early morning twilight

Si Ye still couldn't hold back, got out of the car and walked towards Jin Chongshan.

The outdoor shoes rustled on the gravel.

Jin Chongshan heard the movement, turned sideways and looked towards the cliff-like place between the road and the ravine.

Si Ye wasn't sure if Jin Chongshan was angry at his assertion, and when he met Jin Chongshan's gaze, he immediately stopped and lowered his head to look away.

Jin Chongshan turned around and walked towards him, holding out his hand.

Si Ye was taken aback.

From the road down to the ravine, he can do it alone, but with someone helping him, the chance of falling is even smaller.

One of them is on the road, the other is stepping on a slope, the vast sky is behind one, and the black land is behind the other.

Si Ye looked at the white clouds reflected in Jin Zhongshan's eyes, and slowly grasped the hand that was reaching out to him.

Jin Chongshan's hands are dry and rough, but his is very soft, with only small calluses on the pulp and side of the middle finger due to long-term drawing.

After Jin Chongshan stabilized Siye's hand, his left hand covered Siye's waist and half hugged him down.

Si Ye was so tall, he came down with a lot of momentum, his center of gravity was slightly tilted, and he threw himself into Jin Zhongshan's arms.

"Be careful." Jin Zhongshan reminded.

Siye Ergen felt a little hot, "Thank you bro."

"Ah."

Jin Chongshan made a gesture to let go, but Siye clenched it reflexively.

Jin Chongshan looked at him and held him again.

The two walked to the place where Jin Zhongshan was standing before.

Siye is used to the boundless view on the plateau, and when he came to the valley, the dark brown mountains blocked his sight nearby, and the sky became very narrow, and he suddenly felt an unexplained depression.

The words that had been stuffed in my heart for a few days came to my lips again.He really wanted to clear away the fog around Jin Zhongshan.

"Brother." He was still a little flustered when he spoke, with an unknowing trembling at the end, "Did... anything happen here?"

The wind swept along the ravine, blowing Si Ye's blond hair up.

After a long time, Jin Zhongshan nodded, "Yes."

"Didn't you pass by here by chance when you rescued the uncle's son?" Si Ye looked at Jin Zhongshan's side face, "Brother, you patrolled this road on purpose and walked many, many times..."

Jin Zhongshan interrupted, "Yes."

Si Ye's heartbeat suddenly became faster, and he knew that Jin Zhongshan should tell him something.

The wind in the ravine is irregular, obviously not too strong, but when they pass by, they will still bring whimpering cries.

"Do you find it strange that Gulibayi and Kurban have a child like me?"

Si Ye swallowed his saliva lightly.

Jin Chongshan took a few steps forward and sat down on a big rock.

Looking back at Siye, he patted the place beside him.

Si Ye hurried over.

"Because they are the parents who raised me. My real parents died when I was a child."

Si Ye sat beside Jin Zhongshan, and he couldn't help tightening his fingers.

In fact, he had already had a vague guess.

It's just that now hearing Jin Chongshan say it in a calm tone, I still feel a little indescribably disappointed.

Jin Chongshan raised his hand and pointed to the front, "In winter, it snows heavily. At that time, there were many border crossers on this road. Gu Lanruzi rode a horse, and the border crossers caught were taller than her."

Si Ye thought, this Gulan Ruzi was probably Jin Chongshan's biological mother.

"Winter is the hardest time. Almost no women will go on patrol. Even if they want to go, men will not let women go."

"But Gulanruzi is different. She has studied and is a college student. She is the pride of Karakoram. Everyone listens to her."

After coming to Tajik County, Si Ye met many Tajik women.

They are beautiful and hardworking, but most of them obey the men in the family.

Standing in the rain of apricot blossoms on the Tasha Ancient Road, Gulan Ruzi gradually became clear as a heroic and confident woman.

"She had to be on duty, riding like a man, and her husband was ordered by her to stay at home in the village and take care of the young children."

Si Ye whispered, "This child..."

Jin Chongshan did not answer, and continued: "But Jin Shuming also refused to stay at home. Most of the time he drove, delivering charcoal, vegetables, and cattle and sheep to the site."

"It's not safe for a child to stay at home alone, so Jin Shuming simply took the child into the car and bumped with him in the snow-capped mountains."

Thinking back on the road he drove not long ago, Si Ye felt lingering fear in his heart.

It is summer now, and the road must have been repaired many times over the years.

In the winter of that year, how dangerous would it be for a child to follow the car?

"Jin Shuming said to the children, look, this is Pamir, the place guarded by father and mother. Isn't it beautiful? When you grow up, you will be an eagle on the Pamir Plateau."

"Would you like to protect him like dad and grandma?"

The child blinked his gray-blue eyes, and said firmly in a childish voice, "Yes!"

"The child's aunt couldn't stand it. When Jin Shuming and Gu Lanruzi went up the mountain, Gu Libai took him to his home."

"The child spent a warm winter at Gulibayi's house. At the end of this winter, Jin Shuming and Gulanruzi's car turned over a steep road and fell into a ravine."

Si Ye's heart clenched tightly.

Jin Chongshan turned his head and looked at the silent cliff and the silent road.

"Look, the ravine isn't very deep, and the slope isn't too steep. If it wasn't winter, if someone passed by, they should be able to survive."

Si Ye wanted to hug Jin Chongshan, but he knew that Jin Chongshan didn't need comfort.

"The two of them, relying on their college education, are educated, and they always go their own way. Gulibayi, Kurban, and other Tajiks have tolerated them too much."

Si Ye thought of Jin Zhongshan once said that the Tajiks do not marry other ethnic groups.

What about Gulan Ruzi and Jin Shuming?

"Brother, your parents..." Si Ye didn't know what word to use, parents?Or just call him by name like Jin Chongshan?

"How did they meet?"

Jin Chongshan smiled very lightly, "In your hometown."

Si Ye was surprised, "What?"

"Gulan Ruzi is a college student. At that time, there were not many college students in Ta County, especially when she was a girl."

"She took the test in Chengdu, and the elders in the family almost refused to let her go because of such a long distance."

But Gulan Ruzi persuaded his family to leave the isolated plateau where he had lived for 18 years and go to the strange Sichuan.

There, she met and fell in love with Jin Shuming, a boy from the Northeast who was also studying far away.

On the eve of graduation, Gu Lanruzi told Jin Shuming that she would return to the Pamirs with knowledge and asked Jin Shuming to come with her.

Tajik girls cannot marry men of other ethnic groups, but two fiery hearts are enough to break through all secular obstacles.

Jin Shuming asked: "If I go to Pamir with you, will you abandon me because of your family?"

Gulanruzi shook his head firmly, "I won't!"

Jin Shuming smiled, "Then I'll go with you."

The love between the two did not get the blessing of the family at first.

But Gulanruzi didn't care, just like he insisted on leaving his hometown to see the outside world.

At this moment, she is determined to pursue true love and bring freedom and vision back to her hometown.

Jin Shuming built a house outside the village, and the couple raised cattle and sheep, and taught the children in their spare time.

The sheep in their family are the fattest, and gradually some herdsmen come to ask them for advice.

Gulanruzi University studies agriculture and animal husbandry, and the professional knowledge is clear and logical.

Soon, the couple became famous, and there was an endless stream of people who came here admiringly.

Gu Libayi invited her parents to secretly watch the life of her sister and brother-in-law.

Jin Shu is tall and hardworking, and he is as good as a Tajik boy in his work, and he is also very kind to Gulan Ruzi.

Slowly, the family finally accepted their deviant marriage.

Gu Libai also asked Jin Shuming, "Brother-in-law, don't you want to go home?"

Jin Shuming smiled lightly, "I promised your sister that I will protect the vast land and towering snow-capped mountains for her."

Gu Libai, who was still young back then, was puzzled, "Then what did my sister promise you?"

Jin Shuming's eyes were calm and happy, "She is married to me."

In the third year of their marriage, Gulan Ruzi and Jin Shuming's first child was born, a boy.

The arrival of new members filled the home with a sweet atmosphere.

Gulan Ruzi said that when the elder brother is older, he would like to have a younger brother or younger sister.

Otherwise, my brother is too lonely, and there is no one to take care of me when I grow up.

She grew up with Gu Libai taking care of each other since she was a child. Her younger sister was her reliance when she was a child, and she will be the one she can entrust to her family in the future.

At that time, no one thought there was anything wrong with this sentence.

Until that car accident came.

Strictly speaking, Gulan Ruzi and Jin Shuming are not border guards, they just use all their spare time and financial resources to make the border guards less difficult.

After the couple agreed to go back this trip, they went to Gu Libai's house to bring their son back, slaughtered a sheep for him, roasted half of it and ate it in Sichuan hot pot.

Although neither of the two are from Sichuan, they have developed a Sichuan stomach early in the four years of studying, just like the spicy taste.

But they did not receive their son in the end.

Three days later, the search and rescue team found their cold bodies buried deep in the snow in the ravine.

After the story was told, Jin Zhongshan was calm from beginning to end, but Si Ye could not be calm.

Jin Chongshan never mentioned that the boy was himself, but Siye knew that it could only be himself.

Jin Chongshan has a pair of parents who love each other deeply, are open-minded, brave, and have great love.

But in raising children, they may not be a pair of competent parents.

Their only child was left alone in the land they loved so much.

Jin Chongshan has indeed become an eagle on the Pamirs as Jin Shuming hoped, protecting the land.

Inexplicably, Si Ye felt something was wrong.

Jin Chongshan inherited the mind and responsibility of his parents.

But that doesn't seem to be the case, at least not just that.

Si Ye couldn't help but hugged Jin Chongshan from behind.

He knew that Jin Chongshan didn't need hugs and comfort.

But he wants to do it.

Perhaps it is himself who needs to be hugged and comforted.

"The word Zhongshan was named by Jin Shu." Jin Zhongshan didn't push Si Ye's hand away, and said lightly, "I don't have a Tajik name, only this name."

"Chongshan means saying goodbye to hometown forever, overcoming many high mountains, and coming to Karakoram."

"The mountain is an obstacle in the way, and they want to climb it."

"But then someone told me that the wilderness runs toward the mountains."

"That was the first time I knew that heavy mountains can also be a destination and a destination."