A fifteen-year-old boy named Zhao Mingyuan went to school while collecting herbs, digging polygonatum, catching loaches, and raising two groaning pigs in the valleys of western Hunan. His sister Zhao Qinghe, three years younger than him, learned how to use plastic ropes to connect broken sandal straps, bake chicken cakes in a clay stove, and said "Brother, you have worked hard" to make him red-eyed.
Later, a girl from Beijing broke into their kitchen, squatted under a kerosene lamp and ate sour beans with them, and secretly bought Zhao Qinghe a new pair of sandals. Later, one brother and sister went to Beijing and the other to Shenzhen. Some waited for many years, some ran a lot, and some smoked clouds one after another under the big camphor tree.
Someone asked Zhao Mingyuan: "What do you want to do in the future?" He glanced at the mountains in the distance and said a ridiculous truth: "Pay off the loan first."
This is their story. I have been poor, but I have never cried; I have been tired, but I have never stopped; I have been separated, but I have never been separated.
Not to impress anyone, just to tell you——
This is how life goes, dug out with hoe after hoe.
Intention: Go up and never forget the way you came.