When Hofstadter and Cooper returned to the small mountain village after a brief investigation, it was already late at night.

The city has prepared a variety of hospitality options, but it is clear that for this group of scholars who are supposed to be here for exchanges, they prefer the town of Sanchahe with a full laboratory. Faced with the invitation of the person in charge of the city, several people said that the time was urgent, and it was too late to go to the city.

This is also the truth, they themselves are here for academic exchanges in China, and the travel time is set in advance. This trip to Sanchahe Township is already extra, and if you delay it any more, you really can't afford to delay.

But the person in charge who led the team to accompany him was dumbfounded, and discussed with a group of people who came with him for a long time, and finally came to the conclusion that the bell must be tied to the bell, and Yan Fei had to be found for this matter.

This is one of the directors in charge of the office, surnamed Liu. Originally, the person in charge of receiving this work should be Director Niu who Yan Fei knew, but Director Niu happened to go to the field with the city leaders, and he just got this errand.

It's easy to receive this kind of thing, just take the guests to eat, drink, and have fun. Of course, there are also difficulties, for example, the job that Director Liu encountered is that it is undoubtedly more difficult to receive foreign friends and a group of experts and scholars.

There are two sides to everything, and if this reception is good and the guests and hosts are satisfied, then it will not be a difficulty but an opportunity.

Therefore, Director Liu found Yan Fei after synthesizing what he had learned about Yan Fei's personality and planning for a while, and spoke politely: "Boss Yan, can you let these experts and scholars go to the city for one night? If you really can't, as long as they go to the two universities in our city to take a look before they leave tomorrow, this is also a good thing to enhance the popularity of our city universities, can you think of a way?"

threw out the request first, and without waiting for Yan Fei to say anything to refute, he went on to say his conditions: "This year, the education funds in our city in the third quarter have come down, and there is still some working capital, I think it is quite appropriate to allocate it to Boss Yan's alma mater." This amount of money is not much, but if you divide the three schools of elementary, junior high and high school that you attended, one school can also divide 180,000, what do you think?"

A school of 180,000, Director Liu really dares to say it.

In the first year of this year, if a township school can allocate so much extra money, it is estimated that the principals and teachers will wake up with a smile in their dreams. Especially these schools in Sanchahe Town are not too large, and it is more than enough to have so much money to repair the dormitory playground for teachers and students, or to buy some teaching equipment.

Yan Fei was moved at that time, if he wanted to say that this amount of money was not much for him, he could also leak a little between his fingers to the school. But the nature of the money he gave to the school was different from that of the city, and the morale of the teachers and students was also very different.

However, people begged to come to the door, and he didn't have much friendship with this Director Liu, so he had to take Qiao a little: "Then we still have a second junior high school here!"

He is still thinking about the second junior high school, to be honest, in addition to the large enough venue of the second junior high school, the teachers are not as good as the first junior high school in recent years, and the villagers like to find a back door to let the students enter the first junior high school, which is more popular to set off the first junior high school.

Director Liu saw that a group of scholars had already gone to rest, and it was really not early to see the time, so he gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "Okay, I'll go back and think of a way, at least 50,000 more from other places." ”

"But I still have to wait for Director Niu to come back and discuss with him, and go with him to communicate with other departments, no matter how much I can't guarantee. Don't worry, I promised you now, I will definitely be able to do it, and when the time comes, you can mention my name and scold me at the door of the main mansion. ”

Yan Fei was almost happy, and this Director Liu was really hardworking.

To say that Yan Fei also cares too much about these official things, but now he is a big boss of a famous local enterprise, and the level of contact is correspondingly higher. Even if he doesn't pay attention to these, he usually listens and watches, and he knows a little bit about some things.

For example, the city's various funding issues, if the education fund is allocated to others, although others will have some opinions, but Director Liu can at least find a fair and honest reason - Sanchahe Township has been good in all aspects in recent years, but this educational condition is a little unable to keep up, the city feels that it should allocate more funds to support, and I hope you will understand this quarter.

But if you want to talk about other payments, if you want to get another 50,000, it is really not easy. No matter when, there are people running to the city to ask for all kinds of funds, basically the provincial money has not come down, and the city has almost arranged a place to go - you say that you can take care of education and allocate special funds, and if you divert our money, we are all hungry and have no food!

This is the case when the landlord's family has no surplus food, every money is stared at by countless people, and everyone has a legitimate reason, and you want to move a sum of money from 'someone else' in front of everyone, which is really not something that can be said in one sentence or two.

Hearing Director Liu say this, Yan Fei didn't say anything more, nodded and agreed: "I'll try to try it tomorrow, can I do it?" It's really hard to say whether it can succeed or not, and you can see that this group of people is really not very easy to talk to. ”

Director Liu didn't believe his shirk, how happy you and those two professors chatted along the way, reciting poetry and talking about the past and the present, and even the two translators couldn't translate so many words.

In Director Liu's eyes, as long as Yan Fei agreed, there was a chance that this would be done, and he held Yan Fei's hand and shook it again and again: "Brother Yan, my brother won't say anything, after sending them away tomorrow, you must stay, let's have two drinks together in the evening......"

The next morning, early in the morning, a group of scholars were in good spirits again, and Cooper laughed when he saw Yan Fei moving his legs and feet outside: "Yan, we can still squeeze out a little time today, can you take us to your school to have a look? is the school you said has an ancient building?"

The other secretary Qu who got up early next to him was envious, jealous and hateful, needless to say. Originally, I thought that Yan Fei could bring a group of foreign friends to his place, and he had already picked up a big bargain, but he didn't expect that Lao Chen from Sanchahe Township would sit at home and not move, and a bunch of good things would fall from the sky, which is really more popular than people!

The other person was happy, and Director Liu was almost so happy that he couldn't keep his mouth shut. Originally, he impulsively promised too much last night, but he didn't sleep well all night, and he kept thinking and meditating, thinking about what reason he could squeeze out of the city's finances!

Now the reason has been sent to the door, so what, a group of scholars who went to Shuimu Yenching University in the capital for exchange have specially gone to the school in Sanchahe Township to see it, and allocate some money to their school to repair the historical sites, what do you think? If you have the ability, you also found a group of such scholars to go to your place to wander around?

So the convoy drove to the second high school, and on the way, Yan Fei called Principal Dou, but unfortunately Principal Dou returned to his hometown. However, when I heard the news, I was dozens of years old, and I said at the time that I would find a motorcycle to go back to school later, and I would definitely not be able to delay the time to receive foreign friends.

Yan Fei was startled, and hurriedly persuaded him: "Principal Dou, you're really not in such a hurry, you have to slow down." Don't be a good thing, if you are in a hurry and make it a bad thing, I can't explain it to our fathers and villagers in Sanchahe Township when I turn around!"

Principal Dou laughed: "Don't worry, I'll hurry up and find the car, and let someone else take me here!"

hung up the phone, and when he arrived in Sanchahe Township, Mayor Chen was already smiling and waiting at the school gate with people. I also specially found a staff member who is eloquent and understands the history of Sanchahe Town, and specializes in being a tour guide: "At the beginning, our Sanchahe Town was relocated several times, and it was finally determined that it was in this place. Because it was surrounded by rivers on three sides, the wharf on the west side was an important logistics port at the time. This ancient building was originally a meeting hall for merchants, which is equivalent to a foreigner's ...... The kind of ...... club"

It's really difficult for Yan Fei to be the translator, in order to make Hofstadt and others understand, he has hollowed out his brain and thought about translation. Fortunately, he has a good memory, and based on the historical knowledge he has learned, he explains the era of this building, which is probably a few years before the Industrial Revolution of Bird Country, and also before the Independence Revolution of the Moldy Country.

When a few people were about to visit with great interest, Yan Fei said to Cooper and Hofstadter tactfully in the anxious and expectant eyes of Director Liu: "Actually, the two universities in our city also have a considerable history. If you have time, you can also visit it......"

Cooper and Hofstadter were stunned for a moment, and Cooper laughed: "I think I kind of understand that a lot of the resources needed to engage in academic research are earned by yourself, so you have to compromise at some point, right? This is caused by the current social environment, and academic research is not something that can be done behind closed doors, and I am very happy to meet a young scholar who is not so old-fashioned." As long as you can keep a scholarly heart and understand what you really want to do. ”

Hofstadter's face was a little unsettling when he heard Yan Fei's words, but after hearing Cooper's words, he pondered for a moment and nodded: "That's why I want you to go to a place with a more academic atmosphere as soon as possible...... I agreed. ”

Yan Fei listened to the words of these two, and couldn't help but feel a little fluctuating in his heart-these two thought about themselves, which was too good.

But fortunately, the two of them nodded, which is also a good thing.

On the way to the city, Yan Fei confessed: "Actually, they promised me just now that if you can go and have a look, you can allocate some funds to a few of our schools here." Although I can also give, in our case, private support and support from above have different meanings. ”

Cooper said at the time that he understood this, and in fact, this kind of thing is not uncommon abroad. It is not uncommon for some well-known experts and scholars to cooperate with enterprises to give some publicity speeches or participate in some public welfare activities in order to obtain some research funds.

The two universities in the city are a bit embarrassing, and there are only two junior colleges in a 10,000-strong city of Nuoda, and there is not even a formal undergraduate college.

As for the exchange or anything, the two Coopers took a group of scholars to look at the two schools, then took some pictures, and hurriedly took their leave.

As soon as they were sent away, Director Liu was excited. Finally endured the reporters who were taking pictures and dispersed, he came up and grabbed Yan Fei, saying that he would not let him go home: "If you don't stay tonight, I will go home with you." You're going to have to let me show you for just one meal, don't you?"

Yan Fei was helpless: "That's okay, otherwise, I still have some friends, how about everyone call to have a meal together?"

What he called was nothing more than those friends such as Director Zhang and Chairman Dong, but before the meal was eaten, the phone kept ringing: "Brother Yan, where are you? Those foreign scholars are gone? Secretary Qu wants to come with me in the evening, please have a meal, are you free?"

Yan Fei was helpless: "Brother Niu, I really can't go back." At this time, Director Liu pulled me and didn't let me go, you told Secretary Qu, I got the heart, let's talk about the meal later, okay?"

Lao Niu persuaded him a few more words before he gave up.

Secretary Qu will have to invite this meal sooner or later, and his mood has been very magnificent in the past two days. originally wanted to have some friendship with Yan Feipan, hoping to get some benefits for the township. Unexpectedly, Yan Fei walked away neatly at that time, he was not happy at the time, and felt that once the young people of the current year are ambitious, it will be really difficult to deal with.

Unexpectedly, Yan Fei called Lao Niu again and asked him to do some environmental protection work for some reason.

Secretary Qu was confused at that time, does the township need environmental protection?

Since Lao Niu's cement factory moved away, the whole township has gone from east to west, from south to north, and it is simply a primitive ecology. Except for pigs and cattle, not even the slightest pollution can be found.

In the past, it was said that relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to eat the water, but these days, the things in the mountains are not worth much, and sneaking into the mountains to get some game, and you have to risk being reported to the police station.

As for the water, you can catch some fish to sell during the New Year, which is not worth much, and a pound of pork can be exchanged for several pounds of fish.

However, since Lao Niu said it, he thought that this was the advice given to him by two big entrepreneurs, so he made do with some environmental protection publicity.

I didn't expect that a group of foreign friends would come now, and what they saw was their 'original ecology', which was simply ...... It's really hard to know how to say it.

Nowadays, economic development is the mainstream, and if the economy does not develop, it will not even be able to build roads, and no matter how good the landscape is, others will not be able to enter, and it will be in vain. Therefore, everyone is hollowing out their minds to engage in the economy, even at the cost of harming the environment. Unexpectedly, because he was poor and had nowhere to develop the economy, he blindly tossed about environmental protection, and this time he actually made a meritorious service.

Now Secretary Qu has begun to think happily, if he allocates some money to the township in a few days, he quickly proposes to repair all the roads that should be repaired, maybe someone will come to travel in the future!

Sometimes things are so difficult to say, as people's pockets are getting more and more bulging, those places with mountains and rivers that could not attract any industry, build a road and become a tourist attraction, but those areas that have damaged the environment because of economic development, can only knock out their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs, silently bearing the consequences of destroying the environment at the beginning.