Chapter 1469: Unexpected
Luke's smile was still shy, and his mindset was the same as he had been six years ago.
He neither complained, nor was he angry, nor resentful, as if it seemed to him that all this was arranged by God, and all the difficulties were due to him to endure.
The doors and windows of this elementary school, which was built thirty years ago, have long since rotted, and Luke took everyone on a tour of the school, and when he entered the classroom, he pointed to the big stove in the center of the teacher and laughed. "Mr. Fu, I thought that the village on the Chuanjin side was already a very poor and difficult place, but when I came here, I found that it was far poorer and more difficult than the Chuanjin side. You see, a stove can be found in a classroom, and this must be a spectacle that you can't see in a big city, right?"
Everyone around the stove was stunned, and Luke pointed to the pile of dead branches and corn stalks piled in the corner of the classroom. "Now, these are the leftovers of the burning, they are all carried by the children from home, if there is no this, the children will be frozen in the classroom in the winter, and some families are reluctant to send their children to school for this reason......
Zove looked at the black hearth. "Is it cold in the winter?"
"It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that dripping water turns into ice, but the humidity in the mountains is heavy, the humidity is big, the classroom is colder than the outside in winter, and every household in the village has to make a stove to bake the fire, and the big furnace in the classroom is still when the steel is smelting, and the old village chief risked his life to protect it, otherwise the classroom can only make a fire pond, the smoke is big, the smell is bad, and as far as I know, there are children who are poisoned because ......of the fire in the classroom."
Zo Wei covered her mouth and exclaimed. "Oh my God, where is this school? How can there be such a place?"
"It's a place with dense forests, and people originally had to come here to escape the war, but now it's a time of peace, and it's hard to understand what happens, but the problem is that people here have lived here for more than 200 years, and it's definitely not an exaggeration to say that they are rooted here. From today's point of view, it is difficult to evaluate whether it was right or wrong at the beginning!"
Fu Zhengyi's statement made Luke nod again and again, and sighed when he saw that Zuo Wei and the girls were unbearable. "In fact, what you don't see is far more serious than what you see. I didn't expect that the children here need to get up at half past four in the morning to go to school, it will be dangerous when it is windy and rainy, and in the spring the children will bring some dried sweet potatoes and corn paste to school for lunch, and in the winter it will be even more difficult, and they have to carry some extra firewood to school, otherwise they will not be able to eat lunch. I have limited ability to make the lives of the children here better, so I can only hope that more caring people will donate and there will be volunteers to fill the vacancy of teachers......"
Chloe asked, tugging at Luke's sleeve and looking up. "Isn't it a good lunch for the children who go to school here?"
"Hearty?" said Luke, crouching down and shaking his head. "It has nothing to do with abundance. The children usually use bottles or jars to bring some gruel, and when they come, they put their lunch next to the stove, so that the lunch can be warm at noon, and the Huagang Foundation has provided a donation, although the milk is not guaranteed to be supplied for a long time, but each child will add an egg to their lunch, so the number of students in the school has increased by 40% since last year, and now there are four grades in this school, and there are more than 70 students in the school. ”
"Gruel, can you eat enough? But I like eggs, and fried eggs are my favorite!"
"You can't fry the eggs in oil, they're all boiled in plain water. There are also sensible children who bring eggs back to the younger children in the family, and sometimes I want to cry when I see them......"
The topic became heavy, the broken desks and chairs, the blackboards full of potholes, the windows pasted with newspapers, and the ceiling full of soot, the baptism of time did not make this classroom seem simple and solemn, but made everyone present feel depressed and heavy.
The villagers lit a fire on the playground of the school, and brought tartary buckwheat wine, which was burning in the pot and roasting on the fire, and what was produced in the mountains.
Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to eat the water.
The ancestors of the villagers came to settle here to escape the war, and for more than 200 years, they have been far away from the city, away from the crowd, and away from the hustle and bustle and the progress of the times.
The encounter six years ago made Luke know that the young man in front of him had great social energy and abundant funds at his disposal, although he learned that Li Xueyao, who led the team this time, was in charge of a billion-dollar charity fund, but he still regarded Fu Zhengyi as the leader of the team, and dragged him to sit in front of the fire and sighed. "Mr. Fu, in fact, this is not the most difficult, go west over the three mountains, cross the Grand Canyon, you will find that there is the poorest place, if you want to get out of it for four or five days, the children there, it's too difficult, it's really too difficult......
Xi Mengmeng, who was sitting on the side, was stunned and said. "What? Isn't this the poorest village?"
Luke smiled wryly. "Of course not, it only takes a day and a half to go out from here, and the children in the surrounding villages can go back and forth on the same day, but those children who live on the cliff mountain, either spend six or seven hours detouring, or can only go down from the cliff through the rattan ladder, the drop between the cliff and the bottom is seven or eight hundred meters, two or three thousand steps of the ladder, the adults fall down without paying attention, the children living in the cliff village want to go to school, it's too difficult, it's really too difficult......
Li Xueyao and the others were at a loss, but Fu Zhengyi sighed. "The cliff village can completely avoid the war, but it is difficult to get out and enter, and those who are willing to go to this kind of village to teach are all heroes!"
"Yes, although I am a man, I am really ashamed of this, there is a teaching point under the cliff village in the northwest of the canyon, Leo and Sophia have been there for two years, and every time I go to give them something, I am ashamed to die in the face of the sincere smiles of the two of them......"
Zuo Wei was stunned. "Where do you have a teaching point?"
"Originally, there was no, Leo and Sophia came over to open it, I really didn't expect Sophia to come here after four years, she knew that the conditions here were difficult, but she resolutely chose the most difficult place, I ......"
"Wait! Four years? Which Sophia?"
"It's Sophia, the Frenchman who came with you last time, but her name on her passport is Sophie, and her nationality has changed to British, if it weren't for someone telling me that she speaks French better than English, I went on a trip, how would I know that Sophie is Sophia......"