Liu Nian's hometown is located in a small county town called Xilan in the northwest of Guangxi, which in 2016 still wore the hat of a national poverty-stricken county, and in 2001, the appearance of this county was so dilapidated and barren that even Li Mu couldn't believe it.

This county is located in a narrow plain surrounded by mountains, the road in and out of the mountain is only a dilapidated and dangerous winding mountain road, the population of the entire county is only 300,000, the population in the county is not even 100,000, the highest building is a seven-story dilapidated commercial building, in addition, none of the residential buildings in the county are more than six floors, and the water towers made of red bricks have become the most top-notch buildings in the county.

In the seven-storey commercial building in this county, there was originally an Anyuan Hotel, with an Anyuan Hotel, which is the only and best hotel in the county, but Li Mu inquired and found out that the Anyuan Hotel was closed because of the long-term lack of customers, only the Anyuan Hotel remained, and occasionally the young people in the county undertook wedding banquets, and the original rooms of the hotel have been demolished, and it is said that the boss is preparing to repair it and build an indoor gym.

Li Mu is very suspicious that a county town that doesn't even have a foreign population, a county town that doesn't even have a hotel demand, what can be used to support a gym, but this is obviously not a problem for him to worry about, what he should worry about the most is how to stay for the ten or twenty people.

After several inquiries, Li Mucai finally found a state-run guest house near the passenger station, and there were only two double standard rooms in the entire guest house, and the others were all four-person rooms.

Li Mu went in to take a look, the conditions were very poor, and there was a musty smell in the room. Large, damp marks on the roof. The futon is also not very clean. But that's clearly the only option at the moment.

There was no way, Li Mu wrapped all the remaining rooms, and then began to distribute them with everyone, the six people in the 606 room lived in two quadruple rooms with two male photographers, Dong Ai and the girl she brought and Zhao Ziqiu lived in a quadruple room, Chen Lei and a female reporter lived in a double standard room, and the remaining double standard room was also given to two female reporters, who let the five media who came this time. Four of them are female journalists.

The rest of the male photographers and reporters have no choice but to live in a four-person room with poor conditions, and the only thing that is gratifying is that they only need to stay here for one night, and after donating to the school tomorrow morning, everyone will set off directly back to the provincial capital and rush to the airport to catch a flight back to Yanjing.

After everyone settled down, Li Mu asked Sun Jian and them to accompany the reporter, and asked Dong Ai to take care of Zhao Ziqiu and get in touch with the local media at the same time to see when they would come over. In addition, he also instructed Zhao Ziqiu not to cause trouble to Dong Ai, and to help as much as possible if he could.

Zhao Ziqiu pursed his lips and looked at Li Mu with an aggrieved expression. In front of so many people, she didn't feel good to speak, so she had to protest silently, she didn't come here to stay in the dilapidated guest house, but to experience something with Li Mu, she didn't want Li Mu to leave herself here alone.

Li Mu also saw the little pleading in Zhao Ziqiu's grievances, and waved his hand helplessly and said, "Then you go to school with me, and if you stay here, Senior Sister Ai will have to take care of you." ”

"Okay. Zhao Ziqiu's big eyes lit up instantly, and the unhappiness between his eyebrows was swept away.

It's all arranged, Li Mu took Zhao Ziqiu, Liu Nian and Hu Zhengdao to go to Liu Nian's alma mater first, contact the school leaders first, and by the way, review the poverty ********, count them, and see how many people there are.

Liu Nian had contacted the principal before, and the principal had already made all preparations and waited anxiously in the school, Li Mu did not let the reporter follow, after all, there was nothing to interview in the past today, mainly the scene of tomorrow's donation.

Walking on the muddy street, Liu Nian was a little embarrassed to introduce to Li Mu and Hu Zhengdao: "It is rainy here, and the roads in the county town are not very good, and there is more muddy water when it rains." ”

Li Mu walked cautiously with Zhao Ziqiu and asked Liu Nian, "How many high schools are there in your county?"

"Three. Liu Nian said: "There are three general high schools, and one vocational high school, my middle school is the largest middle school in Xilan County, and there are Xilan middle schools, junior high schools, and high schools. ”

Hu Zhengdao said: "Sixth, to tell you the truth, don't be unhappy, your place is more broken than our county seat, although we are not good there, but at least there are a few high-rise buildings, and the road is better than yours, plus there is less rain in the northwest, although the road is dusty, but not so muddy, you see my pants are muddy." ”

Liu Nian scratched his head and smiled: "If you go to my house, it will probably be even more collapsed, and the motorcycle can't be ridden in the rainy day, so you have to rely on a four-wheeled machine or livestock to pull the car." ”

Hu Zhengdao's expression was stunned, he sighed lightly and did not speak, although he was also born in a poor area, he couldn't help but sigh, this place is really ...... It's too poor.

Li Mu felt the environment here, and suddenly felt that human reincarnation was indeed a technical job.

Let's not talk about what kind of family we were born in, let's just talk about what kind of place we were born in, we are all Chinese, some people are born in big cities, and naturally they are blessed with all kinds of conditions; like they were born in small cities, they have not been separated too much distance by the children of big cities, after all, the environment, transportation, education, and the inflow of new things in the third-tier coastal cities of China are relatively fast; and even more miserable, they are born in this kind of second- and first-tier small cities. In a small county, the economy cannot keep up with the rhythm, and the information is relatively closed, and the cost of going to the third-tier medium-sized and large cities is too high; what is even worse is that Liu Nian, a child born in the second- and first-tier mountainous areas, cannot keep up with people's livelihood, economy, transportation, medical care, and education everywhere.

Li Mu recognized the universal value is not much, education is one of the few he firmly believes, in the absence of special help, if people want to change their fate, the best way is to study, born in a poor county or even born in the mountains is not terrible, as long as he can study a university, I dare not say that he can be rich, but at least he can have the strength to get out of the mountains, can find his foothold in the outside of the world of flowers, so, when he stepped on the muddy streets of the poor county, he suddenly felt that the road of student assistance is indeed a long way to go, even if his energy can not be taken into account in the future, but also to ensure the implementation of this kind of student aid behavior, he didn't dare to take care of everything, he could help as much as he could.

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When they came to Sealand Middle School, the pants of the four of them were already terrible, but at the moment, no one cared about these details, and the three of them followed Liu Nian into the school and went straight to a three-story building in the corner.

Liu Nian said that the three-storey building is the former site of Sealand Middle School, which was completed in the 50s, and is now the office building of teachers and school leaders, and a five-story building next door is a product of the 80s.

It's Sunday, there are no people on the Sealand Secondary School campus, the inside of the school is clean and tidy compared to the outside, the road is paved with gravel and muck, not as dirty as the road outside, and there is no garbage on both sides of the road.

In this school, which does not even have security guards, it is naturally impossible to have cleaners, and it is really rare to be able to maintain the campus environment like this.

Coming to the office building, Liu Nian took the three of them to the door of the principal's office on the second floor, knocked on the door gently, and the door was opened by a middle-aged man who was about fifty years old and defeated.

Liu Nian communicated with the other party in his hometown dialect for a while, and then turned to Li Mu and the three of them and said, "Principal Wang said that you are welcome to come to Xilan, after receiving the call, he has not slept since last night. ”

Immediately, Liu Nian introduced Li Mu, Zhao Ziqiu and Hu Zhengdao to each other, Li Mu also knew the other party's name at this time, Wang Jianjian, forty-seven years old this year, has been the principal of Sealand Middle School for five years.

Wang Jianshe was very polite to Li Mu and them, and after inviting them in, he deliberately took out the prepared disposable teacups and tea leaves to make them a cup of tea, Wang Jianshe said that he had long known about Liu Nian as a tutor, although he didn't understand the Internet at all, but he still gave 3321 a very high evaluation.

Li Mu and Wang Jianshe politely a few words, chatting found that Wang Jianshe spoke very directly and crisply, quite a soldier, after careful questioning, he knew that he was from the southwest border after fighting a self-defense counterattack in the early years, at the beginning of the army was a company instructor, after being injured and recovered, he returned to Sealand, first as a teacher, and then slowly became a principal.

Wang Jianshe graduated from high school, and after joining the army, he studied a correspondence college at a provincial normal college in the army.

In addition to chatting, Li Mu also explained his true purpose for coming over today, the verification of the list of poor students.

Wang Jianshe took out the roster that had been prepared a long time ago, handed it to Li Mu, and said: "This year, there are 383 fresh graduates in the third year of high school in our school, and there are 48 people who repeat the class, a total of 431 people, their names are recorded here, as well as the nature of their household registration, as well as the annual family income, this income is not very accurate, but it is also the class teachers of the third year of high school together, the error should not be too big, and there are two hundred and nine people in the poverty file. ”

Li Mu nodded, and took a closer look at the roster, it is indeed very detailed, in addition to the information that Wang Jianshe said, he also counted the ID number and ID address of each student, and the students in the poor file were marked with a red pen, and it was probably found at a glance that the annual family income of the poor students was generally within three or four thousand yuan, and even less than two thousand.

After Li Mu finished reading it, he said to Wang Jianjian: "Principal Wang, let's fix these students who are in poverty." ”

Wang Jianshe asked a little nervously: "Classmate Li Mu, is it really like what Liu Nian said on the phone, each student donated 1,000 yuan?"

Li Mu nodded: "Trouble Principal Wang to arrange it tomorrow morning, and we will directly give the money to the students at that time." ”

As soon as the words fell, someone pushed the door in, and as soon as a middle-aged man in his forties entered, he smiled and said, "Ouch Principal Wang, is this a distinguished guest?" )