When a corner of the red hijab was lifted up by the wind, Chi Xiao was walking through the mud on the tractor heading towards the wedding. Her betrothal gift had just been stuffed into her sister Chi Shanshan's schoolbag by her father - it was the tuition for her sister to study in the county town, and was exchanged for her marriage.
"Sister, you are the hope of the whole family, you should be sensible." The red cloth that her mother gave her was wrapped with half a piece of cold steamed bun. As the tractor bumped toward a strange home, she didn't know what the soldier named Chen Siwei looked like. She only knew that this marriage was the last "contribution" she could make to the Chi family as a "surplus daughter."
When she went to join the army, the wind in the military camp softened her calloused palms. When the chalk dust in the literacy class fell into her hair, she knew for the first time that she could teach others how to read. When the red cross at the health center glowed on her chest, she discovered that saving people was more satisfying than accepting fate. When the silent soldier put the military medal into her hand and said, "This should be half as good as yours." Chi Xiaoxiao suddenly understood: some debts do not need to be paid back in a lifetime; some roads can be filled with flowers even if they step on the mud.
She paved her sister's future with betrothal gifts, but quietly planted a piece of spring for herself in a place where others could not see. However, when the Chi family came to her door again and asked her to fill the bottomless pit with new "value", she tightened the stethoscope in her hand - this time, she wanted to save herself.
