"Why?" Liu Haohao was very curious.

"Because of the sense of achievement, as far as I am concerned, I think it is more meaningful to give popular science lectures to children, cultivate their scientific awareness, and improve the scientific quality of the whole nation, not to mention that I am already old, and I have not studied anything in my professional field, and I have achieved nothing, how can I be embarrassed to take college students to engage in scientific research?" Li Jiyuan could not hide his excitement, rubbing the popular science book he wrote.

"And your family?" asked Liu Haohao cautiously.

"The children are all older, they are all going to college, they have their own lives, and they don't need me as an old man anymore. He paused, "Ye Ping and I are divorced, we are already different, I have delayed her for too many years, I am really sorry for her, I can't delay her anymore......"

"But I'm so old, and I don't have many years to live, I don't want to die in a foreign land, and I don't want to waste my precious time, just let me be selfish and willful, and I want to do what I want to do. Li Jiyuan's smile was very open-minded.

"Teacher Li, come to our Changfu County. Knowing that Li Jiyuan wanted to go back to Damu Village to teach, Liu Haohao took the initiative to solicit him.

"When Secretary Liu arrived in Changfu County, he really kept Changfu County in mind all the time, don't forget that you yourself are also from Damu Primary School. Li Jiyuan quipped.

"If you were in Yongle County, you could only teach in Damu Primary School, which is really condescending, you could have influenced more people, and you shouldn't limit yourself to one village, one primary school. I understand your abilities, and you will definitely be able to play a greater role in Changfu County. ”

"I'm at this age, and I'm not in good health, so what greater role can I have? Teaching children in the village is afraid of delaying them. Li Jiyuan smiled bitterly.

His physical condition was no longer optimistic, and the hard life in the countryside and the hard work abroad destroyed the foundation of his body.

"We have built a new children's palace and a small hall in Changfu County, and I should ask you to give science and technology classes to children in the children's palace, and carry out popular science lectures in the small hall, which should not only be for children, but also for adults. ”

Li Jiyuan is a little strange, Liu Haohao talked to him about these things in the past, and always thought that children are the hope of the future, and science education should start from children, why do you suddenly feel that adults also need popular science?

"I don't know if you came back this time, went to the countryside to see it, in recent years, the folk superstition has been very strong, don't say anything else, just say my father and grandma, three incense sticks every morning and evening, the village has to organize many times throughout the year, ask God to pray for rain when there is a drought, ask God to stop the rain when it is waterlogged, and would rather eat incense ash than go to the hospital when you are sick...... Do you remember Lin Wanying? It was my little sister when I was a child, the one who fell out with me later, and now she has become a famous goddess in our Damu Village, and she has been successfully promoted to the ranks of 10,000 households by asking God to come up. Yongle County is like this, and Changfu County is not far behind. ”

Li Jiyuan was dumbfounded, he left Damu Village very early, but he didn't know that the superstitious atmosphere was so heavy now, "I didn't have these in the past, why did I go back......"

"Since ancient times, the living environment in Southern Province has been very bad, so there are many folk beliefs, and the past is broken, and these are not dared to be moved to the surface, but now they are becoming more and more prosperous. From a certain aspect, the folk wandering god is also a traditional custom, and there is a certain research value, should not be banned, but ignorance to take incense ash as medicine, this is excessive, according to the statistics of the Changfu County Health Bureau, because of the delay in the treatment of the death of patients in a year, it has reached hundreds, and it is still rising year by year. Why is it that at the moment when the economy is constantly developing and the standard of living is gradually improving, there will be more and more people choosing to eat incense ash? The profession of the goddess and Mr. Feng Shui is becoming more and more popular, and young people must be married with eight characters, no matter how good the relationship is, they must beat the mandarin ducks, and the auspicious day of the zodiac should be chosen for weddings and funerals, and those who have money will ask someone to choose a cemetery for their family on the mountain, and a large tomb will be circled in a circle, and the family must be as luxurious as the emperor's mausoleum, so as to protect the children and grandchildren. Now our family is doing well, everyone says that it is because my grandfather chose a piece of feng shui treasure land, and now everyone is rushing to build a tomb on the mountain, my father is afraid that feng shui will be robbed, forcing my sister to take the money home and prepare to overhaul my grandfather's tomb...... Don't think it's ridiculous, this kind of thing happens almost every day in the countryside. ”

"If this kind of atmosphere continues to continue, what if the economy grows and the standard of living improves, all the money is invested in it, and the rural areas will become smoky, and the richer they will be in the future, the worse the atmosphere will be......

"Do you think this kind of atmosphere is because the popularization of science among the villagers is not enough?" Li Jiyuan did not agree very much, "I have been carrying out science popularization propaganda in the countryside in various ways for decades, and I also participated in it when I was in Damu Village, you should also have the impression that at that time, everyone was gathered together to listen to the lectures, I think the effect is okay, and I have not seen everyone engage in feudal superstition activities." ”

"At that time, if you didn't do it, you didn't dare to do it, it wasn't that you didn't believe it, but you gathered together to listen to it with a loudspeaker, do you think, if it were you, you could listen to it? When you gave a science lecture at that time, not only children, but also many adults spontaneously came to listen, indicating that they were interested in what you said, maybe it was a long process to change their thinking, but as long as they stopped being so superstitious, even if they were sick and went to the hospital, this was also a rare progress. ”

"I've always felt that when the economy grows to a certain extent, people will naturally become less superstitious. ”

"At that time, if you didn't do it, you didn't dare to do it, it wasn't that you didn't believe it, but you gathered together to listen to it with a loudspeaker, do you think, if it were you, you could listen to it? When you gave a science lecture at that time, not only children, but also many adults spontaneously came to listen, indicating that they were interested in what you said, maybe it was a long process to change their thinking, but as long as they stopped being so superstitious, even if they were sick and went to the hospital, this was also a rare progress. ”

"I've always felt that when the economy grows to a certain extent, people will naturally become less superstitious. ”

"At that time, if you didn't do it, you didn't dare to do it, it wasn't that you didn't believe it, but you gathered together to listen to it with a loudspeaker, do you think, if it were you, you could listen to it? When you gave a science lecture at that time, not only children, but also many adults spontaneously came to listen, indicating that they were interested in what you said, maybe it was a long process to change their thinking, but as long as they stopped being so superstitious, even if they were sick and went to the hospital, this was also a rare progress. ”

"I've always felt that when the economy grows to a certain extent, people will naturally become less superstitious. ”