The next day, Zhuo Ziyuan woke up early in the morning, the conditions of the guest house in this county are quite passable, at least the relevant facilities are complete, there is no mention of going to the toilet to go to the public bathroom, but the environment inside is really not flattering, anyway, Zhuo Ziyuan smelled the quilt, he felt a musty smell, and at night he just took off his coat and covered the quilt to sleep.

After getting up and washing up briefly, he pushed open the door and knocked directly on He Xia's door next door, asking her to have breakfast together.

He Xia glanced at Zhuo Ziyuan, of course she couldn't sleep well in such an environment, she asked knowingly, but she didn't want Zhuo Ziyuan to look at her jokes, she had sworn that she could adapt to the harsh environment here, so she didn't say anything.

Zhuo Ziyuan then called Zhao Qiang and the others up, not to mention, these guys slept very well, which is why Zhuo Ziyuan hopes that the candidates who will participate in field activities in the future will give priority to boys.

After breakfast, Xiao Li, the receptionist from Yamaguchi Town, also arrived at the guest house, and several people packed their simple luggage and set off.

They first took a van, only drove for about ten minutes, then stopped, looking at the dirt road near the river in front of them, as well as the mountains and forests on both sides, Zhuo Ziyuan knew that this place could not develop, traffic may be one of the reasons, but the more important reason should be the terrain characteristics here, resulting in the extremely inconvenient transportation construction here, or the input and output are difficult to proportional.

From the beginning of the range of Rongcheng, all the way to Maozhou, they can be regarded as entering the real mountainous area, the only passage is the dirt road built along the river, to here, it is possible to enter the hinterland of the mountainous area, to have such a road along the river for ox carts and tractors, it is not easy.

The dirt road leading to Yamaguchi Prefecture is far worse than the previous provincial roads, with more potholes, and because it is mountainous, there are often protruding rocks on the road, and if a car drives in, the tires and the turf will be greatly threatened.

"How do the townspeople usually go out?" He Xia asked, looking at the road in front of him.

"The population of our town is not large, they generally do not go far, the whole town can already be self-sufficient, only some shops will often run to Maozhou, generally use such ox carts to pull goods, better may call a tractor, the general residents if they want to go to Maozhou County, are cycling, riding for more than an hour. Xiao Li explained.

"Didn't you town** think about repairing this road?" He Xia continued to ask.

But this road has more than ten kilometers, that is, to build the simplest stone road, so that the car can pass normally, this fund is more than 500,000 yuan, mainly the ground leveling is more difficult, you have to dig out a lot of big stones to break again, fill in, if you want to pour cement road, it is millions of investment, our town ** has this fund, every year with the county ** communication, but there is no effect. Xiao Li began to complain.

"Why? Doesn't the county want to improve the overall traffic environment?" He Xia wondered.

"It's not that the county doesn't want to pay, the county also has the county's difficulties, the whole county, the transportation is not only our Yamaguchi Town, everywhere points to the county appropriation, the county can only come step by step, like our Yamaguchi Town, the residents are not rich, that is, the road has been repaired, it can be used for cars, and the whole town may not have anyone who can buy a car, and in this way, the county of course allocates money to those relatively wealthy towns or the roads that need to be repaired in the county. ”

"I didn't expect you guys to understand the county. He Xia smiled.

"This is also a helpless thing, there is so much money, it is impossible to distribute it evenly, there must always be a primary and secondary order, our town is not without a way, this is not every year to the direction of the town to repair a section, although it is not long, but the fool moves the mountain, there is always a day to get through. "This Xiao Li still seems to be a cultural person, and he speaks in a set of ways.

"That's right, Yugong moves mountains, as long as you start to do it, there will always be a successful day. He Xia said appreciatively, although what Xiao Li said yesterday made everyone unhappy, but today's chat made He Xia have some changes in this town.

"How many people are in your whole town, and how many people are in the town?" asked Zhuo Ziyuan, who wanted to donate money to help repair the road, so he wanted to know more.

"There are more than 1,100 households in our town, with a total population of less than 5,000, about 1,500 people living in the town for a long time, and other farming families are distributed in 11 villages, all in the mountains. Xiao Li replied.

"What should these children who live in the mountains do when they go to school?" Zhuo Ziyuan frowned, there are more than 3,000 people living in the mountains, and the traffic from the county seat to the town is like this, and the road from the village to the town can be imagined, maybe it is still a mountain road, and even a bicycle can't walk.

"If it's closer, it's going to school, and if it's farther, those babies have been doing farm work since they were young, and they can't learn, even if it's some of the villages that are close, not all children are sent to school. ”

Zhuo Ziyuan understands in his heart that these children in the mountainous areas can't go to school is actually a very common phenomenon, not to mention the problem of money or not, that is, the need to walk a long mountain road to school every day is a problem, one is the problem of time, the other is the problem of safety, even if they walk the mountain road every day, it is inevitable that they will encounter an accident, this kind of mountain forest, treatment is even more troublesome, which is why they counted the number of students in Yamaguchi Primary School so small before.

Although Zhuo Ziyuan can understand these difficulties, he still feels sad for these children, who are destined to stay in the mountains for the rest of their lives since birth, and have no opportunity to see the vast world outside, confined to their own one-third of an acre.

The ox cart walked slowly for more than an hour before arriving at Shankou Town, looking at the buildings that came into view, Zhuo Ziyuan sighed again, the road in the middle changed from a potholed dirt road to a gravel road, this is what Xiao Li said about the road to expand outside the town every year, a bungalow is distributed on both sides of the road, it looks like it should be made of green bricks, almost all the houses do not even have cement outside, the children are playing on the dirt at the door of the house, the ox cart passes by, these children will cast curious eyes.

The ox cart continued to move forward for a while, and the road in front of it became a cement road full of patches and cracks, as far as the eye could see, Zhuo Ziyuan saw a two-story building, the outer wall was bare cement, the ox cart stopped directly in front of this building, and there was already a large group of people waiting in front of the building, some of them were still holding signs, with words written on them, and they were connected to welcome the distant fund.

Xiao Li was the first to jump out of the car and said to everyone, "This is our town office, at the front is our Mayor Ke, on the right hand is the school's principal Fang, and on the left is Deputy Mayor Wang." ”

Zhuo Ziyuan jumped out of the ox cart and helped He Xia by the way, so that she could get out of the car, and she was the leader of this public welfare activity.

Then there was the greeting between the two sides, Mayor Ke was a lean middle-aged man, with the vicissitudes of time on his face, and the whole person looked like a minority, sure enough, when he introduced himself, he said that he was a Qiang person.

Principal Fang was a scrawny old man with a pair of glasses, and he looked almost sixty years old, of course, the people in the mountains, it was difficult to judge their real age from their appearance.

Deputy Mayor Wang, Zhuo Ziyuan didn't like it at first glance, because he was very fat, but it was conceivable that eating and drinking at ordinary times must be no different, in such a difficult area, eating and drinking are usually indispensable, and the word greed appeared in Zhuo Ziyuan's heart.

Zhuo Ziyuan and his entourage did not stay in the town for a while, after a while, they went straight to their destination, Yamaguchi Primary School, their itinerary is to have a preliminary understanding of the school today, and a donation ceremony will be officially held tomorrow.

This will accompany only Mayor Ke and Principal Fang, they walked for more than half an hour to reach the destination, the building in the eye really makes Zhuo Ziyuan feel sorry for the children here, a row of low dilapidated buildings, obvious moss can be seen on the exterior wall of the blue bricks, Zhuo Ziyuan saw that the bricks in some places were directly broken, and walked into the big rusty iron door of the school, and the group looked at it one by one, today is Sunday, so there are no children in class.

The windows of the classroom creaked with the wind, some of the glass had been broken, the desks and chairs in the classroom were strange, there was no uniform specification, it was more like a patchwork borrowing, there was no so-called lectern, only a large blackboard, some teachers already had one or two cracks on the blackboard, it can be seen from the traces that the cracks have existed for a long time, there is no electric fan in the classroom, it is conceivable that the situation in the summer, there are only two offices in the whole school.

Looking at these teachers, Zhuo Ziyuan couldn't help but think of the scene when he went to elementary school, it was ten years ago, he vaguely remembered that in addition to a row of bungalows, there was a two-story building, the fifth and sixth grades and the teacher's office was in this building, there was an electric fan in summer, and he could take a nap peacefully.

As they watched, Principal Fang introduced the situation of the school, so that Zhuo Ziyuan and they had a general understanding, the tuition and miscellaneous fees of the students here per semester are sixty, and there are no other fees, just like that, some children still owe the school tuition and miscellaneous fees.

There are only four teachers in the school, except for Principal Fang, on average, there is less than one teacher in one grade, there are two teachers in the fifth and sixth grades, two teachers in the first to fourth grades, and the classes in the first to fourth grades are sometimes mixed, and it is these four teachers who are also the ones that Principal Fang finally stayed, they are all from Yamaguchi Town, who have lived here for generations, and have a strong affection for this place.

As for kindergarten, if you think about it, you know that there can't be one, so the children in the school here are relatively young, and they go to kindergarten at the age of 5 outside, and they go directly to the first grade at the age of 5.

In the school, there are only three courses of Chinese, mathematics and morality, and art and music are not even thought about, and the all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, art and labor in the country is really fantastical for the children in the mountains.