Great Power Technology

Western Sichuan and Sichuan, Liangshan.

This is the largest gathering area of ​​the Yi ethnic group in the country, and it was also one of the contiguous areas of deep poverty.

The traffic here is blocked, and it is like an isolated island. Looking around, all you can see are endless mountains, but it is difficult to see an easy-to-travel road.

Even though the government has invested a huge amount of resources in this area, objectively speaking, these resources are like drops of water pouring into the sea in the face of so many problems. They may have indeed brought about some changes in basic life, but when it comes to specific details, When it comes to different areas, it seems powerless.

Among them, education is the most complex and difficult to solve problem.

It is like a hard and stubborn tumor, deeply rooted in the flesh and blood of this mountain, blocking blood vessels and hindering the operation of other body functions.

If this problem cannot be solved, no matter how much resources are invested in this body, it will ultimately not change the outcome of its decay from the inside out.

Everyone knows the importance of education issues to this region, but how to solve them?

Nobody knows.

Building schools, hiring teachers, and purchasing textbooks in large quantities. Almost all of these conventional methods have been tried, but almost no commendable results have been achieved.

The reason is simple, it is a matter of cultural foundation.

When people in a place generally think that it is difficult to change their destiny through reading, or that the cost-effectiveness of reading is lower than other activities, it becomes difficult to let them continue to bet on education and reading. It was extremely difficult.

There is only one way to change such a cultural foundation, and that is to make the education here achieve widespread results. This kind of results cannot stay on TV or official propaganda, but must be seen by the people here with their own eyes. Come and hear it with your own ears.

The story of a college entrance examination top scorer who was far away and had never met before, and finally entered the Chinese Academy of Sciences and became a pillar of the country. He and his neighbors were admitted to the undergraduate program, and after graduation, he found a decent job in the city with an annual salary of 200,000. This story is The impact the two have on the local cultural foundation is completely different.

Only the latter can truly change the current situation of neglecting education in the local area.

But the problem is that to achieve the latter effect, the necessary condition is that the education level can keep up.

Therefore, this forms a contradictory cycle: if you want to improve the level of education, you must first change the cultural foundation, but if you want to change the cultural foundation, you must also improve the level of education.

There is no way to break this cycle, which is to rely on some form of coercion to lock in schools those school-age students who are unwilling to study, or whose family conditions do not allow them to continue to receive higher education, and restrain them with a common atmosphere and goals. They eliminate all noise from family and society.

However, the cost of doing so is too high.

How many resources does the country have to squander? How much administrative power can be used to overdraft?

Not every principal is named Zhang Guimei, and not every school can survive like Huaping Girls' High School.

Just at this moment, 16-year-old Ran La Azzi faced a problem she had never imagined: the high school she attended closed down.

Yes, high schools outside the nine-year compulsory education will also go bankrupt - especially high schools like Weizhiluo Township Private High School that are completely public welfare and do not charge any tuition and miscellaneous fees. When their capital chain breaks down When it breaks, bankruptcy becomes the inevitable result.

Of course, for a school, closure does not mean the closure of the school, but a switch from free to fee-based. But for the vast majority of students, this change is a disaster.

Azi walked silently on the mountain road home, carrying her luggage behind her back and looking blankly.

Her family didn't know the news of the school's closure, and even she only found out about it last night. Then this afternoon, most of the students began to leave the school one after another.

Although the school leaders promised to find other suitable schools willing to accept them, and although they promised that the students could still stay in the dormitories until they found a school, everyone knew that this was actually just an illusory hope.

The core of the problem has never been the attitude of the school, but the attitude of the family.

In the entire Weizhiluo Township, and even in the entire Butuo County, where can you find a second school that waives tuition and accommodation fees and still has the capacity to accept hundreds of students?

Probably the final result is to send some students who are about to take the college entrance examination to other public high schools after a few months of delay, and use the last bit of funds to let them pass the college entrance examination.

As for high school sophomores like myself, we can only find our own way out.

To a large extent, finding your own way out means there is no way out.

Because her family is unlikely to be willing to waste thousands of extra dollars on a girl like her - what if she goes to high school? What will happen if you get admitted to college?

Not to get married yet.

Of course, she also heard that in some places, the bride price for marriage, especially for female college students, could be very high. She also used this reason to convince her father at the time, but the problem was that the benefits were too far away. To the point where I can't even be sure whether it will happen or not.

Not to mention his own father, a man who would kill a lamb to make soup the day after a poverty alleviation working group handed it over.

Thinking of this, Azi let out a long sigh.

The backpack behind her was not heavy, but it made her feel slightly suffocated.

What was actually contained inside was just a thin quilt, two sets of changes of clothes, and a toothbrush.

For two whole years, she lived like an ascetic in school. She thought that with her own efforts, she could get into college and get out of the mountains to see the bigger world - if If possible, try to change the place where she was born.

But now, force majeure beyond her control destroyed her ideals, and all the roads that were originally paved collapsed overnight.

The road was getting farther and farther, and Azi had strayed away from the main road in Weizhiluo Township and started to embark on the path back to the village. Before reaching home, she had to climb over four mountains, cross two rivers, and then climb up again. A ladder hundreds of meters high can truly reach the place called "home".

She had walked this stretch for a full six hours, but when she opened the door, what she saw was not the warm lights and hot meals she expected at all, but a drunken man lying on the ground. The father and the mother, whose eyes were bruised, were calmly picking up the broken dishes and chopsticks on the floor.

"Grandma!"

Ah Zi's heart suddenly throbbed. She dropped her backpack and walked forward to hold her mother, and asked anxiously:

"Did he hit you again?"

Mother nodded but said nothing.

"Why did I hit you again? What happened again?"

Looking at Azi's dusty face, her mother sighed and replied:

"Someone came over to sell that thing. He used his family's money to buy it, but it turned out to be fake. He was so angry that he beat me."

Hearing this, a bit of anger appeared on Azi's face. She fully understood what "that thing" her mother was talking about. A few years ago, the drugs that flowed in from abroad almost spread to the entire Liangshan area, and she The father is one of the victims.

In other words, he is a self-destructive person.

However, after years of continuous crackdown, drugs have almost disappeared in this area, and his father, who cannot buy drugs, turns to alcoholism. Every time he is drunk, he will use various reasons to commit violence against himself and his mother—— And this was one of the reasons why she couldn't wait to escape from this place.

"Where's the money? He took all the money at home? Is there anything left?"

"No more, not even a penny. I originally left some for you to take to school next month, but I couldn't stand his beating, so I let him use it to buy wine."

At this point, two lines of tears finally flowed from her mother's indifferent eyes. Azi clenched her fists tightly, and her nails almost penetrated into her flesh.

She couldn't help but look at the kitchen knife that had fallen to the ground, and crazy thoughts surged through her heart.

Maybe as long as he picks up the knife, maybe as long as he swings it easily, the mother's pain will at least end, right?

She took two steps forward and held the kitchen knife in her hand. After standing silently for a long time, she finally put the knife back on the cutting board next to the pot.

She couldn't take that step, either emotionally or intellectually.

Azi and her mother silently cleaned up the mess on the floor. It wasn't until it was getting late that they repaired the last stool, sat outside the house, and closed the door tightly, as if to shut in those painful memories.

"Today is not Saturday, why are you back?"

Mother took Ah Zi's hand and asked softly.

Ah Zi didn't know how to answer this question. She wanted to make a fuss and say that everything was fine at school, it was just a holiday and she would go back in two days.

At that time, at worst, I will go out to work like everyone else, and the money I earn can be used to support my family.

But in her heart, she was really unwilling to accept such a result.

He can obviously study, and his grades can obviously be admitted to a second-tier university that, even if it is not that good, is enough to change his destiny.

"The school has no money and will start charging accommodation fees next month. I am not going to school."

Azi originally thought that her mother would be shocked by this answer, but in fact, the latter just nodded lightly.

"If you can't go to school, then go to school. You're 16 now. Go out and work. It doesn't matter if you go out. As long as it's not here, you can go anywhere."

Azi was stunned for a moment and wanted to say something, but in the end she swallowed the words that came to her lips.

In fact, my mother, like my father, cannot understand the meaning of "reading" and "going to school".

That's a future they can't see.

"I see."

Ah Zi sighed, then put on a smile and said:

"Mom, it doesn't matter if you work part-time. If you earn money by working, I'll keep it for you. When I save enough money, I'll take you out. Don't get involved with him - divorce him."

"If you can't get divorced, how can you get divorced? This will be the case for the rest of your life. You have to be careful in the future. It doesn't matter if you study less, but you must find a good man."

Azi smiled helplessly and did not answer.

This most important thing in the mother's eyes, in her opinion, is actually just a restraint.

However, now she has no way to refute, because she has no ability to change everything.

Since you can't change it, no matter how arrogant you are, it's just a joke.

The sun was gradually setting. She helped her mother stand up. When she was about to go into the house to prepare dinner, she suddenly saw several people walking on the mountain road not far away.

The leader was a girl with glasses. Her skin was fair and her arms were slender, which made her look a bit eye-catching among the mountains.

After noticing Ran La Azhi's gaze, the girl raised her head with a smile, and then asked:

"Are you Ran La Azhi?"

Azi nodded and looked at the other party doubtfully.

The girl opposite her, or Chu Ya, breathed a long sigh of relief and continued:

"Finally found you. I heard your school closed down?"

"It doesn't matter. From today on, you will probably no longer need school."