In the late 1990s, the city was booming and everyone was rushing to get to the bustling city.
The heroine Xu Qinghe grew up in a remote mountain village. She was admitted to a key university in a big city. After years of studying hard, she finally got the opportunity to stay and work in the city. Everyone thought that she would say goodbye to the barren mountains, take root in neon, and completely change her destiny.
But once I went back to my hometown to visit relatives, I saw that the isolated mountain villages had difficult transportation and lagging information. Children in the mountains had difficulty studying, special products were trapped in the mountains and no one knew about them, generations of young people desperately fled their hometown, and the villages were withering away. Looking at the continuous silent mountains, there is always a call from the bottom of my heart that lingers for a long time.
She gave up her enviable job in the city and returned to her hometown.
As soon as the news came out, criticism arose. Relatives and friends were puzzled, and neighbors questioned her. Some people laughed at her for being stupid for studying and wasting years of hard study. Conservative voices in the village hindered her at every turn. Xu Qinghe did not back down. She wanted to find a way out for the mountains that raised her.
On the way, she met Lu Zeyan, a grassroots cadre who has been rooted in the mountainous area for many years. He travels in the mountains all year round and travels on every rugged mountain road. He is calm and pragmatic, and is familiar with the difficulties and pain points of the countryside. At first, he was not optimistic about Xu Qinghe's passionate ideals, feeling that young people returning from the city could not withstand the day-to-day hardships of the mountain village.
The two went from having different ideas and testing each other to walking side by side. Build roads, assist students, discover mountain specialties, build local industries, resolve conflicts among villagers, and deal with shortages of funds, natural disasters, and external doubts. The mountain road is long, with constant setbacks. Countless times when we are tired, confused, and want to give up, the distant mountains stand quietly, as if calling.
They did not create prosperity out of thin air, but awakened the sleeping mountains little by little, retained the roots of the country, gave the children in the mountains a chance to see the outside world, and gave the hometown the confidence to retain young people.
Time flows slowly, and the barren mountains slowly come to life. Xu Qinghe finally understood that the call of the distant mountains was not the shackles that trapped her, but her innate concern.
Ideals don't all have to go to the city, taking root in the hometown is also the way back. The mountains and fields are speechless, but the mountains and rivers have faith. She responds to the distant mountains, and the distant mountains also fulfill her.
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