Every time Xu Qian goes back to her hometown, she has to take a bus for nearly five hours, from the bustling Qingdao to her warm hometown Tengzhou, once the land of "Three Kingdoms and Five Cities", the arrogant "Tengxiaoguo" and the revered hometown of Mozi and Luban.

In such a small town, Xu Qian is definitely a household name. 1.8 meters where a girl goes, someone will always greet her, be caring and attentive, and wherever Xu Qian goes, she always smiles. She is famous locally for her love of laughter. Besides height, the Xu family has nothing to look up to in Tengzhou. This home is too simple: 75 square meters, without any decoration, with 5 yuan 1 square meter glazed tiles on the ground. Xu Guangli, a 47-year-old father, worked as a security guard in the chemical fertilizer plant of Yanzhou Mining Bureau for more than 30 years. Everyone in the factory knows him: a real Shandong man, who doesn't talk much and just does things. My mother Liu Huizhen has been unemployed for many years. She receives a meager allowance every month, and sometimes helps her elder sister look after the store and earn a little money. Big sister sells electric cars. Not after a while. They looked for the reason from TV, saying that the American financial crisis had blown to Tengzhou. Television has become the only pastime for Xu Guangli and Liu Huizhen. In the severe winter in the north, the room is as cold as icehouse, and there is no air conditioning or electric heating at home. As soon as the couple finished eating, they immediately got into bed to watch TV dramas and news. This 29-inch TV set was just bought for them by Xu Qian. The original Hisense TV set was bought in the 1980s, and it has been so worn that it doesn't even want to dust. The smallest refrigerator was given by a colleague who repaired household appliances. In order to save electricity, it is not needed. It was put in the house as decoration. Xu Guangli once designed such a stable road for her daughter: after graduating from junior high school, she went to Lu Hua Technical School, then went back to work in the factory, got the same salary as herself, and then got married and had children. Without the entertainment performance organized by the chemical fertilizer plant, Xu Qian should be moving smoothly along this drawn track. After graduating from junior high school, Xu Qian was admitted to the most famous Tengzhou No.1 Middle School because of her basketball specialty. In Tengzhou people's eyes, only when children enter No.1 Middle School can they imagine the gate of Tsinghua. However, Xu Qian, where basketball talents go, is not a piece of reading material. In No.1 Middle School, she felt unprecedented pressure. Xu Guangli didn't expect her daughter to be admitted to the university. In the second year, he helped Xu Qian go through the formalities and transferred from Tengzhou No.1 Middle School to Shandong Institute of Chemical Technicians. When Xu Qian was a sophomore, the factory held activities, and there were a few girls who were short of modeling steps. Everyone knows that the Xu girl is tall and watery, and Xu Guangli asked her daughter to help set up the factory without thinking. As an old worker, Xu Guangli has great affection for the fertilizer plant. Besides, his daughter wants to stay and work in the factory in the future. In a big factory, the usual work is hard and boring. One entertainment can make the whole factory excited. It is also considered as "saving face and winning glory for the family". The participants in this performance are all workers and students, and there is no modeling foundation. In order to make the performance that the whole factory pays attention to "relative professionalism", the factory specially invited Mr. Geng, a dance major, to walk, turn around and pose with these young girls again and again. Teacher Geng took a fancy to Xu Qian: This child was born to be a model, not a worker's life. She found Xu Guangli, hoping to send Xu Qian to Heze to participate in the competition, and promised "free tutoring throughout". Xu Qian's life path has a fork in the road: either continue to advance as planned, become a worker after graduation and then get married; Or practice modeling according to Teacher Geng, and then stand in the spotlight and enjoy the applause of flowers. Xu Guangli chose the latter without hesitation. Teacher Geng, who is over sixty, values Xu Qian very much. She took Xu Qian home, took care of herself, strengthened training for a week, and then took her children to Heze to participate in the competition. Teacher Geng said that Xu Qian was her lifelong dream. Finally, Xu Qian won the Best Model Award for "Dreams May Come True". During the competition, a higher-level Bole took a fancy to Xu Qian. His name is Yang Jun, and he is the principal of Qingdao Oriental Beauty Model School. After Xu Qian won the prize, "Yang Jun made a special trip to Tengzhou", hoping that Xu Guangli would let him take Xu Qian away. Xu Guangli wiped the tears on her face and smiled and began to recall the most glorious days of the Xu family. This joy is completely divorced from the great sadness of her daughter's death. He unfolded the wrinkles on his forehead and went back to the good old days, just as he used to show off his daughter's glory in front of his neighbors. As you can imagine, if there is no performance in the factory, if there is no irresistible enthusiasm of Teacher Geng, if there is no "Oriental Beauty"-my daughter should have graduated and entered the fertilizer plant, happy laughter should always linger in my ears. Xu Guangli, more pain and regret. The female worker in the fertilizer plant and the model on the runway, he thinks the former is too beautiful: simple, simple, quiet and safe.