The Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

Regardless of how future generations judge education, there is no doubt that going to school is the only shortcut to success for children from mountainous areas or poor families.

But the poorer the parents, the more ignorant they are, or not ignorant but more realistic. Families that are not well-to-do have to pay their children's school fees will undoubtedly make things worse, and children who do not go to school and do some farm work at home can also reduce the family's burden.

You can't accuse these parents of being short-sighted when they're still hungry. You can't expect him to have too many fantasies about the future, and filling his stomach is their first need.

Therefore, aiding Hope Primary Schools in impoverished mountainous areas is not just about finding supporting teachers after building the school. Building good schools is pointless if you can't get nearby parents to send their children to the school.

How to recruit students for every hope primary school is completed is a major difficulty in the teaching support project, because even tuition and miscellaneous fees are exempted. Many parents are still willing to let their children work at home or herd cattle, rather than send their children to school.

As for the nine-year compulsory education stipulated by the state, in their view, as long as they do not kill people, it is not considered a crime. The legal cognition does not have much deterrent effect. It is only natural for their own children to be killed.

After trekking through mountains and rivers for more than four hours, Yang Dongxu, Yu Yi and others finally came to a place called Xiaotun Township in the depths of Liangshan. They said that the township was actually a slightly larger village with a population of thirty or forty households and A small market.

Walk through the market for about ten minutes and climb up a gentle slope, and you can see the Hope Primary School with red bricks and white walls. The five-star red flag is fluttering on the flagpole in the center of the school. It’s just that the school, which was originally a hopeful school, has some traces of demolition on the west wall. Now the gap is blocked by a wooden fence and it looks like A scar on the white snow.

"What's going on?" Panting, Yang Dongxu put down the heavy package on his back, which contained exercise books, pencils and stationery, which were very heavy.

"It was demolished by the villagers." Yu Yi sighed.

"Huh?" Yang Dongxu frowned. He had personally participated in the teaching support and the Hope Primary School project, and he knew some conflicts and even encountered some conflicts, but this was the first time he heard about the demolition of the school.

"A villager's house fell down. He saw that the school building was very strong, so he demolished some and went back to prepare for the wall. He secretly demolished it at night, and when he found it, it had already been demolished like this. The school asked the village The cadres negotiated and wanted to bring back the bricks he stole and rebuild them, but he disagreed. It's not worth carrying bricks in from the outside, so I can only make do with it." Yu Yi said with a sigh.

It is not easy to build a house in the mountains. It is a big problem to use local materials to polish with stones, and it is very troublesome to build a building. Therefore, when building the Hope Primary School, because of the different roads, the entire school earned tens of thousands of yuan to build. Bags of cement and steel bars were all carried or carried into the mountain from the outside of the mountain by manpower.

So in order to fill such a hole, it is not worthwhile to transfer the book from the outside and carry bricks and cement. And even if you memorize it, it may not be able to be used on the wall.

When the school was built, the originally calculated building materials used up nearly one-third more than expected. Why did the original accurate calculation exceed so much? Naturally, it was stolen by nearby villagers, and even hired nearby villagers to carry these building materials. It's nothing new that they don't send it to the construction site and carry it back to their home.

In their cognition, since it is a donation, it makes sense to build a school and build a pigsty for themselves. It wasn't until after negotiating with the local village cadres that it was a government project, and the evil trend of stealing and taking advantage of petty theft was suppressed, but from time to time, some things would still be lost at the school.

You can’t blame this phenomenon. For these impoverished households who are still hungry and digging food in the fields, it’s useless to reason. When they are still hungry, the only thing they think about is how to feed themselves, and the rest is meaningless to them.

Yang Dongxu didn’t see his brother Leslie Cheung when he came to the school. After asking about it, he found out that three children from the depths of the mountain had dropped out of school last week. The village has personally persuaded the parents of the children.

"No need, no need, how can I collect money for the things my doll uses for school? If I do, I will be stabbed in the back." The wrinkles on the faces of the few who looked very thin were traced by the years, but they carried the burden of a family. The man waved his hand, backed down the money from Yu Yi, and left in a hurry without waiting for Yu Yi to say anything else.

Some people like to take advantage of things and steal things from the public, and some people are kind and make people feel distressed. Maybe they don’t have enough to eat or wear warm clothes, but when the reason is explained clearly so that they understand that going to school is for the benefit of their children, it can make their children have a better future, and they can even go out of the mountains to eat enough.

No matter how hard or tired they are, these parents are willing to grit their teeth and support their children to go to school. Some people secretly go home with building materials on their backs. There are also people who don't want a penny to build a school for their dolls, as long as they can drink saliva.

"The next time you don't have anything to carry, invite them to have a meal in the city." Yang Dongxu waved his hand to stop Yu Yi from chasing him.

"It will get better in the future, right?" Yu Yi turned her head. For the first time, what Yang Dongxu felt from her red phoenix eyes was not the coldness and other kind of charm, but trembling like a frightened little animal, looking at the future in fear. hope.

"It will be fine, as long as this generation can read and write, and go out of the mountains to see the outside world. Then their lives will not be crucified on the ground, and their children will live a better and more hopeful life." Although Funds are allocated to the Runyu Fund every year, and more and more each year.

But there are some things you don't see with your own eyes, experience it yourself. You can never feel that heart-wrenching feeling. Although he hasn't seen his brother yet, Yang Dongxu seems to understand why such a big star doesn't want to leave after he comes to this isolated mountain.

The conditions of the school are very difficult. Although the school has been built, there are only three teachers assigned to support teaching. Including my brother who volunteers to help, there are only four teachers, but they manage five classes.

It is normal for a teacher to go to another classroom for the first half of the class and six students for the second half to study by themselves.

When Yang Dongxu and Yu Yi arrived, it happened that the children were having physical education class in the afternoon. Watching the smiling children chasing a football on the playground, after the physical education class, a child wiped the football clean and put it back in its original place.

He couldn't help but feel his nasal cavity a little sore, and looked up at the blue sky. He seems to have a deeper understanding of the need for high-level economic development no matter how much sacrifices are made. Poverty is a disease entangled in a country. Only when this disease is cured can you have the capital to talk about other things.

When it was getting dark, my brother rushed back from dozens of miles away, with three children whose clothes were a bit torn, but whose eyes were so clean that they could see their own reflection clearly.

"When did you come?" Seeing brother Yang Dongxu, he was stunned for a moment, then smiled and asked the child to go back to the dormitory and walked over.

When building the school, it was considered dangerous for children in mountainous areas to walk dozens of miles to school, so the school built student dormitories and a canteen to minimize the time for children to travel back and forth on the road.

"Just arrived in the afternoon."

"This batch of stationery was delivered in a timely manner. The children's pencils are almost used up, and there is not much chalk left. If I hadn't gone to the mountains today to persuade those parents to send their children to school, I would have gone to the town outside the mountains to memorize them by myself." The elder brother smiled. He patted Yang Dongxu's shoulder.

Compared to the handsome Leslie Cheung on the screen, the handsome brother in various award ceremonies and commercial performances. Now he is wearing a somewhat old Chinese tunic suit, with slightly longer hair lying on top of his head, his handsome face is not that charming and unrestrained, with tiredness and exhaustion that cannot be concealed, but the smile on his face is like that from the heart.

"Didn't you arrange someone to deliver it regularly?" Yang Dongxu frowned.

"There are not many ways for people in the mountains to earn money. There are such a fixed income to share with others. Others have opinions. And some parents are kind-hearted and unwilling to collect money. It is not good to bother others if they don't give money. After all, they still have There is a lot of farm work to do, and I have to support my family, so I recite it by myself when I have time, anyway, it only takes one day to go back and forth, and one recitation is enough for a week.”

My brother smiled, "What do you want to eat tonight? I have learned several good local dishes, especially Huang Hao's sesame leaves, which are delicious from the villagers."

In addition to being the teacher of the students, and the coolie who went back and forth on the mountain road for dozens of miles, he was also the cook of the school cafeteria. Using my not very good cooking skills, I occasionally add some dishes to children who bring steamed buns from home or sweet potatoes as a week's ration.

"Well, the taste is very good, especially the big dumplings." Yang Dongxu suddenly felt that it was unnecessary for him to persuade his brother.

"Expert." The elder brother looked back at Yang Dongxu unexpectedly.

"Don't look down on people, okay, I'm also a child in the countryside. If you talk about yellow sesame leaves and pickled wild vegetables, my skills are definitely better than yours. When I was at home, I often helped my mother with these things." Yang Dongxu rolled up his sleeves.

Yu Yi and two village women hired to help began to pick vegetables. This time, besides a large number of stationery and books, there were hundreds of catties of flour. The children can have a good meal of flour today. Vegetable dumplings. How to find ways to make children eat well is also one of the focuses of the school's great attention.

It's just that this kind of subsidy fund is too huge, even if Yang Dongxu increases his investment in the Runyu Charity Fund every year. Aiding the construction of schools, paying the salaries of supporting teachers, freeing all expenses for poor children, various books and stationery, etc., the expenses are increasing year by year. Not guaranteed.