The two came out of Teacher Bei's house, and visited the children of five families in the village, and the overall situation was similar, many parents disdained the money for assistance, and the enthusiasm for sending their children to school was not high, which was a basic status quo in the local area.

The two left Linghou Village with a heavy heart, passed through a cornfield that had just been watered by the gift of mountains and rivers, passed by a few small ditches flowing with clear mountains and rivers, and saw a group of carefree, simple and natural, talking and laughing, washing and chatting girls and daughters-in-law, and their mood suddenly relaxed a lot.

Maybe it's the instinctive curiosity of rural people, when they saw a pair of handsome and handsome foreign strange young people, they immediately stopped what they were doing, got up with their faces up, looked straight at each other, gathered together and pointed and whispered, "His aunt, you see how handsome these two people are, how foreign, they are simply a pair of golden boys and girls, what a match." ”

"Sister-in-law, who told us that our lives are not good, growing in this poor ravine that we can never climb out, the seeds are poor, the ground is not good, and no matter how hard we hold it, we can't give birth to such a child."

"It's a pity that I'm old, if I were a teenager younger, I would have gone out of the mountain to find a good man, and I would have been able to give birth to a baby or girl who can decorate the façade and make people envious."

"You're only in your early forties, you're young, don't be discouraged, maybe you can find a little white face in your thirties in the city."

"I don't have a chance, you're still about the same, with clear eyebrows, young and vigorous, fertile soil and water, clean up and dress up a little, and there will be a large group of perverts behind your buttocks, obedient to a satisfactory one, sleep for three or five nights, and you can grow a tender seedling."

"What do you two say, how good my land is, and my family sleeps and tosses every day and it doesn't sprout, and people are in a hurry to death."

"You tossed out three niuniu and a baby, and you have already been dealt with by the Family Planning Commission, and it is useless to toss again."

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These girls in the mountains gossip, amuse each other, debauchery, talk coquettishly without blushing at all, and laugh pleasantly from time to time.

The two of them laughed inwardly at this, dismissively, left their faces and shyness behind, and passed naturally and generously in front of the eyes of the ladies who looked at rare things.

This belt road is easier to walk, at the entrance of Tanwan Village, which is more than two miles in the west of Linghou Village, men, women and children hold pu fans in their hands to enjoy the shade under the big locust tree, and chat.

Wu Xiaojun walked up to an old man leaning on the root of a tree and smoking a dry cigarette with a long beard and a white beard, and asked respectfully, "Uncle, may I ask how to go to Li Huihui's house in this village?" ”

The old man raised his head, his eyes were shining, and he said briskly and neatly, "Li Huihui's family, is there something wrong, it's not far away, I'll take you there." ”

Wu Xiaojun hurriedly said, "Uncle, don't bother you, just show us the way." ”

The old man was really enthusiastic enough, stood up gently, put his hands behind his back and said, "Young man, girl, you are not locals, I am idle, so let me go." Without waiting for Wu Xiaojun to speak, he lowered his head and walked forward.

The two shook their heads and looked at each other and smiled, followed closely behind, and soon came to a small courtyard, and the old man pointed with his hand and said, "Young man, this is the house, you can go in directly, I won't accompany you." He left without looking back.

"Thank you, uncle, thank you, please go slowly."

Wu Xiaojun knocked lightly on the door a few times, but no one answered inside, so he pushed his hand into the courtyard. The courtyard is quite small, empty, the earthen fence has become a broken wall, the three dilapidated old houses are ventilated everywhere, the stolen goods are all over the ground, under the scorching sun, there is an unbelievable pungent smell, I know that it is a family, I don't know that it is a pigsty cowshed, I can't help but feel sad.

Wu Xiaojun said in his heart that if he left here immediately for something else, but the purpose of his duty was to understand the real situation of the poor family, and he had to make compromises, patiently and patiently at the gate, waiting for the return of the owner.

After a while, seven or eight children came from the front alley. A little girl is particularly eye-catching, she looks like she can be four or five years old, weak, skinny, with unkempt hair, a black face, and a dirty body, who has not taken a bath for many days, wearing a short undershirt and trousers, with a few patches on them, smeared with sweat and snot, black and white, without shoes and bare feet, quite shabby. Several children sued the two of them, and she was Li Huihui's sister.

Bai Lingyan stepped forward and bent over to take the little girl's hand and asked kindly, "Is this your home?" ”

The little girl's eyes widened in horror, and she looked down timidly and whispered, "Yes." ”

"Where are your parents?"

"My mom went to my grandma's house, and my brother went to my grandma's."

"Where's your grandmother's house?"

"Not in this village, far away."

"Where's your dad?"

"My dad went to work."

"Where do you work?"

"Over there."

After the little girl finished speaking, she lowered her head and led the two of them straight out of the village.

On the way, they were asked to learn that the little girl was ten years old, and the two were very surprised that the ten-year-old child was not as big as the four or five-year-old child, which was really rare and pitiful.

After walking for more than three miles, I came to a dilapidated place next to the road, where there were more than a dozen old houses that were unknown how many years old.

The little girl led the two of them to a small house seven or eight feet tall with a closed door, stopped, looked up at their faces, and pointed with her hand solemnly, "My dad works here." ”

The two looked at it carefully, like foreign devils watching a play - dumbfounded! Wu Xiaojun suddenly understood, and said to Bai Lingyan, "This trip is for nothing, her father is digging coal in the mine." Well, let's ask someone here to see if we can get some information. ”

"Okay."

Seeing that the door of a house was open, the two walked in directly.

There was a slightly chubby fellow inside, who spoke very kindly, and immediately helped to call the well, but he didn't get through even a few times, and said embarrassedly, "You can't see anyone today, Li Huihui's father can only come up from the well at four o'clock in the afternoon." ”

Wu Xiaojun said, "Excuse me, do you know some about their family, can you tell us about it." ”

The fellow sighed and said, "Speaking of their family, it's really pitiful, his father is not good-looking, and he is a little brainless, and he only married a stupid daughter-in-law in his thirties." I thought that there was a woman in the family to take care of her, but who wanted to come back with a medicine jar, and often went around to seek medical treatment, making the family destitute and living on relief all day long. Fortunately, it is more intelligent and clever to give birth to a son, but such a family has suffered a lot of sins and suffered a lot, and at the age of four or five, he took on the responsibility of making a fire and cooking, pulling weeds and working to grow crops. As you can see, there is also a little girl in his family, who has congenital heart disease, her family is poor, her relatives and neighbors are avoiding them, and she has no money to treat them. ”

Listening to the introduction of the fellow countryman, Wu Xiaojun's heart is like knocking over the five-flavor bottle, he has also met the poorer and poorer people in the family before, like the family will be so downtrodden, it is unheard of, the first time I saw it with my own eyes, I don't know how long their family can support it for what year and month, the reality is ruthless, I hope the society can give them more help.