After reading the school and eating something in the town, Zhuo Ziyuan proposed to go to the nearby village to see, Mayor Ke didn't say a word, and took them to the nearest village.

The trip to the village, Principal Fang also accompanied him, originally Zhuo Ziyuan also said that the mountain road was not easy to walk, so Principal Fang did not have to follow, but Principal Fang refused with a smile, this mountain road, for him, is just pediatrics.

The facts also proved this, Principal Fang did not drag them back, fortunately, Zhuo Ziyuan and He Xia were also masters of regular exercise, and they were not embarrassed in front of them.

To say that this mountain road is really not easy to walk, the nearest village they have walked for nearly an hour, this village is called Wujia Village, just listen to the name, there should be five surnames after living here, slowly develop the formation of offspring, this village is located in a small basin between the mountains, the environment is excellent, a small river passes through the middle of the basin, in addition to a large area of farmland, in the mountains and forests are scattered and intertwined with some houses, the same as the houses of ordinary residents in the town, blue brick houses, and even some houses, Zhuo Ziyuan saw that it was just a roof built with a straw hut。

There are a lot of farmers in the farmland are busy, Zhuo Ziyuan even saw some children following the adult's buttocks to help, Zhuo Ziyuan and his party walked in the village built by the mountain, the paths are made of different forms of mountain stones, there are children playing with marbles on the side of the road, some children are chasing and playing, some children can see at a glance that they are ethnic minorities, and some are Han people, but the same thing is that the clothes on their bodies are very old, large and small patches, Zhuo Ziyuan can not count, and the shoes on his feet are also sewn and mended, so cold days, some children's toes are directly exposed outside。

These children are very polite, when they meet their group, they will stop and politely shout "Grandpa Fang is good, Uncle Ke is good", and some people call "Mrs. Fang, Grandpa Ke is good", this kind of generation problem is very common in rural areas, a family of four generations in the same house, maybe two babies of the same age, one is the elder of the other.

Looking at the children's heartfelt honorific titles of the other party's principal and Mayor Ke, Zhuo Ziyuan was more sure of his thoughts, these two should be more prestigious in the town, otherwise they would not have come to the village, there are still so many children who know them, Principal Fang said that as long as these children go to school, they will know him, but Mayor Ke is different, if he doesn't run to the village often, whose children will know him, even adults probably don't know a few people, just like Zhuo Ziyuan, he has never known that there is a village chief in the village, what is the mayor like, sorry, I have never seen it。

Moreover, whenever these children say hello to them, Mayor Ke can often call out the children's names, and by the way, ask their parents if they are at home or something like that, Zhuo Ziyuan is very pleased, at least, with such a town mayor, there should be no obstacles to tomorrow's public welfare activities, as for yesterday's Xiao Li's words, it is not necessarily what the town mayor meant, in a town office, there are actually quite a lot of people in charge.

Whenever he met some children, Zhuo Ziyuan would take out some candy from his backpack and share them with them, which he bought in the county seat.

After Mayor Ke asked a little girl again if her parents were at home, and got a positive answer from the child, Zhuo Ziyuan interrupted everyone's footsteps, "Mayor Ke, can we go to this doll's house to have a look?"

Mayor Ke was stunned for a moment, glanced at Zhuo Ziyuan a little strangely, and then looked at He Xia, seeing He Xia nodded, he also nodded and said, "Okay, I'll take you there." ”

Told the children to go to their house to play, Mayor Ke didn't need the children to lead the way, and the little girl held a lollipop in her hand and also joined Zhuo Ziyuan's team.

Looking at the little girl in front of him with big eyes and full of aura, Zhuo Ziyuan asked with a smile, "Little sister, what's your name, how old are you?"

"Big brother, my name is Ji Wusu, I am ten years old this year, Wusu is the meaning of sheep's horn, I like sheep's horn. By the way, big brother, are you going to my house to play too?" the little girl looked at Zhuo Ziyuan curiously and asked.

As soon as he heard this name, Zhuo Ziyuan knew that this little girl should be of the Qiang nationality, but she spoke Mandarin very well, and it seemed that the school taught her very well, "Yes, little sister, are you welcome." ”

"Okay, okay, I never thought that such beautiful big brothers and sisters like you would come to our house to play. Ji Wusu clapped his hands and smiled.

This sentence made He Xia laugh, and he couldn't help but touch the little girl's head and said, "Little sister, your mouth is so sweet, and you are also very beautiful." ”

was praised by He Xia, and the little girl lowered her head a little shyly.

"Little sister, you are ten years old this year, have you gone to school, what grade have you been?" Zhuo Ziyuan asked in as soft a voice as possible.

"I'm in sixth grade. ”

"Oh, you're going to junior high school next year?"

"I can't get on it. The little girl's voice was suddenly a little hoarse.

Zhuo Ziyuan turned his head to look at her, and saw that the little girl's original cheerful smile had disappeared and was replaced by a cloud of sadness, Zhuo Ziyuan was a little distressed.

"Junior high school only go to the county, from their village to the town to walk half an hour, this is still the nearest village, and then from the town to the county middle school bicycle to 1 hour, living in the town is good, riding a bicycle for an hour can also stay up, but in the mountains of the village children, can only choose boarding, the cost has become a big problem, a family to pay a child's tuition may be OK, but if you add the boarding fee, may be the harvest throughout the year, there is not so much, so, we here, the village children can finish primary school is already good, some parents are more open-minded, may be willing to spend a few years of savings to let their children board, but there are very few such people, junior high school is over, there is high school, and there is college, that is the big head, and many parents have to give up because they can't see hope. Principal Fang explained beside him.

Zhuo Ziyuan is a little embarrassed, yes, the transportation here is inconvenient, and the contact with the outside world is even less, these farmers who have stayed in the mountains all their lives, how do they know the excitement of the outside world, they give birth to boys, they must want to stay at home to inherit the family business, and continue to have children, girls will not be taken seriously, they can finish primary school and are already considered enlightened parents, and they will always marry in the future, so they will marry in the mountains, and they can go back to their parents' homes to see it every New Year.

"Do you like going to school, do you want to go to middle school?" asked the little girl.

"I like it, going to school is interesting, I can learn a lot of knowledge, I can know a lot of stories, Grandpa Fang often teaches us that knowledge can change fate, but unfortunately, my brother didn't go to school. ”

"Oh, you have other siblings, why doesn't your brother go to school?" asked Zhuo Ziyuan.

"Well, my brother and I are at home, my brother used to go to school, but then I went to school, he didn't go to school again, he said he didn't like to go to school, he liked the crops in the mountains, he wanted to stay in the mountains freely, but I know that he still likes school, he just left the opportunity to go to school to me, and he often secretly took my language books to read, and thought I didn't know. The little girl said with a smile.

Zhuo Ziyuan's nose was sour, and he couldn't help but touch her head, he was really a simple and sensible child, just such a short time, the gloom just now had already dissipated, "Well, it's really good, you have a good brother, so you should study hard, repay your brother in the future, and be filial to your parents, right?"

Principal Fang, who was walking behind, had a smile on his face, looking at the little girl, he knew that this little girl's fate might change from today.

After a while, everyone came to the little girl's house, no need to knock on the door, all the way over, the doors of every household are almost not closed, Mayor Ke patted the door, even if he said hello, he went directly into the simple courtyard, everyone rushed in, the men in the yard were repairing farm tools, seeing everyone coming in, showing a curious look, they communicated with Mayor Ke for a while, Zhuo Ziyuan They were directly confused, Zhuo Ziyuan felt that the language spoken by the two was not linked to Mandarin at all, Zhuo Ziyuan guessed whether this was the local language of the Qiang people。

The two talked for a while, the man shouted, jumped out of the back room a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, should be the little girl's brother, only to see the little girl shouted something, so he stayed by the boy's side obediently, the two said a few words Zhuo Ziyuan did not understand at all After the big boy ran into the back room, and after a while he took two crooked benches out, Mayor Ke motioned for everyone to sit down, the man did not call the children's mothers out, led the two dolls to move the stone that looked like a bench in the yard, and sat directly on it。

Zhuo Ziyuan saw that there were similar stones in the yard, and motioned He Xia to sit on the bench, he took a stone and sat on it, Zhao Qiang and another bodyguard also sat on the stone bench, He Xia and Chen Qiang sat on the bench, this practice attracted He Xia's big eyes, pretending, pretending, pretending, I like to pretend everywhere.

The male host seems to be quite hospitable, but Zhuo Ziyuan can't understand what he said at all, and Zhuo Ziyuan doesn't want to translate through Mayor Ke and Principal Fang, but fortunately, the little girl's brother, Ji Ri Damu, has been in school for four years and can speak Mandarin that is not very fluent, but there is still no obstacle to their conversation with Zhuo Ziyuan.

Through chatting, Zhuo Ziyuan knew that their family's source of income was crops, at most plus game in the mountains, these wild meat may be worth some money in the city, but in Shankou Town, they really can't buy the price, they have more choices to eat by themselves, so, although life is more difficult, but when it comes to food, the vegetables are all from their own fields, meat vegetables are fish in the river, chickens and ducks raised at home, and game in the mountains, which are also very good, but the source of income is too small, the crops have to be paid to the public grain, and they have to leave their own family to eat, and the income of a large family throughout the year is less than 500 yuan, but fortunately, they don't have anything to spend money on, they are basically self-sufficient in food, and buy some to improve their lives, buy two or three clothes, you can wear them for several years, but when the children grow up and have to buy them, they will buy new clothes, and many of the little girl's clothes are worn by her brother.

Zhuo Ziyuan asked Principal Fang again, the cost of the county middle school for a year, and was told that the tuition fee is 60 a semester, and the boarding plus three meals is 260 a semester, that is, 640 yuan a year, and their family's annual income is really not enough, this is still in the case of a family without illness and disaster, if you get sick and go to the hospital, it is estimated that you will have to take out many years of savings, so many times, the old people in the village are sick, and there is no money for treatment, until they finally die, the little girl's grandparents are sick to death, and human life is sometimes really worthless, spend all the savings to live hard and leave money for future generationsThis is a choice that everyone in the mountains may have to face.