Darkness is Coming

   Malawi, Lilongwe, Huang Kaijing walked on the dry and hard exotic land, looking around, all kinds of familiar, but also unfamiliar everywhere.

Not long ago, Huang Kaijing was stationed in this city with the joint forces to chase down the fleeing "Holy One". During his short stay, this barren city left a deep impression on Huang Kaijing. Before this, Huang Kaijing could not imagine a The capital of the country will fall behind to such a degree, and it is even more unimaginable that all the "helping hands" extended here are for profit. If there is no political interest behind it, the nobles who control the capital would rather let the bread rot in the warehouse. The milk is poured into the river, and they are unwilling to transport the materials that are meaningless to them, just because the transportation cost is higher than the destruction cost.

   This time, when he set foot on the blackened land of Africa again, Lilongwe once again surprised Huang Kaijing. In any case, he could not imagine that the spiritual outlook of a city could undergo such a huge change in a short period of time.

  The most intuitive change is that the rats on the street are gone.

   The mouse mentioned here is not a metaphor, but a literal mouse. The last time I came to Lilongwe, the streets and alleys were full of small vendors selling roasted mice. Among them, the old white hair, the white hair as rough as steel wire, was pinned to the black scalp like a needle, and it was also pinned to the people. of love and compassion.

The young ones are still at the age of going to school. According to the guide, some of these children are indeed only seven or eight years old, and some are stunted due to long-term lack of nutrition. When they are twelve or three years old, they still look like seven or eight years old. The reason why they came out to sell roasted rat meat is very simple: their family is poor and cannot afford to go to school, so they have to find a way to earn money to support their family, but there are not many employment opportunities that Lilongwe can create for the residents. , for these children with neither knowledge nor physical strength, finding a decent job is as difficult as stomping on Kakup (a small mouse with agile movements).

   So, the children can only focus on the resource that can be seen everywhere: the mouse. The public health system in Lilongwe is very backward, and the rats are bred in almost no pressure environment. So far, no rat infestation has occurred. It is also thanks to these dark-skinned and sensitive hunters, who will catch rats everywhere and make them into Barbecue for sale.

   And now, Huang Kaijing walked through two streets, but he didn't see a single vendor selling rat meat. This transformation was even more complete than a street in a Chinese city that encountered a surprise inspection by the city management.

   In addition, Huang Kaijing also noticed that the pedestrians on the road, regardless of gender, age, or child, no longer see the numbness on their faces that they have lost hope in life. The originally dark pupils are now dark and smart, looking healthy and bright.

This is really a strange thing, Huang Kaijing was puzzled, and finally he bought the solution for three hundred dollars in a slightly higher-end tavern - this price can be said to be a huge sum of money in Malawi, but Huang Kaijing got it. The information is really worth the price.

  It turned out that after the end of the pursuit and the withdrawal of the coalition forces from Malawi, a **** coup d'état happened quietly, and ended the almost dictatorial rule of the former ruling party with lightning speed. After the People's Progressive Movement Party became the ruling party, many business tycoons from all over the world began to inject capital into Malawi, investing at a pure loss. Ravi will be built into a new high-welfare country with agriculture as the transition and integrating industry and tourism.

  Under the strong power of capital, the hope of a new life began to spread around Lilongwe, and schools, welfare homes, factories and commercial streets began to be built all over Malawi.

School-age children only need to sign an agreement to accept job assignments after graduation, and they can enter vocational and technical schools without full tuition fees and learn a skill to support themselves. Among them, smart and well-behaved children can receive more free Education, as long as you are willing to put in the effort, you may be able to go to university in the future.

   When the new ruling party chairman Mark Katzunga announced the news, his old and rough voice was like a sound to millions of families suffering from poverty in Malawi.

Even those children who don't like to study are scrambling to go to school, because the school canteen allows them to eat a full meal every day, and more children are seeing changes in themselves for the first time in their lives. The opportunity of fate, do your best to seize it. They rushed to the classroom made of shipping containers like madmen, and tried their best to study hard, like little grass shoots growing tenaciously from the rocky ground, overcoming all difficulties with the courage to move the world.

The Western reporter who told the story described the scene to Huang Kaijing in non-standard English: Building a school requires not only money, but also time and teachers. Not many rudimentary schools opened in Malawi in a short period of time. To go to school, children have to travel a dozen or even dozens of miles. They can’t afford shoes, so they can only carry bags like backpacks, dry food mixed with mud and rat skewers that have been exposed to the sun, and run barefoot for a few days. Shili Lu rushed to the school, and then spent five days at the school. After class, he used the moonlight to do his homework. He used the sky as his quilt and the ground as his seat. Catch mice.

"Look at this." Western reporters handed Huang Kaijing a photo. In the photo, several children with suitcases were on their way. The bloodstained footprints behind them formed a long line. From the close-up given by the photographer, it can be seen that they The soles of his feet were rubbed with blood, and the soles of his feet were deeply embedded with fine gravel.

   Huang Kaijing's fingers holding the photo trembled slightly, and the inexplicable soreness of his nose made him wrinkle his nose.

   Once, there were many children like this in Huaxia, who stubbornly endured the pain that ordinary people could not bear to study. They believed that knowledge could change their destiny, and finally some of them changed the destiny of Huaxia.

"God bless these children." Western reporters sighed after taking a big gulp of brown beer, "This photo is enough for me to win a satisfactory award, and it is estimated that in a few months, the scene in the photo will not be the same. It appeared again. The United Nations has begun to pay attention to Malawi, and has continued to increase its assistance. Soon children will be able to receive free clothes and shoes, and dormitory areas will be built near the school. …”

  Huang Kaijing gently put down the photo, turned his head and looked out the window, his eyes drifted to the Presidential Palace in the distance.

  In the Presidential Palace, an old man with white hair and dark skin, dressed in traditional Malawi clothes, stood on a balcony and looked into the distance.

   "Muta, Muta, my child..." He burst into tears, sobbing hard, "You did it, did you see it? Did you see Malawi today?"