"October to December is the traditional rainy season here, but this year the rainfall is pitiful. Yang Xiao kicked the mineral water bottle at his feet, which should have been thrown into the lake before, which was filled with mud and sand and embedded in the dry soil.

"In the past, people here lived by grazing cows, sheep, camels, and donkeys, but in previous years, when the weather was good, the sheep here could gather into a large flock, and a dozen people could be driven out to graze for half a day. But now it is necessary to divide into a dozen small flocks, drive them out in several directions, and leave them all day, and they may not be able to feed. ”

"Even so, many of our livestock are dying of hunger and thirst, and several herder tribes further north have migrated to our side last month, and their livestock have died and they have to rely on aid stations to help them. Over the years, international aid organizations have continued to provide food aid to this area, but because of corruption, the aid has been decreasing year by year. ”

Yang Xiao's expression was a little gloomy, he looked at Cao Wu, and said seriously: "Thank you very much, to be able to organize such an event, the people here really need help." ”

Corruption in Kenya is indeed serious, and this is also a common problem in poor and backward countries, but they have also cracked down on corruption with great intensity; last year, Kenyan President Kenyatta submitted a list of more than 100 people involved in corruption to the parliament, and directly eliminated five department minister-level officials, and the corruption situation has improved a lot.

Cao Wu shook his head: "Don't say that, we can't compare with you, you are dedicating your youth." ”

Yang Xiao shook his head and smiled, his smile was a little complicated.

Cao Wu looked at him and asked curiously, "Where is your home?"

"Ningxia is one of the provinces with the least sense of existence. Yang Xiao said jokingly.

Cao Wu smiled: "I went to Yinchuan for a concert. ”

"When?" Yang Xiao asked in surprise.

"At the beginning of July, we went on a concert tour this year. ”

"Oh. Yang Xiao nodded: "I haven't been back for two years." ”

"Why did you come here?"

"When I was in college, I went to France as an exchange student, and during the holidays, I went to the school volunteer association once, but that time I went to Ethiopia. Yang Xiao thought about it and said with some nostalgia: "That was eight years ago. ”

"That's good, isn't it?" Cao Wu asked curiously, "Then your family conditions should be good, right?"

"I'd love to say yes, but it's not. Yang Xiao smiled and said: "A rich second generation, who gave up the privileged environment and came to the Philippines alone to be a volunteer, sounds very interesting, doesn't it? ”

He seemed to be stuck in a memory, and said to himself: "Actually, when I first came, I never thought that I would come back, at that time I still felt that this place was terrible, poor and remote, and diseases were rampant, and I wanted to say that I would never come here again in my life." ”

"After graduating, I returned to China to work and worked in a software company in Beijing for four years, which was considered to earn some money and buy a house for my family. ”

"But those four years were the darkest four years of my life, I was miserable, everything was overwhelming, I just wanted to escape. ”

"After the Chinese New Year, when I went back to the company, I quit my job, I only brought some belongings, bought a plane ticket and came to East Africa. ”

"I just wanted to relax, but I didn't expect that I would stay for three years. ”

He shook his head and smiled: "Actually, I'm not that noble at all, I'm just running away." ”

Cao Wu hesitated and asked, "Then ...... your family?"

"They didn't know I was here or that I quit my job the first year, and at the end of that year, I went home and confessed everything to them. "They didn't understand me, even I didn't understand why I was the way I was, but I made that choice," he said. I left all my savings at home and ran back. ”

"During my years at work, I felt like a clockwork robot, and I couldn't even control my thinking, and that feeling was enough to drive me crazy. I felt like I wasn't free and I wanted to escape. ”

"What I didn't expect was that when I came back here, it would be like I had found my long-lost soul. Yang Xiao was a little excited: "Those children don't bathe often, their bodies are very smelly, and they are often surrounded by flies, but their hearts are very clean." I like to teach them to read and write, to tell them what the outside world is like, and I feel like I've found my true self, and I feel like I'm free. ”

"I know very well what I gave up and what I chose. He looked at Cao Wu and said, "Last year, a domestic volunteer came over, and he recommended me a song of yours, called "Blue Lotus", I deliberately put it on my phone when I went to Nairobi, I liked it very much, I think this is the place where the blue lotus blooms in my mind." ”

Exhaled, he apologized and said, "I'm sorry, I'm a little excited, but I haven't talked to someone like this for too long, and I can't control it for a while." ”

"It doesn't matter. Cao Wu shook his head and asked, "Then are you still ready to go back?"

"I can't lie to myself, maybe not. Yang Xiao's face was a little bitter, but mixed with a hint of happiness: "My choice is very selfish, and I am also evading my responsibility, but I have found my true self here, can you understand this feeling? I am reluctant to leave, let me go back to the days of the walking dead, it is better to kill me." ”

Cao Wu was silent, not knowing what to say.

"It's okay, don't worry about anything, it's okay to despise me and look down on me. Yang Xiao smiled and said: "This peace of mind is my hometown, I have found what I want, and I don't care much about the rest." ”

With that, he turned and walked back.

Looking at his back, Cao Wu thought for a moment and said seriously: "You are a true cultivator. ”

At the hospital, Jiaju helped Latum unload the things in the car.

Before he came, Ratum knew he was going to be here, so he contacted the volunteers here and helped them bring some things.

Flour, disposable needles, glucose, medicines, are all life-saving items.

Before returning to the convoy, Cao Wu and Yang Xiao said goodbye, and they wanted to go a little further west to see the situation over there.

"I didn't bring anything with me this time, it's my own Walkman, there are a lot of songs in it, you can listen to them when you are resting. Cao Wu gave the Walkman to Yang Xiao.

Jiaju took a guitar from the car and gave it to the French volunteers in the hospital.

"We will be back. Cao Wu got into the car and said to Yang Xiao.

Yang Xiao watched them until they were buried by the smoke and dust raised by the wheels.