Outside the school gate, the van in which the social workers were riding started up.

As soon as Liang Yuqian boarded the car, he immediately took off his vest: "It's really hot today." ”

She has a small round face, small eyes, thick lips, a pair of black-framed glasses on a flat nose, and her unaged facial features give people a sense of generosity.

Since her senior year, she has participated in the public welfare projects carried out by the Tomorrow Charity Center, and after graduation, she became a full-time social worker of the Tomorrow Charity Center without hesitation.

The Ruoshui Mountain Castle project is the first project she has brought with her, and she has a special affection for this project.

She looked back behind her, obscured by the dust raised by the wheels, the new and simple teaching building loomed, and the eight vigorous and powerful characters of "Ruoshui Mountain City Hope Primary School" came from the hand of the principal Jing Ming.

She remembered her first visit to this remote mountain village five years ago, when the car bumped up a rugged mountain road for six hours.

As soon as she got out of the car, she vomited diligently, and it was Jing Yi, a thin old man over half a hundred years old and with a dark face, who stepped out of a crumbling thatched hut that served as a classroom, and handed her a bowl of water, and she clearly remembered the coolness and sweetness that touched her lips......

She muttered, "You don't know, this village is really poor, and now there is finally a decent school...... Uh, do you hear anything?"

She listened attentively, and there was an indescribable strangeness in her heart, as if there was nothing. After receiving a negative reply from the other people in the car, she turned and sat upright, smiling at her auditory hallucinations, perhaps due to tiredness.

As the car drifted farther and farther away, the sound of reading aloud from the teaching building gradually drifted away, and this secluded and poor mountain village in the eyes of the world silently protruded from the mountainside, like a tumor that had peeled off its flesh in the endless green forest.

The village is not big, there are more than 100 households, the villagers cut down wood to build houses, because the foundation between the mountains is uneven, they are deeply implanted in the rock layer with several thick tree stumps, and then put a thick wooden board on the stump, build a house on the wooden plank, the wall is made of wood, the roof is built with branches, the inside and outside are pasted with mud, the outer layer of about 50 earthy yellow mountain houses are closely arranged next to each other, according to the mountain situation winding into a semicircle, the semicircle is a layer of semicircle, layer upon layer to build to the center of the circle, is the entrance of the village.

Between each floor of the house is a thin layer of loess-covered rocky streets, about the width of three cars side by side, while the outermost mountain house hangs on the top of the mountain by a stump inserted into the rock, and from a distance, it seems to float in mid-air, which is a wonder.

After graduating from university 30 years ago, the villagers built two thatched huts at the entrance of the village as schools, and the children brought rice, noodles and meat from home to study the curriculum from primary school to junior high school.

At first, he was the only teacher, but as the years grew, several bright students stayed on to teach after graduating from junior high school, which was a barely enough teacher.

However, after graduating from junior high school, most of the children in the school inherited their father's business and became mountain people who relied on the mountains to eat, some took up bows and arrows and became hunters, and some carried baskets into the mountains to pick herbs or mushrooms.

What surprised Liang Yuqian was the indifference and tranquility of the villagers' mentality.

Talking to the villagers, most of them showed good upbringing, without the vulgarity and ignorance she expected. Although it is located in isolation, people are also full of curiosity about the outside world, but they are not fanatical and yearning, but live and work in peace and contentment in this mountain village.

Jing explained that the ancestors of the villagers of Ruoshui Mountain City were all cultured people, and they came here to live in seclusion to escape the war, and every family had strict discipline and respect for knowledge, even before he returned to his hometown to run a school, there was no school in the village, and the children would read and write from the elders who were rich in knowledge in the village middle school after they were of school age.

Liang Yuqian couldn't help but sigh, it was not so much that the villagers were isolated from the world, but that they had no quarrel with the world.

Five years ago, the Ruoshui Mountain City project team led by Liang Yuqian visited the village and won a warm welcome from the villagers. That night, Mo Fan, the village head, organized a bonfire dinner in the open space at the entrance of the village, and the villagers took out the pickled animal meat, mountain delicacies and home-brewed fruit wine at home to entertain them.

Liang Yuqian remembered that the wine, sweet and sweet, gushing out of the throat with a faint aroma of wine, did not feel strong, but after drinking it fell into a coma one night, and woke up the next day in a slight trance, but it was not uncomfortable.

Liang Yuqian once brought two bottles back to Yuecheng, and the taste was the same, but the strange thing was that he couldn't drink the feeling when he was in Ruoshui Mountain City anyway, like there was something different, and he couldn't tell what it was.

Ruoshui Shancheng Hope Primary School project is progressing very smoothly, the school site is about one kilometer from the entrance of the village to the mountain forest, the ground is relatively flat, it is a gentle steep slope, but the forest is high. After the tree was felled, a small three-storey building was built on the site.

It took five years from the establishment of the project, the raising of funds to the completion of the school.

On the day of its completion, Liang Yuqian took the team and reporters to visit Ruoshui Mountain City again, and also proposed that he hoped that more children could go out of the mountains after graduating from junior high school and go to the township to study in high school and take the university entrance examination, so as to change the status quo of his hometown.

Jing Yi innocently stretched out his hands and squeezed her hand, but smiled silently.

She sighed silently in her heart, for an old man who has stayed in the mountains all his life, even though the mountains are too inconvenient, but this is home.

Over the years, she has gradually realized that the most difficult thing in poverty alleviation work is not to give material help, but to spiritually change the "poor" mentality of the local people.

This is Ruoshui Mountain City in Liang Yuqian's eyes.

It will also become a mountain castle in the eyes of the world.

Jing stood in front of the window, watching the car drive down the foot of the mountain and hide into the forest. He stretched his gaze over the rolling mountains, the midday sun spreading out in the endless green. It's time.

Xiao Qi stood aside respectfully and said, "Elder Jing, Miss Liang has been here too many times, and I have noticed it, and I have modified her brainwashing program. ”

Jing Yan nodded, and said as he turned around, "Gather everyone." ”