大地震前,麦尔燕已经是家破人亡了。男人穆萨多年前就只身到麦加去朝觐,一直没有回来。女儿法图麦也得病早夭了。儿子亚瑟给抓了兵,这些年没了音信。家里就剩她一个人孤孤地过着。娘家也没啥人了。父母没得早,她是奶奶抓养大的。奶奶是平凉城里的富家小姐,本来是汉民,奶奶家在平凉城里有一个很大的绸布庄。爷爷是个脚户,拉着骡子给商户驮货物,经常去平凉,到她家的绸布庄驮布匹绸缎。爷爷能唱很好听的花儿。正是那些花儿把奶奶的魂儿勾住了,随爷爷私奔到这干旱苦焦的山里来。来以后, Before the earthquake, Maier Yan has been a broken home. Mucha, a man who only went to Mecca for pilgrimage many years ago, has not come back. Fateh daughter also got sick earlier died. Arthur caught his son, and there was no news in these years. Left alone at home she left alone. Niangjia nothing people. Parents did not have early, she is grandma grasping big. Grandma Pingliang town rich lady, originally Han Chinese, grandmother home in Pingliang city has a large silk Zhuang. Grandpa is a footman, pulled the mule to the merchant pack goods, often to Pingliang, to her family silk cloth Zhuang Zhuang cloth satin. Grandpa can sing very nice flowers. It is those flowers hooked the soul of grandmother, with my grandfather elope to this drought bitter mountain. After coming,