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Chapter 209 The School in the Ancestral Hall
"The task of this trip is very difficult. I hope that every comrade will play hard, be fair and just, ensure that the data is accurate, and there must be no deviation.

At the same time, don't reach out and ask for things from fellow villagers at will. Even if the fellow villagers insist on giving, you must buy this item according to the item.

But what I hope is that everyone will not have this bad habit, do you understand? "

Everyone replied: "Understood!"

Xiang Dongfang continued: "So, everyone has worked hard for the past 20 to [-] days, trying to find out the situation as soon as possible so that we can go back as soon as possible and report the data. The conditions are very difficult, so everyone tried their best to overcome them.

Do you have any comments?If not, let's call it a day and we'll set off tomorrow morning. "

Everyone thought about it, and there seemed to be no problem, so they left the room one after another.

After washing up a bit, Su Chen lay on the bed. The environment of the guest house was the same, and naturally it was not as good as that of a big hotel in Hong Kong.

As soon as he lay down on the bed, he said to Dongfang: "Comrade Su Chen, is this the first time to participate in such an investigation activity?"

"Yes, I have been in class before." Su Chen was very puzzled: "You said that I, a college student, followed you to do the inspection, didn't that hinder you?"

"What's holding you back?" Xiang Dongfang smiled and said, "I think this arrangement is very suitable, because you are No.1 with a perfect score in that exam, and you have given us a good reputation. There must be a purpose in arranging you. .”

The meaning of bullshit, Su Chen especially hates such scenes.

When you say something that cannot be straightforward, you have to hide it, and you have to understand the meaning by yourself.

To sum it up: the meritorious service is mine, and you will take the blame.

"Then I have to rely on you to lead the team. I'm just a college student, and I haven't participated in this kind of work at all." Su Chen said with a smile: "If there is anything I didn't do well, I have to trouble you to point it out. Make a point."

It doesn't matter what age it is, it's always right to be careful.

Nodding to Dongfang: "It's okay, you are still young, you have to experience more, and you have to go to the grassroots level to understand the lives of ordinary people. I have traveled so many places, and I have the most intuitive feeling, that is, some people just want to live. Every effort has been made.

Especially in those remote mountain villages, the illiteracy rate must be at least 98%, and some villages do not even have half of the literate people.

In addition, most of the rural laborers are old and strong, so many people have many children. "

Speaking of this, Xiang Dongfang continued to sigh: "It stands to reason that if you have so many children, you can help the family more, but the poorer you are, the more poor you are, so if you want to change this situation, you have to start with your thinking. Go up and deal with it."

"Because the current concept is simple and crude. One more child, although it is true that there is an extra pair of chopsticks to eat, but in ten years or so, one more laborer will go to the fields to farm."

Su Chen took over the question: "Because of the limited conditions now, the poor generally do not have social insurance, pensions, and pensions. For them, children are the only hope for retirement.

Coupled with limited information channels and limited social cognition, they do not believe that social insurance, pensions, and pensions can be responsible for their own pensions.

Similarly, they can't work hard like the workers in the city, get paid every month, and have various benefits.

The only thing they can do is dig food out of the ground. As you just said, some people have tried their best to survive.

For them, after losing the ability to work in their later years, their children are the most real and the only support for their old age.

Even if this one is not filial, there is another one who is filial. The more children there are, the more dependent they are for the elderly. "

Xiang Dongfang thought about Su Chen's words, and nodded in agreement: "Your statement is very comprehensive, for them, having one more child is one more hope.

I don't expect all children to be promising, but there must be one or two. As long as one of them is promising, life will have hope.

Therefore, they fall into a vicious circle where the poorer they are, the poorer they are. "

"So, education still has to keep up." Su Chen said: "This is a matter of merit in the present and benefit in the future."

Xiang Dongfang took out a cigarette, and glanced at Su Chen who was on the opposite bed: "Do you want one too?"

Su Chen shook his head: "No, I don't know how to smoke."

"It's good if you don't know how to smoke." Xiang Dongfang lit a cigarette by himself: "So our task is very difficult, and we have to work hard."

"That's natural."

"Go to bed early, I'll sleep after I finish smoking."

……

At seven o'clock the next morning, everyone gathered on the first floor of the guest house and had breakfast by the way.

Today's sky is sunny, it doesn't look like it will rain.

But the weather is something like this, no one can say for sure, maybe just like a woman, she will change her face if she says it changes, so everyone still brings umbrellas.

There are also things like cameras and notebooks.

Ji Xiangqian is in charge of everyone's logistics, so he doesn't have to go with him today.

Just after eating, the guide arranged by the local government came over.

His name was Guo Xiaoquan, he was a clerk of the local government and he was familiar with the local situation.

"Hello, Comrade Guo." Xiang Dongfang stretched out his hand first.

Guo Xiaoquan hurried forward to shake hands with Xiang Dongfang, "Hello, hello."

Then they took turns shaking hands with everyone and saying hello one by one.

Xiang Dongfang said: "I don't know if Comrade Guo has arranged transportation for us? It doesn't matter what kind of carriage or donkey cart, as long as the car can pass."

"It's really only a donkey cart." Guo Xiaoquan said: "We found two local families to pick up and drop off the expedition team."

"That's fine." Xiang Dongfang nodded.

Naturally, this kind of hiring of donkey carts does not need to be considered by the expedition team.

Soon, two donkey carts came and stopped at the door of the guest house.

Guo Xiaoquan said: "Comrades, because the conditions here are limited, we can only go there by donkey cart."

"It's okay, as long as you can pass." Xiang Dongfang stepped into the donkey cart first.

Others followed suit.

Along the way, Xiang Dongfang was chatting with Guo Xiaoquan, mainly asking about various local economic conditions, education conditions and other things.

As the captain, he naturally needs to understand clearly before he can start working as soon as possible.

Along the way, I felt more and more that sense of poverty, a very heavy feeling.

Kong Hua kept taking photos of what he saw on the roadside with his camera.

The donkey cart wobbled for an unknown amount of time, when Guo Xiaoquan said, "Comrades, we are here."

Zhangwan Primary School.

Although the name is called elementary school, it is actually a school in the community and in the ancestral hall.

A plainly dressed man stood at the gate of the ancestral hall, looking eagerly at the expedition team getting off the donkey cart.

Guo Xiaoquan stepped forward and shook his hand: "Hello, Mr. Yu, these are the inspection teams who came down from the capital. This is Comrade Xiang Dongfang, the captain, and Comrade Kong Hua, the Xinhua reporter..."

They introduced them in turn, and then said, "This is our teacher from Zhangwan Primary School, Mr. Yu."

"Hello, Teacher Yu..." Xiang Dongfang stepped forward and shook hands with him.

"Hello, hello, comrades."

Teacher Yu shook hands with everyone.

"I believe Teacher Yu already knows the purpose of our visit this time, so I hope Teacher Yu can help guide the way and introduce it." Xiang Dongfang said.

Teacher Yu said: "I have received a notice from the county government before, saying that they are going to come to our place for inspection to see if it is suitable to build a school. After waiting for so long, I finally look forward to the organization coming."

He then sighed: "Our school is the ancestral hall behind us..."

Kong Hua stepped into the gate of the ancestral hall and took a photo of the interior environment.

Seeing this bad situation, everyone felt very uncomfortable.

This condition is really too bad.

"Then let's go in and have a look." Xiang Dongfang said.

Teacher Yu nodded, led everyone into the ancestral hall, and said as he walked: "The windows of this ancestral hall have no glass, they are all made of paper, and there are no electric lights. When it is rainy, the classrooms are pitch-black, and although It is often repaired, but the situation of rain leakage is still unavoidable."

Kong Hua kept the camera in his hand all the time, taking pictures of the roof, tables and chairs, doors, windows, blackboard, and the ground.

The tables and chairs are all cracked and potholed. If you want to write, you probably have to be careful to avoid these cracks.

Teacher Yu went on to introduce: "Every time we have a class, we have to count the students. Often there will be a few students missing at the beginning of the class, and some students will suddenly stop coming in the middle of the class. We have to go to the students' homes one by one to find them. Because of family difficulties, I can't afford it.

Moreover, many families rely on selling eggs and firewood to make up for tuition fees bit by bit.

If our teacher collects tuition fees with a notebook, those students who can’t pay the tuition fees will be scared and hide under the table, thinking it’s shameful that they can’t pay the tuition fees...”

As he said that, Teacher Yu's eyes couldn't help but turn red: "To be honest, sometimes, we go to the house to look for those students, and in the face of the children's eyes eager to learn, we all..."

(End of this chapter)