i will dream about you

on the water side

I forgot to say goodbye to you

I didn’t even look back at you.

Let you gradually become cold and rotten

no burial

no tombstone

once

I struggle to leave you

past past

all stay

That black Gobi

I look around

Hearing in a trance

The distant camel bells

but also saw

Hope when setting off

empty dusk

my love

Gradually become stars in the sky

vague and distant

This is a poem posted by Yaoyao's last circle of friends half a year ago. The photos in the nine-square grid are all autumn scenery in the Kashgar countryside, including poplar trees, reed swamps, golden-red apricot forests, and golden deserts.

All the photos have gold as the main color, and they should have been processed by image software. The middle photo is the back of a row of bungalows, a long row of flat-roofed brick houses, with a lot of germanium-red wall peeling off.

, it looks a bit mottled in the autumn sunshine, and all the windows look dark.

There are three huge elm trees growing together in front of the bungalow. The crown of the elm trees is round and looks like a big ball. The leaves on the trees have fallen off, and you can see many bird nests. In front of the trees

It was a piece of green grass. On the edge of this grassland, there was a flat field bank, and a girl with a bright smile stood on the field bank, her hands in her trouser pockets.

This girl is my girlfriend Yaoyao. She has long flowing black hair, fair and smooth skin, and no bangs. The hair on her forehead is combed back and pinned with clips. There should be a ponytail on the back of her head. There is no visible hair hanging down.

On the shoulder. She was wearing a small black suit, a white shirt with a ruffled collar, jeans and white sneakers.

This is the fifth of the Jiugongge photos, and it is also the only one with Yaoyao in the nine photos. In the fall of half a year ago, Yaoyao sent me another WeChat voice message after updating the circle of friends.

"Uncle, I promised you to see my photo, please hurry up and see it. If there are too many likes, I will delete it."

"Chengqian, the autumn sunshine in Kashgar is so beautiful. I originally wanted you to take a look at my dormitory. She is at the third or fourth window on the left behind me. Unfortunately, it is dark. That is the boudoir of this fairy."

"Dasha, I'll leave you a voice message first. You can give me a voice message after get off work in the evening! Look at the green field under my feet. This is winter wheat. When next summer comes, there will be a golden wheat field behind my house."

In the past six months, I have often looked at Yaoyao's circle of friends, but I have never dared to listen to this message. In my WeChat, under this message is a record of our video call that night.

I have forgotten what I said to Yaoyao in the video call that day, but I remember that Yaoyao was still very happy to tell me about her life and work. Yaoyao said that the huge spherical tree is an elm tree. From a distance,

It's one tree, but when you look closer, it's actually three trees growing together.

She said that the winter wheat was green and cute. At first she thought it was grass. She also wondered why grass was planted when it was cold and why lawns were planted in the ground. After asking, she found out that it was winter wheat. She told me,

I hope I can visit Kashgar, the countryside in Kashgar, and the lovely children she teaches.

All the beauty was fixed on that day, that day was Friday, and the next day was Saturday. In my heart, I lost the past, present and future on that day.

On Saturday, I used to sleep in. When I was confused, my phone rang. It was a push notification. There are not many apps that I have set up that can push notifications and send reminders. They are all the ones I think are important. I picked up the phone and took a look. It was an earthquake monitoring report.

The software pushed a message, and after a quick glance, it was that a 4.8-magnitude earthquake had occurred in Bostantelek, dozens of kilometers away from Kashgar.

Thinking that the area was an earthquake zone, the earthquake monitoring APP always reported one or two low-level earthquakes every day, so I didn't care. Since Yaoyao went to Kashgar, I regard the earthquakes in Kashgar and surrounding areas as the special features of this software.

In the incident area, whenever there is an earthquake of level 2 or higher within 500 kilometers around, my mobile phone will receive a notification with sound and vibration. And because I care about Yaoyao, I also read every one of them, such as the magnitude, epicenter, population situation, etc.

Everyone will read it.

A few minutes later, I lost my sleepiness and looked at the time. It was already ten o'clock in the morning. I had slept for a long time and I hadn't slept so late in a long time. I sent Yaoyao a video call request, and she

There was no answer, so I called Yaoyao's mobile phone again, but no one answered.

"Perhaps, she is already teaching the children." I thought this way. Yaoyao told me that the local education people are very hardworking, in order to improve the children's grades and to prevent the children from being idle at home for a long time.

In order to prevent children from learning bad ideas outside of school, they often attend classes continuously and do not rest on weekends and holidays. Instead, they play and study with the children.

During the year when Yaoyao came to Kashgar, apart from coming to Shanghai to participate in the National Commendation Conference, she only had three days of rest during the Spring Festival. It is normal to only have one or two days of rest or no rest in a month or two. I used to feel very distressed for this.

Yaoyao, I advised her to come back as soon as her one-and-a-half-year teaching period is over. I know Yaoyao likes Kashgar very much, and it is impossible for her to come back early. Therefore, both of us avoid talking about long-distance relationships, and occasionally we talk about it.

Yaoyao mobilized me to go and have a look. She first used her vacation to visit Kashgar. She thought I would also like Kashgar.

After washing up, I checked WeChat and saw that Yaoyao's colleague Tong Huawen had updated her circle of friends a few minutes ago, saying that she felt the shaking of the earthquake and that everyone was safe. It was just a small earthquake, which reassured her family and friends.

Now, I felt even more relieved. It seemed that like all the previous small earthquakes, it was only an earthquake level and had no catastrophic consequences. Because I was worried about disturbing Yaoyao’s lessons for the children, I didn’t call Yaoyao again.

I'm waiting for Yaoyao to call when it's convenient.

The wait has already reached the afternoon, which is abnormal. According to Yaoyao's character, she will call me back during her break, even if it only takes a few minutes to rest. She did not reply to my message on WeChat.

I couldn't help but ask Hua Wen on WeChat: "Are you busy today?"

Tong Huawen, a Beijing girl, is the same age as Yaoyao and is Yaoyao’s colleague. I met her once. She came to Shanghai with Yaoyao a few months ago. I remember that it was a commendation meeting and training for young teachers.

, during this period, because we needed to publicize the work of supporting education in Xinjiang, we arranged for Yaoyao and the others to be volunteer teachers from big cities to cooperate with the publicity activities.

At that time, I expressed my praise and appreciation for her, a girl from the imperial capital, who could go to the distant Kashgar to support teaching, but she said that I should only appreciate Yaoyao as a person, and that a girl from Shanghai should be praised even more for her ability to travel to the countryside of Kashgar.

Hua Wen quickly replied to my message: "Taizi, you are not busy, why did you remember to send me WeChat?"

"I can't contact Yaoyao. I saw you were posting on Moments, so I asked about the situation."

"Yao Yao drove out in my car early in the morning. She has a student, a boarding student. The little girl's name is Mu Nisha. Her parents are gone. Her grandfather's home is in Bostantelek, and only her grandparents are at home. Today

After the earthquake in the morning, the school confirmed that all the children’s homes were safe. Only Mu Nisha’s family could not be contacted by phone and had not been contacted. Mu Nisha was very worried because her grandparents were older, Yaoyao

So I drove my car and took Mu Nisha home to check on the situation. It’s more than 200 kilometers away from us, and more than 450 kilometers round trip. We won’t be able to come back so soon. I guess I won’t be able to come back until tomorrow. Yao

Yao may still be driving, or the signal is not good, don’t worry.”
Chapter completed!