight, in the unpredictable desert, Yin Yuzhen's achievements were completely wiped out, the canal became a trench print, and the willow trees were swept away by the wind.
Year after year, from the initial 100 trees to 400,000 trees, Yin Yuzhen has really managed to eat the food she has grown by herself in the desert.
Yin Yuzhen has adhered to this road for 15 years, and the area of sand control has reached 40,000 mu, which has attracted the attention of all walks of life and local leaders, and awarded her the honor of "model of the times".
In addition, Yin Yuzhen has also established an "Oasis Ecological Park" in a desert, where nearly 500 sheep and 40 cattle have been raised as of 2021.
With her success, the people around her seemed to see hope and took the initiative to join the work of wind and sand control, and she also influenced her children to study agriculture and forestry when they grew up.
In Yin Yuzhen's model of "raising agriculture with forests", she became a large grain grower, leading the villagers in her hometown to get rich, so she was named a national model worker representative, and people affectionately called her "Queen of Sand Control".
«——【 ·Childhood Life· 】——»
Yin Yuzhen's parents are simple farmers in Shaanxi Province, and their home is very close to the grassland, and they will herd sheep on the grassland after they are busy with farm work.
Yin Yuzhen has a total of 6 children in the family, she ranks fourth, although the family is not well-off, but her parents love her, her brothers and sisters are harmonious, and she spent a happy childhood in a loving family.
Yin Yuzhen was sweet and well-behaved when she was young, smart and clever, liked to sing and dance, and was proficient in cooking and other housework and needlework when she was a teenager, and she could be called a good wife that men want to marry back home.
But the man who came to the door didn't really impress the father's willingness to marry off his precious daughter, and things took a turn for the better soon after.
Yin's father suddenly encountered bad weather in the process of herding sheep, and he tried to distinguish the direction of going home when the road was far away, but he crawled for a long time with a leg injury, just when he thought that his life was hanging by a thread and was about to faint.
He found the only family in the desert, and it was Yin Yuzhen's husband's father, Brother Bai, who saw that Yin's father was lost and exhausted, so he took the initiative to send food and water, so Yin's father was able to live.
The friendship between men is pure and fiery, and this life-saving grace is really precious to Yin's father, and after recuperation, he hurried to Brother Bai's house, and the two talked happily and became close friends.
Soon after, Yin's father went out to shepherd sheep again, he specially brought food to talk to Brother Bai, and when chatting, he found that Brother Bai could not live for a few years because of his body, but his son's marriage has not yet been settled.
Yin's father, who was very fond of kindness, even thought of his fourth daughter, the filial and sensible Yin Yuzhen agreed to this marriage.
«——【 ·Conclusion· 】——»
Yin Yuzhen's hard-working and perseverance is worth learning from each of us, and her footprints are all over the desert land, writing a legendary story.
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