Su Wan, who was educated in agriculture, became the daughter of a criminal who had her house confiscated and was exiled as soon as she opened her eyes.
At the northwest border of Huangshaman Road, she was assigned to a small adobe courtyard with bare walls and a taciturn border soldier with a scar on his brow.
Everyone knew that the daughter of the guilty minister would not survive the cold winter at the border, and no one believed that she could make a good living on the land that had been deserted for three years.
But Su Wan refused to accept his fate.
They cut wood into hoes, raised ridges and ditches, and half an acre of wasteland grew full of ridges of new seedlings; dug wells to divert water, built trucks to irrigate the fields, and saved thousands of acres of young seedlings in the dry season; smoked grass to drive away locusts, and stored fresh food in the soil cellars, keeping the whole village fed and clothed during disaster years. From one person making a living to the whole village becoming rich together, she turned the bitter cold frontier into a world of fireworks.
The military man named Shen Yi talks little but always does more than he talks.
She opened up wasteland while he wielded the hoe; she rescued people while he kept vigil at night; when the wind was strong, they stood sideways to block the sand, and they held each other's hands warmly on the snowy night. He never talks about love, but hides all his tenderness in a bowl of hot porridge, a coat, and every time he comes forward.
From the initial alienation of "living together", to the promise of love under the moon and the promise of staying together for a lifetime. The loess is the matchmaker, and the stars and the moon are the witnesses. The darker the day, the stronger the love.
There are no bloody house fights or plundering.
There is only the smoke from the small courtyard at the border, the figures side by side in the fields, and the warmth of the fireworks among the neighbors.
Guarding a small courtyard can warm one's life.
Mutual trading is about to start in the spring, and the Mintun Grain Station has just opened. They will have to walk together for a long time on this long road of fireworks along the border...
